State and local taxes and spending Star Tribune: Minnesota’s economic forecast coming after higher-than-predicted tax collections The Neighbor: New Minnesota budget expands low-cost child care Fox 9: Gov. Walz announces…
Nobody has ever actually seen “the social contract” let alone signed it, which probably explains why there is so much disagreement about what is actually in it. In her new…
Last week, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) issued its 2021–2022 Winter Reliability Assessment. The findings were sobering. According to Power Magazine: [The report] warned that much of the…
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has been ordered by a court to review the state’s rules governing copper-nickel, and other non-iron mining. The agency is accepting public comment through…
In addition to paying more for Thanksgiving food, Americans will have a harder time finding products. According to the Wallstreet Journal, Supplies of food and household items are 4% to…
A poorly planned park and ride facility in Newport that cost $6.45 million to build and sits empty just five years after opening won the third Golden Turkey Award, given…
San Fransicko focuses on the west coast city, but Minneapolis is prominently mentioned throughout the book. Author Michael Shellenberger explains how and why progressive policies have made the big Pacific…
Xcel Energy, Minnesota’s largest electric utility company, claimed in 2010 that it expected electricity prices for customers to remain “well below” the national average through 2025. Xcel made this prediction…
Yesterday, using an excellent Special Report from CCX Media, I looked at the rise in carjackings and shootings in the Twin Cities suburbs. Why is this happening? The suburban police…
We hear a lot of generalities about the potential disruption of the supply chain of goods and materials that businesses rely on to produce and market products to consumers. But…
In data released for October, Nebraska records the nation’s lowest unemployment rate, at 1.9 percent. Last week, unemployment figures also were released for the state of Minnesota, showing an unemployment…
Tuesday, Nov. 23 marks the 15th anniversary of the day then-Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty signed off on his renewable energy mandate, the Next Generation Energy Act (NGEA). Today is also…
To say that the Minnesota’s government is awash with cash would be an understatement. After finishing the 2021 fiscal year with a $2.67 billion surplus, Minnesota is already surpassing its…
Recently, I wrote about how the rise in violent crime in the Twin Cities is spreading to the suburbs. That was inspired by a spree of carjackings in Woodbury and…
The ominous impact of locking K-12 students out of the classroom for most of a school year due to the pandemic may take years to get a handle on. But…
Throughout the pandemic, American Experiment research has warned against closing schools in an effort to address the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to school closures being ineffective at stopping COVID, we…
We have been pointing out for several months now that Minnesota’s revolving door courts pose a risk to the safety of the state’s residents. In a number of cases, it…
As you prepare to sit down for your Thanksgiving meal this week, you’re no doubt running to the grocery store to get the ingredients you’ll need for dinner. But you…
A study of 2,000 adults in the United Kingdom found 30 percent have fallen out over one of them being better — or worse — at being “green” than the…
John Hanekamp’s career has been spent in the commodities business, including nearly 20 years in the grain sector and the last two decades in the coal industry. In this episode,…
State and local taxes and spending Pioneer Press: Adopt tax policies that attract people to Minnesota, not repel them Minn Post: Spending Minnesota’s share of the infrastructure bill is likely…
Yesterday the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) published new employment numbers showing how the Minnesota labor force fared in October. According to the data, job growth has…
Coal supplies at American power plants have reached a 24-year low, according to a report from Bloomberg. Coal is in short supply for many reasons, but much of the blame…
A review of this month’s Minneapolis mayoral election shows voters gaming the RCV system. Earlier this week, the Star Tribune reported on some interesting analyses of this year’s election, which…