During the pandemic Rochester Public School administrators implemented a whacky new grading system called “Grading for Learning.” No more grades based on traditional testing, homework or quizzes, no deadlines for…
Among the DFL’s priorities to move Minnesota forward in the upcoming legislative session is the idea to increase funding for early care and learning. Specifically, the DFL wants to: Help…
2022 was a tough year for parents trying to find baby formula. But after months of parents facing empty shelves, Congress waived tariffs, which can be as high as 17.5%,…
On Friday 12/30/22, Jeremy Ellis, 26, became the 80th Minneapolis murder victim in 2022. Ellis was found shot to death behind the wheel of a car, adjacent to US Bank Stadium…
You have to give librarians credit. Despite digital technology inevitably changing the need for physical storage centers for books and information, the antiquated institution has reinvented itself in order to…
The Minnesota DFL, now holding a trifecta in state government, released their legislative priorities yesterday: These are aspirations, ends rather than means. We should ask, 1) Is there a problem?…
Bloomberg reports that an increase in electric heating in Southern states over the last ten years was a key factor in why power companies could not keep up with electricity…
Isaac Orr joined Jon Justice to talk about the rising prices and rolling blackouts that will ensue if liberal lawmakers like Governor Tim Walz push forward with a carbon-free electricity…
Fargo taxpayers let it rip when they were recently asked their opinion on the city’s proposed up to $11 million pedestrian bridge connecting City Hall to the riverfront. This excerpt…
Hennepin County worked for over a year on their version of the latest woke fad: a land acknowledgement. After reading it, I think someone with Dakota or Anishinaabe heritage should…
It’s in the math. Advocates for the ranked-choice voting method claim many advantages for their voting system, not least among them producing a nicer, more moderate politics. Something closer to…
Ibram X. Kendi wants parents to raise ‘antiracists.’
Just before Christmas, I noted that, on net, 19,400 Minnesotans left our state for other states in 2022, the largest exodus in at least 30 years. Where are they going?…
Trash collection isn’t the sort of service that gets most folks worked up, unless there’s a problem. But the prospect of unexpectedly having twice as many trash haulers to choose…
Minnesota Public Radio reports that Minnesota’s environmental review process will now require developers of new highways, industrial plants, livestock feedlots, and significant housing developments to calculate their project’s greenhouse gas…
This post was originally emailed to subscribers of our Capitol Watch weekly email. To subscribe, click here. Elections have consequences. Minnesota Democrats ran the table in the 2022 election and…
As Tim Walz is sworn in for his second term as governor he will find himself at the helm of an economy in relatively poor shape. In our report “The Cost of…
In 1968, the biologist Paul Ehrlich wrote: In the April 1970 issue of The Progressive, Ehrlich forecast the existence in 1999 of a ‘United States of North America’ with a…
If you have a Spotify subscription, then I would highly recommend you listen to the Siddarth Kara episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. Kara is an author, researcher, and activist…
“The parent of a child is primarily responsible for assuring that the child acquires knowledge and skills that are essential for effective citizenship.” — Minnesota Statute 120A.22 If there is…
Babbitt, the 1922 novel by Minnesotan writer Sinclair Lewis, might be one of the most misunderstood books ever written. This comes from the back of my old copy: With his…
Judith A. Curry is a climatologist and former academic who is “appalled at the state of both the scientific and policy debates surrounding climate change.” In her second appearance on…
State and local taxes and spending Faribault Daily News: We need targeted tax relief Pioneer Press: Real World Economics: Property taxes are simple, and complex Park Rapids Enterprise: Nevis school…
Jon Sanders of the John Locke Foundation wrote a great piece for the American Institute for Economic Research discussing how liberals will eventually try to normalize the blackouts that their…