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

What if we could have better roads and bridges without increasing the gas tax?  That’s the last thing DFL Gov. Tim Walz wants to see, after attempting to raise the…

Like the state generally, Minnesota's cities are not generating jobs fast enough for their growing populations

Anti-mining activists have been quick to criticize the Trump Administration’s decision to renew the mineral leases for the Twin Metals Minnesota project located north of Ely, Minnesota. However, these criticisms…

It came to light last year that a handful of rich left-wing donors led by Michael Bloomberg have collaborated with New York University Law School to recruit, place and pay…

Education Minnesota President Denise Specht once again used her column in the union’s magazine to call out the Center. "Our union and our vision... are under attack," Specht claimed.

They say nothing good happens after midnight. Apparently the adage particularly applies to downtown Minneapolis, where WCCO-TV documented more violence over the weekend. Once again, weekend nightlife in downtown Minneapolis…

Minnesota leads other states on population growth and unemployment growth, but lags on job growth

Solar energy is terrible for the environment in a number of ways, including the fact that large land areas must be devoted to it. At Forbes, Michael Shellenberger highlights another…

Natural gas is a powerful resources that is saving thousands of lives every single year. That’s the conclusion of a recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research entitled…

Discipline reform efforts are pushing schools to cut back on suspensions and expulsions and prodding them toward alternative discipline policies that often leave teachers to manage behavior issues on their…

Last week pictures surfaced of a landfill in Wyoming being filled with something you may not have imagined: wind turbine blades. It turns out that the fiberglass wind turbine blades…

A new study finds that Minnesota ranks 4th out of 50 states and the District of Columbia for most expensive infant care. Child care expenses are a real problem for…

Outside of the union, there are several organizations that offer job protection and legal counsel. These alternative organizations don't get caught up in partisan politics and instead focus on kids…

Why does it seem to take a tragedy or natural disaster for MnDOT to come around and add more traffic lanes in the Twin Cities freeways? The I-35W bridge collapse…

In the year from June 2018 to June 2019, Minnesota ranked 17th nationally for population growth, 34th nationally for employment growth, and 1st nationally both for the increase in the…

Howdy, y’all. I’m in Austin, Texas today giving a presentation on our award-nominated research, Doubling Down on Failure at The Heartland Institute’s Emerging Issues Forum. This is a really good opportunity because…

Just as educators encourage their students to be independent thinkers and hold true to themselves, so too should educators be trusted by their colleagues to make decisions regarding union membership…

Sen. Warren's claims taxes on gun manufacturers magically do two things at once. On the one hand, they will stop gun and ammo sales. On the other, they will massively…

With all the talk about banning plastic straws in the name of saving the oceans, very little of the discussion focuses on where the bulk of ocean plastic actually comes…

Renewable energy advocates often claim that business is booming for the solar industry in Minnesota, and this is true. However, in order to determine whether this is a good or…

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

For a while in the mid-1960s, Bob Dylan, born in Duluth and raised in Hibbing, was one of the dominant cultural forces in the world and a large part of…

Did you know that Minnesota’s forests are flourishing? According to research from the U.S. Forest Service, forests account for 17.7 million acres of land in Minnesota out of a total…