{"id":7356,"date":"2009-12-23T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7356"},"modified":"2011-10-20T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:32:32","slug":"around-the-mob-americas-small-city-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7356","title":{"rendered":"Around The MOB: America’s Small City Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nathan McLaughlin is the mayor of Clarissa, Minnesota.\u00a0 And that job keeps him busy enough that America’s Small City Mayor <\/em>is updated on a relatively leisurely basis.<\/p>\n

But it’s good stuff.\u00a0 McLaughlin brings a fairly keen analytical eye to covering his turf – Clarissa <\/a>is\u00a0between Eagle Bend and Browerville [1], up in Minnesota’s reddish-purple hinterland, where Michele Bachmann country starts to dissolve into Collin Peterson country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I liked this piece: “Small City Economic Overview and the Policy Bubble<\/a>“.\u00a0 Excerpt:<\/p>\n

SCSU Scholars<\/a> economist, King Banaian, shows in a recent study (Slowing Layoffs & Fewer Hires) that while there are fewer layoffs than in previous quarters.\u00a0 The acceleration in hiring for new jobs just isn\u2019t registering.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In my conversation with local employers and employees this seems to be the case. \u00a0An abundance of caution is being taken to figure out a true direction in our economy. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Accordingly, one executive, representing our areas largest employer referred to the numerous changes that might be occurring at our state and federal levels. (i.e. banking, health, taxes) \u00a0He told me their company just cannot make investments or decisions on a large scale until the legislative actions are brought to a definitive conclusion.<\/p>\n

Many of you might remember a post on The Policy Bubble<\/a>\u00a0(March 2008). \u00a0I had warned about this exact circumstance. \u00a0What our free market needs is political certainty on the levels of taxation, regulation, and reform. \u00a0Right now business cannot resume until elected representatives in Washington & St. Paul get out of the way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a sense, this is how more politicians should <\/em>blog; give the people coherent analysis, and show why it is you should <\/em>be in office.<\/p>\n

In your wanderings around and about the MOB, make sure you check out America’s Small City Mayor.<\/em><\/p>\n

[1] Or, to give you a helpful <\/em>description, it’s about 75 miles northwest of Saint Cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nathan McLaughlin is the mayor of Clarissa, Minnesota.\u00a0 And that job keeps him busy enough that America’s Small City Mayor is updated on a relatively leisurely basis. But it’s good stuff.\u00a0 McLaughlin brings a fairly keen analytical eye to covering his turf – Clarissa is\u00a0between Eagle Bend and Browerville [1], up in Minnesota’s reddish-purple hinterland, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,2],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-7356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mob","category-minnesota-politics","tag-mn-cd7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23856,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356\/revisions\/23856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}