Otter Tail Power Company (OTP), the smallest electric utility in the state of Minnesota, will build 50 megawatts of solar near their soon-to-be retired Hoot Lake coal facility. The Fergus…
The coronavirus has exacerbated the already existent childcare crisis in Minnesota. To rebuild capacity, legislators should focus on repealing laws that increase costs for providers and make it harder for…
A national survey released just a couple of days before Rosh Hashanah shows younger adults between the ages of 18 and 39 have a shocking lack of knowledge about the…
Minneapolis city council may have recognized its mistake in calling for abolition of the police department, but it still refuses to take responsibility for the consequences.
Following in the footsteps of Arizona, Missouri has become the latest state to enact a bill universally recognizing out of state licenses for professions and allowing people with criminal records…
Members of a high level presidential commission on law enforcement and justice issues wrapping up its work have challenged Ramsey County Attorney John Choi’s claims he resigned over differences with…
“I think the thing that's most wrong with Hubert Humphrey is that he is not cognizant of the limited, finite ability government has to deal with people's problems. And I…
New evidence by the Mercatus Center suggests annual regulatory growth increases operating costs per unit of output. Ergo, reducing regulation would cut operating costs significantly for businesses, providing much-needed relief.
The violent crime wave underway in Minneapolis includes numerous holdups and assaults involving guns and other weapons in the vicinity of the University of Minnesota campus. Over the weekend there…
For many Minnesota public schools, last week wrapped up the first week of the new school year. Some schools cleared for in-person learning implemented a distance learning only plan to…
'Defunding' the police is a bad idea. If more cops means less crime, what does fewer cops mean? Faced with rising violence in the Twin Cities, we need more cops,…
The list of 162 principals who have joined forces to "decenter whiteness" in school structures has been found.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Imagine the following, Uri is a retired 83-year-old Michigan engineer, and in 2014 he accidentally underpaid, by $8.41, the property taxes on a home he rented out. But instead of…
There may be a fire sale getting underway in Duluth as officials prepare to unload one city-owned property in the throes of the financial fallout due to the pandemic. The…
The Franchise Formerly Known as the Redskins should take a leaf out of the Packers' book and take their name from the city's employment.
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins, and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr in episode 259 of the In The Tank Podcast. Lately, there has been a lot…
A recent study has found that young children suffer a more significant loss in human capital development due to school closures compared to older kids. Additionally, the study adds to…
Owners of dozens of renovated barns used for weddings and other events in rural Minnesota are saying “I don’t” to a state regulation so costly some say they’d have to…
Have you considered moving, only to find home prices way higher than you expected? That's not the case in the rest of the Midwest. It's uniquely a Twin Cities problem,…
Minneapolitans might have won a reprieve from the city council's lunatic ideas, but they will need to remain their guard.
The future of nuclear power looks a little brighter now that U.S. officials have approved a design for a small commercial nuclear reactor for the first time in the nation’s…
Urban school districts continue to kowtow to the left’s marching orders urging the expulsion of School Resource Officers—cops—from the hallways. Meantime, my colleague Catrin Wigfall has exposed the national teacher…
Increased crime, vandalism, and disorder – even just the perception of it – imposes economic costs. If people feel unsafe, they will go elsewhere and they will take their money…