> Minnesota spent about a decade and $100 million to replace its ancient vehicle-licensing and registration software, but the new version arrived with so many g

> Minnesota spent about a decade and $100 million to replace its ancient vehicle-licensing and registration software, but the new version arrived with so many glitches in 2017 that Governor Tim Walz has asked for an additional $16 million to fix it. This is exactly why cities don’t replace these old pieces of software. It’s not that a intern couldn’t write something better. It’s that the physical act of “replacing” the old with the new is often very expensive. This is a story that’s unfortunately all too common in government. Other people’s money on other people and whatnot.