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A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.

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Senate lawmakers reiterated their expectation that the Columbus statue torn down by vandals on June 10 be returned to the State Capitol grounds expeditiously in an oversight hearing this week…

Minnesotans have little appetite for California’s vehicle standards.

Minnesotans support cops. Expect reform.

California is often thought of as a leader on environmental issues by moderates and liberals who sincerely want what’s best for the planet. However, there is a growing realization among…

Not surprisingly, pretty much all of us, African-Americans included, want our families to live in safe neighborhoods.

The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) recently conducted an informal survey asking Minnesota families about their experience with distance learning and their hopes for the upcoming school year. According to…

CBS has launched a new TV show called Tough As Nails. The reality competition series celebrates "everyday Americans who get their hands dirty while working long, hard hours to keep…

While we need to remain vigilant in the fight against this disease, the data offers no reason to either impose new measures, like a statewide mask mandate, or continue some…

In some heavily polluted parts of the world like China and India, the economic shutdowns that resulted from attempts to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus resulted in cleaner…

Gov. Noem talks us through how South Dakota flattened the curve without a statewide shutdown, what it was like having President Trump at Mount Rushmore, and more!

The big pay increase the Rochester City Council bestowed on itself and Mayor Kim Norton last winter raised eyebrows even in prosperous Med City. The council’s initial proposal to double…

The country of Mexico is pulling the plug on wind and solar installations amidst fears of rising electricity prices and a growing recognition that these unreliable sources of power add…

While Minneapolis city council and 'Self-described liberals' are dreaming big dreams of abolishing the police and replacing them with an undefined “new transformative model for cultivating safety”, people are dying. How…

In a positive turn of events, the state of Florida has passed a law that makes it easier for some professions to do their jobs. The law, which is called…

Keeping to Education Minnesota’s political history of almost exclusively, with rare exceptions, supporting one political party and its affiliates, the teachers' union recently announced its endorsements of 81 candidates for…

Minnesota's economy weathered the first three months of 2020 better than the US as a whole, but worse than its neighbors to the south and west.

Many people believe that wind and solar are the best sources of electricity for the environment, but many of these same people are surprised to learn that these sources of…

As we continue to wait for school reopening plans to unfold, school leaders across the country and the national teachers' union are repeating an all-to-familiar call for increased education spending,…

With some 561,000 absentee ballots tallied in 2018, there’s no flattening of the curve when it comes to the number of Minnesotans expected to vote absentee this fall.  By all…

Generally, there is a crisis that has been brewing in Minnesota; parents lack access to childcare services, and in the case that they have access, they can rarely afford to…

Mayor Carter's Guaranteed Income is simply a plan to add another layer of welfare to the existing arrangements. We can debate the pros or cons of this, but let us…