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Mass communication has never been a substitute for personal contact.

The state’s ineptitude grows.

It’s time to celebrate success.

Malawi-born Martha Njolomole joins the Center’s staff.

For research and advocacy with nationwide impact.

Property taxes illustrate the problem with ‘wealth taxes.’

Wigfall discusses how to retain workers with tribal council.

Brexit exemplifies what happens when electorates vote in ways the elite don’t like.

St. Paul’s Mayor proposes cutting future positions.

Rochester officials more than double their own salaries.

Taxpayers would spend $17 million a year to subsidize Duluth train.

Do liberal policies create pollution?

Governor Walz’s 2050 energy plan would increase household electricity costs to more than $15,000 per year.

Today the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in a case that could greatly impact the role private schools play in the school choice debate. Three Montana mothers are…

The 2019 figures for total state spending - $42.6 billion - and per capita state spending - $7,548 - are the highest in Minnesota's history. Before state government takes more of…

California continues it’s war on common sense. The latest front? The state is considering a state-wide ban on the use of gasoline-powered gardening equipment. In fact, the California Air Resources…

In recent weeks more than 400 counties and cities in some 20 states have passed resolutions declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries. The movement stems from the trend toward proposal and…

Despite Education Minnesota’s stated “commitment” to “workplace democracy” as one of its core, institutional objectives, teachers have not had the opportunity to vote for, or against, union representation in many…

Generally support has grown among the rich for a tax on wealth. But a CNBC poll found that millionaires support a wealth tax, so long as they are not personally…

A newly-released study from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) found that state-level carbon dioxide taxes and pricing schemes harm industrial competitiveness in the jurisdictions they are enacted. This…

As Californians are finding out, the cost of extensive environmental regulations in building codes is unaffordable housing. Will Minnesotans be willing to pay that cost?

It may finally be dawning on the St. Cloud City Council that the gag rule prohibiting individual members from publicly disagreeing with council actions approved by the majority violates the…

When your big question is 'How do we limit the amount of rich people?', you reach for socialism. When your big question is 'How do we limit the amount of…

If you’ve ever had the misfortune of meeting someone who eats organic food because they think they are saving the world from climate change, you know first hand how insufferable…