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- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/11/19
- Shrimp Plant Picks South Dakota Due to MN Red Tape
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/4/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/28/18
- Is Minnesota really the fourth best governed state in the union?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/21/18
- City Pages: State with lowest tax burden is “crushing” its neighbors
- Income tax hikes didn’t close Minnesota’s budget deficit
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/14/18
- New data shows which Minnesota counties saw economic growth…or not
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/7/18
- Minnesota’s government is forecast to take $1.5 billion more from the state’s taxpayers than it says it needs. What should it do with that money?
- New Report: Minnesota’s Economy Continues to Lag in Key Areas
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/9/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/2/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/26/18
- It isn’t Minnesota’s high taxes that make the state great
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/19/18
- For our economic health, Minnesota must cut tax burdens
- Minnesota Ranked As Least Tax-Friendly State In US
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/12/18
- The Fading Relevance of Mass Transit: Must-Listen Podcast
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/5/18
- The Tax Foundation lays out Minnesota’s high taxes and their consequences
- Fed: Economy “Remarkably Positive,” and Unprecedented in Modern History
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/28/18
- Minnesota ranks 43rd in the country for business taxes
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/21/18
- What are the prospects for wages in Minnesota?
- Metro transit, unable to hire enough drivers at $19.94 an hour, launches an apprentice program
- Teamsters Logo Perfectly Illustrates How Antiquated, Inflexible Unions Have Become
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/14/18
- St. Paul: Think Before You Act on Minimum Wage
- Minneapolis City Planners: You Must Drive 37 Percent Less
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/7/18
- Watch American Experiment’s Testimony on the Impact of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Minnesota’s Economy
- The impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on the Minnesota economy
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/31/18
- Data from Michigan suggests that mining doesn’t destroy leisure and hospitality jobs
- Economist’s View: Actually, economic growth in Walker’s Wisconsin outpaced Dayton’s Minnesota
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/24/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/17/18
- Comparing the economic records of Minnesota and Wisconsin governors
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/10/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/3/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/27/18
- Governor Dayton Will Regret Vetoing Tax Cuts After Seeing U.S. Growth Numbers
- In the late 1990s, Minnesota cut its top rate of income tax. What happened to income tax revenues?
- Minnesota Needs to Address Labor Shortage in Education Curricula
- In the first quarter of 2018, Minnesota’s economic growth lagged that of the nation
- In the 1980s, Minnesota cut its top rate of income tax by 8 percentage points. What happened to income tax revenues?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/20/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/13/18
- On CNBC’s ranking of America’s Top States for Business, Minnesota’s economy tumbles 12 places
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/6/18
- What trade means for Minnesotans
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/29/18
- The Problem with Public Sector Unions
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 22/8/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 15/8/18
- ‘It’s going to be a mess’ come tax season – CPAs speak out on Gov. Dayton’s parting gift to Minnesotans
- See how the federal tax cut impacted you. Then remember that Gov. Dayton’s veto likely means your taxes going up anyway
- Minnesota needs to improve its poor recent record on youth employment
- Minnesota ranks 4th nationally for per capita excise tax collections
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/8/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/1/17
- Minnesota ranks 6th nationally for per capita state and local income taxes
- Why Enbridge 3 Pipeline Matters to Minnesota
- We can’t know the true benefit of the Super Bowl unless we know its cost
- New employment data shows that Minnesota has the second highest unemployment rate in the region
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/25/17
- Gov. Dayton’s veto will needlessly hurt ordinary Minnesotans
- Mosaic’s Departure Should Be a Wake-Up Call
- Gov. Dayton is wrong, the tax bill is not a giveaway for corporations
- Wisconsin under Scott Walker beat Minnesota by many economic measures
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/18/17
- New data shows how Minnesota’s economy is changing
- Since Governors Dayton and Walker took office, average hourly earnings growth has been higher in Wisconsin than in Minnesota
- Missed opportunities for real tax reform
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/11/17
- The EPI does it again, distorting the records of Minnesota and Wisconsin on labor force participation
- The Economic Policy Institute’s report distorts the records on unemployment of Governors Dayton and Walker
- Since Governors Dayton and Walker took office, Minnesota’s economic growth has lagged Wisconsin’s
- New data shows that Minnesota’s economic growth lagged the nation in 2017
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/4/17
- Employment data shows Minnesota’s metropolitan areas slipping relative to its neighbors
- The Senate GOP’s tax bill is another small step in the right direction
- Minnesota’s House tax bill is a step in the right direction, but a small one
- Taxes have unintended consequences – States with the highest cigarette taxes have the highest rates of smuggling
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/27/17
- Happy Tax Freedom Day Minnesota!
