Racial Justice Committee Progress Report Our ALANA Community Brain Trust colleague Dr. Bruce Corrie of Concordia University (St. Paul) testified this past Monday in front of the House Ways & Means Committee to help give a progress report on adopting the recommendations of the House Select Committee on Racial Justice. You can see all the presentations at this link. Dr. Corrie emphasized the economic impact of discrimination at national, stat... Read More
A Call to Action Against “Policy Violence” For a better understanding of how broader and deeper racial inequality provoked the George Floyd protests, Growth & Justice highly recommends a recent blog published by The Brookings Institution, written by Tawanna Black, founder & CEO of the Twin Cities-based Center for Economic Inclusion, and Andre Perry of Brookings. “George Floyd’s Death Demo... Read More
Our Op-Ed on Spatial Mismatch and Transit Growth & Justice worked to the end pushing for a special legislative session and we are disappointed that divisive regional politics played the decisive role in preventing an agreement. Last week, in an op-ed published by MinnPost, we urged legislators to review a major new report by the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota. The study illustrates how the Southwest Light R... Read More
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT Watching a PBS documentary recently in which naturalized U.S. citizens describe exactly why they love their new country, I was struck by the number of people who praised not just freedom and the opportunity to get ahead and start a business, but by many others who marveled at the safety and security and the equal access provided by our innovative governments. One Latina woman, for instance, gushed over the... Read More
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT Let’s seek long-term goals, and measurable outcomes, from gubernatorial candidates Minnesota news media and candidates alike this summer seem to be fixated, understandably, on the details of balancing a lollapalooza of a projected budget shortfall in 2011. But for our gubernatorial candidates in particular, emergency management should not be the only thing, or even the main thing. Leadership at thi... Read More