The following excerpts are from Chapter Five, “Potential Economic Detours,” in Mitch Pearlstein’s new book, Education Roads Less Traveled: Solving America’s Fixation on Four-Year Degrees. Published by Rowman & Littlefield,…
In today’s tight labor market, employers are being increasingly creative in their search for workforce talent. One new source: Disabled people. In 2017, more than 51,000 individuals left the disability…
New York has been anti-fossil fuel for many years, and it is finally starting to catch up with them. The following article originally appeared in the New York Post. New Yorkers…
The Star Tribune ran a story Friday (February 22) headlined, “St. Paul Students Push Ethnic Studies as Core Classwork.” Featured terms included “culturally relevant curriculum that teaches history through the…
Both salary and benefits are provided by the employer—the school district—not the union. These provisions are not dependent on your union membership status. Please share with teachers you know to…
The following article originally appeared in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. There have been many recent articles in The Daily Sentinel on Xcel’s new Colorado Energy Plan related to climate…
To address common misconceptions, teachers from across the country are speaking out. Check out their message and share it with other educators!
Hello! In this edition of the In the Tank podcast, Donny interviews Jonathan Williams from ALEC about his organization’s latest installment of the Rich States Poor States book. Minnesota does not fair…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Renewable energy advocates' fixation on bills relative to the national average rather than prices, is a disingenuous slight of hand that allows them to make it seem like Minnesotans are…
Taxes are incentives. Change them, and you'll change behavior. Sen. Warren's assumption that 'the rich' will make no response to her wealth tax is completely unrealistic.
The impact of Janus v. AFSCME on union membership losses in Minnesota is not fully known yet. In states that passed right-to-work laws prior to Janus, it took several years for…
In terms of revenue the politicians in Saint Paul have never had it so good. Why, then, are they pleading poverty and planning to take more of their citizen’s money…
I went looking for certain education statistics the other day but found more interesting data along the way. It has come to be commonly understood that American girls are doing…
Minnesota passed its 25 percent renewable energy mandate in 2007, but did you know this bill specifically prohibited counting electricity from large hydroelectric dams as a way to comply with…
A few weeks ago, I wrote an opinion editorial to the Star Tribune about how the Polar Vortex reemphasized the need for reliable forms of electricity in our state. My…
This video by our friends at the Clear Energy Alliance shows how the Green New Deal tracks closely with California’s disastrous high speed rail project that was just cancelled after…
Last week, I testified on the high cost the Community Solar Garden program in front of the Minnesota Senate Committee on Energy and Utilities Finance and Policy. My testimony begins around…
Lance Morrow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center takes a pretty good shot at both sides in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend (“America is Torn between Trump’s…
If policymakers are going to jack up housing costs with ever more onerous environmental regulations, they should stop bleating about a lack of 'affordable housing'.
Troy Good, a master plumber and general manager at Champion Plumbing, jumped into a plumbing apprenticeship at the age of 30 with only a high school GED. He is currently…
Taxpayers and smart lawmakers should remind Gov. Walz and their colleagues in the Legislature that Minnesotans from all walk of life have choices, and they can vote with their feet,…
Business columnist Lee Schafer wrote in Saturday’s Star Tribune that Minnesota “needs to take a look at its income tax.” Schafer began with the fact that Minnesota’s personal income tax…
A deadly cold front recently swept through the Midwest, but thanks to nuclear energy, coal and natural gas, things did not turn out as badly as they could have. Most people stayed…