- New report shows that Minnesota’s economic performance has been lackluster and raises doubts about future performance
- Minnesota has slow job growth and its low unemployment rate is not to blame
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/20/17
- Sour tax climate bad for business
- Happy Tax Freedom Day! But not you, Minnesota…
- Governor Dayton’s tax bill will raise taxes on all Minnesotans, and on the poorest most
- Estate tax is an incentive to leave Minnesota
- Some Timely Common Sense and Perspective from Brian Wesbury on U.S. Trade
- Trump’s tariffs could spark trade war that will cost many Americans
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/13/17
- Minnesota ranks 11th nationally for increases in occupational licensing requirements
- What should lawmakers consider when rewriting tax policy? Five experts give their perspectives
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/6/17
- Governor Dayton is wrong on the estate tax
- Employment data shows Minnesota’s metropolitan areas slipping relative to its neighbors
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/30/17
- Renewable energy costs more jobs than it creates
- Minnesota should lower its corporate tax rate
- Personal Income growth in Minnesota is driven by increases in transfer payments
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/23/17
- The Tax Foundation on Governor Dayton’s budget proposal: Some pro-growth provisions, but misses the mark on others
- Are more solar jobs a good thing?
- Gov. Dayton overstates his economic achievements
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/16/17
- Minnesota should ditch its alternative minimum tax for corporations
- Minnesota should abolish its estate tax
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/9/17
- January employment report: Minnesota’s job growth is concentrated in lower productivity sectors
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/2/17
- Minnesota’s Senate Democrats said that November’s budget deficits were the result of tax cuts. Will they say the same about the surplus projected now?
- Spam! Tax Cuts Lead to Pay Hike and Stock Options for Hormel Employees
- Compared to other states, Minnesota’s economic policies don’t rank too well
- Center of the American Experiment presents to the Minnesota House Ways and Means Committee on the state’s economy
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/23/17
- Tax Refugees Flee to States with Lower Taxes
- Put Minnesota tax code revisions on ‘to do’ list
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/16/17
- What will Minnesota’s fiscal forecast say?
- The Minnesota Myth
- On Business Taxes, Minnesota Is Near the Bottom
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/9/17
- Minnesota’s economy hinges on the new mining jobs
- Hundreds of Supporters Back Copper Mining at Public Hearing
- First MN Copper Mine on the Verge of Approval
- The Super Bowl party is over, who picks up the tab?
- Thousands of Minnesotans Get Bonuses and Pay Hikes Thanks to Tax Cuts [UPDATED]
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/2/17
- Another Obama Era Obstacle to MN Mining Bites the Dust
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/26/17
- 3M Joins Long List of Companies Benefiting From Tax Reform
- Thousands of Minnesotans Get Bonuses and Pay Hikes Thanks to Tax Cuts [UPDATED]
- Why Did Amazon “Snub” the Twin Cities?
- State’s economy is lagging
- Those Crazy Californians! Oops…No, Wait
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/19/17
- For Minnesotans, “It’s the economy, stupid”
- Twin Cities cut from Amazon’s HQ list
- Thousands of Minnesotans Get Bonuses and Pay Hikes Thanks to Tax Cuts [UPDATED]
- When It Comes to Tech Jobs, Minnesota Is Out In the Cold
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/12/17
- Thousands of Minnesotans Get Bonuses and Pay Hikes Thanks to Tax Cuts [UPDATED]
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/5/17
- What if health care was more like the auto insurance market?
