This op-ed originally appeared in the Duluth News-Tribune on March 26, 2020. The United States is in the early stages of what may well be the longest period of widespread…
On April 3, 2020, the Walz Administration announced that it still plans on pushing the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to adopt California’s controversial car mandates for low emission vehicles…
Preliminary numbers show that, in 2019, Minnesota’s GDP growth ranked 38th out of the 50 states and District of Columbia and lagged the national growth rate for the fourth year…
This just in, on April 6, Governor Tim Walz signed an executive order authorizing out-of-state mental health service providers to treat Minnesotan patients. This is to ensure that Minnesotans, especially…
Everyone assumes Minnesota’s public schools are the best in the country. But is it true? Next up in our online Master Class series, Catrin Wigfall dives into the data to…
Environmentalists’ call to shutter the Boswell Energy Center would devastate the Iron Range economy, with no measurable impact on future global temperatures.
Yesterday I wrote about how the City of San Francisco has not only revered their ban on single-use plastic bags to help slow the spread of the Coronavirus, but they…
Many Minnesota breweries, bars, and restaurants are sitting on perishable product that they are not legally allowed to sell under current regulations. This temporary regulatory relief would allow them to…
For hundreds of thousands of Minnesota students, distance learning is entering its second week. It will take time to adjust to this new way of learning, not only for students…
Some might question how much of the government should in fact fall under the banner of “essential services” during the coronavirus shutdown. Yet government entities at every level continue to…
In the space of a few weeks, Minnesota's fiscal question has been flipped on its head: from 'How do we deal with a forecast surplus?' to 'How do we deal…
San Francisco is banning reusable shopping bags and reversing its ban on plastic bags to prevent outside germs from entering grocery stores as the coronavirus pandemic affects cities around the…
Yes, the United States has a wall separating church and state, as well we should. But it should not be as tall and thick as it’s often made out to…
The article below originally appeared in the Babylon Bee: ALBANY, NY—New York state has announced a new plan to raise taxes on the novel coronavirus. The 15% income tax on…
Hello! This week, Isaac Orr is joined by Heartland’s Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins, and Jim Lakely for episode 237 of the In The Tank Podcast. How far away is the…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Two Minnesota building materials employees won a settlement against their former employer after being illegally fired for not joining a union.
Clean Energy Economy Minnesota Year after year The CEEM (Clean Energy Economy Minnesota) continues to hail the potential of the “clean energy” sector to produce and grow jobs. Last year,…
A recent story in Politco entitled “Minnesota on the edge: ‘I’ve voted Democrat my whole life. It’s getting tougher,” details how the political leanings of Minnesotans on the Iron Range,…
To help us fight the Coronavirus, Gov. Walz should implement the Emergency Management Assistance Compact and allow nurses and other healthcare workers to work in our state as long as…
Golfers cooped up all winter in Minnesota have a tough enough time waiting for the snow to melt before teeing it up in the already short season here. But the…
Our health care workers are working tirelessly on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. To help protect these heroes, Minnesota manufacturers have been producing medical products in short supply.
COVID-19 continues to dominate the state and national conversation, and more jurisdictions are issuing Shelter in Place orders to try and slow the spread of the virus to buy time…
More than 300,000 Minnesotans have applied for the state unemployment insurance program since March 16th, but there are still some people out there looking to hire.