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Conservative Excuses Aside, Minnesota Still Outperforms Wisconsin
Since the 2010 election of progressive Governor Mark Dayton in Minnesota and conservative Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin, the Gopher State has outperformed the…
Organized, Cooperative Home Care Shortage Solution
Minnesota is projecting a shortage of as many as 53,000 home health care workers by the end of this decade. In order to avoid…
Lost in the Noise: An All-Payer System
Since 2008, health care reform has been the subject of contentious political debate. Everybody has a fix, be it a public insurance option, the…
Naming Rights Reveal Importance of Farms, Food in Minnesota
Minnesotans were reminded recently that food and agriculture remain huge drivers of the state’s economy when two of the largest home-based companies stepped forward…
To Minnesota: A Warning from Kazakhstan
In today's installment of environmental op-eds from Macalester College students, we examine what Minnesota can learn from one of last century's worst natural resource…
Tuesday Talk: Fighting Poverty at School
We can’t allow poverty to be an excuse for poor school performance and achievement. Therefore, Minnesota must build an education system that helps students…
Local Government Aid: Actions Speak Louder than Words
Gubernatorial candidates of all political persuasions support city Local Government Aid (LGA), at least while on the campaign trail. After all, LGA is an…
Sprawl is Real, and It’s Here
Conservative apologists for sprawl try to deny that it's even a real phenomenon, some even draping dismissive quotation marks around the word. Around here, it's a right-wing obsession to…
Home care workers stand up, fight back
The wrong-headed Supreme Court decision in Harris v. Quinn deserved a response. Tuesday, Minnesota home care workers delivered it, presenting union election filing cards…
The 5% Campaign Makes Headway
Last year, the Minnesota House passed a health and social programs budget that allowed for the first wage increase nursing home and long-term care…