- Florida Is Recruiting Minnesota’s Citizens
- High-tax states should abandon misguided schemes and focus on lowering taxes
- Minnesota’s economy: we can do better
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/29/17
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/22/17
- Minnesota is at serious risk of losing a seat in Congress
- What will the federal tax bill mean for Minnesota?
- Is Minnesota really the best governed state in the union?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/15/17
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/8/17
- Tax cuts did not cause Minnesota’s projected deficit
- Minnesota Management and Budget forecasts red ink
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/1/17
- More Mining Companies Exploring Possibilities in Northern MN
- The State of Minnesota’s Economy: Performance Continues to be Lackluster
- Eliminating deductions will hit high-tax Minnesota
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/17/17
- What does the Senate’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act mean for Minnesota?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/10/17
- Minnesota’s employers get creative to beat the labor ‘shortage’
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/03/17
- September employment data shows how Minnesota’s urban areas compare with neighboring states
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 27/10/17
- Enbridge 3 would have a major economic impact in Minnesota and aggressive thugs should not be allowed to stifle debate
- September employment report: Jobs gains in high productivity sectors should boost Minnesota’s economy
- Report concludes Minnesota’s budget is prepared for the next moderate recession, but tax collections are among the most volatile
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 20/10/17
- Minnesota ranks 46th out of 50 states for business taxation
- Minnesota’s consumers, not its politicians, should be picking winners and losers
- Minnesota agency reports lower than forecast revenue and lower economic growth in 2018
- Minnesota Ranked Second Least Tax-Friendly State in U.S.
- By fighting the removal of the state and local tax deduction, Minnesota Democrats show that tax rates do matter
- Children will pay the cost of sacrificing education for indoctrination
- Will MN Business Climate Deter Amazon?
- Data shows Minnesota’s metropolitan areas slipping relative to its neighbors
- Time for Minnesota to update 1970s-era pipeline permitting process
- Minnesota’s second quarter personal income growth figures show lackluster performance
- Reducing the rates of teenage and black unemployment can help tackle Minnesota’s supposed labor shortage
- Economic growth in Minnesota’s urban areas is lagging our peers
- August employment report: Minnesota’s job growth is concentrated in lower productivity sectors
- Minnesota is Among the Least Economically Free States
- Rift Over Mining Splits Duluth DFL
- Who should Trump appoint to the Fed?
- Do the Twin Cities Have a Realistic Shot at Amazon’s Headquarters?
- How have the Twin Cities been doing economically?
- Where do Minnesota’s legislators stand on federal tax reform?
- Fewer mining jobs means big-time economic problems for Minnesota
- Got a spare two months? Read Minnesota’s regulations
- Keith Ellison demands a $15 minimum wage but doesn’t pay his interns
- Why robots support a higher minimum wage
- More workers will help us prosper, if they’re the right kind of workers
- Government letting companies and people keep more of their money is not a ‘handout’
- Subsidizing business is a bad idea whoever does it
- Can increased immigration boost per capita incomes?
- The evidence shows that raising minimum wages hurts the poor
- Immigration crisis? What immigration crisis?
- Minnesota’s reinsurance program helps calm health care rates
- Data from metropolitan areas shows Minnesota slipping relative to its neighbors
- Who should pay for Big Bird?
- Why Wasn’t Minnesota In the Running for Foxconn’s Project?
- Who should pay for that lighthouse?
- Emails reveal that Seattle council sabotaged its own minimum wage study
- Even left wingers embrace the Laffer Curve now
- What drives Minnesota’s business cycle?
