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All the reports of Citizens League study committees -- as well as many additional policy statements, tax studies, and other documents -- are available in this online library. The reports are in pdf format with searchable text.

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If you notice errors, please let us know: contact Annie Levenson-Falk at alevensonfalk [at] citizensleague.org.

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2010's

Letter to Legislators: Alternative Teacher Certification (April 2010)
Letter to Legislators: Judicial Selection (February 2010)

2000's

To the Source: Moving Minnesota's Water Governance Upstream (November 2009)
Review: Chartered Schools (August 2009)
Review: Aging Services (May 2009)
Educating Minnesota's Immigrant Students, Phase II: Solutions (February 2009)
Statement on Judicial Selection (April 2008)
Educating Minnesota's Immigrant Students, Phase I: Challenges and Opportunities (February 2009)
Developing Informed Decisions: Seeking Market Reforms to Advise Medical Facility Expansion (April 2006)
Creating Minnesota's Plan for Career Development in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (March 2006)
This is not a Citizens League report, but the report of a project convened by the Citizens League
A New Vision for Saint Paul Schools: Preparing All Students for Success in Higher Education (May 2005)
Driving Blind: Minnesota Needs a More Transparent Transportation Policy That Connects Prices to Costs and Benefits to Investments (January 2005)
Trouble on the Horizon: Growing Demands and Competition, Limited Resources, and Changing Demographics in Higher Education (November 2004)
Doing the Common Good Better: A Call to Citizen Action in Minnesota (March 2003)
Getting Online Government Back on Track: How Minnesota Can Capture Savings and Improve Customer Service (February 2003)
Powering Up Minnesota's Energy Future: Act Now on a Long-Term Vision (December 2002)
A Failing Grade for School Completion: We Must Increase School Completion in Minneapolis and Saint Paul (August 2001)
Meeting Every Child's Mental Health Needs: A Public Priority (January 2001)
Mental Health in the Workplace: An Issue for One in Five Employees (January 2001)
Assessing Minnesota's Property Tax: Improving Affordability for Homeowners (August 2000)
Securing Minnesota's Economic Future: A New Agenda for A New Economy (May 2000)

1990's

From Jobs for Workers to Workers for Jobs: Better Workforce Training for Minnesota (November 1999)
Preparing Minnesota for the New Economy - Without Leaving Anyone Behind (November 1999)
Seniors with Disabilities in 2030 (September 1999)
What's On the Public Agenda: A Report of the Citizens League's Public Leadership Initiative (April 1999)
A New Wrinkle on Aging (December 1998)
Help Wanted: More Opportunities than People (November 1998)
A Competitive Place in the Quality Race: Putting the University of Minnesota in the Nation's Top Five Public Research Universities (January 1998)
Statement on the Education Diversity Rule (November 1997)
It Takes a Region to Build Livable Neighborhoods: An Urban Growth Strategy for the Twin Cities Metro Region (February 1997)
Straight A's for Minnesota Schools: Achievement, Assessment, Accountability (February 1997)
Compete Globally, Thrive Locally: What the Public Sector Should Do to Help the Greater Twin Cities Region Prosper (September 1996)
Building a Legacy of Better Value: Choose Reform, Not Declining Quality (August 1995)
Effective Transit: Invest in Jobs and Access to Services (January 1995)
The Case for a Regional Housing Policy in the Twin Cities Metro Area (May 1994)
Minnesota Homestead Property Tax Review 1994 (August 1994)
The Case for Regional Housing Policy in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (May 1994)
Minnesota's Budget Problem: A Crisis of Quality, Cost and Fairness (Juily 1993)
Regional Challenges and Regional Governance (April 1993)
Results for Citizens, Options for Officials (June 1992)
Reform the Election Process: Restore the Public Trust (May 1992)
Statement: Health Care Access for All Minnesotans (February 1992)
Statement: The Metropolitan Council's Draft Regional Transit Facilities Plan (January 1992)
Statement: Testing Health-Care Workers for AIDS (December 1991)
Minnesota Managed Care Review: 1991 (July 1991)
Minnesota Property Tax Review: 1991 (June 1991)
The Party Caucus: An Inquiry (April 1991)
New Regional Approaches to Library Services: Long Overdue (February 1991
1991 Legislative Summary (1991)
Large Trucks: A Small Piece of a Larger Problem (January 1991)
Statement: Light Rail Transit -- The Regional Transit Board's Proposal to the 1991 Legislature (January 1991)
Summary: Remaking the Minnesota Miracle -- Facing New Fiscal Realities (October 1990)
Because That's Where the Money Is -- Why the Public Sector Lobbies (June 1990)
Does the System Maltreat Children? (April 1990)
Minnesota HMO Review 1989 (May 1990)
Statement: The 1990 Legislative Session -- Citizens League Positions on Key Issues (1990)

