Democrats in the Minnesota House and Senate are quietly working to build a powerful new government bureaucracy to set and enforce limits on the cost of health care at hospitals…
The soon-to-be law would strip out-of-state parents of rights regarding their children who are seeking “gender-affirming” care in Minnesota. The state Senate is expected to take up and pass HF…
Since Minnesota Management and Budget’s (MMB) announcement in November 2021, Minnesota’s historic $7.7 billion surplus has only grown. According to the most recent update from MMB, Minnesota’s net general fund…
While nearly all parents agree that reading proficiency is important (97 percent) and the importance of their child developing a love of reading (90 percent), when choosing between the two…
It helps to start our series on the Lazard LCOE analysis at the beginning of Lazard’s LCOE analysis. You can click here to access the table of contents for these articles. Wind…
Gov. Tim Walz used his fifth state of the state speech Wednesday night to audition for the role of national Democrat attack dog, sounding unnecessarily concerned about things happening 1,370…
American Experiment has joined a coalition of organizations across the country urging Congress to empower American workers and protect their freedom of choice in the workplace. Through the Employee Rights Act…
Picking up where we left off in Part 4 of our Minnesota For Sale series on campaign finance, we dig up more names and money in the shadowy world of…
Too often, critics of educational freedom will say that school choice programs are a detriment to public schools. But the case for school choice is overwhelming, and as I have…
Before we discuss how wind and solar special interest groups routinely misrepresent Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) Analysis, we have to describe what the LCOE is and how it…
Most Minnesotans likely know that taxes and abortion are major topics of debate at the State Capitol this session. But it’s a good bet fewer know that, out of the…
In December, I wrote that: From mid-2021 to mid-2022, 19,400 Minnesota residents left for other states, by far the highest number in at least three decades. This does not mean…
Ever since passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, the Environmental Protection Agency has schemed to dramatically expand the agency’s grip on waterways, tributaries, wetlands and adjacent lands nationwide.…
On Monday, House Democrats unveiled their Omnibus tax bill — HF 1938. Among the numerous provisions in the bill, a couple of things that we have written about at the…
Despite a $19 billion budget surplus, House Democrats are pushing a transportation bill that raises sales taxes in the metro area and adds a new fee for home deliveries from…
Last week I wrote about new data that showed that businesses are fleeing downtown Minneapolis. Twin Cities Business reported: With over 21.2 million square feet of vacant office space in the…
Wind and solar special interest groups frequently claim that these technologies are the lowest-cost sources of electricity. Almost invariably, the citation used to support these claims is Lazard’s Levelized Cost…
Questioning the inclusion of ideological agendas in K-12 education is not opposition to fact-based history, as teachers’ unions and activists claim. In fact, making such a claim is a distraction…
Three major utility companies in California have proposed to charge their customers based on their household income. In doing so, the Golden State appears to be racing to run out…
Nine (9) peace officers have been shot and three (3) have died in our region since January 23. January 23 — two McLeod County deputies were shot after knocking and…
Tracing the Minnesota influence of a different shadowy international billionaire. There is a famous H.L. Mencken quote that goes, Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they…
Proponents of the proposed paid family and medical leave time off payroll tax say low-income residents stand to gain the most from the DFL-backed legislation. Never mind that the $1…
Minnesota’s forecast budget surplus represents a historic opportunity to help put our state on the right track and make it somewhere people want to move to — not, as it…
The legislature started putting together the state budget this week, passing several omnibus bills off the Senate and House floor. So far, they are sticking to the budget targets agreed…