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This September, Minneapolis and St. Paul will boast the largest public bike-sharing program in the nation — for four days. Could the convention’s free bikes be a preview of public bicycle-sharing in the Twin Cities? MORE »

Access to the American Dream has always been the great promise of suburban development. By settling in the outer reaches of the metro area (this once meant Como Park, then Roseville, now Hugo), a family can own a relatively sprawling lawn and a relatively sizable house for a lot less than the same setup would cost on, say, Summit Hill or Lowry Hill. But there has always been a hidden cost to suburban living: transportation. The Chicago-based Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) has created a new set of maps that visually illustrate how recent years’ rising fuel prices have affected the cost of living—and how suburbanites are feeling the worst pain. MORE »

Minnesota is on course for a health care workforce shortage never before seen in our state’s history. A reported reduction in some job vacancies in 2004 and 2005 has led to speculation that health care workforce shortages are over. This is not true; in fact, it’s worsening. MORE »

One of the salient policy “advocacy” developments of our time has been the far right’s enthusiastic adoption of tactics once associated with the radical left. For example, conservatives now dominate the field of agit-prop political theater and imagery, such as waving tire gauges to mock a part of Barack Obama’s energy conservation proposals. MORE »