On July 19, a Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) council will vote on the adoption of a “transgender toolkit” for our state’s K-12 public schools. The tool kit pressures schools…
On July 19, a Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) council will vote on the adoption of a “transgender toolkit” for our state’s K-12 public schools. The tool kit pressures schools…
'Trickle down economics' is a theory made up by its opponents that nobody actually believes. Stop trying to make it happen.
This appeared as the Star Tribune’s Sunday cover editorial on July 16, 2017. [Star Tribune photo by Anthony Souffle.] In this era of high technology manufacturing, four years and a…
Not everyone. In fact, not most people. The Center’s new program, “Great Jobs Without a Four-Year Degree,” highlights the fact that there are many rewarding careers that don’t require a…
We all want to see higher wages and workers with more money to spend. What are the things we should be looking at to really accomplish that?
Yesterday I noted news released this week from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that shows only half the insurers that offered coverage on Obamacare exchanges in 2016 plan…
The MN Department of Education’s (MDE) School Safety Technical Assistance Council is a week away from approving its controversial transgender and gender nonconforming “resource toolkit.” The initial 29-page document that…
On Monday the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that only 141 health insurers filed applications to offer health plans through the federal Obamacare exchanges in 2018. As…
Peter McLaughlin is a Hennepin County Commissioner and perhaps Minnesota’s foremost advocate for wasteful spending on fixed rail transit. He is a member of the Metropolitan Council’s Southwest Light Rail…
The enemy of progress
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We wrote here and here about left-wing indoctrination replacing education in the Edina public schools. The stories that were told by Edina students and parents were shocking. In response to…
Dayton’s rich-vs.-the-rest economic view is simply wrong
Why Minnesota may lose a congressional seat after the 2020 Census even with metro growth