Earlier this week, the media quickly declared that congressional efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare had collapsed. We’ve previously heard reports declaring repeal efforts dead back in March when Speaker…
Sounding like an outraged King, Dayton chided and lectured state legislative leaders, making several amazing demands: “Your job has not been satisfactorily completed, so I am calling on you to…
Minnesota has some strong cards in its economic deck. As CNBC's rankings show, its Big Government economic policies aren’t among of them.
On July 19, a Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) council will vote on a “transgender toolkit,” which—if adopted—will be distributed to all public K-12 schools across our state. The toolkit…
Summer school in Brainerd has included an unusual academic exercise: An investigation into how a student’s threat to behead President Trump got included in the Class of 2017’s yearbook. The over-the-top…
This op-ed appeared July 18, 2017 in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The number of children who report being unhappy with their biological sex has exploded in the last 10…
Lowering tax rates can increase tax revenues. So-called 'progressives' and 'liberals' have to ask themselves the same question they had to ask themselves in the 1920s. Which situation do they…
On July 19, a Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) council will vote on the adoption of a “transgender toolkit” for our state’s K-12 public schools. The tool kit pressures schools…
On July 19, a Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) council will vote on the adoption of a “transgender toolkit” for our state’s K-12 public schools. The tool kit pressures schools…
'Trickle down economics' is a theory made up by its opponents that nobody actually believes. Stop trying to make it happen.
This appeared as the Star Tribune’s Sunday cover editorial on July 16, 2017. [Star Tribune photo by Anthony Souffle.] In this era of high technology manufacturing, four years and a…
Not everyone. In fact, not most people. The Center’s new program, “Great Jobs Without a Four-Year Degree,” highlights the fact that there are many rewarding careers that don’t require a…
We all want to see higher wages and workers with more money to spend. What are the things we should be looking at to really accomplish that?
Yesterday I noted news released this week from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that shows only half the insurers that offered coverage on Obamacare exchanges in 2016 plan…
The MN Department of Education’s (MDE) School Safety Technical Assistance Council is a week away from approving its controversial transgender and gender nonconforming “resource toolkit.” The initial 29-page document that…
On Monday the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that only 141 health insurers filed applications to offer health plans through the federal Obamacare exchanges in 2018. As…
Peter McLaughlin is a Hennepin County Commissioner and perhaps Minnesota’s foremost advocate for wasteful spending on fixed rail transit. He is a member of the Metropolitan Council’s Southwest Light Rail…
The enemy of progress
What Minnesota agriculture needs from its next governor
CNBC's latest Top States for Business rankings give Minnesota a good grade overall, but economic policy gets a fail
What if Rudy Perpich were still fighting for school choice?
House committee scrutinizes the controversial home care worker contract
This issue illustrates how an unelected New Elite undermines American freedoms
John Phelan is appointed the Center’s first staff economist