Our Top Takeaways from the 2018 Minnesota Legislative Session

by | May 22, 2018

The Minnesota House and Senate adjourned late Sunday night, and brought the 2018 legislative session to a close. With Governor Mark Dayton likely to follow through on threats to veto key pieces of legislation, the complete book on the session is still being written.  ...

Minnesota’s Love Affair with Ethanol

by | May 17, 2018

Remember the last time you filled up your car at the pump. Did you notice the signage about ethanol? Even if you didn’t, you added to a segment of the Minnesota economy worth over $5 billion, and supported over 12,000 Minnesota jobs in the industry. That ethanol in...

Minnesota Needs a Multi-Modal Transportation System

by | Jun 21, 2017

The Center for the American Experiment (CAE) recently published a paper by Cato Institute Senior Fellow Randal O’Tool in which he blames planners at the Metropolitan Council and the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) for Twin Cities highway congestion. The...
Executive Summary: Minnesota's Budget Surplus

Executive Summary: Minnesota's Budget Surplus

by | Mar 3, 2016

The conservative effort to use the entire budget surplus to reduce state taxes—often referred to as the “give it back” campaign—is based on the premise that state revenues and expenditures have increased dramatically and thus all legitimate state expenditure needs...