Compared to the rest of the country, Minnesota does not rank favorably on business regulation. A lot of studies that quantify regulation usually rank us below average. The 2015 Small…
Last week, the Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA) released its fourth report on the $2.7 billion Southwest Light Rail Line (SWLRT). It found, according to the Star Tribune, that; The Metropolitan Council…
State and local taxes and spending Twin Cities Business: Paying Your Fair Share! KSTP: Question on St. Paul ballot will ask for sales tax increase to fund road, bridge maintenance…
The North Dakota Legislature just handed taxpayers the biggest property and income tax cut in state history, more than half a billion dollars overall. But that could be only a…
The Minneapolis park police have preemptively closed the iconic Stone Arch Bridge during overnight hours through July 5. Independent journalist Rebecca Brannon reports on the mayhem occurring this week that…
The easy part ended when the Minnesota Legislature rubber-stamped Rochester’s request to ask voters to extend the city’s expiring half-cent local sales tax for another 16 years. This fall residents…
Facial recognition technology (FRT) is under fire as part of a civil suit filed by the ACLU yesterday. FRT is an invaluable public safety tool, which should be preserved through reasonable…
A recent CNN article said: After two years of surging prices, economists still can’t agree on what has caused the world’s worst inflation crisis in decades. While the usual culprits…
The auditors’ report identifies dozens of questionable transactions. You will recall the fallout back in March from the disastrous, late-February, Expo put on at the convention center by the City…
My friend Madi Hilly has blown up the internet over the last two days after posing next to stored nuclear fuel while 27 weeks pregnant while visiting Idaho National Labs.…
A 30-second ad put out by the state’s tourism board was featured today on the multimillion-follower Twitter account Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok). The video can be seen here. The Libs’…
Thanks to some absentee council members, rent control will likely not appear on the November ballot in Minneapolis. As reported by the Star Tribune, In a contentious maneuver backed by…
Vagrants sleeping in skyways and parking ramps, discarded drug paraphernalia on sidewalks, impromptu campsites in public areas. It’s become an all too familiar scenario, increasingly even in cities outside the…
The state’s third-largest school district has admitted it is facing an “imminent financial crisis” but that it will find cuts to balance the budget, reported Deena Winter with the Minnesota…
Policy fellow Isaac Orr joined Mark Hinaman on his new show about the need for more nuclear power. In the show, Isaac laments about how “Free Willy” environmentalism, which is…
Last week I wrote about how, faced with declining college enrollments after decades of above-inflation increases in college tuition fees, colleges ought to be cutting their fees. I also wrote…
I recently wrote about another round of assessment results capturing the continual fall in academic achievement among our country’s students. While the declines were certainly exacerbated by government policy responses…
Yesterday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations came out with a statement calling for Governor Walz to appoint an independent investigator to provide answers regarding law enforcement’s role leading up to…
Political centrists provide cover for the far-left agenda in Minnesota. Tom Horner, the 2010 Independence Party candidate for governor, has an opinion piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune under the…
Maybe it’s nothing new or perhaps it’s another unsettling sign of the times. Either way, a surprising number of cities report an outbreak of incidents of vandalism at parks, beaches…
It’s not all fun and twerking at the Twin Cities Pride Festival and Parade. It’s big money, too, and some of it was yours. The annual event held in downtown…
Five years ago today, a multi-year effort started by the brave veteran teacher Rebecca Friedrichs finally concluded, freeing all public-sector employees from financially supporting a government union as a condition…
Last week, the Star Tribune reported: In seven years, Minneapolis transportation planners want 60% of trips in the city taken on public transit, or made by biking, walking or rolling.…
In May the City of Minneapolis announced its “Warehouse District Live” plan to bring foot traffic back to downtown Minneapolis on weekend nights — June through October. The plan blocks off…