California is incurring yet another round of blackouts to try and prevent strong winds from causing power lines to break and starting fires. The result is approximately 318,000 California customers…
In a surprising move back in June, the Plymouth City Council stood up to staff and rejected a recommendation to adopt the controversial GreenStep Cities environmental program run by the…
Carl Solberg’s excellent biography of Hubert Humphrey – the liberal Mayor of Minneapolis, Senator for Minnesota, and vice president to Lyndon Johnson – contains the following story. Until he became…
It’s unfortunate the teachers’ union resorted, again, to using students and families as its political pawns. The Chicago teachers’ strike was more than a labor agreement dispute, it was a…
This article appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Thinking Minnesota. To receive a free issue send your name and address to [email protected]. Minnesotans of a certain age will always…
Minnesota families saw their electricity bills reach a new all-time high in 2018 due to an increasing reliance on expensive and unreliable wind and solar power. Despite the fact that…
There is good news on the Minnesota mining front, as the Minnesota Court of Appeals has rejected a challenge by anti-mining groups seeking to invalidate Minnesota’s rules for non-ferrous mining.…
High school students can now find out about the viable, valuable and fulfilling career paths that the trades and manufacturing industries offer from those they trust: their peers.
Mr. Albosaad arrived in Minneapolis from Iraq in 1994 and built a successful business. Now, the city council is strangling it with regulations.
The annual Kate L. Dunwoody Society Luncheon, held in recognition of the vision and generosity of Kate L. Dunwoody who pioneered support of technical education 105 years ago, raises scholarship…
Nathaniel Elifson is the welding student at Minneapolis Community and Technical College we met last chapter, and Matthew Nickolay is his friend and a HVAC student at Dunwoody College who…
When it comes to energy policy, California should be an example of what not to do. Unfortunately, Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz, seems intent on following many of the same mistakes that have…
“In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.” - Assar Lindbeck
Prohibition became law 100 years ago today. It was one of the greatest pubic policy failures in US history.
Seventeen high school girls from across Minnesota participated in a speech competition at the state’s Capitol this past Saturday. Speaking Proudly, the oratory competition sponsored by the Metro Republican Women,…
Center of the American Experiment is deepening its focus on economic policy and analysis with the addition of economist Martha Njolomole to its policy staff. Martha earned a Master of…
Aircraft mechanics are in short supply around the nation. But in Duluth, that’s changing, thanks to the innovative efforts of both aviation companies and community and technical colleges.
Public employee unions hide behind bureaucratic minutiae to prevent dissatisfied 'members' from leaving.
Hello! Isaac Orr is joined by Heartland’s Jim Lakely and Justin Haskins for Episode 214 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features discussions that explore the work of…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
The way most environmentalists talk, you'd think that air pollution has never been worse. This is flat out wrong. Oil and gas production are way up, but air pollution is…
Krushchev: "You can't get production without incentive." Humphrey: "That's rather capitalist." Krushchev: "Call it what you will, it works."
The Seattle public schools have developed a new “ethnic studies” curriculum that tells students that mathematics is a tool of oppression. Sure, some of us thought that back in junior…