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REMINDER! Caucuses are tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb. 3! Don't forget to print out the resolutions to bring with you: https://mape.org/committees/political-council
📷 MAPE members from SD53 met up yesterday for a bipartisan discussion to get ready for caucuses.

Winning a fair contract begins with caucuses: Members prepare for next week’s primary caucuses | Minnesota Association of Professional Employees

Get ready for caucuses on Tuesday!
https://mape.org/news/winning-fair-contract-begins-caucuses-members-prepare-next-weeks-primary-caucuses

Please spread the word and join us. Vigil scheduled for 5:00 today at E. 34th Street and Portland Ave S. in Minneapolis for woman murdered by ICE agents.

Members working together to meet each other's needs! It doesn't get more union than that! Join the MAPE Mutual Aid group and see how you can lend a hand! https://mape.org/news/mape-mutual-aid

Donald Trump has brought his lawlessness to Minnesota, sending ICE agents here to divide and terrorize our communities.

But House DFLers will always stand with our neighbors.

We are Minnesotans. And Minnesotans have each other’s backs.

We stand alongside our immigrant coworkers and neighbors

Not Incentivized Yet Efficient: Working From Home in the Public Sector 51 Pages Posted: 21 Oct 2024 Last revised: 20 Feb 2025 Alessandra Fenizia The George Washington University Tom Kirchmaier London School of Economics - Centre for Economic Performance Date Written: January 14, 2025 Abstract This paper studies whether working from home (WFH) affects workers' performance in public sector jobs. Studying public sector initiatives allows us to establish baseline estimates on the impact of WFH net of incentives. Exploiting novel administrative data and plausibly exogenous variation in work location, we find that WFH increases productivity by 12%. These productivity gains are primarily driven by reduced distractions. They are not explained by differences in quality, shift length, or task allocation. The productivity gains more than double when tasks are assigned by the supervisor. Keywords: working from home, productivity, public sector

"This paper studies whether working from home (WFH) affects workers' performance in public sector jobs... we find that WFH increases productivity by 12%."
@afenizia.bsky.social

Evidence that administrations that reject WFH harm efficiency.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Guys, I figured it out. The key to downtown St. Paul revitalization is a weekly anti-Trump rally.

The few bars and restaurants that are left are all full. Everybody is friendly. The place is hoppin.

As a 20-plus year resident of Minneapolis following the conversation around violence interrupters as part of the Neighborhood Safety Department, this recent article was very concern-ing. Under Mayor Jacob Frey, millions of dollars earmarked for these programs after George Floyd's murder were spent with no documentation of plans to reduce violence or results that demonstrate an effect on community violence. The article also failed to mention Mayor Frey's responsibility for the program and its massive budget. In 2021, the mayor lobbied for the strong mayor amendment that passed and gave him more authority than any other mayor in the city's history. He has sole authority over public safety in our city. This is ultimately his responsibility and he is using his staff as shields from accountability. Members of the City Council who have repeatedly asked for information were right in doing so. Their efforts were usually met with a "pass the buck" approach, giving council members no confidence that the city can deliver. That's why some members introduced getting assistance from Hennepin County, which has had success with youth violence interruption programs. Three things are clear to me: Minneapolis residents aren't getting the safety we deserve; the people charged with making us safe seem to want to operate in the dark with no transparency or accountability; it is ultimately the mayor's job to ensure the safety of its residents, but he has no vision and no plan. MEGHAN CASEY, Minneapolis

Keep this letter from @meghscase.bsky.social in your back pocket as the mayoral election gears start grinding: Mayor Jacob Frey is the one who bears responsibility for public safety in Minneapolis

Trump Costs America Highlighting the real people whose lives have been ruined, the good American jobs that are being destroyed, and the important public goods being lost.

Calling all feds: new info site please share data and stories! #AltGov #AltFam please share #SaveAmerica #StopTrump

trumpcostsamerica.com

Time to post this again

My colleagues and I, Democratic AGs, are suing the Trump administration over his unlawful and abusive freeze on federal grants and loans. OMB thinks that federal grants and loans have to be “aligned with the president’s” whims. Naw. That’s ridiculous.

Statement from DFL Caucus Leader Erin Murphy and Republican Caucus Leader Mark Johnson | Minnesota Senate DFL SAINT PAUL, Minn. – Today, leaders from the Senate DFL and Republican caucuses announced they have reached an organizing agreement to govern the work of the Senate during the temporary tie before the ...

Today in the Senate, DFL Leader Erin Murphy and Republican Leader Mark Johnson announced that they have reached an organizing agreement for the Senate during the temporary tie that resulted after the death of Senator Kari Dziedzic. #mnleg

My New Year’s Resolution.
What’s yours?

“People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spider’s webs. It’s not. Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles, the grit of the cobblestones in her hair, and just spat out a tooth as she rises for another go.” -@crowsfault

Two dogs sitting along a riverbank on a sunny day

First post!