When I picked up the newspaper on Monday, I was extremely disturbed to read about the decision by the Minnesota Supreme Court that a small day care center (which I will refer to from now on as child care, as the centers provide care for children, not days) is not entitled to property tax exemptions unless it offers a sliding fee scale to parents.

A few years ago, a colleague and I traveled down from New York to Washington, DC to talk to our elected officials about the critical need for child care facilities in our state.