The phrases “cooking the books” and “Madoff miracle” appear in a New York Post headline from last month (August 10) on the state Teachers Retirement Association (TRA) pension fund. The…
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison took time out from his busy Labor Day schedule to post the following on Twitter (X): In the 22 hours since, the post has been…
It should surprise no one that subsidies and regulations rarely change behavior. A recent study shows them to be largely ineffective in climate policy, too. The peer-reviewed study, published last week in the…
A recent headline noting that Minnesota has worse reading scores than Mississippi made me chuckle — not because of the subject matter but because I have been writing about the…
The CrowdStrike outage could be a harbinger of future disasters.
Solar cannot ‘replace’ coal power.
What America needs to know about Tim Walz.
A new book proposes system-wide education reform to reverse our disastrous course.
The Minneapolis Police Department still has a staffing problem.
Ongoing violence reaffirms the necessity of a robust police force.
News of note in Minnesota: Center events, initiatives, and policy work.
Reflections on the revolution in Britain.
Free speech comes with a price on college campuses — for now.
Minnesota’s education ranking drops again.
We’ve got mail!
Minnesota’s budget is a disaster waiting to happen.
Minnesota’s indispensable think tank.
A new lawsuit highlights the slippery slope of government overreach and regulation.
The consequences of tearing down the foundation of society.
For decades we’ve been told that trends in California foretell the future of America. It used to be a promise, now it’s a warning. This week saw a late-summer heatwave…
The controversial Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline aiming to send emissions from 57 ethanol plants in five states for storage underground in North Dakota faces yet another setback. The South Dakota…
The war on cops, which has been carried out since 2020 by activists and the politicians who have bought into their rhetoric, has had a disastrous impact on Minnesota law…
You may recall the name Empress Malcolm Watson, Jr., from the early days of the Feeding Our Future scandal. He was described back then as the live-in boyfriend of Aimee…
More than half of Minnesota public school students still don’t meet basic proficiency in reading or math, according to newly released 2024 statewide assessment results by the Minnesota Department of…