My friend Mike Petrilli, president of the Fordham Institute in Washington, posed three intriguing questions the other day. “Even when calculated in constant dollars, and even after the Great Recession,…
Last week, Korean Electric Power (KEPCO) connected its second advanced pressure reactor (APR) 1400 nuclear reactor to the grid. This is significant because these power plants, with a generation capacity…
The argument against preemption is also an argument against a statewide minimum wage.
More than one-third of teachers would prefer to negotiate salary and benefits for themselves, according to a national survey by the Teacher Freedom project. The survey asked 2,000 teachers in…
It has been a puzzle to me that Lake Calhoun was named after John C. Calhoun. After all, Minnesota was a hard-core abolitionist state. Besides, the guy looks way too…
On April 26, I described the striking decline in accountability and transparency in the Edina Public Schools (EPS) over the last 15 years. I highlighted differences between EPS Annual Reports…
Drawing on a brilliant book by Berkeley’s Neil Gilbert, I recently (April 25) wrote about how family fragmentation adversely affects economic and social mobility. But what about perpetual claims that…
The University of Chicago made waves last week by releasing the findings of a working paper that found renewable energy mandates cause electricity prices to rise. This won’t be surprising…
Apparently, the city of Burnsville has an image problem. Or is it a branding problem? The agency with the winning bid to redefine the aging suburb puts it this way.…
To borrow from P.J. O'Rourke, the good news is that the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that you're rich.
Solar irradiance, the energy potential for solar, in Minnesota is among the lowest in the country. Despite the poor solar resources in Minnesota, our state had installed 882 MW of…
In the first segment, Justin Haskins gives us a play-by-play of his ordeal with Facebook. Facebook banned Justin‘s ad account for publishing an anti-socialism video on the platform. After months of…
Here’s a striking visual that captures the decline in accountability and transparency in the Edina Public Schools (EPS) in recent years. It’s an opportunity to compare—back-to-back—the EPS Annual Reports for…
My friend Todd Myers, of the Washington Policy Center, wrote the following article in The National Review: Why progressives refuse to live by their own Earth Day bluster George Monbiot…
The Magic Money Tree which will pay for trillions of dollars of new spending has a new name: Modern Monetary Theory
American Experiment thinks that government unions should, at a minimum, be subject to at least the same reporting rules as private-sector unions, so the Center has joined an effort to…
After the Janus decision at the U.S. Supreme Court, the state of Minnesota ordered all public employers to stop deducting “fair-share” fees from nonmember paychecks. But the state was silent…
“If House DFL members truly believe climate change is an existential crisis, why do they refuse to legalize new nuclear and large hydroelectric power plants? France, Norway, and Sweden successfully…
Sen. Mike Lee of Utah was on CNN the other morning and I mentioned to my wife Diane that I liked him for several reasons, one being he’s among the…
There is new evidence that Edina Public School leaders remain committed to using the schools to go beyond teaching reading and math in order to focus on molding students’ thoughts…
The Lake Benton Wind (LBW) Farm in southern Minnesota is being retooled to improve turbine performance and reliability, but most importantly, it is being rebuilt to generate federal production tax…
“Can the Edina Schools Be Saved?” That’s the question I pose in the just-out Spring 2019 issue of Thinking Minnesota. This new article updates developments in Edina’s once-fabled public schools…
Minnesota and my homeland of Wisconsin are often portrayed as rivals with large differences, but when it comes to solar power, they're both scraping the bottom of the barrel.
On April 20th, the Star Tribune ran a story entitled "Technology, Cost Could Hamper Efforts for 100 Percent Carbon-Free Grid in Minnesota by 2050." It was good to see the…