Seattle, Washington currently boasts the highest-in-the-country minimum wage where workers employed by “large employers” must be paid $13 per hour. Last year, a city mandate raised that wage from $11 per hour to $13. This was the second wage increase in less than one year and on Monday, we learned that elected officials in Seattle may have gone too far in the latest social …
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Officials at Education Minnesota (the statewide affiliate of the NEA) went berserk the last day of the Minnesota special legislative session, demanding that Governor Dayton veto the K-12 education budget for the next two years. The reason? The new budget, that also includes more than $1.3 billion in increased funding for Minnesota’s public schools includes a new provision that …
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In 1994, the Minnesota legislature struck a deal that allowed Xcel Energy to store additional radioactive nuclear waste in above-ground storage casks located on Prairie Island in return for enacting a requirement that the energy company generate or buy a government-mandated percentage of biomass energy for their customers. That compromise, forged between Republican Governor Arne Carlson and …
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