This morning we kicked off our “Morning in Minnesota” breakfast series in Willmar, MN with a conversation about renewable energy standards in Minnesota. Rep. Tim Miller, Rep. Dave Baker, and…
The teachers’ union is quick to scare teachers into thinking that outside of union membership, they can’t get protection. This is false.
Possibly the main debate in economic policy today is growth vs redistribution: who gets how much of the cake, or should we try to bake a bigger cake? Arguments in…
Last week the Minnesota Supreme Court delivered a major blow to anti-mining groups by declining an appeal to its unanimous May decision that an additional environmental review of the contentious…
Wind and solar are often touted as “clean” sources of energy, but the evidence showing that this simply isn’t true is mounting. From large landfills used to dispose of the…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
It took a decision from the Minnesota Supreme Court but St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter finally appears ready to follow the law and allow his constituents to vote on whether…
The head of Minnesota's AFSCME Council 5—a large and overtly political labor union in the state—has been suspended pending an investigation of unidentified allegations. Photo Credit: AFSCME Council 5
Renewable energy advocates in Minnesota will probably celebrate the fact that wind power produced more electricity than coal-fired power plants in April of this year (if they haven’t already). This…
Creating value does not hurt the poor; it makes everyone richer. This counterpoint originally appeared in the Star Tribune on August 23, 2019. The Star Tribune missed an opportunity to…
We've heard lately what happens when people from Minnesota don't go to Israel. What happens when they do?
Over the last year Minnesota has added more people but fewer jobs that the nation as a whole. The number of Minnesotans not working - either unemployed or out of…
I’m at the opening day of the state fair today, so I’m posting this great article from Matt Ridley that was originally published in The Telegraph on August 11, 2019.…
A new report from the Housing Affordability Institute shows that many of Minnesota's cities are overcharging homeowners for services and not complying with state law by failing to report on…
Alliant Energy, the electric company in Iowa that wants to increase electricity costs for its consumers by $240 per year to add more wind to their grid, now wants to…
Last week a reporter from the Washington Post, Rebecca Tan, emailed the Center’s Katherine Kersten, asking to interview her for an article Tan was writing. Per our usual practice, our…
A new report finds that wind developers rely heavily on traveling workers, often from other states, and solar developers also often use out-of-state workers for construction.
The Wall Street Journal ran a letter to the editor on Tuesday (August 13) from the president of the California State Board of Education about how an op-ed two weeks…
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NEFW is an annual awareness campaign held each August that seeks to empower every American to make his or her own decision about association or union membership. Through the Center's…
This is huge news. I was looking through some data from the Energy Information Administration’s website and I stumbled upon this interesting graph which shows that electricity generation from wind…
Keynes might not actually have said, “When events change, I change my mind,” but the flexibility of his beliefs was legendary.
Most people in Minnesota probably don’t realize that our air is incredibly clean. According to Minnesota Pollution Control Agency data, our air meets all federal air quality standards, which are…
By now it should probably be more surprising when the next “big thing” in renewable energy isn’t a colossal failure, but until that time comes, people will be surprised by how…