About 20,000 people texted the hotline last month, compared with 1,790 texts in April 2019, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration confirmed to The Health 202. The hotline…
Next week, the State Senate will be considering the ECO Act, which would make changes to Minnesota’s energy efficiency program, which is called the Conservation Improvement Program, or CIP. There…
From March to April, the unemployment rate in our state rose from 2.9% to 8.1% as the number of unemployed Minnesotans increased by 160,627.
Should Congress approve future stimulus packages, here are policy recommendations that will ensure every child receives the education that best meets his or her individual needs—both now and in the…
The Department of Driver and Vehicle Services long ago became the symbol for what’s wrong with government delivery of services. DVS had probably already eclipsed the post office as the…
Standing on the banks of the Mississippi River in Cohasset, Minnesota, the Boswell Energy Center is the most productive, lowest-cost source of electricity in the entire state. Because Minnesota’s mining…
In Minnesota, when you want to speak, liberals pass laws to stop you. When you don’t want to speak, liberals pass laws to force you. Here is a short report…
I detected a certain candor in the political mutiny in which Susan Kent (D-Woodbury) dethroned Tom Bakk (D-Cook) last month to become the Democrat leader of the Minnesota Senate. In…
Nearly everyone acknowledges that the lack of housing available for people of low and middle income is one of the most serious problems facing the Twin Cities today. Experts use…
A lot has been written about great numbers of Minnesotans and Americans passionately disagreeing with one another about how and when to “open up” the state and country. A lot…
This op-ed originally appeared in the Mille Lacs Messenger on May 18, 2020. The statewide shutdown that Gov. Tim Walz imposed in response to the coronavirus has been an economic…
According to new guidelines released by the Minnesota Department of Education, school districts and charter schools can reopen this summer to provide summer school, day camps and district-based child care…
Yesterday, we wrote about a newly-released, peer-reviewed study conducted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that found a steep drop off in wind turbine production over the course of a…
Binding, verifiable benchmarks offer us a path forward which eschews the false dichotomy of 'shut 'em all down' versus 'open 'em all up'
Who says students aren’t learning much during the the shutdown of schools and cancellation of classes for the rest of the school year due to the coronavirus recess? Some Minnesota…
The start of 2020 hasn’t been good for anyone. No more so for the birds flocking around Minnesota wind farms. Based on documents filed to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission…
A newly-released study from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) drops an enormous bombshell on wind energy in the United States. The study, which was published in the peer-reviewed, scientific…
Minnesota's comparatively poor record on Covid-19 fatalities in nursing and assisted living facilities shows that our state government has failed to protect those most at risk.
The states with the higher percentages of public-sector union members are overwhelmingly Democratic, and those with the lower percentages are overwhelmingly Republican.
Last week, I wrote on whether Covid-19 mortality data justified extending the lockdown, to which I said: Given the fact that most of the Covid-19 deaths are among a specific…
Center of the American Experiment, along with 18 other state think tanks and nearly 50 school choice and scholarship groups, recently called on Congress to provide dedicated funding and tax…
A few weeks ago I wrote about how the Coronavirus shutdown had not resulted in lower levels of particulate matter in the Twin Cities despite a dramatic downturn in daily…
In this unprecedented time of economic mayhem, Minnesota's small businesses need some certainty from state government. Sadly, they aren't getting it.
Duluth faces a potential $38 million budget shortfall Mayor Emily Larson calls “absolutely catastrophic” in the wake of declining tax revenue projections due to the economic impact of the coronavirus.…