We’re still unraveling what happened in Texas to cause rolling blackouts for millions of people. One of the most interesting pieces I’ve seen on the power outages is from Dr.…
Rent control disincentivizes investing in the maintenance of existing housing units. It also discourages investment in the production of new housing. Ultimately, this hurts low-income individuals the most in the…
President Biden remarked in January that his administration is “letting science speak again.” But with Biden’s team recently walking back his pledge to reopen a “majority” of schools by the…
Residents in Texas are reporting enormous electric bills, some as high as $7,000 to $17,000, due to a surge in electricity demand for home heating during last week’s polar vortex.…
According to the CDC, COVID-19 deaths in the first half of 2020 as well as deaths from other causes that accompanied the pandemic, like overdoses, cut life expectancy by 1…
One of the most dramatic shifts in student enrollment occurred in Rochester, where parents have been particularly outspoken about their dissatisfaction with the district's reliance on distance learning over a…
On Feb. 18, 2021, Commissioner John Tuma of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) called out grid operators in Texas for failing to plan for winter weather. As reported by KTTC,…
“Think about it” statewide radio and digital ads will challenge Walz budget, COVID decisions Center of the American Experiment this week launched a statewide radio and digital ad campaign titled…
Hundreds of Minnesotans have called WCCO because they are worried that they may see skyrocketing electricity and natural gas bills like those experienced in Texas. Center of the American Experiment…
Minneapolis funding bill stalls in House A bill failed on the floor of the House this week. This shouldn’t be newsworthy, except for the fact that once a bill makes…
The following article was co-written by Jason Hayes and Isaac Orr. It originally appeared in The Hill: Rolling blackouts have hit millions of Texans and people across the Great Plains, including Missouri, Kansas and…
Numerous factors–like seasonality, herd immunity, less testing–can explain the trend for declining COVID-19 cases. What is, however, not a contender as a possible explanation for falling cases nationwide is COVID-19…
The Duluth Entertainment Convention Center already stands to collect a probable $500,000 in federal pandemic aid, as well as an undetermined amount of additional federal financial help under a catch-all…
The number of students enrolled in Minnesota public schools dropped by two percent this school year while homeschooling and private school enrollment increased, according to data released by the Minnesota…
The article below was originally published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: We need to stop planning our electric system around wind turbines and solar panels, technologies that often fail to show…
Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) show that solar panels in Minnesota were less productive in 2019 than they were in 2018. The capacity factor, or amount of…
I’m in an email chain of nuclear power supporters, many of whom live in Minnesota. We span the political spectrum, but I tend to be the most conservative. Sometimes we…
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr and Brent Bennett in episode 282 of the In The Tank Podcast. Brent Bennett, a policy director…
Different workers produce different outputs. This is valued differently and, thus, compensated differently: "We realized that we had to pay attention to market forces"
A February poll conducted by the national teachers’ union American Federation of Teachers (AFT) found that most union member teachers and school staff who are back working in-person feel comfortable.…
At a time when Minnesotans need fewer barriers to jobs, a bill has been introduced that will instead increase red tape for people seeking to get into the massage therapy…
For those of you looking for more information on the Texas Blackouts, here are a few links to articles that I’ve found interesting. The Narrative is Overshadowing Truth in the…
Meredith Angwin is a chemist and author, most recently, of Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid. In her second appearance on the podcast, Angwin explains why…
Golden Turkey is back, Gov. Walz has no plan to re-open Minnesota's businesses, the energy emergency in Texas, the teachers' union pushes back on state testing, and more in this…