Childcare is expensive all over the country, but parents in Minnesota have it especially hard. According to data from Childcare Aware, for example, daycare for infants cost 21 percent of…
In August, the state of Utah filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court challenging federal control over more than a third of the land within its borders. The lawsuit…
County caught illegally staffing ballot boards. The headline from KSTP-TV: Supreme Court rules Hennepin County Absentee Ballot Board must comply with state law in choosing election judges by Nov. 1…
Center of the American Experiment has been sounding the alarm about St. Paul’s economy and fiscal prospects for some time. Now, a group of “fiscal watchdogs” have added their weight…
The use of the word “latest” in this Minnesota Star Tribune headline gives the game away: Mayor Frey’s latest plan has ‘action steps’ to revitalize downtown Minneapolis “action steps” The…
We wrote last week about Hennepin County ignoring the list of election judges submitted by the political parties in the creation of their ballot board. Today, the Minnesota Supreme Court…
Each year, Education Minnesota charges member teachers and education support professionals (ESPs) $25 to fund its political action committee, or PAC. PAC money is spent on supporting political parties, candidates,…
Ford Motor Company reported some ugly, but unsurprising, news from its third-quarter earnings report: the company lost $1.2 billion on its electric vehicle business. It turns out that simply making…
The state’s mandate to develop ever more wind energy to offset the loss of traditional power plants shut down by climate change zealots has fueled resentment among some residents of…
A new fall survey of educators has found that the majority of public school teachers support education savings accounts (ESAs), a school choice policy that allows parent-directed dollars to be…
GE Vernova, the maker of the defective offshore wind turbine blades that broke off of the coast of Nantucket and scattered the beach with fiberglass shards, has found more defects…
We’ve written a couple of times about the horrific double murder that took place last December in a Dinkytown cigar store. Royal Cigar and Tobacco was the scene of the…
State and local taxes and spending USA Today: Opinion: ‘Knucklehead’ Tim Walz stinks at grammar. He also gets an ‘F’ in state governance Minn Post: Why is most of the…
A report issued by the consulting firm Bain & Company earlier this month contained this eye-catching finding regarding data center growth: US energy demand could outstrip supply within the next…
Minnesota Power, based in Duluth, got approval for a 4.9 percent rate hike to residential customers’ electricity rates compared to 2023 rates. Minnesota Power estimates the average residential customer will…
On Tuesday, I wrote that: The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Establishment survey, which is part of its Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey, shows an increase of 6,300 in the Total Nonfarm jobs from…
In a recent community survey, 60 percent of participating Oronoco residents responded negatively to the question of whether the city government is trustworthy and transparent. Hardly a resounding vote of…
Minneapolis man’s violent crime spree leaves one dead and another injured in outstate Minnesota. On Tuesday, a 25-year-old Minneapolis man named Ameer Matariyeh assaulted his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend…
In an ongoing dispute over the composition of ballot boards, Hennepin County claimed they “exhausted” the list of election judges put forward by the Republican Party because they forwarded the…
Gov. Walz is fond of touting rankings that show Minnesota being a top state for business. The trouble is that, once you look at data rather than the rankings, businesses…
Education Minnesota’s local chapter in Brainerd stuffed campaign flyers into staff mailboxes at the district urging staff to check out their “Pro-Educator” voter guide. While not necessarily illegal, it is…
American Experiment has well documented why the particular brand of ethnic studies coming to all Minnesota K-12 public school classrooms is concerning. Far from the more commonly understood meaning of…
Last week I wrote about new Census Bureau data which show that Minnesota lost 8,700 residents net in 2023. To put that in context, as Figure 1 shows, Minnesota’s net…
Last week, Minnesota’s media reported: KEYC: DEED: Minnesota adds 6300 jobs in September KNSI: Minnesota Sees Job Gains, Strong Wage Growth in September Star Tribune: Minnesota hoping to reverse manufacturing job losses after…