Authors & Essays

Mayor Jacob Frey on the State of Black Minneapolis, immigration enforcement, and leading in this moment.

Rent is due Friday.  Payday is not until next Wednesday.  For a home health aide in Memphis or a warehouse worker in Reno, that six-day gap is not an abstraction.  It is the critical place where a car's gas tank goes unfilled, a light bill goes unpaid, or a desperate family resorts

Fifty years can feel like a lifetime, and at the same time, a blink of an eye. It is long enough to watch the world change and trends invent and reinvent themselves. It’s also long enough to recognize that, as much as things change, they stay the same. 

When I made the decision to run for governor, I couldn’t help but think about the person who first inspired me to live a life of public service. My mother is an immigrant to this country who arrived here as a child from Jamaica.

When the Declaration of Independence promised life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, ownership was already the currency of that promise. Land was liberty. A home is the foundation upon which families built security, passed down wealth, and claimed their stake in the nation.