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Why Does Minnesota's A.G. Want to Silence Critics?
It’s not every day a state’s top prosecutor faces accusations of potential “abuse of prosecutorial discretion” and questions over “the integrity of your office.” But Minnesota Attorney Gen...
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Clear Cut Trees Reveal Solar Power's Environmental Downside
It’s a given that solar power is unreliable as a source of base load power to meet our daily energy requirements. After all, the sun—at best—shines some of the time. Great River Energy’s exper...
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Taxpayers Press for Referendum Re-Do in Bid to Halt School Construction
Rushford-Peterson Schools bond referendum passed in 2014, construction started in 2015, but a citizens group wants to turn back the clock in 2016 on the controversial $38 million project in the works....
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Minnesotans Vote with Their Feet in Move to Lower-Tax States
The “b” as in billion has gotten most of the attention generated by Center of the American Experiment’s new report [PDF] on Minnesotans moving to lower tax states at a net cost of nearly $1 b...
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Don't Miss CAE Forum on How Dodd-Frank Hurts Small Business with Top Expert Peter Wallison
The timing couldn’t be better for American Experiment’s forthcoming lunch with Peter Wallison on May 4. Wallison’s target topic, the unintended consequences of the Dodd-Frank Act, has hit the ...
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Posts by Tom Steward
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Media Ignores Vast Improvement in Nation’s Air Quality
You’d never know it from the media’s selective coverage of the environment. But our nation’s air quality has vastly improved over the past several decades, even as the economy triple...
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Media Warns Pipeline Chaos Could be Coming to MN
The national media has already written the first chapter of a potentially protracted standoff in northern Minnesota over the recently approved Enbridge 3 pipeline. The Wall Street Journal warns that e...
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Teachers’ Unions Scramble to Remain Relevant
School may be out but the recent Supreme Court ruling that public employees cannot be forced to pay union fees has cut the teachers unions’ summer vacation short. Kate Walsh of the National Coun...
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MN Secretary of State Fights Court Order to Release Voter Data
What’s Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon so afraid of? The best way for Simon to back up the DFL’s denial of voter fraud in Minnesota would be to comply with a Ramsey County Judge J...
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Driver Frustration Mounts Over I-35 in Minneapolis
Frustration over MnDOT’s clumsy management of the I-35W construction project in Minneapolis has driven some motorists over the line. The Star Tribune’s coverage of drivers’ misdeeds ...
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