Economic development Minnesota Reformer: Lawmakers expected to fund infrastructure, economic development projects on Iron Range Labor market KEYC: Minnesota’s unemployment rate holds steady for 6th month in a row Willmar…
At long last the legislative session is over. Compared to 2023, things were much quieter in St. Paul. That is if you don’t count the chaos of the final legislative…
This month, the Biden administration took another coordinated step toward the demise of coal by closing off the U.S.’ largest coal supplier to new leases. The Powder River Basin, in…
The post office faces a tricky dilemma when it comes to fixing the breakdown in mail delivery. Both the public and public officials have little, if any, confidence in the…
More shocking revelations from the free-food trial in Federal Court in Minneapolis. In this fourth week of the first Feeding Our Future trial proper, seven (7) defendants associated with the…
Seven decades ago this May, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, ruling that racial segregation of children in public schools…
I revisit a site in Hopkins once bustling with free-food, and now given over to the ever-forthcoming Southwest light rail extension. The Southwest light rail transit project (officially known as…
The 2024 legislative session crashed to a conclusion late Sunday night amid scenes of chaos as the DFL rammed through a 2,800 page Omnibus Bill that nobody had read and…
That’s the extraordinary proposal made by the state’s largest electric utility, Xcel Energy, to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC). Last month, Xcel proposed a two-year pilot project to provide…
The left-wing energy agenda at the Minnesota legislature was, thankfully, much less ambitious than their 2023 program. Tucked into the 2,800-page last-second omnibus bill are a handful of wins for…
A report by the International Energy Forum found that manufacturing 100% electric vehicles by 2035 would require 55% more new mines than would have to open otherwise. To meet “business-as-usual,”…
Michael Brown would have turned 28 yesterday. But Brown died 10 years ago because he chose to rob a convenience store in Ferguson Missouri, assault the owner who tried to…
The 2024 Minnesota legislative session came crashing to a close Sunday night at midnight with Republicans in both the House and Senate shouting into their microphones as Democrats shut down…
With the upcoming 4th anniversary of Floyd’s death, we revisit the intersection of 38th St. and Chicago Ave. in south Minneapolis. We’ve edited down this latest visit to a 51-second…
The best and the worst of Minnesota was on display on Sunday night. The best: In game seven on their series against the Denver Nuggets, the Timberwolves, who found themselves…
A report released on April 30 claims that Minnesota generated 54% of its electricity from “carbon-free” sources in 2023. But is it true? That 54% headline figure for “carbon-free,” or…
Thursday morning, I drove over to South Minneapolis to document anew some of the carnage to be found in the once thriving city. We’ve edited what I saw down to…
State and local taxes and spending NFIB: Minnesota Paid Leave Price Tag Skyrockets – Again Minnesota Reformer: DEED says Minnesota paid leave program will start with 25% higher payroll tax…
As we close out another week of the trial in Minneapolis, prosecutors have featured many of the (alleged) ill-gotten gains of the free-food scheme. A survey of recent headlines: ‘The…
On Wednesday, I wrote that the payroll tax imposed to fund Minnesota’s new Paid Family and Medical leave (PFML) program will be 37% higher in 2027 than when it was…
This piece was originally published at Independent Women’s Forum on May 13, 2024. Read more here: https://www.iwf.org/2024/05/13/jpmorgan-report-carbon-free-energy-transition-needs-reality-check/ A recent report from JPMorgan Chase warns that moving away from fossil fuels…
Bloomington’s Dar Al Farooq has come up numerous times in the current trial underway in Federal court in Minneapolis. Seven defendants associated with the non-closed Shakopee restaurant Empire Cuisine are…
This time Duluth school strategists thought they did everything right leading up to the $52 million technology levy dubbed Future Forward presented to voters. Slick website, numerous community listening sessions,…
In May last year, I wrote that nobody really knows how much Minnesota’s Paid Family and Medical leave (PFML) scheme is going to cost, with the estimated costs of the…