St. Paul needs to fix its roads. However, the city does not have the money for that. So in January of this year, the St. Paul City Council and Mayor…
Thousands of special education teachers, career-technical instructors, and educators of color would be negatively impacted by a DFL bill introduced in both the Minnesota House and Senate. Nearly five years…
Former city department head Tyeastia Green published a 14-page memo earlier this month defending her work for the city and accusing her co-workers of antiblack racism. The memo can be…
Minnesota’s media is in celebratory mood: Star Tribune: Minnesota has finally recovered all private sector jobs lost in pandemic KTTC: DEED: Minnesota private job sector recovers from pandemic job loss,…
Buried on page 6 of today’s Star Tribune were two stories that documented violent events over the weekend involving large groups of teens from the north metro. Find links to the…
State and local taxes and spending Star Tribune: Senate Republicans reject Minnesota infrastructure package Minn Post: Senate GOP blocks infrastructure bill amid pressure campaign on rural Minnesota lawmakers Detroit Lakes…
Gov. Tim Walz recently made headlines for staging a Little Free Library outside his office at the State Capitol, filling it with books that he claims are banned in Florida,…
We at the Center have written a lot about Minnesota’s relatively expensive housing. A recent article by Jim Buchta and MaryJo Webster for the Star Tribune explained how bad the situation is…
State and local taxes and spending Duluth News Tribune: Minnesota House mulls proposals to eliminate, reduce Social Security tax Kare 11: House panel weighs Social Security tax break KTTC: Minnesota’s…
The Met Council has finally lost the Twin Cities media when it comes to the boondoggle known as the Southwest Light Rail Transit project. The headlines for the release of…
In fallout from a failed convention center expo last month. Until last week, Tyeastia Green was the city’s director of the Department of Racial Equity, Inclusion and Belonging. No more.…
With the deck stacked against people who need new drugs, let's not dismiss them because their interests happen to align with the drug industry.
Yesterday, American Experiment detailed how the $256 million solar facility in Dodge County would only provide 0.5 percent of Minnesota’s annual electricity consumption. But the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission’s decision…
Economic growth Walker Pilot Independent: Rep. Bliss states Minnesota economic forecast underscores need for tax relief, structural overhaul Bring Me the News: Tourist numbers in Minnesota returned to pre-pandemic levels…
The onslaught of bad energy policy continues at the capitol, as liberal lawmakers are considering legislation (House File 413 and Senate File 1296) that would allow investor-owned utilities like Xcel…
Mary Moriarty didn’t hide the fact that she would be a progressive prosecutor if elected as the Hennepin County Attorney. Despite examples of similarly minded progressive prosecutors across the country…
In what some are taking as a sign of revival for the beleaguered Minneapolis neighborhood, the Uptown Theatre on Lake and Lagoon is reopening. Alas, not as a movie palace,…
In a belated move, the state Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a lawsuit against the free-food nonprofit ThinkTechAct in early January 2023. Ellison narrowly won re-election as Attorney General last…
State and local taxes and spending The Center Square: Minnesota is in the top 10 for marginal state individual income tax rate CBS News: Minnesota officials set to release new…
Catching up with news from last month. On Feb. 7, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that the state Dept. of Human Services (DHS) had moved to shut down two adult…
Last week, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported on the ongoing business disputes between a prominent DFL politico and a group of South Dakota cannabis entrepreneurs. It turns out that the…
On housing and child care, Minnesotans face higher costs than many other Americans. In 2019, the average Minnesota family paid over $16,000 to keep a child at a day care…
You read that correctly. Earlier this month, state Rep. Sydney Jordon (DFL-Minneapolis) introduced HF 1857 (SF 2791), which would ban the sale of bottled water in the state of Minnesota.…
In one of the most blatant (and profitable) pay-to-play arrangements in state history, Democrats in Minnesota are about to provide a huge return-on-investment to Minnesota’s American Indian tribes for their…