As the latest issue of Thinking Minnesota reaches doorsteps, the news is dominated by the COVID-19 epidemic that began in China and now has spread worldwide. A number of states…
American Experiment President John Hinderaker interviews acclaimed author Amity Shlaes about the lingering burdens of Big Government domestic policies from the 1960s. Your new book, Great Society, turns out to…
What if I told you everything in the conventional narrative about Minnesota’s education system is believed by facts that point to a different conclusion from what we’ve been told?
This article was written by Kevin Dayaratna, a statistician at the Heritage Foundation. Professor Neil Ferguson, who led the COVID-19 modeling team at Imperial College in London, resigned May 5 from…
While Memorial Day will look different this year given the global pandemic, the meaning behind this national holiday is still just as important, if not more so.
Lt. Harvey Johnson from New Jersey died in London in November 1942. Remember him today.
Hello! Heartland’s Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins, and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr (briefly) for episode 244 of the In The Tank Podcast. The crew discusses Elon Musk: Is…
Dunwoody College of Technology’s Women in Technical Careers scholarship program supports female students studying technical-related majors. Given the challenges created by COVID-19, the application deadline has been extended to June…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Last session, the Minnesota legislature considered passing legislation called Clean Energy First (CEF). This bill, as the name suggests, would mandate utility companies in Minnesota to prioritize renewable and carbon-free energy…
About 20,000 people texted the hotline last month, compared with 1,790 texts in April 2019, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration confirmed to The Health 202. The hotline…
Next week, the State Senate will be considering the ECO Act, which would make changes to Minnesota’s energy efficiency program, which is called the Conservation Improvement Program, or CIP. There…
From March to April, the unemployment rate in our state rose from 2.9% to 8.1% as the number of unemployed Minnesotans increased by 160,627.
Should Congress approve future stimulus packages, here are policy recommendations that will ensure every child receives the education that best meets his or her individual needs—both now and in the…
The Department of Driver and Vehicle Services long ago became the symbol for what’s wrong with government delivery of services. DVS had probably already eclipsed the post office as the…
Standing on the banks of the Mississippi River in Cohasset, Minnesota, the Boswell Energy Center is the most productive, lowest-cost source of electricity in the entire state. Because Minnesota’s mining…
In Minnesota, when you want to speak, liberals pass laws to stop you. When you don’t want to speak, liberals pass laws to force you. Here is a short report…
I detected a certain candor in the political mutiny in which Susan Kent (D-Woodbury) dethroned Tom Bakk (D-Cook) last month to become the Democrat leader of the Minnesota Senate. In…
Nearly everyone acknowledges that the lack of housing available for people of low and middle income is one of the most serious problems facing the Twin Cities today. Experts use…
A lot has been written about great numbers of Minnesotans and Americans passionately disagreeing with one another about how and when to “open up” the state and country. A lot…
This op-ed originally appeared in the Mille Lacs Messenger on May 18, 2020. The statewide shutdown that Gov. Tim Walz imposed in response to the coronavirus has been an economic…
According to new guidelines released by the Minnesota Department of Education, school districts and charter schools can reopen this summer to provide summer school, day camps and district-based child care…
Yesterday, we wrote about a newly-released, peer-reviewed study conducted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that found a steep drop off in wind turbine production over the course of a…
Binding, verifiable benchmarks offer us a path forward which eschews the false dichotomy of 'shut 'em all down' versus 'open 'em all up'