State and local taxes and spending Kare 11: Tax conformity bill delivers tax cuts Kare 11: New MN tax bill and its impact KIMT 3: Some Minnesota DFL lawmakers express…
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that Minnesota lost 5,200 jobs in December. And as always, that's still not the full story.
It was a post-9/11 reform. How soon we forget. The current prohibition on issuing Minnesota driver’s licenses to undocumented migrants dates from 2003. A number of media outlets note that…
Met Council Chairman Charlie Zelle has yet to acknowledge the brutal, not to mention embarrassing, fact he oversees the most dangerous light rail system in the country. As American Experiment…
Semi-retired Star Tribune columnist Lori Sturdevant wrote recently about the just-started Minnesota legislative session under the headline: DFL may go big, and that wouldn’t be bad Some policy moves are…
In 2015, Hennepin County seized Geraldine Tyler’s Minneapolis condo “over about $2,300 of unpaid property taxes, plus $12,700 in penalties, interest and fees.” The county sold the condo for $40,000…
State and local taxes and spending Minn Post: Will Minnesota taxes from legal marijuana help pay for education, social programs? Probably not U.S. News: Minnesota Governor Still Wants Tax Rebates…
As reported by the Star Tribune here, the DFL is leading a push for juvenile justice reform this legislative session. At first blush, such efforts appeal to most anyone who has…
Right before the New Year, a U.S. District Court judge approved the sale of three properties forfeited in the Feeding Our Future case. The properties were Nos. 10, 11, and…
State and local taxes and spending Duluth News Tribune: State Senator’s View: With so many challenges, now is the time to invest in one another Grand Forks Herald: Surplus, Social…
On Friday 12/30/22, Jeremy Ellis, 26, became the 80th Minneapolis murder victim in 2022. Ellis was found shot to death behind the wheel of a car, adjacent to US Bank Stadium…
You have to give librarians credit. Despite digital technology inevitably changing the need for physical storage centers for books and information, the antiquated institution has reinvented itself in order to…
Hennepin County worked for over a year on their version of the latest woke fad: a land acknowledgement. After reading it, I think someone with Dakota or Anishinaabe heritage should…
Just before Christmas, I noted that, on net, 19,400 Minnesotans left our state for other states in 2022, the largest exodus in at least 30 years. Where are they going?…
As Tim Walz is sworn in for his second term as governor he will find himself at the helm of an economy in relatively poor shape. In our report “The Cost of…
State and local taxes and spending Faribault Daily News: We need targeted tax relief Pioneer Press: Real World Economics: Property taxes are simple, and complex Park Rapids Enterprise: Nevis school…
Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flannagan made a big deal out of getting the latest COVID booster shot back in September. They even included their spouses in the…
On Boxing Day, the Minneapolis Star Tribune published an article documenting concerns in the state’s nonprofit sector of a backlash arising from the Feeding Our Future scandal. The paper quotes…
State and local taxes and spending MPR News: Cities, counties head back to Capitol, sales tax wish lists in hand Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal: Minnesota’s corporate tax rate limiting economic…
The Star Tribune reports on new Minnesota population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau this month. The Bureau reports that in the 12 months ending June 2022, the state…
One of my favorite replies to my last article about the Northern Lights Express was “Have you ever been to Europe?” Well, yes, actually, I lived there for the first…
Rider beware. As American Experiment recently revealed, federal data shows the Twin Cities light rail line system ranks as the most dangerous in the country. It’s not even close. The…
We at the Center have long noted the relative expense of housing in Minnesota. And as I wrote earlier this year: A price is not a problem so much as…
The arrest last week of River William Smith, 20, of Savage demonstrates once again how all the laws in the world won’t provide public safety when our state court and…