The war on merit is alive and well in Sartell, Minnesota as the local school board there recently removed the word “excellence” from their mission statement. The move came after…
Minnesota’s state labor policies continue to undermine worker and taxpayer rights, according to a recent report on public-sector labor laws by the Commonwealth Foundation. The report gave Minnesota a “D”…
Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows that the Sherburne County Generating Station, commonly referred to as Sherco, generated 1.4 million megawatt hours (MWhs) of electricity in July…
The Biden administration recently released two reports to “illustrate the positive impact of the Inflation Reduction Act on prescription drug prices.” That’s how the headline of the Department of Health…
Today the Biden administration finalized a rule to fix the so-called “family glitch,” which will expand eligibility for Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance subsidies. However, as Bloomberg Law reports,…
Deena Winter of the Minnesota Reformer has a scoop: the wife of Minneapolis city council member Jamal Osman operated a free food site last year. Ilo Amba incorporated the nonprofit…
Decades of bad energy policy in Europe have left Europeans scouring for firewood to stay warm this winter. Bloomberg writes: Not far from Berlin’s Tempelhof airport, Peter Engelke is putting…
Disquieted voters have flipped the script on the state’s usually sunny disposition as they prepare to head to the polls this fall.
Recently, I asked ‘What do states without an income tax do?‘ Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute asks a similar question about the states without an income tax: “How do…
One of the features of the Feeding Our Future scandal from the beginning has been the connections between the alleged fraudsters and well-placed politicians.
Last week’s jobs report estimated that Nonfarm payrolls increased 263,000 for the month, compared with the Dow Jones estimate of 275,000. This prompted the usual round of celebrations from people…
To celebrate Columbus Day, I decided to check in on Minnesota’s statue of Christopher Columbus. The statue has been in cold storage at an undisclosed government location since being violently…
While all of the attention of late has been on apprehensions of migrants at the southern border, the northern border made the news last week. The U.S. Border Patrol issued…
Did you know Minnesota has the highest industrial electricity prices in the Midwest? Data from the U.S. Energy Information show that only twelve states in the entire country charge their…
In September 2022, Center for American Progress (CAP) published a presentation that summarized “a body of polling and qualitative research conducted from April to August 2022.” Much of the presentation…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that a high-profile events center project is moving ahead in Bloomington, despite the indictment of the project’s CEO in the Feeding Our Future scandal. Mukhtar…
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…