How indifference about the whopping budget surplus could permanently anchor Minnesota as a second-rate state. The solution: Give it back!
James Kennedy is the president of ThREE Consulting, a St. Louis-based firm that specializes in rare earth elements and critical minerals. In this episode, Kennedy explains how the U.S. ceded…
Who is Black Visions Collective and what are they going to do with all that money? The tragic death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 produced a cash…
Isaac Orr joins the crew at the In the Tank podcast to chat about the Biden administration’s recent actions to issue new federal drilling leases and an attempt to save…
State and local taxes and spending Minnesota News Network: Gov Walz in Rochester: tax check proposal not a “gimmick, ” says “call them what you want to” Star Tribune: Divided…
Less than half of high school students in St. Paul Public Schools (SPPS) are proficient in math or reading, but will be required to take a Critical Ethnic Studies (CES)…
A coalition of leaders in St. Paul wants the city to provide free Pre-K by raising the property tax. The St. Paul Ready for Kindergarten (SPARK) is asking individuals to…
Last year on Earth Day, I wrote about Norman Borlaug, the University of Minnesota graduate whose work creating new, higher-yielding wheat varieties helped save one billion people from starvation and…
Few things in life are as important as shelter. So, it is understandable that a lot of effort has been dedicated to ensuring access to affordable housing. But there seems…
The news that Elon Musk had acquired 9.2 percent of Twitter triggered outrage notable even for a platform that seemingly exists for no other reason than for people to express…
Who funded the unsuccessful ballot effort to defund the Minneapolis police department? Out-of-state interests, mostly, with some mystery donors thrown in. Question No. 2 appeared on the ballot last November…
The more things change, the more they stay the same, and for good reason! After making a big deal out of abruptly cutting some ties with the Minneapolis Police Department…
Minnesota’s proposed social studies standards encourage the radicalization of students.
Did you know that the Walz administration’s 19-page report on the potential of adopting California’s “Clean Fuel Standard” (CFS) in Minnesota never once mentions that the program will increase the…
Tattersall Distilling, one of the jewels in the crown of Minnesota’s craft distilling industry, announced last March that they were opening “a destination distillery and second production facility in River…
Rochester officials have proposed building a $65 million regional community and recreation center. They’re using it as a vehicle to build legislative and local support for approving an extension of…
Alliance for a Better Minnesota Action Fund (ABM) is a far-left Political Action Committee that spent $7.3 million promoting liberal politicians and attacking conservatives during the 2020 election cycle, according…
American Experiment has long argued for reform of Minnesota’s outdated alcohol laws, which do nothing but stifle entrepreneurship and protect insiders. These insiders have fought to maintain laws nearly a…
Every year, a Minnesota educator is named the state’s Teacher of the Year. Organized and underwritten by Education Minnesota, the Minnesota Teacher of the Year program “has recognized excellence in…
First, it was St. Paul. The city spent thousands of taxpayers’ money studying rent control, an effort which as of now has yet to bear fruit. Although with the ordinance’s…
Charles Zelle, the head honcho of the Met Council, has pronounced improving the safety of passengers on Metro Transit light rail lines and busses his “number one concern.” Incidents like…
Ken Martin, the head of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party, put out a press release on Good Friday touting their most recent fundraising results. The state’s version of the Democratic party…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced last week that, at 8.5 percent from March 2021 to March 2022, inflation was running at its fastest year-on-year rate since December 1981.…
The problem of overspending isn’t just anecdotal, it is systemic.