An interesting infographic from The Visual Capitalist shows steel production by nation over time, which was made using data from the World Steel Association. According to The Visual Capitalist, global…
The Fight for 15 Wages were up last month, but owing to inflation, they’ll buy less. In real terms, people are worse off. Last week, Noah Smith wrote for Bloomberg:…
It’s no longer just a trend, but a reality. The gender gap on college campuses continues to widen, nationally and in Minnesota. This threatens the viability of the higher education…
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the politicians making broad and important decisions about energy policy around the world have very little understanding of how their ideal energy systems will…
It is generally agreed, even by the greenest among us, that efforts to fight ‘climate change’ by ending the use of fossil fuels in the West will be a fair…
The Minnesota Board of Pardons has always required the unanimous agreement of the governor, attorney general, and chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court to consider a convicted criminal’s application…
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted everyone’s lives. However, children were especially affected. Children were blocked from school, sports, friends, and the evidence continues to show the negative effects of their isolation.…
For decades, European countries have thumbed their noses at the United States for not doing enough to embrace unreliable energy sources like wind and solar power. This scorn was especially…
One of the questions of economics teaches you to ask is ‘compared to what?’ Someone might tell you that a job paying $10 an hour is bad, but any reasonable…
Shortage of housing is one of the biggest issues facing most metros. But according to the Star Tribune, the Twin Cities have it worse than all regions in the nation.…
A poll carried out for the Star Tribune, MPR News, KARE 11, FRONTLINE and the PBS series sheds some fascinating light on the ongoing debate on policing in Minneapolis. Some…
California’s electricity woes continue, as 75 percent of the capacity at the Moss Landing battery storage facility, a 400 megawatt (MW) lithium-ion battery that is supposed to help deliver electricity…
Space is the final frontier and the epitome of the future. It is telling, then, that wind and solar power are not the energy source of choice for space exploration.…
Economic development Hometown Focus: Business, infrastructure, and trail projects receive economic development funding Minn Post: The Iron Range may soon be home to one of the largest solar panel manufacturing…
General Motors Co. reportedly urged some owners of Chevrolet Bolt electric cars to park and store their vehicles at least fifty feet away from other cars to reduce the risk…
According to data from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), Minnesota’s unemployment rate is down to 3.8 percent. This is the country’s 12th-lowest unemployment rate, and 1.4…
‘The war on cops,’ which American Experiment has been talking about since 2016, is only one part of a much broader war on the safety of Minnesotans, which is being…
Minnesotans are notoriously bad practitioners of the zipper merge. Rather than using two full lanes until it is finally time to merge, something about the collective Minnesota mindset resents the zipper merge as unfair or cheating.…
A lawsuit aimed at overriding local control by directing Gov. Tim Walz to order Minnesota schools to adopt a statewide mask mandate, whether districts object or not, has lost round…
On Monday, Sept. 13, House Democrats released a tax proposal that is intended to pay for their $3.5 trillion spending plan. Among other things, the plan raises the U.S. corporate…
Europe’s green dreams are taking a nightmarish turn as energy prices skyrocket across the continent. Prices are rising because of low wind speeds, soaring natural gas prices, and Europe’s cap…
Since being given a choice by the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Janus decision, over 7,200 teachers, aspiring educators, and other public education workers across Minnesota have exercised their right not to join…
Violent crime is up 19 percent in Minneapolis in 2021 in large part due to a decline in the quantity of policing in the city. 90 percent of the gunfire…
This week is National Small Business Week. And to celebrate small businesses, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) has planned several events. From September 13 – 15th of…