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,…
One thing that has characterized the pandemic has been a shortage of workers. To that, numerous businesses have raised wages in order to attract workers. The latest is Walmart, which…
Students at Valley View Middle School in the Bloomington school district can leave class for “reflection” time during Ramadan, according to school communication. Parents were sent an online form to…
Oil started flowing through Enbridge’s recently completed Line 3 months ago. But the cases of hundreds of activists who face the consequences of their actions in the failed attempt to…
The Minnesota Senate passed a huge tax cut bill today, lowering the bottom income tax rate from 5.35% to 2.8%. Slashing the bottom rate nearly in half benefits all income…
The Minnesota State Senate held two much-needed oversight hearings this week of the state Department of Education’s handling of the Feeding Our Future free-food scandal. Unfortunately, we learned that the…
Are people greedier here? Recently, I had an op-ed in the Star Tribune arguing that the high housing costs we face in Minnesota are not a problem, but rather a…
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) has released three drafts of state K-12 social studies standards and benchmarks since beginning the formal revision process in 2020. The third draft, released…