Yesterday MPR News asked, “Minnesota bets on the child tax credit to cut poverty. Will it work?” To answer that, let’s revisit a post I wrote in March about poverty.…
Abdulkadir Awale, defendant No. 56, has become the 10th defendant to plead guilty in the Feeding Our Future scandal. Awale, of Bloomington, ran three restaurants involved in the scandal: Karmel…
The Fargo School Board recently made national headlines for a few hours by vowing to defy a new state law setting standards on how schools handle transgender students and related…
“They are raising the flag to celebrate my birthday!” joked my great uncle every year, who was born on June 14 and served as a sergeant in the United States…
The smoke from the Canadian wildfires has supercharged claims that carbon dioxide emissions are responsible for making wildfires worse. However, my friend Jason Hayes of the Mackinac Center for Public…
The Minnesota Legislature appeared to address one of our most vexing criminal issues this past legislative session: carjacking. However, it’s turning out to be an inconsequential move. You can help change that…
Rochester Public Schools recently approved a bid of $562,548 for seven “advanced autonomous floor-scrubbing robots.” This, the Rochester Post Bulletin reports, “led to a discussion about the role of technology…
Licensure barriers that will prevent educators from entering the classroom through alternative pathways will go into effect July 2024. This change in teacher licensing rules is one of many included…
Just days after the death of a 61-year-old homeless man in a city park, Rochester’s top cop called for an ordinance banning homeless encampments on all city property at a…
As the weather heats up in Minnesota, hordes of feral youth have begun roaming the countryside. The media reports have become more and more frequent in recent weeks, involving hundreds…
You need a program to keep up with the intramural warfare in the Minneapolis Democratic (DFL) party these days. The official party logo: All thirteen seats (representing individual wards) on…
Yesterday, I wrote about the Chamber of Commerce’s new 2023 state of business retention and expansion in Minnesota report which identified “Minnesota’s high state tax rates and lack of available workers…
Talk about voter suppression. The whole idea behind holding an operating levy referendum is to leave the decision up to local taxpayers on whether to raise their property taxes to…
The following bulleted activity is the chronological description of violent criminal activity occurring over the weekend in Minneapolis as reported by @CrimeWatchMpls. The cliff notes are: Two murders, multiple shots…
Although Minnesota has a constitutional requirement for a balanced budget, the legislature is allowed to borrow money for capital building projects.
Raising a child is expensive in the United States, but it is more expensive in some places than others, as shown in our 2022 report. Minnesota, for example, is one…
Recently, I wrote about the Chamber of Commerce’s new 2023 state of business retention and expansion in Minnesota report. Its key finding was that businesses were reluctant to expand in Minnesota.…
Isaac Orr joins the In The Tank Podcast to talk about the coming problems with electric reliability thanks to a new batch of regulations imposed by the Biden Administration. With…
Economic growth Star Tribune: Job market remains resilient, despite layoffs, leaving Minnesota planners scratching their heads Duluth News Tribune: Our View: Ensure Minnesota businesses grow in Minnesota MPR News: Downtown…
Over the course of 15 years of studies, charter school students have gone from lagging their traditional public school peers in both math and reading to outperforming them. Starting in…
A year ago, I wrote about twin examples offered by one of Minnesota’s Twin Cities, St. Paul, of the principles of Econ 101 in action. The Saint Paul City Council passed a minimum…
There is no better way to combat crime than through swift and sure apprehension of offenders, timely prosecution of defendants, and the incapacitation of those awaiting trial or convicted of…
Two more of the 60 defendants plead guilty. As expected, Defendants Nos. 51 and 52 pled guilty this week, bringing the number of convictions in the Feeding Our Future free-food-fraud…
I recently appeared on the Republican Roundtable, a public access television program that appears on stations in the Twin Cities, to discuss the state of energy policy in Minnesota as…