To effectively address public health concerns related to smoking, state, and local lawmakers should promote access to safer tobacco alternatives. Lawmakers ought to: Tax e-cigarettes more favorably compared to traditional…
As the Sentencing Guidelines Commission meets today to consider a proposal to weaken prison terms for felons, they will have over 3,400 emails to read from Minnesotans who participated in…
On Monday, American Experiment described how the rising demand for nickel is resulting in expanded mining for the essential metal in a rainforest in the Philippines. Today, we will take…
On Sunday, Alpha News reported: Lisa Hanson owns The Interchange Wine and Coffee Bistro in Albert Lea, Minnesota. When Walz issued an executive order last year demanding that all bars…
Bloomberg reports that Norway’s government will subsidize rising electricity prices in an aid package totaling more than 8 billion kroner ($890 million) to help mitigate the impact of record electricity…
A $7.7 billion state budget surplus is expected for Fiscal Year 2022-23, and the proposals for where to spend the money are already lining up. Gov. Tim Walz, for example,…
Last week, Minnesota Management & Budget announced a forecast surplus of $7.746 billion for Fiscal Year 2022-23. The DFL was quick to take the credit: But the argument that wise state…
One of the clearest lessons emerging from the reopening of K-12 schools this fall won’t be found in a textbook or the curriculum. It’s the outcome of the unprecedented experiment…
Nine healthcare providers took out full-page ads in newspapers across the state this week to once again shame Minnesotans into taking action to stop the COIVD-19 virus. We’re heartbroken, we’re…
S&P Global reports that about 20 percent of the coal-fired power plants in the regional power grid to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator, or MISO, are at…
After enacting one of the strictest measures of rent control in the nation, St. Paul is set to make a significant investment in affordable housing. As reported by the Star…
In the wake of George Floyd’s death in May 2020, Minneapolis became a center for the movement to ‘defund the police.’ Last week, Fox 9 reports: Minneapolis City Council mostly…
The University of North Dakota wasted no time in responding to a Georgia federal judge’s Dec. 7 ruling blocking President Biden’s vaccination mandate for federal contractors at the school. Within…
Gov. Tim Walz’s voice on the Sentencing Guidelines Commission is so out of the mainstream that she’s been kicked out of some of Minnesota’s most liberal organizations. Tonya Honsey describes…
If you needed another reason to dislike the third draft of social studies standards currently under review, take a look at how they treat police officers and the history of…
NBC News reports that rising demand for the nickel used in the batteries of electric vehicles (EVs) is prompting the expansion of a nickel mine located in a rainforest in…
Communist China is criticizing the Biden administration’s decision to enact a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics because of the way China is treating Uyghurs, its violent crackdown on dissent in…
The epidemic of carjackings in Minneapolis has now spilled over into the adjacent suburbs. As Minneapolis is approaching 500 carjackings for the calendar year, car thieves are looking for new…
Economic growth Star Tribune: Supply chain trouble takes big bite out of Minnesota’s small food producers Minn Post: Long-term thinking is they key to Minnesota’s economic prosperity KPVI: Minnesota is…
The article below originally appeared at the American Energy Alliance: On November 19, the House of Representatives passed a $2 trillion budget bill with a long list of increases in federal royalties…
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that inflation rose by 6.9 percent in the year to November. This is the fastest annual rate of increase since June 1982. You’d…
Minnesota’s record-breaking budget surplus has induced mixed reactions from state leaders. But among those celebrating the surplus as a testament to our growing economy and effective handling of COVID-19 is…
The momentum keeps building among public employee unions opposed to St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s coerced vaccination of nearly 4,000 city employees. Three more St. Paul public employee unions have…
Consumer prices are up 6.8 percent this year, making it the highest rate of inflation since 1982. There are many reasons for the inflation, including a huge expansion of the…