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Minnesota Management and Budget Commissioner Tom Hanson got some laughs at the capitol press conference Wednesday with a Freudian slip, saying “the recovery is over,” which he corrected to “the recession is over.” Continue Reading
As both a Minnesota and Colorado taxpayer, I’ve watched in dismay as my adopted state slouches closer to my home state in matters of budgets and taxation. So far, I’ve kept my residence and income taxes here, but if the gap closes further, I’ll have less reason to resist the tug of family, mountains and milder weather in the west.
(This is a response to the right honorable King Banaian, of SCSU Scholars blog, who has the coolest name in the Minnesota blogosphere, and who also is a fairly responsible adversary.)
Dear King,
The Star Tribune’s front-page story today finds that “less government” is the overwhelming consensus “vision” for Repubican gubernatorial candidates. Continue Reading
I took a ride along the future Central Corridor Light Rail Line. (Can we get a new, Hiawatha-like and less colonic-sounding name, stat?) My guided bus tour was sponsored by the Central Corridor Funders Collaborative to highlight some of the big picture issues associated with the new line, scheduled for completion in 2014. Fittingly, it began in St. Paul’s Frogtown and ended at Prospect Park in Minneapolis, the neglected middle of the route linking the two downtowns. Continue Reading
Times are tough in the world of commerce these days but the Minnesota Business Partnership put on an uplifting and clever show Tuesday night, highlighted by a very funny Twitterfest orchestrated by partnership director Charlie Weaver. The fictitious tweets that flashed up on the big screen were inspired, including the one ascribed to Gov. Continue Reading
The Star Tribune’s Thomas Lee reports that “Another Minnesota company leaves for Wisconsin.”
I know better, having worked many years as a reporter, than to complain about the news media’s decisions on what’s newsworthy. Especially at an event that offers a full hour of meaty material and distinguished, independent-minded speakers.
Growth & Justice is a progressive economic think tank committed to making Minnesota’s economy simultaneously more prosperous, fair, and environmentally sustainable. Dane Smith (pictured) is the president of Growth & Justice.