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ENEWS: On Immigration, Broadband, and Black Americans
MN Biz Alarmed About Anti-Immigrant Tilt Minnesota business leaders have been ringing alarm bells loudly since November about the potential damage to our economy from anti-immigrant policies and attitudes. One of the best takes we’ve seen is this insightful two-part editorial series by Dale Kurschner, Editor-in-Chief of Twin Cities Business Magazine. Kurschner focuses on Greater Minnesota and heavy agribusiness reliance on imm... Read More
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ENEWS: Spatial Mismatch and Transit
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
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‘Left-behinds’ didn’t vote – and results show it
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT Just four days after an election routinely interpreted as disapproval of President Barack Obama and his policies, national headlines blared yet another report of robust job growth, and by at least one measure, the best in 20 years. The Associated Press reported that job growth in the United States has reached a level of consistency not seen in almost two decades. While voters indicated their discontent wit... Read More
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Workforce training, race equity can be unifying priority for ’15
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT Those of us on the road and vacationing in Minnesota this summer are seeing more “Help Wanted” and “Get Job Applications Here” signs than we’ve seen in many years. At midmorning this week, for instance, along West St. Germain Street just west of downtown St. Cloud, a man was actually wearing this happy problem. He was walking up and down the sidewalk outside a job-placement ce... Read More
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Is our divided political heart even worse than it looks?
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT As a St. Paul City Hall newspaper reporter in the early 1980s, I chronicled a stiff resistance by a virtually all-white and all-male fire department against reforms that would allow women and more non-white applicants to have some of those jobs. Like most mainstream journalists, I tried to give equal space and fair coverage to both sides, on that issue and others. My editors and I strived always to provide... Read More
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