The levelized cost of blackouts
Last week, we detailed how power outages at the Niwot Market in Colorado cost the small grocery store $35,000 over the course of 24 hours. By dividing the company’s monetary losses by…
Last week, we detailed how power outages at the Niwot Market in Colorado cost the small grocery store $35,000 over the course of 24 hours. By dividing the company’s monetary losses by…
Last month, my colleague Martha Njolomole wrote about a bill — HF 4050 / SF 3947 — which would eliminate the lower minimum wage rate for small businesses. But that…
Students who attend private schools have, on average, better civic outcomes than students who attend public schools, according to a new statistical meta-analysis published in the journal Educational Psychology Review.…
Photo from MN DNR website. An attempt to rush through legislation transferring state forest land to the White Earth Band of Ojibwe appears to have hit a dead end for…
Buckle up! The first trial in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal is set to begin Monday, April 22, 2024 and Bill Glahn is breaking down all the details in…
The chaos of illegal immigration is starting to show up in Minneapolis as newly arrived immigrants from the Southern border line up daily in Minneapolis looking for work. But without…
The Circle of Education Funding in Minneapolis Public Schools is starting to look and act like a spiral. Overspending on the last teacher contract has caused two years of budget…
Finally some leadership! A school board member in the state’s largest school district threw down the gauntlet this week with a list of policies, practices and funding choices that need…
On Oct. 7, 2023, the world witnessed Hamas’ brutal invasion of Israel — the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. In the days that followed, loud voices attempted to…
Will she resign from office? KVRR and other news outlets are reporting that Sen. Nicole Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury) has been arrested in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Detroit Lakes is the county seat…
As I noted yesterday, the Star Tribune carried an article last week by Evan Ramstad which provided a decent tour d’horizon of the economic debate in Minnesota. Titled “Guess what, Minnesota: Retirees are moving here, not…
It’s a saga worthy of George Jefferson himself. The controversial Democratic Congresswoman from Minneapolis was back in the news today. More precisely, her eldest daughter was in the news for…