As we debate Initiated Measure 21, the real 36% rate cap on payday loans, we hear some concern that capping interest on short-term loans will only…
Tag: Minnesota
The Aberdeen American News reports that a flyer has popped up around town advertising a presentation by Ron Branstner on “The Facts Behind the Refugee Resettlement…
Minnesota’s minimum wage rises to $9.50 an hour today, capping a three-phase increase from $6.15 an hour prior to 2014. Small employers—firms with annual revenues under $500K—get…
From concealed weapons to concealed wealth… An eager reader points to a May article indicating that there is no evidence that Minnesota’s rich folks are…
The Minnesota Legislature wrapped up messily last week without getting much done. But they did pass the Working Lands Watershed Restoration Program to help control erosion and…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune‘s Chris Riemenschneider took a poke at Sioux Falls in his May 4 column on Sir Paul McCartney’s concert swing through the Midwest: For once,…
Secret rich people are attacking public education in Minnesota, suing the state over its teacher tenure and “last in, first out” teacher layoff policies. The plaintiffs, backed by…
An angry commenter asked me yesterday how I sleep at night. With so much corruption going on in our fair state, maybe the question is, how…
Throughout my blogging, I have consistently turned to the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center’s posting of cost-of-living data from the Council for Community and Economic…
Marshall Korn grew up around dairy cows in Minnesota and South Dakota. When he graduated from Garretson High School in 2001, he wanted to become a dairy…