- Report shows Minnesota’s estate tax burden is among the highest in the country
- Tax something, you get less of it. Policymakers have always known that
- June employment report: Good news from Minnesota’s labor market
- Employment data upends liberal narrative on the border battle between Minnesota and Wisconsin
- Kathy Kersten’s Better Bloggerville Welcome
- Seattle Council pulls the plug on its minimum wage study because it doesn’t like the results
- Good at business? Not so much
- Cutting tax rates can increase tax revenues
- ‘Trickle down economics’ isn’t even a thing
- How to really raise wages
- CNBC’s Top States for Business rankings are a slap in the face for Minnesota’s economic policymakers
- Minnesota’s revenue shortfall offers a sign for concern and a lesson in economics
- Kersten gets message out that terrific careers don’t require a costly four-year degree: Op-ed reaches 28 community newspapers
- Why Do Twin Cities Have Lowest Rate of Black Home Ownership In the Country?
- AchieveMpls helps students find great jobs that don’t require a four-year degree
- Rising fees, not low minimum wages, are hitting college students
- With wage hike, Minneapolis ignores economic laws
- New data shows that Minnesotans cannot be complacent about their economy
- $15 minimum wage: Bad news from Seattle should give Minneapolis pause
- Second time lucky for Seattle Council’s minimum wage research
- Major new study jolts liberals out of Fantasyland on $15 minimum wage
- Increasing productivity, not the minimum wage, is the way to increase worker’s pay
- Skepticism about state’s economy isn’t ‘naysaying’
- Don’t like jobs paying $9.50? Don’t get one
- Raising the minimum wage will not boost Minneapolis’ economy
- Minneapolis’ small businesses will pay the cost of a $15 minimum wage
- MN Wineries Sue Over Law Against Out-of-State Grapes
- May employment report: Minnesota needs more productive jobs
- An Economist’s View: Dayton’s rich-vs.-the-rest economic view is simply wrong
- The Educational Value of Beautiful and Physically Demanding Things
- Minnesota needs more productive jobs
- Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities
- Great Jobs and Inclusive Growth
- Governor Dayton’s Attempt to De-Fund the GOP Legislature: Troubling Tactics, Apocalyptic Prose and Fake Federalism
- Titanium Breakthrough Could Be Bigger Than Taconite for Iron Range
- Tax the rich? Done. Chase them from the State? Done.
- How Much Weight Does MN’s “Best State” Ranking Hold?
- Liberal Policies Are Devastating America’s Young
- Center Launches Major New Education Program
- Minnesota May Lose a Congressional Seat. But Why?
- Minnesota vs. Wisconsin
- The Twin Cities Are Falling Behind, and It Isn’t Just Population
- MN Loses Population to Other States in 2016 But Some Counties Buck Trend
- Why ‘Yuge’ Meeting on Obama MN Mining Ban May Not Matter
- Understanding the New Tax Plan America Needs
- Will Legislators Bag Minneapolis Plastic Bag Ban?
- What Kinds of Jobs Are We Talking About?
- Government, Not Wall Street, Caused Financial Crisis
- The Many Virtues and Similarities of Transatlantic Plumbing
- New report pinpoints several aspects of state tax code that challenge Minnesota’s competitiveness
- Unions and Companies Confront Duluth City Council on Pipeline
- Minnesota’s New Year’s Resolution
- Many Minnesotans to Pay Just Shy of the Highest 2016 Income Tax Rate in the Nation
- Will General Mills be the next Minnesota Fortune 500 company lost to a takeover?
- Court Blocks Controversial O.T. Regs Imposed by Executive Order
- Business friendly policies spur stronger growth in counties across Minnesota’s border
- Dodd-Frank forced my neighborhood community bank to sell
- Is MNsure on Life Support After Election?
- Buyers’ Remorse Over $500 Million Public Investment in Vikings Stadium?
- The Joy of Knowing “I Built That”
- Could Be Worse! Minnesota Has Only 4th Highest Obamacare Rate Hike
- More of the Same: “Nothing Spectacular” in State Jobs Report
- Higher Property Taxes? Blame Hidden MNsure Costs
- Cuban Cigars and Rum. What’s a Fan of the Constitution to do?
