The new year offers a new opportunity for a full-time communications director to join our team at Center of the American Experiment. 2019 promises to be a banner year as…
The Minnesota Licensing and Registration System (MNLARS) was supposed to be the future for our state. Instead of long lines, bad waiting room music, and having to take time off…
Around 40 percent of students who enroll in four-year colleges and universities don’t graduate within six years. This leaves them saddled with debt and no degree that will help them…
Tax cuts are not handouts. Handouts are handouts. If you oppose corporate handouts, make sure you're opposed to the right thing.
I tried my hand at calling how the NFL season would play out before the season started. Turns out I should keep this day job because my picks were hot…
The Star Tribune’s opinion page column usually keeps a low profile during the holiday break. But a December 28 column containing a checklist of ideas for reforming Minnesota’s health care…
Happy New Year, everyone! You may or may not be recuperating from last night’s events, but here is a short post on the upcoming, good, bad, and ugly happenings for…
Raising prices to help tackle a high cost of living might well be #peakgovernment
A friend of mine sent me a YouTube video of U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) berating Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. He fairly characterized it as “full frontal Madame Mao.” It…
In a front-page story in the Star Tribune, “Help Wanted: Homebuilders Need Workers” (December 27), reporter Jim Buchta opened by noting how the “labor crunch is hitting home in the…
It’s already a Happy New Year before 2019 even officially arrives on the Iron Range, where they’ve already seen glimpses of what the future will bring. After years of bureaucratic…
Kirk Cousins shows that a pay off to an investment is not guaranteed. That is why investment income is often taxed at lower rates. But at least we're not the…
Minnesota is home to the world’s largest undeveloped deposits of copper, nickel, and platinum group elements, and developing these mineral resources will be a massive boost to the economy of…
In case you hadn’t noticed, the federal government remains shut down, sort of. More than a week later, it’s hard to get a handle on the impact of the latest…
I have a bike trainer in my basement, which is basically a machine that allows you to turn your bike into an exercise bike. As I was riding it the…
People love their food fads. I remember Snackwell cookies, which were touted as being better for people because they were low fat. Turns out, they were still packed with calories…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
The Star Tribune recently ran an article called “Complicated economics of community solar gardens subject of debate.” Seeing how the Strib did not seek our opinion on the topic for…
Suffice it to say Republican candidates didn’t do well on Election Day last month in urban America. Then, again, they haven’t done well in big and other good-sized cities for…
The economist Milton Friedman once said that "Nobody spends somebody else's money as wisely as he spends his own". That is one reason why it beast to let people spend as money of their…
Nicotine addiction means that smokers will suck up small price increases resulting from increased cigarette taxes - demand is 'inelastic' in the jargon. That means that, to really have an…
Organic food is a touchy subject. Many people think that because it is organic, it is more wholesome and better for the environment. However, there is scant empirical evidence to support these…
Answer: Yes
The 19th century poet John Godfrey Saxe is supposed to have said that laws were like sausages, people would like them less if they saw how they were made. The same goes…