Minnesota craft breweries can use hops from anywhere they want to make beer–and they do. But a law on the books to protect Minnesota grape producers from competition has long…
Can you imagine what the lockdown would have been like without Amazon? That is the essence of free market capitalism: you make a profit by providing a good or service…
A new billboard that has appeared in Edmonton, Alberta (home of the Oilers hockey team) asks Albertans the question, “Should Alberta join the USA?” For those of you who are…
This is not the first obstacle that businesses are facing when it comes to rebuilding that has to do with regulation. Up until about 2 weeks ago, businesses could not…
Despite the science supporting in-person learning, many schools—under pressure from teachers' unions—will begin the school year online. But the costs of closed schools are great. Not only will continued school closures…
Education Minnesota could learn a thing or two from private schools when it comes to going back to school this fall. While the teachers union has largely turned a deaf…
Last weekend, the DFL State Central Committee officially adopted a resolution calling for a moratorium banning copper-nickel mining projects in Minnesota, according to the DFL Environmental Caucus’s Facebook page. The…
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem stands for a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
Increased crime, vandalism, and disorder - even just the perception of it - imposes economic costs. If people feel unsafe, they will go elsewhere and they will take their money…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Rather than working on safely reopening schools, teachers' unions and public school districts have been telling parents to avoid alternative learning options for the sake of "equity." And parents are…
Like the undermentioned parrot, Modern Monetary Theory fails to check three boxes.
The following article originally appeared in Forbes. It was written by Michael Shellenberger. Fires have burned 1.3 million acres of California’s forests over the last month. That’s one million acres more than…
Compared to states that instated a shutdown, states that stayed open did not have worse health outcomes from COVID-19. In fact, most of them were among the top states with…
Most people seem to believe that wind and solar panels produce no waste and have no negative environmental impacts. Unfortunately, these people are wrong. In reality, everything that humans do…
Unlike the last time Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called for emergency backup in containing riots after George Floyd’s death, Gov. Tim Walz fell all over himself on Wednesday dispatching the…
We often hear the old quote that "a riot is the language of the unheard". Sometimes, maybe. Sometimes it is just the language of thieves and vandals.
According to Xcel Energy, the largest electric utility company in the state of Minnesota, the closing of large “baseload” power facilities in favor of renewable energy sources like wind and…
Blue checks on Twitter shrugged off damage to businesses, arguing that the owners were insured. Many weren't. People like this rely on the city and state government to protect them…
Last weekend the Minneapolis Star Tribune ran an article entitled Xcel Looks At New Nuclear Options As it Moves to Carbon-Free Power Goals. The article explains that nuclear energy is critical to…
The start of the 2020 school year is just around the corner. There is a compelling case for reopening schools—not only to prevent academic disparities from widening, but also to…
Isaac Orr joins Mark Allen on Thief River Falls Radio to talk about how California's car mandates are all pain and no gain.
Minnesota currently has 1,019 ICU beds out of 1,222 in use with a capacity of 2,182 at 72 hours notice. The emergency phase of the Covid-19 pandemic in Minnesota, for…
A misconception about union membership is that an educator's compensation or health insurance will be in jeopardy if he or she isn't a union member. But salary and benefits are…