All that’s needed is a bit of spending restraint to put the budget on a glide path to balance.
You probably don’t think of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency as a go-to source for fashion tips. But in its latest “Living Green 365” bulletin, the state agency urges Minnesotans…
With Valentine’s Day about a week away, heart chocolates, plush animals and sappy cards are out in full force. Except Minnesotans don’t appear all that eager to celebrate the holiday…
President Trump in his State of the Union last night, once again, spoke about violent crime committed by undocumented immigrants. And once again, skeptics afterwards were quick to point out,…
Last week saw temperatures in Minnesota plummet to 24 below zero in the Twin Cities, and International Falls registered a temperature of minus 36 degrees. It was so cold outside…
And it's a spending problem, not a revenue problem — making proposals like "Medicare for All" or a "Green New Deal" even more worrisome.
Today was a normal February day in Minnesota; it was about 10 degrees, with heavy drifting and blowing snow, and the roads had patches of ice left over from freezing…
The following article originally appeared in the Financial Times: Does it make any sense to build nuclear plants in Britain? Not obviously, unless you are an atomic evangelist. In recent…
It is true that Minnesota has a high quality of living, but that is despite the state's high taxes, not because of them.
Augsburg University’s suspension of a respected history and medieval studies professor who quoted a passage from a James Baldwin book that included the “N-word” in an honors seminar has ignited…
For newly retired Minnesota teachers, the “average pension” from the past ten years is $27,593. But the estimated percentage of new teachers who will actually receive a pension is 50…
This post appeared at MinnPost on February 13, 2019. There has been no shortage of books over the last decade about how Americans are in centrifugal flight from one other. Journalist…
The Star Tribune recently ran an opinion piece by James Lenfestey, who advocated for an increase in the gas tax to finance infrastructure improvements and to reduce carbon dioxide emissions,…
New research shows that higher state business and personal tax rates mean fewer businesses, less employment, and reduced capital investment. Minnesota has the fourth highest top marginal individual income tax rate in…
With Bernie Sanders recently announcing he intends to seek the presidency, I thought it was a good time to share an article I wrote in January of 2016 which was…
Hi All, I hope you’re getting outside today to enjoy the balmy 38! degree weather. If you’re out and about or walking the dog, here are two podcasts I appeared…
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…