Sweet words fill a headline in today’s Star-Tribune : “Rep. Peppin: No Vikings stadium hearing in House this week.” Strib writer Mike Kaszuba points out there are only 28 days left before the Legislature is scheduled to adjourn. Any tax-funding scheme needs to go through the House Government Operations and Elections Committee, which is chaired by [...]
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City Gives Fiber Optic Cable to Telecom
Why should a telecommunications company buy a fiber-optic network when it can get one of free, from taxpayers? The City of Burnsville has chosen to give a nice little gift to Frontier, in a deal that looks like another case of municipal leaders making poor decisions induced by the appeal of broadband connections to the [...]
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The Economic Consequences of Good Intentions: Mark Glaess
We are pleased to bring you this commentary by Mark Glaess, Manager for the Minnesota Rural Electric Association . Mr. Glaess cites the study we commissioned from the Beacon Hill Institute released last week.
“The Economic Consequences of Good Intentions”
Not long ago, San Francisco officials forced “low-flow” toilets on the populace to save water. However, these water-saving devices are not producing sufficient surge with each flush to keep the solid waste pipes under the streets of San Francisco from becoming constipated. To address this problem, the city just ordered $13 million worth of Clorox to pour down the drains
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