State and local taxes and spending Duluth News Tribune: Local View: Parks question doomed by Duluth’s dependence on property taxes Alexandria Echo Press: Property values take big jump in Douglas…
Happy Thanksgiving! In this episode of the Power Hungry Podcast, Robert Bryce interviews Simon Michaux, an associate professor of geometallurgy at the Geological Survey of Finland. Michaux recently published a…
There is delicious food to be eaten, football to be watched, and special time with family and friends to be enjoyed, so this will be short and sweet. I want…
Feeding Fraud Program at MDE Wins Golden Turkey Award for Wasteful Spending We have a winner! Poor management and oversight by the Minnesota Department of Education of a pandemic-related food…
On Monday and Tuesday this week, I wrote about how the number of people employed in Minnesota has been falling since June. This is bad news. As I noted in…
Childcare is in a crisis. While employment in most sectors has returned to pre-pandemic levels, the same is not true for childcare. Nationally, over 100,000 workers are still missing from…
Education Minnesota’s Political Action Committee (PAC) spent nearly $4 million this year leading up to the statewide general elections, according to its 2022 Campaign Finance & Public Disclosure report through…
A recent story from the Energy and Policy Institute (EPI) details how Xcel Energy is apparently approaching cities to join its Carbon-Free Future MN Coalition to promote Xcel’s goals of…
Despite the rosy reports of new jobs carried by Minnesota’s media, when we look at the number of people actually employed in our state, that number has fallen by 27,700…
A new study from National Grid has concluded that electrifying transportation, especially medium and heavy-duty transportation, will require an enormous increase in charging capabilities. According to Bloomberg: Researchers found that by…
The last time we last checked in April, the Rochester City Council desperately wanted to spend $65 million on a regional recreational complex with no clear idea of why or…
Teacher unions have long been involved in public education. Their track record, though, shows just how far these once well-intentioned organizations have strayed from their original purpose of focusing on…
Gov. Tim Walz dedicated a new statue of Nellie Stone Johnson today at the State Capitol. The press fawned over the ceremony, calling her an “iconic civil rights and labor…
Despite being one of the most expensive places for housing in the country, New York City has done very little, if anything, to reform its strictly regulated housing market. Instead,…
Activist voices, amplified by easily influenced masses, devastated our public safety and harmed our communities in recent years. While there are signs of a recovery beginning to appear in Minneapolis, there…
How widespread has the opioid epidemic become? In an ominous sign of the times, Rochester Public Schools recently began stocking the anti-overdose medication Narcan. The medication quickly reverses the effects…