- Minneapolis buys political cover to raise the minimum wage from the U of MN Humphrey School
- White House “Fact Sheet” on Minnesota income growth fails to report income declines in Mankato, St. Cloud, and Rochester
- Tax Foundation report finds business taxes in Minnesota are among the least competitive
- A Minimum Wage Fable by Mark Perry
- Once Again, Star Tribune Cheers Mediocre Performance
- Mark Perry’s remarks at American Experiment’s minimum wage forum
- What’s Happened to Minnesota’s Entrepreneurial Spirit?
- Not Even One Minnesota Business Makes Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies List
- Duluth City Council Rejects Anti-Mining Measure
- Southwest Light Rail: An Expensive Mistake
- Blue State Exodus: It Isn’t Just Minnesota
- Quotas on the Menu at General Mills
- Minnesota’s high-tech industry can do much better
- Are Voters Catching On to the Minimum Wage?
- Minnesota Supreme Court should find state law preempts Minneapolis minimum wage proposal
- Minnesota’s Economy: No Beacon of Prosperity!
- Minnesota’s Economy Faces a Turning Point
- Download American Experiment’s Blockbuster Report on Minnesota’s Economy
- Is Minnesota A Good Place to Retire?
- When It Comes to the Economy, Minnesota Must Do Better
- The Left’s First Response to our Paper on Minnesota’s Economy
- Watch This Space for Blockbuster Report on Monday
- Are Blue States Better?
- Regulatory delay in approving pipeline puts tax revenue and jobs at risk in northern Minnesota
- Top 8 Reasons to Hit the “Pause” Button on Light Rail and Fund Proven Steps to Reduce Congestion
- Fergus Falls educators, manufacturers take on the skills gap
- Growth in Minnesota’s Median Household Income Doesn’t Lead the Nation
- High Cost of Doing Business in Minnesota No Deal Breaker for CNBC
- Is Minnesota Good For Small Business?
- Minnesota Can Do Better
- $15 Minimum Wage Gains Momentum as Minneapolis Sits on Legal Sidelines
- Being Blue Is Giving Minnesotans the Blues
- Court Loss Over North Dakota Coal Stokes Long-Shot Appeal by Dayton
- Do Rental Limits on Homeowners Harm the Poor, Middle Class and Minorities?
- How Strong Is Minnesota’s Economy, Really?
- Northeast states start addressing the consequences of high taxes, making Minnesota more of an outlier
- Debate rages over whether Minnesota loses taxpayers to lower tax states
- Clear Cut Trees Reveal Solar Power’s Environmental Downside
- Don’t Miss CAE Forum on How Dodd-Frank Hurts Small Business with Top Expert Peter Wallison
- A response to various objections to American Experiment’s report, “Minnesotans on the Move to Lower Tax States 2016”
- MNsure errors in determining eligibility cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars
- Perception please meet the reality of Minnesota’s jobs climate
- Minnesota job growth still falls behind U.S.
- 2014 Health Care Savings Date Back to when Republicans Controlled the Minnesota Legislature
- Minnesota Economy No Victory for Dayton
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- Category: Transportation
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- Category: Unions
- ‘What Percent Are You?’: 1/3 of Teachers’ Union Employees are in Top 5% Income Bracket or Higher
- Teachers’ union labels its political activity as ‘the envy of every political organization in MN’
- What would happen if a cabinet secretary walked out during a congressional hearing?
- “NEA Convention by the Numbers” from Ace Union Reporter Mike Antonucci Plus New Report Coming Soon
- Teachers’ Union Makes PAC Refund Process Tricky. But Don’t Get Spooked, Request it Today.
- Education Minnesota is Fully Engaged in the Mid-Term; Raised Dues and PAC Contribution to Fund GOTV Campaign at K-12 Schools
- Education Minnesota: The Union Forces Members to Fund PAC, Makes it Hard to Get Refund
- MN & WI schools both recognized for academic excellence, but only WI schools recognized for progress on closing achievement gaps
- Education Minnesota endorses political candidates & “recommends” them to members
- Teachers: You do not have to meet with a union rep before resigning this week.
