Last month, I asked ‘What do states without an income tax do?‘ I noted that the seven states which currently have no state income tax seem to do reasonably well. Take…
Decouple Media presents a VIP tour of the plant that made Ontario the home of North America’s largest-ever emissions reduction, the replacement of coal with nuclear power. Our guide is…
State and local taxes and spending Duluth News Tribune: Minnesota lawmakers back waiving taxes on student loan forgiveness West Central Tribune: Kandiyohi County 2023 tax levy set to increase, but…
After months of turmoil, the controversial Chinese-owned ag plant proposed in Grand Forks has ground to a halt, pending a national security review. What started as a local economic development…
Should it? As images emerge of the Martha’s Vineyard immigrants leaving on buses for the mainland, observers wonder, what will be the next destination for border crossers? It’s estimated that…
Back in June, David Zimmer and I toured the infamous block in North Minneapolis featuring Winner Gas and Merwin Liquors. The intersection of Broadway and Lyndale is much in the…
The recent announcement by Attorney General Keith Ellison, that his office has opened a civil investigation into Merwin Liquors and Winner Gas at Lyndale and West Broadway to hold the…
In Part 2, we discussed how the Walz Proposal would necessitate a dramatic increase in power plant capacity in Minnesota. In Part 3, we will discuss how much it will…
In Part 1, we discussed how the Walz Proposal would dramatically alter where Minnesotans get their electricity. In Part 2 of this series, we will discuss just how much wind,…
Even after rent control severely reduced housing permits in St. Paul, and pushed some investors to pause housing projects, Minneapolis is considering going in the same direction. Last year, while…
It turns out North Dakota voters will get the chance this November to be the first state in more than two decades to impose term limits on state elected officials…
The Feeding Our Future scandal largely disappeared from the radar of local media this summer. However, court cases involving the state’s three-largest free-food charities reveal that the battle continues to…
There was a shakeup on the Hastings School Board last November when three parent-centered school board candidates swept to victory, defeating two incumbents in the process. While Hastings voters cheered…
If our own struggles to control crime and violence aren’t enough to convince Minnesotan’s how disastrous the progressive led anti-police movement has been, Seattle might provide for a convincing comparative…
Keeping to Education Minnesota’s political history of almost exclusively, with rare exceptions, supporting one political party and its affiliates, the teachers’ union magazine lists its endorsed candidates for this year’s…
Last week, at the unveiling of his official White House portrait, President Obama said to President Biden: Thanks to your decency and strength, maybe most of all, thanks to your…
This past weekend Minneapolis experienced one of its most violent stretches in recent memory. 18 people were shot, and 3 died between Thursday and early Monday morning. 3 of the shootings…
Every July, the US Census Bureau publishes the State and Local Government Finances Survey. This is a database containing information on where states get their funds and what they spend…
The manifestation of Critical Race Theory’s framework in K-12 classrooms has jumped to the forefront of education debates seemingly overnight. But the divisive principles and tenets of this 40-year-old academic…
This article is the first in a series discussing the findings of American Experiment’s latest report, The High Cost of 100 Percent Carbon-Free Electricity: Governor Walz’s Proposal Would Cost Minnesota…
Minnesota sits at an energy crossroads. Since enacting the Next Generation Energy Act (NGEA) in 2007, which required that 25percent of the state’s electricity come from wind and solar power…
On Monday, the Minnesota Reformer reported: The largest private-sector nurses strike in U.S. history began on Monday with some 15,000 nurses launching a three-day strike at 15 hospitals across the…
Among the working population, only a tiny segment can be considered poor. This is because the population of people in poverty mainly consists of adults who are not in the…
Center of the American Experiment has just released a new energy modeling report that determines that the 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040 mandate proposed by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz…