This article originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Thinking Minnesota, now the second largest magazine in Minnesota. To receive a free trial issue send your name and address to [email protected]. In George Orwell’s…
The Walz administration’s attempt to get Minnesota taxpayers to subsidize a proposed $550 million passenger train to Grand Casino Hinckley and Duluth-Superior came up empty with the failure to pass…
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2019 Nobel prize in economics to economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer for their research into tackling global poverty.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial board had a great opinion piece last week investigating allegations of fraud and mismanagement for a new credit union designed to promote economic opportunities for…
The Star Tribune ponders the fact that Minnesota students’ math scores keep dropping: “As test scores drop, Minnesota educators seek a ‘new conversation’ about math.” I think “new conversation” means…
Last week the Star Tribune ran an article entitled “Metro Transit Temporarily Pulls Electric Buses from C Line Because of Problems with Chargers,” stating the eight electric buses on the…
Honor the Earth is one of the main groups opposing the replacement of the aging Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota, so it is pretty funny that 1) they drive around…
Heartland’s Donald Kendal, Andy Singer join Isaac Orr for Episode 212 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features discussions that explore the work of think tanks across…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
It’s worth retracing their paths as progressives aim to edit the Constitution again This op-ed originally appeared as the Sunday Opinion cover in the Star Tribune on October 6, 2019.…
While protestors outside of Trump’s Minneapolis rally were peaceful most of the day, there were multiple reports of vandalism, violence, and clashes with the police after the rally ended. Here’s…
Donald Trump’s visit to Minneapolis filled the Target Center with a crowd of 20,000, and left thousands more standing outside waiting in the cold and rain to watch the rally…
The Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel on how the Left—not Trump—undermines American values.
Pacific Gas and Electric (PGE), which is the largest utility in the largest utility in the state of California, recently announced it will shut off the power to 2.5 million…
Margaret Atwood, author of the novel The Handmaid's Tale, reveals that it was inspired by the socialist regimes in Eastern Europe.
Educators have to sift through a lot of misinformation regarding unions and membership. Here are five of the most common issues the major state and national teachers’ unions don’t want…
Minnesotans aren’t particularly disturbed by how badly their state functions.
Today is the day that President Trump arrives in Minneapolis for a rally as he ramps up his efforts to carry the state in the upcoming election. President Trump is…
Rampant lawlessness and violent crime in downtown Minneapolis have made national news. But there’s also increasing concern over the well-being of residents in supposedly safer areas of the city. The…
If Mayor Frey has developed a new found sense of responsibility to his city's taxpayers it is to be welcomed. Sadly, I suspect that no such Damascene conversion to fiscal…
Public employee unions hide behind bureaucratic minutiae to prevent dissatisfied "members" from leaving.
Most citizens would be alarmed to learn how big of a problem cigarette smuggling represents in states with high cigarette taxes like Minnesota. Many realize the state’s taxes on cigarettes…
The very real challenges facing Minneapolis will not go away because Mayor Frey gets into a Twitter spat with President Trump.
For how long have Americans tried to get education right? From before Horace Mann was a sparkle in his proud parents’ eyes, more than 200 years ago. At the heart…