Cited as a cost-saving measure. Earlier this week, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that Hennepin County has used $25 million in federal pandemic funds to purchase five motels to house…
Author and Manhattan Institute Fellow Heather Mac Donald has offered a brilliant piece in The Spectator on the death of Tyre Nichols, and the renewed calls for massive police reform. …
Why well-intentioned government policies to help the poor often fail.
In a surprising about-face after more than a year of controversy, Grand Forks officials now say they plan to reject the Fufeng Chinese corn milling plant proposed in a location…
Sources have told me that the Minnesota Senate will be voting on Senate File 4 tomorrow, which will force electricity prices to skyrocket and cause rolling blackouts by mandating that…
When he announced his $65.2 billion two-year “One Minnesota” budget, a 26% increase from the current two-year budget, Gov. Walz claimed that it will “lower costs, cut taxes, and improve…
I’m not kidding. Buried deep in the fine print of Walz’ proposed transportation budget is a massive increase in the annual car registration tax (“registration tab”), being sold as a…
Why the state’s economic outlook isn’t as rosy as the Walz administration makes it seem.
With Democrats enjoying their new power in St. Paul, one normal part of the legislative process has been missing: conference committees.
Federal data shows Twin Cities light rail is the most dangerous in America.
When Minnesota’s state Senate passed a bipartisan bill last year to cut the lowest rate of state income tax, a DFL complaint was that it was “titled (sic) toward the…
Memphis Tennessee isn’t well. It’s a city experiencing record-setting murders and associated violence — about eight times the national average and more than twice the rate of Minneapolis. The situation…
The southeastern Minnesota town of Harmony was projected to lose residents in the 2020 census, leaving the community short of 1,000 residents. But the prognosticators evidently failed to account for…
During an historic rise in violent crime, did Minnesota voters just ask for more of the same?
In 2020-’21, Census Bureau data showed that 13,453 Minnesota residents left for other states, our state’s biggest net loss of domestic migrants in at least 30 years. That record stood for only…
Minnesota underperforms in terms of economic freedom.
Mississippi residents are consistently told that renewable energy sources, like solar panels, are now the lowest-cost ways to generate electricity, but these claims are based on creative accounting gimmicks that…
Gov. Tim Walz’s Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) proposed amendments to the rules governing teacher licensure in Minnesota. These changes are expected to be formally adopted later this…
News of note in Minnesota: Center events, initiatives, and policy work.
Collateral damage from the Feeding Our Future scandal.
Legislative term limits have found a new following in North Dakota.
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State and local taxes and spending U.S. News: Tax the Rich? Liberals Renew Push for State Wealth Taxes CBS News: A national wealth tax has gone nowhere. Now some states…
Last week I joined my former colleague H. Sterling Burnett on The Heartland Institute’s daily podcast. We chat about how zero-emission energy mandates are undermining grid reliability and substantially increasing…