As the Department of Revenue is getting ready to send those significantly smaller-than-promised $260 rebate checks, at American Experiment we are still uncovering where the rest of the surplus went.…
It’s too late to do anything to lure back the owners of a proposed $440 million wood processing mill that pulled out of the northern Minnesota project earlier this year…
A revealing book about government schools details the desperate need for change.
Axios reports a rising number of unsold electric vehicles (EVs) are piling up on auto dealer lots throughout the nation as the supply of the vehicles begins to outstrip demand.…
On Sunday morning, I appeared on Fox and Friends to discuss a New York judge’s decision to temporarily block a planned city-ordered pay hike for food delivery workers. The New York…
State Rep. Dan Wolgamott (DFL-St. Cloud) was recently arrested for DWI, according to media reports. The third-term representative was pulled over in Kanabec County Friday evening, about 50 miles northeast…
The path to undoing the radical output of the 2023 legislature begins with the fact that most Minnesotans disapprove of them.
Anyone who paid attention in Civics 101 to the chapter on the separation of powers between the three branches of American government should have seen it coming. The Cato Institute,…
June hailstorms in Nebraska dropped baseball-sized hailstones at speeds of 100 to 150 miles per hour at locations throughout the state. The hailstorm damaged energy infrastructure in the Cornhusker state,…
During the last legislative session in St. Paul, I wrote about how the DFL was voting bills through committees without any idea what they would cost. They were too busy…
The beleaguered Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis witnessed more bad luck last evening. The collision of two automobiles at the intersection of Hennepin Avenue and Lagoon saw one of the vehicles…
Where did the $18 billion surplus go?
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Nearly 1 in 5 teachers would carry a gun to school if allowed.
The Minnesota Supreme Court pulls back the absentee ballot reins.
The website Heatmap recently published an interesting interview with Mark Christie, a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC. The title of the article is a bit clickbaity…
State and local taxes and spending Alexandria Echo Press: An Echo Press Editorial: In defense of tax increases… Winona Post: County: Referendum on sales tax for jail next fall Pioneer…
The Star Tribune reports on “disturbances involving many hundreds of young people across the city late at night on July 4th.” They actually use the word “mayhem” (2nd paragraph). I…
Not long ago, policymakers like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were enamored of something called Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). This theory starts with a banal observation — that a government that issues the currency its debts…
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia allow absentee ballots received after Election Day to be counted for days afterward, as long as the envelope bears a pre-Election Day postmark.…
Heatwaves could test the nation’s electric grid as blackouts loom.
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Local drag queen Miz Diagnosis will be reading to children tomorrow at a children’s boutique in Chaska. It’s the latest battleground between truth and tolerance in the broader culture war.…
Back in May, Reuters ran an article asking: “Why is UK inflation so high and how do other countries compare?” The authors offered various possible explanations for high inflation in…