“I’m sticking it out so that I can get a better pension,” is what I’m often told by burnt out teachers who are still several years away from retirement. Unfortunately,…
The number of volunteers Hennepin County depends on to help out on a range of services from libraries to the sheriff’s department plummeted from 4,100 to 1,600 during the pandemic.…
Gas prices in Minnesota have set new all-time highs this summer, but Governor Tim Walz and other liberal lawmakers in St. Paul want to enact a California fuel standard (CFS)…
The stealth passage in the legislative session of a measure legalizing so-called edibles and beverages laced with the intoxicating agent in marijuana supposedly even caught some lawmakers by surprise. To…
According to the Havard Joint Center for Housing Studies, the median house price has risen about 12 percent in the Twin Cities between Quarter 1 of 2021, and Quarter 1…
We examine the history of this venerable Minneapolis neighborhood through some of its churches and other institutions. Friday morning, a community meeting was held at Kramarczuk’s, the Eastern European deli…
My colleague Bill Glahn has started a series of news articles on the state of the electric grid that serves Minnesota, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO). Today, we’ll talk…
Gas prices in Minnesota have set new all-time highs this summer, but Governor Tim Walz and other liberal lawmakers in St. Paul want to enact a California fuel standard (CFS) that…
Mentioning the restart of nuclear power plants (NPPs), the prime minister said, “The government will steadily speed up safety examinations on the premise of ensured safety under the new regulatory…
The Financial Times reports that Germany is rationing hot water, dimming its street lights and shutting down swimming pools as the impact of its energy crunch begins to spread from…
This just in: tenants in St. Paul are complaining that landlords are trying to get around St. Paul’s rent control ordinance by raising prices for utilities. What a shocker! Except…
The rise of Mississippi as a national exemplar in math and reading growth has given policymakers in other states a model to learn from. The state made headlines for being…
Center of the American Experiment has obtained documents from the Minnesota Department of Transportation (DOT) using a Freedom of Information request showing the Walz Administration paid nearly $72 per hour,…
Bloomberg writes that pro-Chinese agents posed as concerned local residents on social media to try and spark protests over the opening of rare earth mines in the US and Canada,…
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s ability to turn out the vote has been remarkable over her brief career in politics. It will be tested again next month. Early voting is already underway…
Thankfully, the importance of leadership continues to gain momentum in discussions about crime and public safety in Minnesota. The Star Tribune Editorial Board hit on this theme today, though they oddly…
Center of the American Experiment released a report today that shows efforts in Washington, D.C. that rely on price controls to lower the costs of prescription drugs are not an…
The Star Tribune ran an opinion piece last week by John Noer and me about the rising risk of rolling blackouts. The article garnered many intelligent comments about the merits…
Earlier this year, St. Paul activists started a coalition to bring free preschool to St. Paul. The coalition, which is named SPARK — St. Paul All Ready for Kindergarten —…
Currently, fossil fuel is supplying over 80 percent of our electricity supply, with nuclear another 10 percent. The plan is to reduce that to zero in a dozen years. Just…
The funds may not have already been in the bank, but you’d never know it by the way 17 cities and counties talked about their plans to spend hundreds of…
Education could become a single voter issue among parents, regardless of political party affiliation, according to a recent national survey commissioned by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. The…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune ran a story yesterday (“Power line congestion leads to wind turbine shutdowns, denting county budgets”) about how wind farmers and county governments in south and southwest…
The biggest travesty of our current dialogue surrounding energy and environmental policy is the assumption by so-called environmentalists that there are zero benefits to the activities that ultimately generate emissions,…