The state government is cracking down on bars and restaurants which are already struggling with reduced capacity.
Following in the footsteps of Arizona, Missouri has become the latest state to enact a bill universally recognizing out of state licenses for professions and allowing people with criminal records…
“I think the thing that's most wrong with Hubert Humphrey is that he is not cognizant of the limited, finite ability government has to deal with people's problems. And I…
New evidence by the Mercatus Center suggests annual regulatory growth increases operating costs per unit of output. Ergo, reducing regulation would cut operating costs significantly for businesses, providing much-needed relief.
Imagine the following, Uri is a retired 83-year-old Michigan engineer, and in 2014 he accidentally underpaid, by $8.41, the property taxes on a home he rented out. But instead of…
There may be a fire sale getting underway in Duluth as officials prepare to unload one city-owned property in the throes of the financial fallout due to the pandemic. The…
Owners of dozens of renovated barns used for weddings and other events in rural Minnesota are saying “I don’t” to a state regulation so costly some say they’d have to…
Have you considered moving, only to find home prices way higher than you expected? That's not the case in the rest of the Midwest. It's uniquely a Twin Cities problem,…
It is not surprising that some grape growers feel threatened by the removal of this law. This law protected them from the competition by hindering choice for winemakers and forcing…
Minnesota craft breweries can use hops from anywhere they want to make beer–and they do. But a law on the books to protect Minnesota grape producers from competition has long…
This is not the first obstacle that businesses are facing when it comes to rebuilding that has to do with regulation. Up until about 2 weeks ago, businesses could not…
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem stands for a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
It’s hard to blame businesses considering rebuilding after the riots in Minneapolis for wanting to take additional security measures to protect themselves. They have little choice with the lack of…
A lot of the decrease in unemployment has followed the loosening of shutdown orders. But most indoor service businesses like restaurants and bars are operating with restrictions like limited capacity.…
Just when you might think it couldn’t get any tougher for riot-ravaged small business owners in Minneapolis, city bureaucrats dream up a new way to make their comeback even more…
Concern over catching COVID-19 in person at the polls has reportedly been the impetus for more Minnesotans to vote by absentee ballot in the forthcoming August 11 primary. The threat…
Not only does Gov. Walz get to the make the rules Minnesotans live by via executive order, but he gets to break them when he feels like it. For proles…
A 'failed state' is defined as "a state whose political or economic system has become so weak that the government is no longer in control." For a few days in…
Heartland’s Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins, and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr in episode 254 of the In The Tank Podcast. It appears as though Joe Biden picked his…
Using a preposterously flawed scientific model, Gov. Tim Walz waged a campaign of fear to shut down Minnesota’s economy.
Recent months have given Minnesotans a front-row seat to the shortcomings of liberal governance.
In the run up to the imposition of the mask mandate, much was made of how widespread support for it was, including from the business community. Is it any wonder,…
Using a preposterously flawed scientific model, Gov. Tim Walz waged a campaign of fear to shut down Minnesota’s economy.
Minnesotans might be under the impression that the wheels of state government stopped turning during the pandemic. Far from it. Gov. Tim Walz still has the pedal to the metal…