A recent Star Tribune article highlighted the student-employer partnerships available in the Twin Cities that are helping young people build careers. These partnerships provide jobs for students—often from communities of color—and workers…
There was a standing room only crowd of supporters packed into the Roseau County Courthouse last week when the county board voted unanimously to become the first county or city…
The article below was originally written by Chris Horner and it appeared at Real Clear Energy. I’ve added my own commentary within the text of the article below. “Recently, excerpts from…
Taxes are not the only reason people move, but they are a factor. It is imperative state government policy tilts the table in Minnesota’s favor.
This guy absolutely nails it.
Heartland’s Donald Kendal and Jim Lakely join Isaac Orr in episode 230 of the In The Tank Podcast. The New Hampshire primary has brought a little more resolution to the…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
For in as long as new providers continue to exit at an irreplaceable rate, prices will remain high, services will still be scarce, and parents will have no use for…
For years the St. Cloud City Council has operated under rules of conduct that in effect amount to a gag rule on free speech. Duly elected city council members were…
To help grow our state’s skilled workforce and fill talent development holes, Big Lake High School in Big Lake, Minnesota is connecting its students with early career exploration through registered…
Earlier this week, Fox 9 ran a story entitled “The Last Gasp of Coal,” which suggested that coal plants are costing ratepayers a lot of money because of a practice…
When weighing between alternatives, whether restaurants for Valentine's Day or health care systems, price isn't the only thing we take into account.
This article was originally published by the Star Tribune. Minnesota schools, like schools across the nation, have been striving for decades to shrink the stubborn racial learning gap. The frustration…
Bloomington taxpayers just proved–again–that you can fight city hall, even if it takes years and means going all the way to the Minnesota Supreme Court. The state high court ruled…
Public education bureaucrats are working to squeeze out school choice under the guise of desegregation through “controlled choice.”
New data from the IRS lets us see which states Minnesota has been losing residents and income to, and which states we have been gaining them from.
Center of the American Experiment has been at the forefront of exposing the short lifespan and enormous cost associated with decommissioning wind turbines at the end of their 20 year…
Proposed legislation in Florida would change how public-sector employees join, resign from, and pay membership dues to unions. Minnesota should follow suit.
Cobalt has become a controversial topic in the debate over copper nickel mining in Minnesota’s Duluth Complex. This metal, which is used in the lithium ion batteries in laptops, tablets,…
To boost GDP per capita as well as total GDP, immigrants need to be more likely to be employed than workers already resident and/or more skilled.
Despite S.23’s good intentions, the reality is there are too many unintended consequences and we cannot grow the economy or make Vermont more affordable by arbitrarily forcing wage increases. I…
The following article originally appeared in Reason. Baltimore County residents’ have had their perceptions about where their glass ends up shattered. Over the weekend, news broke that the county—which does not include…
How big should the bonding bill be? What should the state government do with the forecast $1.3 billion surplus? With all 201 House and Senate seats up for grabs in…
Advocates of light rail transportation for the Twin Cities imagined a clean, sophisticated, modern mode of transit that would enhance Minnesota’s reputation as a progressive bastion. Unfortunately, that is not…