Here’s another case in point for those who still wonder why rural Minnesotans have largely abandoned the DFL in recent elections. The Dayton administration’s heavy-handed approach to environmental regulation has…
Some 6,500 personal care assistants have submitted cards calling on state officials to allow them to vote out the union bargaining unit that nominally represents them. That’s more home care…
At the U of MN, there’s worry its “bias response team” will result in a chilling effect on campus. The U’s team, renamed the Bias Response and Referral Network (BRRN),…
The House and Senate have both passed transportation bills that follow the general outline recommended in the Center’s Minnesota Policy Blueprint for Transportation: road, roads, and more roads funded with…
Today the Star Tribune headlines: “Twin Cities population growth lags other major U.S. cities.” Based on just-released Census Bureau data, the article says: The Twin Cities metro is growing slower…
Today’s Star Tribune carries two articles that echo what we have been saying for a long time: liberal policies have little appeal for small-town and rural voters. The first article…
When’s the last time DFL and GOP legislators agreed on anything? To prove there’s an exception to every rule, lawmakers in the Minnesota House joined their counterparts in the Minnesota…
Migration, especially domestic migration, is a key indicator of the desirability and success of an area. People vote with their feet and move to places with good jobs, affordable housing,…
Matt Michalski, “The Rookie,” has been the producer and on-air personality for Garage Logic for some 27 years.
Thorman engaged experiences in the Senate, at Heritage, and in a classroom (teaching Latin, no less) to prepare for her new role at American Experiment
Wilmoth began his career with a job that put him mere steps from the Oval Office
The jig is up, again. Three individuals have been charged with allegedly scheming to defraud Medicaid by preying on behavioral health patients. Two drivers and an interpreter serving low-income patients…
The Met Council always expected the Southwest Light Rail Transit line to be on the short list in Washington—the short list for $895 million in federal funding for construction. Instead,…
The Met Council always expected the Southwest Light Rail Transit line to be on the short list in Washington—the short list for $895 million in federal funding for construction. Instead,…
Catrin Thorman wrote yesterday about a study by Minnesota’s legislative auditor that found one-third of recipients of Temporary Assistance For Needy Families funds were not eligible for the benefits they…
The Star Tribune editorial headline, in another concession to sensibility and moderation, reads “Gorsuch has earned Senate confirmation,” but Minnesota’s two U.S. senators lurch further left as they announce they’ll…
Minnesota is a little too nice to some of its welfare recipients. The state’s legislative auditor discovered the Department of Human Services (DHS) has handed out benefits to ineligible people.…
Minnesota has lots of water, but all of it is fresh. Shrimp live in salt water, of which Minnesota has none. So the state has never been associated with shrimp,…
In taxes, that is. That’s right: Minnesota is one of the five highest-tax states in the country. This ad is playing on radio stations around the state, in anticipation of…
Four years ago a handful of Victoria residents decided to challenge the local political establishment. Today Tom Funk, the citizen watchdog who started it all, serves as the newly-elected mayor,…
Greenpeace is sure singing a different tune now that they are being held accountable in court for their baseless claims by Resolute, a Canadian forest-products company. According to Richard Garneau,…
Acclaimed author Diana Furchtgott-Roth explains how liberal policies betray America’s young.
One thing was confirmed this week during Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's hearings: There is such a thing as a dumb question. And an article by political blog PoliZette credited…
I’ve just read the most insightful essay I’ve ever seen on a key source of political correctness in American higher education and the intellectual and other absurdities that have flooded…