State and local taxes and spending Minnesota Reformer: Minnesota’s paid leave program will launch with 0.88% payroll tax, state agency says KAXE: Senate Majority Leader Murphy talks state budget, federal…
This week Minnesota House Republicans brought forward HF 435, which seeks to prevent the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) from housing biological males identifying as transgender females in the state’s…
Modern sports are not exempt from controversy — just consider the evolution of equipment and rules, race relations, and politics. But nothing has threatened the future of sports more than…
The Trump administration this week signaled that it may roll back almost 50 years of regulations that created the lengthy and litigious permitting process in the U.S. That would be welcome news…
In a late edition to the February 27 Federal court calendar, Abdikadir Mohamud, Defendant No. 9 in the case, filed Guilty Plea No. 36 in the sprawling free-food scandal. He…
It was big news at the time. Liban Osman, the brother of then-Minneapolis city council candidate Jamal Osman, posted a video to social media in the summer of 2020 that…
A recent U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) map gives Minnesota a dubious distinction: It was the state with the largest increase in gasoline taxes since July 2024. State taxes and…
In light of newly available documents, I revisit a 2021 shooting case involving Liban Osman, the brother of Jamal Osman, Minneapolis city council member (DFL-Ward 6). The incident occurred around…
The 2023 Minnesota Legislature passed a public safety measure entitled the Minnesota Rehabilitation and Reinvestment Act (MRRA). A key component of the MRRA was the “Earned Incentive Release Credit” (EIRC).…
The Center for Immigration Studies recently updated what’s widely viewed as an authoritative list of sanctuary jurisdictions under the following criteria. These cities, counties, and states have laws, ordinances, regulations,…
On Friday, February 28, the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will take up the proposal by Amazon for 600 MW of diesel backup generators to serve their massive, planned data…
Yesterday, I testified on H.F. 1311 before the Energy Finance and Policy Committee. H.F. 1311 would allow utilities to only profit from the reliable portion of an energy asset. This…
In the Winter 2025 edition of our magazine, Thinking Minnesota, I wrote about the dire effects of years of “progressive” governance on the economy of Lowertown in St. Paul. A…
Starting this fall for the 2025-26 school year, Minnesota’s public schools will be required to teach third-graders how to use non-binary gender pronouns in writing sentences. The Minnesota Department of…
Your humble, hometown think tank is now being studied at the university level. No, really. As he documents on his PowerLine website, our president, John Hinderaker, received an email purportedly…
Less than a year out from implementation of the paid family and medical leave program, the Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce warns many small businesses face economic turmoil unless lawmakers…
Amidst mounting frustration with the state and national teachers’ union, a small group of teachers in Becker, Minnesota decided to try something different. They successfully petitioned the state to call…
Starting fall 2026, public schools across the state will be required to implement new K-12 academic standards and benchmarks in social studies. Since there is no external approval process on…
The last few years will go down in history as a time when fraudsters brazenly stole billions of dollars from Minnesota and federal taxpayers while state regulators looked the other…
Gov. Tim Walz delivered his final State of the State address last Tuesday evening, using the speech to tout false education “successes,” claim he lowered taxes for Minnesotans, and take…