Prices of key minerals and metals for wind, solar, and battery storage have spiked in recent months, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The cost of many minerals and…
The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) has too often been dismissed as hopelessly flawed and in need of “radical change.” City leaders have not only failed to support their police but have…
The Rochester Golf and Country Club this week paid Center of the American Experiment $5,300.48 to cover 100% of its costs of the venue abruptly canceling a March 15 event…
Documenting the decline and fall of a once great Midwestern city. Your correspondent drove through George Floyd Square this morning, my first trip to the site since the unfortunate events…
In which your correspondent ventures into St. Paul. We previously reported on the curious case of 1821 University Avenue, St. Paul, a large office complex home to no fewer than…
The genie’s out of the bottle. The flight of students from college campuses continues to gain momentum, driven by tuition hikes, soaring student loan debt and doubts over the relevance…
Last week I wrote about a DFL proposal to fight the shortage of baby formula in Minnesota with a law banning ‘price gouging’. This proposal stems from the idea that…
Mitch Rolling and I are proud to present the findings of research conducted in partnership with the John Locke Foundation in North Carolina. You can read the full report by…
One big topic dominated the 2022 legislative session: what to do with the state’s historic budget surplus. While the session has ended with no agreement, a decision will still have…
Minnesota gas prices are at new record highs, with data from AAA showing the average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline at $4.33, breaking the previous record set in…
In which your correspondent returns to Edina. Subject Premises No. 1 in the third FBI search warrant in the Feeding Our Future case is this co-working office facility located at…
Inflation is at near 40-year highs and a recent poll found that “a quarter of respondents blamed President Biden directly for inflation.” Not surprisingly, with midterms coming up in November,…
Recycling is essential to protecting the environment, right? Well… it’s complicated. Many of our recycling practices are largely ineffective. And many of the materials that would be most beneficial to…
Recently, we’ve been making connections between the free-food scandal, overseen by the state Department of Education (MDE), and other government entitlement programs overseen by the state Department of Human Services…
In 2021 Minnesota’s population grew by just 225 people, losing 13,453 residents to other states. This was Minnesota’s biggest net loss of domestic migrants to other states in at least 30…
In which your correspondent ventures south of the river. The only two arrests made in connection to the Feeding Our Future scandal involve the two co-owners of the Empire Cuisine…
Your correspondent visits the scene of the (alleged) crime. They say that the map is not the terrain. In that spirit, your correspondent visited, in person, the office building where…
The piece below was written by Robert Bryce and published on May 5th in Newsweek Magazine: Last week, Californians got a rare bit of good news on the energy front:…
In this episode of The Power Hungry Podcast, Robert Bryce interviews Alex Epstein, the author of the new book Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and…
State and local taxes and spending The Center Square: Big problems, little time for Minnesota lawmakers cobbling budget MPR News: Scant time left for lawmakers as they grasp for session…
Minnesota gas prices are only five cents away from hitting new all-time highs. According to AAA, the average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline is $4.22, with prices exceeding…
And, once again, it involves passport fraud. To date, not one person has been arrested or charged in the underlying Feeding Our Future fraud case. A second figure in the…
Seven of state Sen. Omar Fateh’s colleagues have signed on to an ethics complaint lodged against the first-term legislator from Minneapolis. Filed on the final full day of the 2022…
The rent control ordinance passed in St. Paul last November has been a disaster. One of the strictest rent control measures in the United States, it capped annual rent increases at 3%…