- Union Executive and Staff Pay Far Exceeds Teachers; State Union Dues Increase Again
- September 24-30 is decision time for Minnesota Educators: Union Sets Narrow Exit Window Once a Year
- Education Minnesota president calls Center ‘clueless’ for blackboard billboards, NEA president uses similar blackboard theme
- Survey Says: Majority of Public Sector Union Members See Janus Ruling as ‘Positive’
- Teachers and ESPs have a Narrow Seven -Day Window to Resign from Education Minnesota: September 24-30
- Non-Union Teacher Associations Offer Educators Double Protection
- Pensions are under pressure, but unions misplace the blame
- MN Teachers’ Union Calls Attention to Center’s Employee Freedom Project and Billboards
- Firing-up Liberty Genes
- Teachers want unions to focus more on professional needs, but are they listening?
- Billboards Work!
- Anti-Janus Outrage: Allegations of Racism, Authoritarianism Alleged by Desperate Unions
- Moody’s Warns Minnesota: 2018 Pension Bill Not Good Enough
- Teachers’ Union is Meeting on the 4th of July Instead of Celebrating American Independence
- National Education Association Meeting: A Social Justice Summit?
- Overturning ‘fair share’ union fees would restore balance
- Let’s Talk Janus on MPR Tuesday with Kerri Miller: Public Employee Union Case
- Union Dues Used to Finance Political Advocacy Without Permission
- Survey Says: MN teachers have heard very little, if anything, about Janus case
- National Teachers’ Union Will Meet in Minneapolis this Summer & Propose Change to Who Counts as a Member
- Teachers Agree: Teachers’ unions make it “harder to fire bad teachers”
- Memo to Legislature: Resist Dayton’s Push for Expansion of “Free” Pre-K
- Gov. Dayton’s relentless pursuit of our small children, and union revenues: Will the GOP hold the line?
- The political ideology favored by teachers’ unions is not reflective of all members
- Education Minnesota tells members the Center is a “group to watch”
- The Thrill is Gone: Minnesota Students Are Being Deprived of Real Protest. Even in Chaska.
- Should Teachers Have the Right to Strike? A Look at West Virginia and the Twin Cities.
- Teachers Pension, on Downward Slide, Wants to Lower Return Assumption: Admits to $9 Billion Deficit Even with Taxpayer Cash Aid
- Another Segment: Union Dues Spent on Political Advocacy Without Permission
- What Big Labor Thinks of American Experiment
- Janus Union Fee Case Already Having a Good Effect, Except @ AFT
- Why Public Sector Unions Are Inherently Corrupt
- Celebrating the Anniversary of a Victory Against Fake Unionization: Child Care Provider Freedom
- Challenge to Mandatory Union Fees Could Free All Public Employees From Forced Union Fees
- American Experiment Heads to DC: First Amendment Challenge Could Free All Public Employees from Forced Unionism
- AFSCME’s “Talking Points” Misconstrue Purpose of Janus Case
- A Message to St. Paul Teachers On Strike Authorization Vote
- Union Dues: Spent on Political Advocacy Without Permission
- Ex-Union President Takes on St. Paul Federation of Teachers
- If we care about employee freedom, we should care about Janus
- New Report: Over a Billion in Union Dues Spent on Left-Wing Politics from 2010-2016
- Evidence suggests that collective bargaining for teachers harms students
- Who Protects the Worker?
- A Democratic Vision: Teachers ordered to segregate by race in Evanston, IL
- U.S. Unfunded Pension Liabilities Exceed $6 Trillion: Minnesota’s Share is at least $118.7 Billion
- Workplace Democracy for Minnesota’s Teachers is a Myth: Time to Update the Law
- What Counts as a “Crisis” at the Teachers’ Pension Funds?
- Do teachers oppose or support forced union dues?
