Recently, the Golden Valley City Council passed a law to restrict payday lending. The Golden Valley City Council took action Aug. 17 to safeguard its community against “predatory lenders” via…
When I wrote in the Star Tribune in April that ‘enhanced’ unemployment benefits were one factor explaining the puzzle of record job openings coexisting with elevated levels of unemployment, not everyone agreed. One response claimed…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how President Biden’s proposed corporate tax hike will be bad for Minnesota businesses. The proposal, to raise the corporate tax rate from…
Education Minnesota, the state’s teachers’ union, is a huge advocate of “making the wealthiest Minnesotans pay their fair share,” and yet charges new, underpaid teachers the same dues dollar amount…
California will build five new natural gas plants in a desperate attempt to avoid blackouts. The move to approve 150 megawatts (MW) of new natural gas capacity is more evidence…
On August 20, Minnpost reported, The Minneapolis Planning Commission this week supported a proposed ordinance that would further regulate the types of materials developers of residential and commercial buildings put…
The Trump administration was punctuated by a string of “explosive” books — mostly composed of unsourced tittle-tattle — which were published, “exploded,” and disappeared. You’re Hired! Untold Successes and Failures…
Our friends at the group Better in Our Back Yard (BIOBY) are circulating a petition urging Gov. Tim Walz to publicly support the PolyMet mining project, which is the first-ever…
Millions of students across 18 states became eligible for access to new and expanded educational choice options during 2021. Unfortunately, Minnesota students were denied a similar opportunity when the DFL-controlled…
On Aug. 16, the Star Tribune reported that, with just a week until the state Fair opening, vendors were having a hard time attracting workers. With the Minnesota State Fair…
The first day back to school at Pine Island promises to be like none other. Not because students and teachers will actually be back in the classroom in person again.…
The regional electric grid operator, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), has issued three alerts suggesting electricity supplies could be tight today due to high electricity demand. The situation will…
Labor market Bloomberg Tax: Minnesota’s Hourly Minimum Wages Expected to Rise in 2022 Star Tribune: Minnesota State Fair and its vendors scramble to find workers Star Tribune: Red Wing Shoes,…
Roger Pielke Jr., a professor at the University of Colorado, comes back on the podcast for a second time. In this episode, he talks about the “catastrophe bias” in the…
The COVID-19 pandemic and debates about energy policy and climate change highlight a troubling trend among many liberals to use science as an appeal to authority to stifle important debates…
On Tuesday, Rochester Mayor Kim Norton issued an emergency declaration requiring protective masks to be worn indoors throughout the city in all areas where “medically vulnerable individuals or children under…
When the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was introduced in 2017, opponents claimed the bill was a giveaway to the rich. Data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), however,…
As parents and school leadership butt heads over school mask mandates, “some physicians and scientists have recently claimed that the best evidence shows that masks are not an effective measure…
On Wednesday, I wrote about how, in a recent interview with the Pioneer Press, I spoke about some of the schemes the federal government used to aid businesses during the…
The Walz administration is seeking to unilaterally impose new regulations that will add more bureaucratic red tape for Minnesota iron ore and copper-nickel mining operations. You can tell the administration…
A new report reveals U.S. elementary school students were four to five months behind their expected level of academic achievement at the end of the 2020 school year, writes Axios.…
Last week the U.S. Senate released their FY2022 Budget Resolution Agreement Framework. This represents the outline of how Democrats in Congress plan to implement President Biden’s $3.5 trillion budget plan…
On the surface the GreenStep Cities program sounds like a no-brainer when the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency pitches it to unsuspecting cities around the state. After all, what could go…
Yesterday, I wrote about new research which suggested that 15 percent of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans were fraudulent. There was always going to be an element of this, I…