Last week, I released my new Policy Briefing, “Counteracting Regulatory Burdens,” which calls for state policymakers to enact a Pay-as-You-Go provision whereby new regulatory requirements or costs must be offset…
An early morning tragedy played out in Burnsville this morning as several first responders were shot and killed while responding to a domestic related call at a single-family residence. The…
Two Minneapolis brothers have been arrested in connection to a horrific Coon Rapids triple murder case from last month. They join their alleged accomplice Alonzo Mingo in the Anoka County…
According to the Minnesota Department of Education, 77.5 percent of the students in St. Paul Schools are not proficient in math. The same data shows 69.2 percent of St. Paul…
Never say never. Dubbed the “North Star Act” (as in “follow the North Star from the southern border”) the bill would designate all of Minnesota as a sanctuary state for…
Regulation NFIB: Small Businesses to Minnesota Legislature: Stop the Mandate Madness Minnesota Reformer: Minnesota Chamber of Commerce urges lawmakers to quell new mandates, spending WCCO: Bill aims to ban restrictive…
Yesterday’s webinar is now available for viewing on YouTube. I mentioned during the webinar that many of the Feeding Our Future defendants also owned other businesses subsidized by other agencies…
From time to time I have been accused of only ever offering criticisms of what is wrong with Minnesota’s economy and the state’s economic policy and of failing to offer…
Now is your chance to say NO! to the controversial transmission line that Xcel Energy is planning to build from Becker to Lyon County. Worst of all, Xcel wants to…
Photo: Tony Webster via Flickr. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED Tomorrow the Walz administration plans to close the historic Upper Sioux Agency State Park to the public forever, transferring…
Center of the American Experiment has a new report detailing how Gov. Tim Walz and other liberal lawmakers are setting the stage for more gas station inflation in Minnesota by…
Background In the 2023 legislative session, Minnesota’s state government passed $10 billion of hikes to taxes and fees. In November, Minnesota Management & Budget estimated that, in 2027, General Fund…
The final campaign finance numbers are in for the 2023 election for the Minneapolis city council. All 13 council seats were on the ballot, and the results saw the avowedly…
Our Public Safety feature article in the latest Thinking Minnesota magazine. Read about several extrajudicial initiatives put in play in Minnesota, designed to reduce penalties for crime, reduce incarceration and…
American Experiment has highlighted the opposition of landowners and local elected officials to Xcel Energy’s proposed 175-mile high voltage line running from near Marshall in southwestern Minnesota to Becker in…
A state government has two categories of economic policy levers available to it: the first is fiscal policy, taxes and spending, and the second is regulatory policy. Burdens of regulation…
Another election cycle is already underway, and the money is piling up. I’ve been following the money in state Democrat politics in my Minnesota for Sale series. I’ve assembled the…
There continues to be a great deal of effort by the media and political leadership in Minneapolis to either suggest crime is down or dismiss it by focusing on issues…
I previously warned about celebrating the “historic” education funding the DFL-controlled legislature passed in 2023 given the overwhelming new mandates they attached to the new money. Turns out, despite spending…
A review of Alpha News’ ‘The Fall of Minneapolis.’
Two years ago, I wrote an article detailing how the Great Plains Institute (GPI) was lying to the public about the cost of the California Transportation Standard. Sadly, GIP is…
The 2024 legislative session begins Monday with Gov. Tim Walz telling the Star Tribune “this is going to be one of the more challenging sessions that I’ve had as governor…
Last year, Minnesota’s legislature blew through an $18 billion budget surplus and hiked taxes and fees by another $10 billion for good measure. You might think that would sate the…
In part 3 of my video series, I dive into the power-behind-the-throne of Minnesota politics, the dark money network Alliance for a Better MN. This outfit, headquartered in a craptacular…