The California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) is helping to push Golden State gas prices up to $6.38 per gallon, according to averages compiled by AAA. Some counties, such as…
In a big win for students and parents, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down an opinion today in Carson v. Makin that grants more educational freedom to families. The High…
Leftist nonprofits in Minnesota can count on a steady funding stream from a Minneapolis-based foundation. Funded by the fortune earned by William McKnight, the long-time CEO and board chair of…
Negotiations broke down last week between leaders of the state House, Senate, and Governor over whether or not to have a special session. This effectively ended the possibility of tax…
Emmet Penney at Grid Brief writes that Austria, the Netherlands, and Germany are all rolling coal now that Russia’s choking its gas supplies to Europe. If you’re not signed up yet…
As violent crime continues at unacceptable levels in our state, we need leaders who are willing to put us on their shoulders and fight for our collective safety. Our Governor, the…
American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten’s gross salary was over $426,000 from 2020-2021, according to the union’s federal LM-2 filing cited in a report by Americans for Fair…
A lot has been made of the recent drop in public-school enrollments. Get ready for the demographic cliff. Enrollment in Minnesota public schools dropped each of the past two years,…
Just when the car wreck of a plan to eliminate most parking spots in the reconstruction of Hennepin Avenue in Uptown appeared unstoppable, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey slammed the brakes…
Last week negotiations between leaders of the state House, Senate, and Governor over whether or not to have a special session broke down. If you’re wondering whether this was good…
If you put Governor Walz’s tax proposals on an X/Y axis, you would see an inverse relationship between how generous the tax proposal is, to how little chance it has…
Earlier this month progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin was ousted from his post in San Francisco per a special recall election. The recall was spurred on by Boudin’s radical anti-prosecution…
Whether the lights stay on today and tomorrow will hinge on a few main variables: how high is demand, how much power can we import from PJM (the power grid…
The article below was written by Mark Kolbinger in the Patriot News. Sizzling temperatures have one again forced area residents inside to the comfort of their air conditioners, while questions…
We visit two sites closely associated with the third free-food network shut down by the state Department of Education (MDE). At the time it was shut down by MDE, Gar…
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal and Linnea Lueken are joined by Isaac Orr from the Center of the American Experiment and Jason Hayes from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy…
The drama at the Hennepin County Public Defender’s Office appeared to have died down following the much-publicized departure of former chief Mary Moriarity. But a year and a half after…
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has issued a report warning that the regional electric grid to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), faces the highest…
On Thursday, June 22, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) announced that Minnesota’s unemployment was at yet another historic low. According to DEED, Minnesota’s unemployment rate dropped…
So far in this 2021-22 election cycle, Alida Messinger has donated $1.8 million to Democratic political causes in Minnesota. Messinger is the daughter of J.D. Rockefeller III and the former…
Rolling blackouts may be coming to the Upper Midwest—including Iowa— this summer, according to an analysis from the North American Reliability Council (NERC), a nonprofit international regulatory authority whose mission…
Minnesota, as is the case with much of the country, finds itself in the middle of a 1970’s-style energy crisis. Gasoline and diesel fuel prices are at record levels and…
We tour the growing ruins of this once great Midwestern city. Yesterday, my colleague David Zimmer and I took our third trip this month to see the sights in the…
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve announced that it is raising interest rates in an effort to curb inflation. The Fed will hike rates by 75 basis points — or 0.75…