The Biden administration’s U.S. Department of Education has proposed 13 pages of new rules that would hurt the charter school community. The 28-year-old federal Charter Schools Program provides funds to…
Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the health care pool, Biden’s ACA would take a bite out of affordability.
One of the legacies of the pandemic in America is that the government has taken over the basic responsibility, at least on paper, of feeding the nation’s children. You may…
On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that inflation was 1.2 percent in March and 8.5 percent over the year (for the Midwest the figures were 1.3 percent and 8.6 percent, respectively).…
ESI, a subsidiary of the wind company NextEra Energy, pled guilty to killing at least 150 bald eagles over the past decade at its wind farms in eight states, including…
Opponents of a $350 million Chinese-backed agricultural processing plant proposed in Grand Forks captured far more than the required 3,617 signatures on a petition to put the controversial project up…
The Minnesota Legislature is on “Spring Break” this week, taking some time off from all the hard work they’ve done passing bills and coming up with a plan to return…
A little over nine months ago, the Minnesota Reformer reported: Minnesota legislative leaders reached an education budget agreement Tuesday, just over a week before the June 30 deadline for lawmakers…
Members of law enforcement are routinely excluded from ‘reforms’ that make our communities less safe.
The Minnesota House of Representatives recently held a hearing on legislation that would bring an expensive California fuel standard (CFS) to Minnesota. During the hearing, Brendan Jordan, Vice President for…
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Minneapolis riot report leaves out Gov. Walz’s unnecessary delay in sending the national guard while the city burned.
On March 31, 2020, Julie Padilla, the Chief Regulatory Officer of Twin Metals Minnesota, testified in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to inform the…
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Depending on your point of view, it was the phoenix rising from the ashes, or the zombie rising from the dead. In either case, a nonprofit called Feeding Our Future…
Exposing identity politics’ inconvenient lies.
Commodities investor Leigh Goehring joined Chris Keefer of the Decouple Podcast to break down the supply AND demand origins of our current energy crisis and its dire consequences, especially for…
State and local taxes and spending KPVI: House passes Minnesota Renter’s Credit, but future in Senate remains in doubt Fox 9: $500 rebate checks left out as Minnesota House, Senate…
Nearly all the attention in the alleged free-food scandal has gone to the now-dissolved nonprofit Feeding Our Future. But the scandal involves a second, equally large outfit called Partners in…
The National Education Association — the country’s largest teachers’ union — prioritized political spending over member representational expenditures, according to its most recent annual federal LM-2 filing reported on by…
The State Senate passed a tax bill on Thursday that, among other things, would cut Minnesota’s bottom rate of state income tax from 5.35 percent to 2.80 percent. Refreshingly in…
Transitioning to wind and solar energy just became a lot more expensive. Due to significant competition and supply-chain constraints throughout the world, the cost for many of the raw materials…
American Experiment’s John Hinderaker interviews the Center’s newest policy fellow, a former FBI agent.
Did you know there is already a non-ferrous mine operating in the same watershed as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on the Canadian side of the border? The mine,…