This week, the Minneapolis City Council released a long-awaited report analyzing the city’s response to protest and civil unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police. Remarkably, this…
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that inflation was 0.8 percent in February and 7.9 percent over the year (for the Midwest, the figures were 0.9 percent and 8.0 percent, respectively). This…
On Wednesday, I testified in favor of the Consumer Choice of Fuel Act in the Minnesota Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Policy and Finance. This bill would repeal…
The state of Minnesota has reclassified students’ race/ethnicity in enrollment data as either “American Indian” or “Not American Indian.” Student enrollment data for a school, district, or county is available…
A lot of states nationwide are facing budget surpluses. To a large extent, this is due to federal efforts during the pandemic. However, the sizes of those surpluses vary. And…
On Tuesday, Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Players Association — the players’ union — spent 17 hours trying, and failing, to negotiate an end to the four-month MLB lockout.…
It’s time to name names. Center of the American Experiment today launched an online resource that will expose judges and prosecutors who refuse to hold career criminals accountable for their crimes. The…
Make Minneapolis Great Again. I’ve used this picture of Minneapolis in several posts over the past few months. What is amazing about this view of downtown is how little it…
The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers launched its strike Tuesday morning that shuttered classrooms for over 30,000 students in the Minneapolis Public Schools district. The teachers union and district have been…
The Committee on State Government Finance and Policy and Elections held a hearing last week with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) about the status of the California car mandates.…
Minnesota cities share plenty of the blame for driving up the cost of new housing subdivisions and commercial developments through an ever-increasing multitude of fees ultimately passed on to buyers.…
New York Times reporter David Fahrenthold was in Minnesota recently reporting on the Feeding Our Future scandal. His piece is a good overview of the story so far. But the…
Seventy-two percent of voters support giving parents the right to use the tax dollars designated for their child’s education to send their child to the public or private school that…
High prices are not problems in themselves; rather, they are symptoms of underlying problems which lead demand to outstrip supply. Digging into these underlying problems and their causes requires some…
The Environmental Protection Agency’s latest overreach in enforcing the Endangered Species Act in six Minnesota counties “kinda makes you scratch your knot a little bit,” the Minnesota Soybean Research and…
The effects of minimum wage hikes on the workforce are well documented. According to research evidence, minimum wage hikes lead to job losses and may also cause employers to reduce…
If, as the FBI claims, fraud indeed occurred in federal free food programs on an industrial scale, the fault lies in another agency: the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). In…
On Feb. 24, Russia invaded its neighbor, the Ukraine. This unjustifiable act of aggression has, understandably, outraged many around the world. In their eagerness to demonstrate this outrage — possible…
Scholar John Constable joins Emmet to discuss his recent lecture given at the Mont Pelerin Society last year entitled, “Misconceptions of the ‘Industrial Revolution’: Prospects for Individual Liberty in the…
Under the umbrella of the now-disbanded nonprofit Feeding Our Future, the alleged free food fraud is said by the FBI to center on three private food vendor networks. One of…
In February, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced new rules that will require the agency to jump through more hoops to permit building natural gas pipelines. Yesterday, the Senate…
State and local taxes and spending Owatonna People’s Press: Support the Drink Local Economic Recovery Act Duluth News Tribune: ‘Send the money back’: All Minnesota tax filers could see rate…
Like the weather, everyone in Minnesota is talking about the spike in gun violence. Unfortunately, few political leaders are doing anything meaningful about it. Enter Hennepin County Commission Board Chair…
According to the Star Tribune, Developers of a $251 million project with luxury apartments, retail and office space in Edina are seeking a $22 million tax subsidy to counter rising…