Saturday, April 29, 2023

A Tale of Two Saint Pauls

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 It was the best of times in Saint Paul, it was the worst of times, it was the age of affluence, it was the age of poverty, it was the epoc...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

What Does it Mean to "Think" and Why ChatGPT isn't That

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  The media has gone wild over   ChatGPT and artificial intelligence.   Many have declared them a major leap forward in thinking.   Some see...
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Competing for businesses? A lot matters more than local tax-break bait

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 My latest is in the Pioneer Press and reprinted below. For the last 25 or so years the City of Saint Paul has used a variety of tax incenti...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

The False Promise of Housing Deregulation: Why Densification Policies will Fail to Produce Affordable Housing

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 Minneapolis is the city de jour when it comes to housing policy.  Planners across the nation herald the elimination of single-family zoning...

Ten Men, $1 Trillion, and the Personalization of American Capitalism

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  Capitalism has always been about the accumulation and the concentration of wealth.   Marx and Engels first described that phenomena in the...

What will fix St. Paul’s failing infrastructure?

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This blog appeared originally in Minnpost with John Mannillo.  April 10, 2023 As winter ends St. Paul residents yet again experienced badly...
Monday, April 3, 2023

Dog the Wag: Trump, Indictments, and the Corporate Media

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              Wag the Dog was a 1997 film depicting a presidential candidate seeking to cover up a sex scandal by starting a fictitious war...