1980's

Wiring Minnesota: New State Goals for Telecommunications (November 1989)
Losing Lakes: Enjoyment of a Unique Metropolitan Resource is Threatened (November 1989)
Access, Not More Mandates: A New Focus for Minnesota Health Policy (September 1989)
Community: A Resource for the 90's (July 1989)
The Metropolitan Council: Strengthening Its Leadership Role (March 1989)
Letter to the Legislature -- Financing at the U of M (April 1989)
The 1989 Legislative Session: Citizens League Positions on Key Issues (1989)
Building Tomorrow by Helping Today's Kids (December 1988)
Chartered Schools = Choices for Educators + Quality for All Students (November 1988)
Cut Tax Exemptions, Boost Equity and Accountability (October 1988)
Stopping AIDS: An Individual Responsibility (May 1988)
Commentary and Suggestions on Selected Legislative Issues (February 1988)
The Public's Courts: Making the Governor's Nominating Process Statutory (January 1988)
Statement: Changing the Fiscal Disparities Law (January 1988)
Statement: Transportation Financing in 1988 (January 1988)
Make the Present Airport Better -- Make a New Airport Possible (December 1987)
Statement: Road Financing (October 1987)
Cooperatively Managed Schools: Teachers as Partners (August 1987)
Statement: Commitment to Focus at the University (July 1987)
A New Weigh to Recycle (May 1987)
Statement: Governor's Current Budget (April 1987)
A First Class Property Tax System (March 1987)
Start Right with Right Start (February 1987)
New Destinations for Transit (October 1986)
Commitment to Focus: More of Both (August 1986)
Letter to Regional Transit Board (June 1986)
State Civil Service: People Make the Difference (June 1986)
"It's Only a Game:" A Lottery in Minnesota (February 1986)
Adaptability: The New Mission for Vocational Education (January 1986)
Testimony on the Bloomington Stadium Site(February 1986)
A Strategy for the Waterbelt (November 1985)
Letter to Regional Transity Board on Metro Mobility (December 1985)
Statement: Fiscal Disparities(October 1985)
Power to the Process: Making Minnesota's Legislature Work Better (September 1985)
Statement: Preserving Metro Tax-Base Sharing (September 1985)
Statement: Bloomington Development Proposal (August 1985)
Accountability for the Development Dollar (June 1985)
Memo to the Met Council: Organized Collection of Solid Waste (April 1985)
Statement: Reshaping Long-Term Care in the Metro Area (March 1985)
Statement: Transit Alternatives Environmental Impacts (January 1985)
Statement: Solid Waste Disposal -- Getting Economics into the Environmental Solution (January 1985)
Building on Strength: A Competitive Minnesota Economic Strategy (November 1984)
A Larger Vision for Small Scale Agriculture (September 1984)
Statement: State's Budget Crisis (August 1984)
The Metro Council: Narrowing the Agenda and Raising the Stakes (June 1984)
The Region's Infrastructure: The Problem Isn't What You Think It Is (May 1984)
Meeting the Crisis in Institutional Care (April 1984)
Statement: Light Rail Transit (April 1984)
A Farewell to Welfare (February 1984)
Statement to the Legislative Committee on Metropolitan Transit (December 1983)
Homegrown Services: The Neighborhood Opportunity (November 1983)
Statement: Taxes and the Economy (November 1983)
Statement: Highway Jurisdiction (September 1983)
Statement on the Metropolitan Council's Proposed Interim Economic Policies (August 1983)
Statement: Proposal for May as Non-Voting Member of Council (August 1983)
Statement: Transit Expansion of I-35W (July 1983)
Statement: SW University Avenue Corridor (July 1983)
Statement on Future of Post Secondary Education in Minnesota (July 1983)
Statement On "Prescription for Change" (June 1983)
Statement on the State Budget (April 1983)
