I had the pleasure of talking energy policy in Minnesota with King Banaian as we talked about the Xcel gas shortage and how relying on even more intermittent renewable energy sources like wind and solar could have made last week worse.
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…
A residential development has been proposed for a 36-acre plot of undeveloped land linked to the Feeding Our Future scandal. A development company located in Eden Prairie is eying a…
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…
Wind and solar advocates often cite a metric called the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) to claim that these energy sources are cheaper than coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants.1 However,…
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…