On Monday, the state legislature passed a budget that will grow government spending by 33% by 2027. It has often been claimed — falsely — that this budget contains “the…
Several blue states are deploying a bold new strategy to keep their electricity grids solvent as they push forward with reckless requirements to meet their electricity needs with unreliable wind…
Yesterday, the Minnesota legislature passed a new budget deal that will see the state government spend $69.5 billion (excluding inflation) in the 2024-2025 biennium. This is an increase of $14.0…
With the 2023 Minnesota legislative session finishing today, Gov. Tim Walz and Democratic majorities in the House and Senate accomplished everything on their wish list. We won’t have to wait…
Wisconsinites around the state will soon experience sticker shock when they open their electric bills because monopoly utility companies are asking for a combined half billion in higher energy costs over…
On Saturday, the Minnesota House DFL tweeted: On Sunday, the Minnesota Senate DFL tweeted: The Star Tribune, now published by a former member of Governor Walz’ cabinet, dutifully pushed out…
The United States is the world’s largest producer of natural gas, and it isn’t even close. In fact, data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows the U.S. almost produced…
On Wednesday, May 17, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) issued its 2023 Summer Reliability Assessment. Summarizing the report, Utility Dive noted that most of the United States will…
An anti-capitalist cafe that opened last May in Toronto, Canada, announced last week that it was going to close on May 30 due to failure to, wait for it, make…
Coincidences abound when it comes to the Feeding Our Future scandal. In this post, we look at some of the links connecting the various scandals reverberating around Minneapolis Democratic politics…
On May 17, The Heritage Foundation hosted Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner James Danly to dig into the details of what we know about power grid reliability as the…
State and local taxes and spending Minnesota Reformer: House Dems no-show at tax panel Minn Post: Mayor says Minneapolis must ‘step up’ to fund public housing. Does the city need…
Citing unsafe working conditions, low pay, and exploitation, DFL legislators are trying to pass a law (HF2369/SF2319) that will add new rules for ridesharing software companies like Uber and Lyft.…
Council member Jeremiah Ellison is accused. Yesterday, the challenger for the Democratic endorsement in Ward 10 for the Minneapolis city council, Nasri Warsame, held a press conference to tell his…
Yesterday I attended the Midwest Reliability Organization’s Hybrid Reliability meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota. One of the presenters was from Form Energy, a battery startup focused on building low-cost, iron-air…
Late last night details began emerging of the budget deal struck between House and Senate negotiators. If you were wondering where that forecast $18 billion budget surplus is going to…
We are coming up on the third anniversary of George Floyd’s death. This morning, my colleague David Zimmer and I returned to Floyd’s namesake square in south Minneapolis. We last…
High energy prices are more than an inconvenience. They are deadly. A recent article from The Economist suggests that high energy prices in Europe were responsible for 68,000 premature deaths…
Minnesota public school enrollment has dropped for three consecutive years now, as thousands of students turned to other learning environments for their education during school closures. And are staying there.…
One week after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) warned that shutting down the nation’s coal-fired power plants would increase the risk of rolling blackouts in the United States, the…
If something is connected to the internet, it is simply a question of when, not if, it will be hacked. This is the unfortunate reality that Minnesotans must accept if…
The Saturday melee at the Minneapolis Ward 10 Democratic convention has received worldwide attention. I’m not going to get into the middle of who did what and who was to…
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As soon as June 1, the U.S. government could run out of money to pay its bills. This means that without further borrowing, the U.S. government would not be able…