Use Road Revenue for the Roads that Are Used (March 1983)
Memo to the Community Information Committee on Implementation of the CL Education Report (January 1983)
Workers' Compensation Reform: Get The Employees Back on the Job (December 1982)
Statement: Citizens League Opposes Unfunded Shifts to Balance Budget (December 1982)
Thought Before Action: Understanding and Reforming Minnesota's Fiscal System (October 1982)
The Citizens League in the Mid-1980s (September 1982)
Rebuilding Education to Make It Work (May 1982)
Making Better Use of Existing Housing: A Rental Housing Strategy for the 1980s (May 1982)
A Positive Alternative: Redesigning Public Service Delivery (March 1982)
Long-Term Spending Issues for 1982 (January 1982)
Statement: Alternatives to Solid Waste Flow Control (January 1982)
Amicus Curiae Brief: McCutcheon v. Minnesota (1981)
Statement: University of Minnesota Hospitals Reconstruction Project (December 1981)
Letter to Joint Legislative Commission: Metropolitan Council (November 1981)
Paying Attention to Differences in Prices: A Healthcare Cost Strategy for the 1980s (September 1981)
A Subregional Solution to the East Metro Parks Question (August 1981)
Keeping the Waste out of Waste: A Proposal to Minimize the Risks by Decentralizing the Solid Waste Disposal System (May 1981)
Statement to the Metropolitan Health Board Regarding the Phase IV Report (November 1981)
Taxis: Solutions in the City -- A New Future in the Suburbs (June 1981)
Statement: Interstate 35-E (September 1981)
Statement to the Minneapolis Charter Commission (June 1981)
Letter to the Metropolitan Council: Recommendations on I-395 (June 1981)
Statement to the Governor and Legislature as They Prepare for a Special Session (May 1981)
Statement: Amended University of Minnesota Hospital Reconstruction (May 1981)
Statement: State Expenditures and Taxation for 1981-1983 (April 1981)
Statement on the Proposed Legislative Study of the Metropolitan Council (April 1981)
Statement: Opposing Abolition of the Coordinating Function in Post-Secondary Education (April 1981)
Statement on I-394 (March 1981)
Statement: State Budget and Property Tax Issues in 1981 (March 1981)
Statement: University of Minnesota Hospital Reconstruction Project (February 1981)
Report on Rent Control (February 1981)
Statement: Toward Better Understanding of Policy Choices in the Biennial State Budget (January 1981)
Statement: Status Report on Spending-Tax Decisions in 1981 (December 1980)
Changing Communications: Will the Twin Cities Lead or Follow? (December 1980)
Statement: Rebuilding Proposal of University Hospitals (November 1980)
Siting of Major Controversial Facilities (October 1980)
Enlarging Our Capacity to Adapt: Issues of the 1980s (August 1980)
Three Proposed Amendments to the Minnesota Constitution (August 1980)
Statement on Phase III of the Metro Hospital Plan (July 1980)
Next Steps in the Evolution of Chemical Dependency Care in Minnesota (June 1980)
Keeping Better Score of Youth Sports (March 1980)
Letter to Mayor Latimer About the St. Paul Refuse Disposal System (June 1980)
Statement on Cooperative Housing/Neighborhood Maintenance and Operation (May 1980)
Statement on Veterans Administration Hospital (April 1980)
Statement on Property Tax Relief (March 1980)
Letter on Veterans Administration Hospital Replacement (March 1980)
Statement: Next Steps toward the Implementation of our Recommendations About Hospitals (February 1980)
Ride-Sharing and Capital Facilities For Transit (February 1980)
Memorandum: Position on Metropolitan Transportation Commission Financing (February 1980)

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The report library was made possible with a generous contribution from Jerry Trooien.