Saturday, November 13, 2021

Rent Control in Saint Paul: Score Melvin Carter 2, City Council 0

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  Yet again Mayor Melvin Carter has outplayed City Council in his posturing on the recently adopted rent control  ordinance.  No matter what...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s Should be Nervous–His Political Fate is Beyond his Control

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 Minnesota DFL (Democratic Party) Governor Tim Walz just declared he is running for re-election.  He should worry.  There is a serious chanc...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Why Biden and Congress can mandate masks if governors refuse to act

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 This column originally appeared in The Hill . With a  rising number of infections  from the Delta variant across the country, in states suc...
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Monday, July 12, 2021

The Lesson of Afghanistan is the Lesson of Vietnam We Forgot

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              Philosopher Georg Hegel declared the only lesson of history is that we do not learn from history. As the US prepares for the ...
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Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Review of Amy Klobuchar's Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age

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Note:  This is my review of Senator Amy Klobuchar's new book Antitrust, that appeared in the New York Journal of Books.  Bigger is not ...
Friday, May 21, 2021

The Minnesota Legislative Process: Still Crazy After All These Years

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  Watching the Minnesota budget process is like living in Groundhog Day. The 2021 regular session of the Minnesota Legislature limps to an e...
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Saturday, May 15, 2021

The states are not friends of voting rights in America

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 Todays blog originally appeared in The Hill. The story of voting rights in America yields two truths. First, even though since 1787 there h...