A Tribute: Keep Working Hard for Equity in honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg We pay tribute to health care this week and next (see Blueprint Breakfast invite below) and most of all to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who helped break through so many barriers for women, and men, from workplace discrimination to education and health care access, and more. Justice Ginsburg's advocacy helped provi... Read More
Just days from now, Minnesotans will go to the polls and find contests for their State Senator and Representative, a U.S. Senator and the President on the ballot. And they will also find two incredibly important questions on the back of their ballot: proposed constitutional amendments that have the potential to cause harm to Minnesota's reputation as both a welcoming place and a state that consistently sets the national standard for voter par... Read More
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT Most Minnesotans are proud to live in a tolerant and educated and broadly prosperous state that ends up on the leading edge of most everything, from business and technological innovation to arts and culture vibrancy, civic health, and prosperity. We are thankful not to be among those backward societies where fundamentalist religious dogma gets codified in law, or where wealthy elites dictate who gets how m... Read More
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT State should establish end-of-decade goal of 75 percent higher-education attainment In the classic 1981 comedy “Stripes,” the Bill Murray character tells his rowdy pals from Chicago not to worry about credentials as they prepared to enter a Soviet-bloc country, mistakenly promising them that it would be just like “going into Wisconsin.” Crossing the boundary from high school to hi... Read More