According to the Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB), Minnesota’s net general fund receipts for the first quarter of FY 2023 are now estimated to total $7.024 billion, $289 million (4.3…
We’ve heard it all before from Met Council chairman Charles Zelle, who oversees Metro Transit and the Twin Cities’ light rail lines. Promises and plans to crack down on the…
Thinking Minnesota helps extend the influence of American Experiment in ways that matter.
Evaluating the Fed’s post-COVID policies.
I’m often asked the question, “How much more is there to the free-food scandal in Minnesota”? I’m tempted to quote Churchill’s line, we’re at “the end of the beginning.” In…
If teachers and other educators would like to protect their constitutional right to not fund the union’s PAC, the process to get the forced $25 contribution refunded is not easy.…
Sizing up the issues before Minnesotans head to the polls
Educators continue to leave the teachers’ union.
In July, the Mankato Free Press ran an op-ed titled ‘Minnesota economy doing well.’ It was, in this writer’s view, the sort of fact-free boosterism that too often passes for…
Should Minnesotans believe politicians, or their own eyes?
There have been 49 people (and counting) charged in the Feeding Our Future fraud. Of those, twelve were associated with Safari Restaurant of Minneapolis, including all three co-owners. Combing through…
New law will raise health care costs on some, result in fewer new life-saving cures and more lives lost for others Rep. Angie Craig recently led off a commentary in…
Mayo Clinic nurses vote the union out.
Minnesotans could be paying the price for California’s green policies.
The following article was written by Emmet Penney in Compact Magazine: Is Vladmir Putin Europe’s secret savior? Has his invasion of Ukraine finally forced Europe to make the transition to…
An update on the Rush Line Bus Rapid Transit project.
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…