The list of Democrat governors who treated Covid like an excuse to act like banana republic Generalissimos was a long one: Cuomo, Newsom, Whitmer and on and on.
But Tim Walz may have punched well above his weight. He held emergency powers for almost eighteen months over a three months emergency; under his leadership, the state’s public schools stayed closed for close to two years.
But public workers really took home the rhetorical bacon; most Minnesota state white-collar employees have been working from home for five years as of this week.
And it’s caused problems. There’ve been stories of workers living out of state, even overseas, and occasionally fitting in another full-time job in the bargain.
And it’s caused other problems as well. Minnesota’s capitol city, Saint Paul, has been famously sleepy for decades; it was atrophying even before…
