In March 2021, I testified in a hearing of the House Committee on Taxes on yet another proposal to hike our state’s already high taxes. I said that there was…
A new law requiring Minnesota public schools to stock free menstrual products in bathrooms used by students in 4th through 12th grade goes into effect Jan. 1, 2024. The requirement…
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)’s Winter Reliability Assessment has identified MISO as one of the areas at an elevated risk of capacity shortfalls, i.e. blackouts, if we experience higher-than-normal generator…
This is the first guilty plea involving the Safari Restaurant group of defendants. Ahmed Sharif Omar-Hashim, a/k/a Salah Donyale, Defendant No. 5 and Guilty Plea No. 16 in the case,…
I’m not generally a fan of calling anything I disagree with “woke,” but in this instance, the headline was too good to pass up. On November 27, 2023, Ed Ballard…
The case of Marvin Haynes We should all be proud to live in a country where people are considered innocent until proven guilty. Marvin Haynes was proven guilty of a…
After blowing Minnesota’s staggering $18 billion expanding welfare, and paying for free college as well as “affordable housing,” among other things, our lawmakers have dug Minnesota into a budget hole…
On Monday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a landmark bill to ensure that patients get access to transparent pricing information from providers and health plans. The bill — the…
I’ve previously written how Minnesota performance on national tests is the worst in 30 years, but what does that mean for the impacted students’ futures? Lower skills, and therefore future…
There’s a disturbing new trend developing in Minnesota with superintendents and school board chairs bullying conservative members into submission through phony “investigations” for not following school district policy. This week,…
An Edina school board meeting was adjourned early Monday night after protesters first prompted the board into recess. In response to the recess, protesters began chanting, “From the river to…
The postal service anticipates lots of letters to Santa this time of year. But this Christmas the USPS has also been inundated with letters from members of Congress, who put…
This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its numbers for inflation in November. They showed inflation rising from October’s rate of 0.0% to a 0.1% increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).…
In May, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced proposed rules to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions from new and existing power plants. Our modeling at American Experiment found these strict regulations would cause massive…
When the state legislature set aside $200 million in support of a passenger rail service between Duluth and Minneapolis earlier this year, a project known as the Northern Lights Express…
Several Minneapolis City Council members have taken the bizarre stance to prolong the existence of the city’s largest illegal homeless encampment which has taken over the better part of a…
Last week Governor Walz finally found a tax he didn’t like when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that the “Walz checks” received by more than 2 million Minnesotans this…
Last week, Mitch and I detailed the massive costs associated with replacing the electricity generated by the Lower Snake River (LSR) dams with 100 percent wind, solar, and battery storage.…
The ever-alert Lou Raguse of KARE-11 TV noticed a late Friday press release from the office of the state Attorney General (AG) and promptly put out a Twitter (X) thread,…
State Attorney General Keith Ellison charged three more individuals with a range of crimes related to an $11 million alleged scheme to defraud the state’s Medicaid program through a personal care…
State and local taxes and spending Duluth News Tribune: Councilor’s View: Land-value tax could mean fairer taxation for Duluth Park Rapids Enterprise: Park Rapids cuts levy from 33% increase to…
It’s no secret that educational freedom took center stage this year in a number of states as school choice programs were either newly introduced or expanded. The large and growing…
Some six months after his fatal car crash that took the lives of 5 young women on Lake Street in Minneapolis, Derrick Thompson was officially indicted on federal drug distribution…
Earlier this week a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison that prohibits him from enforcing new state price controls on generic and off-patent prescription…