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Article: Make best use of shrinking resources; The 1995 Brandl-Weber recommendations deserve another look.(NEWS)(Editorial)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2009
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A gubernatorially commissioned blueprint for sustaining public-sector missions as government revenues shrink was politely received and promptly ignored in 1995, as the swelling dot.com economic bubble of the 1990s made its tight-money forecast seem unduly pessimistic.
Now the 14-year-old report is being dusted off and found to be remarkably prescient. Entitled "An Agenda for Reform," the 30-page outline for getting more bang for scarce tax bucks was prepared at the request of then-GOP Gov. Arne Carlson. Its chief authors were the late Humphrey Institute dean and former DFL legislator John Brandl and former GOP U.S. Rep. Vin Weber, now a Washington-based lobbyist ...
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