U.S. unfunded pension liabilities exceed $6 trillion: Minnesota’s share is at least $118.7 billion.
Peter Nelson heads for the Trump Administration.
Minnesotans like to think of their state as a high-tech center, but unfortunately that is more fantasy than reality. The latest evidence comes from Forbes, taking off from an analysis…
You know there’s something really questionable about a regulation when both industry and environmental activists strongly oppose it. But that’s what happened with a controversial water quality proposal from the…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota
To close off 2017, Campus Reform—a project of the Leadership Institute and a site for college news—highlighted “some [15] of the most remarkable individuals who made a positive impact in…
In a new paper titled Youth Unemployment Worldwide: The Canary in the Coal Mine of Excessive Regulation, the economist Deirdre McCloskey looks at the causes and consequences of youth unemployment…
A billboard criticizing President Donald Trump located on Highway 52 near Hampton, Minnesota has received a fair amount of attention lately. The sign shows a photograph of Trump accompanied by…
The argument over the sustainability of northern Minnesota’s wolf population ended long ago, at least among the folks who live there. The latest proof of proliferation comes from an extraordinary…
No region has suffered more from historical neglect than the Midwest.
Minnesota has made meager progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions since 2005. And it has cost a fortune.
Our reigning elite, including so-called feminists, have shouted down the concerns of Americans who dare to wonder out loud how to deal with incoming cultures that openly reject religious tolerance,…
Regulation imposes a huge burden on the American economy and holds back economic growth. New research shows, for example, that electricity utilities are less likely to invest under 'liberal' regulators…
The cover story in last October’s Thinking Minnesota was Katherine Kersten’s devastating expose of left-wing indoctrination and bullying in the Edina public schools. The Edina schools have made a firm…
Apprenticeships have long been confined, as career preparation, to trades like electrical work, plumbing, and carpentry. But a new study says that people entering almost 70 other occupations—primarily white-collar jobs—could…
Here’s a potentially great-paying occupation that doesn’t necessarily require a four-year degree that I started giving concentrated thought to recently: Successful entrepreneur.
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…