A $20 minimum wage taking effect on April 1 is already causing havoc in California. According to the Wall Street Journal, Some restaurants there are already laying off staff and…
In 2022, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), the regional grid operator that oversees Minnesota’s electric grid, released a report stating that $10.3 billion would be needed to build the…
Back in December, I wrote: To some extent, then, I see the American economy going into the new year as a race between two factors: one is the squeeze on…
The 2023 graduation rate was 83.3 percent, a 0.3 percentage point decrease compared to the 2022 rate, according to the Minnesota Department of Education. Part of the dip “includes students…
The more the Met Council attempts to change the narrative on the Southwest Light Rail Transit boondoggle, the more it remains the same. The latest embarrassing case in point was…
Legislation proposed in the 2024 session to make Minnesota a sanctuary state faces stiff opposition according to the March 2024 Thinking Minnesota poll. The proposal to prohibit any Minnesota entity…
A June 2023 poll from Pew Research Center found that support for solar panels among Republicans has fallen by 17 percent since 2016. Support for wind saw a 20 percent…
Last week, the Star Tribune carried a story titled “Women’s salaries are lower, and their expenses are higher. Here’s how to push back.” This one article invoked both the “Pink…
Enrollment in Minnesota’s public schools has declined again, according to data recently uploaded by the Minnesota Department of Education. For the 2023-24 school year, public schools lost roughly 0.2 percent…
State senate Democrats fired their top staff person, yet you the taxpayer are on the hook for $203,000. It may all sound like a tempest-in-a-teapot, and the $ amount may…
Gov. Tim Walz traveled to Owatonna High School for his sixth State of the State address last night. He heaped praise on the Owatonna community for passing a $104 million…
Last year, I wrote that: In 2015, Hennepin County seized Geraldine Tyler’s Minneapolis condo “over about $2,300 of unpaid property taxes, plus $12,700 in penalties, interest and fees.” The county…
A bill up in both the House and Senate Finance committees this week would require statewide academic health standards. Currently, school boards are responsible for adopting local standards for student…
Thousands of panels on a solar farm southwest of Houston, Texas, were damaged by a powerful hailstorm on March 15, which peppered the panels with baseball-sized hail, according to NewsMax.…
It has been nearly four years since the Columbus statue was torn from its pedestal near the State Capitol as protestors continued destroying property after the murder of George Floyd,…
Bloomberg recently ran a very interesting interview with Brett Christophers about his new book The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet. In the interview, Christophers argues there’s…
A carjacking/robbery spree near the state’s flagship University ends with overturned car on I-35W. As if the University of Minnesota police (UMPD) didn’t have enough to deal with this weekend…
They built themselves a palace, might as well work year-round In 2016, the Minnesota legislature put a constitutional amendment on the ballot claiming it would limit the ability to raise…
The Minneapolis school district’s budget woes have received attention lately after school leadership announced plans for $115 million in cuts for the next school year. This budget gap doesn’t account…
State and local taxes and spending Newsweek: (Illegal) Migrants Could Get $500 a Month Under New Bill Kare 11: ‘Build toward the future’: Gov. Tim Walz unveils supplemental budget proposal…
After a $1.5 billion deficit forecast from the Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB), Gov. Walz appears to be taking the agency’s warning seriously, proposing a budget that according to him…
Kamala Harris made big news last week for visiting a St. Paul abortion clinic. The Associated Press (AP) reports: Vice President Kamala Harris visited a Planned Parenthood clinic on Thursday, marking what…
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand. Milton Friedman Last week, Uber and Lyft, true to their word, announced…
After months of contentious discussion and at least three deaths in city parks last year, the Rochester City Council voted to prohibit homeless camps on all city property. The ban…