Minnesota legislators enjoy looking down their progressive noses at “the Deep South” and their supposed backward ways. During her eight years of service on the Metropolitan Council, Freedom Foundation of Minnesota CEO Annette Meeks heard this often, too. (When a Metropolitan Council Environmental Services executive found out she grew up in St. Louis, he gleefully informed her of the “backward” …
[Read more...] about Minnesota Students Need a ‘Mississippi Miracle’
We thought the Minnesota Legislature ran the table on tax increases but just like the Grinch who Stole Christmas, they discovered before it was too late, they had missed raising two taxes – the gas tax, and a "delivery tax." Without a committee hearing, the DFL-controlled Legislature enacted a gas tax that will cost every Minnesotan, rich or poor, to spend more money on essentials like …
[Read more...] about Buying from Amazon, Minnesota Consumers? There’s a Tax for That
Our friends at the Technology Policy Institute (TPI) just published new and important research that shows that the gobs of federal tax dollars spent in Florida making sure that every school at every grade level had full Internet access “had minimal impact” on school performance. Legislators, in Minnesota and states across the country where their schools are struggling, need to awaken to the …
[Read more...] about Report Shows School Broadband Investment Doesn’t Help Students Learn
