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Rather than increasing voter participation and ensuring that every vote truly counts, Ranked Choice Voting confuses voters, lessens voter satisfaction and disproportionately disenfranchises voters of color. It is an extremely flawed electoral system that continuously fails to deliver on its central and most important promise: to change politics for the better. For all of these reasons, RCV is a …
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In 2009 officials in northeastern Minnesota’s sparsely populated Lake County boldly promised a broadband network would revolutionize telecommunications in the remote area by delivering much needed new businesses and jobs. The network was estimated to cost $66-$70 million and be “entirely built and supported... with no local taxpayer pledges or funds.” Today Lake County’s troubled broadband project …
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It has been more than 35 years since the “Minnesota Massacre” of 1978 upended the state’s political establishment and set on course an emerging conservative movement in Minnesota. The Freedom Foundation of Minnesota examines the origins of the conservative movement in Minnesota and makes the case that Rudy Boschwitz was the catalyst for its growth. Rudy Boschwitz’s lasting political legacy is a …
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