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A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.

Rather than working on safely reopening schools, teachers' unions and public school districts have been telling parents to avoid alternative learning options for the sake of "equity." And parents are…

Like the undermentioned parrot, Modern Monetary Theory fails to check three boxes.

The following article originally appeared in Forbes. It was written by Michael Shellenberger. Fires have burned 1.3 million acres of California’s forests over the last month. That’s one million acres more than…

Compared to states that instated a shutdown, states that stayed open did not have worse health outcomes from COVID-19. In fact, most of them were among the top states with…

Most people seem to believe that wind and solar panels produce no waste and have no negative environmental impacts. Unfortunately, these people are wrong. In reality, everything that humans do…

Unlike the last time Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called for emergency backup in containing riots after George Floyd’s death, Gov. Tim Walz fell all over himself on Wednesday dispatching the…

We often hear the old quote that "a riot is the language of the unheard". Sometimes, maybe. Sometimes it is just the language of thieves and vandals. 

According to Xcel Energy, the largest electric utility company in the state of Minnesota, the closing of large “baseload” power facilities in favor of renewable energy sources like wind and…

Blue checks on Twitter shrugged off damage to businesses, arguing that the owners were insured. Many weren't. People like this rely on the city and state government to protect them…

Last weekend the Minneapolis Star Tribune ran an article entitled Xcel Looks At New Nuclear Options As it Moves to Carbon-Free Power Goals. The article explains that nuclear energy is critical to…

The start of the 2020 school year is just around the corner. There is a compelling case for reopening schools—not only to prevent academic disparities from widening, but also to…

Isaac Orr joins Mark Allen on Thief River Falls Radio to talk about how California's car mandates are all pain and no gain.

Minnesota currently has 1,019 ICU beds out of 1,222 in use with a capacity of 2,182 at 72 hours notice. The emergency phase of the Covid-19 pandemic in Minnesota, for…

A misconception about union membership is that an educator's compensation or health insurance will be in jeopardy if he or she isn't a union member. But salary and benefits are…

By increasing barriers to entry into certain professions, occupational licensing tends to push out mostly low-income individuals out of lucrative professions into less lucrative professional and also makes it easier…

It’s hard to blame businesses considering rebuilding after the riots in Minneapolis for wanting to take additional security measures to protect themselves. They have little choice with the lack of…

California’s energy grid is a mess, and the liberal politicians who have been in charge of the Golden State are to blame. Unsurprisingly, those same politicians are trying to blame…

“Buckle it up for a few more weeks,” Gov. Walz said, nearly 22 weeks ago. But somewhere along the line we went from 'Two weeks to flatten the curve' to…

Abby Rombalski (University of Minnesota) and Anita Chikkatur (Carleton College) opined in MinnPost that white parents should "keep your children enrolled in their current or local public school" to show…

The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins, and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr in episode 257 of the In The Tank Podcast. The Democratic National Convention just wrapped…

A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.

Economically, speaking there are a few possibilities that will come out requiring gig companies like Uber to classifying drivers as employees. Either a lot of drivers will go out of…

Last weekend, the Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote an article about Xcel Energy’s plans to increase the number of electric vehicles (EVs) on the road by giving rebates of up to…