At the very least State Sen. Dave Senjem (R-Rochester), hoped his legislation would draw attention to the methods used to keep the state’s Canada goose population under control. Is “shoving…
Minnesota Senate Republicans have introduced a bill, Senate File 450, that would keep the cost of vehicles low by preventing the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) from unilaterally imposing unpopular…
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This op ed appeared in the Litchfield Independent Review on May 3, 2021 Even with a forecast budget surplus of $1.6 billion for the 2022-2023 biennium and $4.6 billion coming…
A new report by Goldman Sachs makes a bold claim: copper is the new oil. If this is true, it means Minnesota, which has some of the largest undeveloped copper…
The following article was written by Mike Palicz, and it appeared at Real Clear Policy: Included in Joe Biden’s $2.5 trillion grab bag of progressive priorities — billed as an…
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Nate Myers are joined by Isaac Orr in episode 292 of the In the Tank Podcast. The climate alarmist activist group, the…
State and local taxes and spending The Neighbor: Minnesota House passes plan to raise high-earner taxes, exempt some PPP loans and unemployment benefits Duluth News Tribune: Statewide View: House tax…
On April 28, President Joe Biden unveiled “The American Families Plan”, a $1.8 trillion spending proposal aimed at families and children. The program will be funded partly by raising the…
Once, not long ago, pretty much everyone supported “equality.” Some might have been more sincere than others. Some might have had slightly different notions of it: equality before the law…
Despite winning an Emmy, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has a long history of making the wrong call when it comes to science. In 2015, he banned fracking in New…
On April 28, President Joe Biden unveiled “The American Families Plan,” a proposal to spend $1.8 trillion on programs targeting families and children. Among other things, the plan calls for…
On Saturday, May 8, join The Exodus MN organization founded by black mothers in Minnesota and let Governor Walz know we need school choice options NOW!
It’s not every day the entire city council of a community faces a recall election. But that’s exactly what organizers of the Recall City Hall Committee in Red Wing hope…
In a recent interview with S&P Global, Bob Frenzel, Xcel Energy’s President and COO outlined the company’s vision for the next nine years and it is clear that the government-approved…
Even with a forecast budget surplus of $1.6 billion for the 2022-2023 biennium and $4.6 billion coming from the federal government in the latest round of COVID-19 relief money, some…
On Tuesday, the CDC updated its mandate regarding masks. Gov. Tim Walz positively welcomed this update, which could result in more changes in our state. As reported by the Star…
The Education Savings Account language included in Senate File 960 has been inaccurately referred to by critics as “vouchers.” There are differences between the two. Despite key distinctions between school…
This op-ed appeared in the Star Tribune on April 28th, 2021 As Minnesota’s economy slowly begins to recover from COVID-19 and the measures taken by state government to fight it,…
According to a January 2021 article in GreenTech Media, transmission interconnection costs for new power plants are skyrocketing, and this is killing wind and solar projects that don’t want to…
In 2018, households in the lowest income decile paid an effective rate of 2.77% on tobacco taxes compared to the 0.05% paid by those in the top income decile.
It’s one thing to spend $30 annually on license plates to show your support for bees and evidently quite another to live next door to a colony of the pollinators.
Center of the American Experiment this week launched a campaign to push back on the Page Amendment and protect the voice of parents and taxpayers in education policy reform at…
Minnesota’s unemployment rate ticks down in March; Logging, mining shows strength – International Falls Journal Unemployment rates fall statewide for third month in a row – KAAL TV Unemployment rate…