- Attorney General’s Office Argues DFL Legislature Purposely Made It Harder for PCAs to Decertify the SEIU
- Will Minnesota be a right to work state by next June?
- WSJ Reader reacts to Education Minnesota: It’s all about the money (and the power)
- Supreme Court agrees to hear First Amendment Case: A Victory would end Public Employee Unions’ Monopoly Power
- The DFL’s “Young Learners” Marching to Pre-School This Fall
- The New Normal? DHS Partners with Extremist SEIU to Administer Medicaid Program for the Disabled
- Teachers Union Urges Resistance to DeVos & “Cruel” Education Budget
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- Category: Taxes
- Higher taxes mean less innovation
- Canada hiked taxes on top earners and top earners paid less tax
- Higher tax rates doesn’t necessarily mean higher tax revenues
- Tax cuts are not ‘giveaways’, they are ‘take-less-aways’
- Why does government get ripped off so easily?
- Why cigarette taxes don’t work
- Minnesota doesn’t need higher gas taxes
- Tax Conformity: That Ship Has Sailed
- If we want carbon taxes without riots, reduce other taxes
- Taxpayers Push for Vote on City’s Pricey Community Center Plan
- Is Minnesota introducing taxation without representation?
- Policy uncertainty is holding back business investment and slowing economic growth
- Report scores Gov. Dayton a ‘D’ on fiscal policy
- Taxes are incentives – even for divorce
- Minneapolis Property Taxes Skyrocket. This is Why We Can’t Have Grumpy Things
- Austin Pushes Businesses to the Brink with Potential 15 Percent Levy Hike
- Britain cut corporate tax rates and corporate tax revenues went up
- If billionaires want the government to have more of their money, why not just give it to them?
- Does above average alcohol tax revenue illustrate how regulations impact economic growth?
- State “IT” Services: Legislative Auditor Releases Report Detailing Serious Mismanagement, Disregard for Legal Requirements
- Evidence shows that high corporate tax rates lower entrepreneurial activity
- Minnesota Beer Taxes are the 10th Highest in the Country
- Cigarette taxes are regressive and don’t reduce smoking very much
- Rep. Erik Paulsen’s bid to end Obamacare Medical Device Tax is expected to be signed into law this year
- Higher tax rates do not bring more revenue
- Minnesota ranks 8th nationally for its reliance on income taxes
- What does the Supreme Court’s Wayfair decision mean?
- Property taxes show that taxing wealth is easier said than done
- Minneapolis Property Owners Winning War With Tax Assessor
- Milton Friedman on corporate taxes
- Tax beer more and you get less drinking. Why don’t policymakers apply this logic to work?
- Duluth Businesses Clash With Tax Assessor
- Minneapolis Residents Revolt Over Skyrocketing Property Valuations
- Entitlement spending needs urgent reform
- Henry Hazlitt: For True Tax Reform
- Entitlement spending is driving federal government debt up to 100% of GDP
- Recent legislation has been tough on businesses in Minn. border cities
- Georgia and Idaho cut taxes following federal tax reform
- It wasn’t luck that made Ireland’s Celtic Tiger roar
- China’s communists recognize that taxes are disincentives
- Raise a glass to lower business taxes
- Stephen Moore on Why Tax Reform Matters: Do You Have a Story?
- Minnesota uses taxes on cigarettes to stop people smoking. What does it think taxes on labor do?
- Does California’s government have a clue what it is doing?
- Research shows that state income taxes increase inequality by growing government
- Why Would Congress Punish Colleges That Decline Federal Funds? A Hillsdale Mom Makes the Case for That ‘Hillsdale Exemption’
- Big Tax Cuts Likely for 80,000 Minnesotans Charged Obamacare Penalty
- The state and local tax deduction allows high tax states to pass some of the burden on to others. It should be ended.
- St. Paul Mayor Proposes More Transparent Budget After City Loses Landmark Case
- Legislature’s Special Session Wrap-Up: Estate Tax, Healthcare & More
- Vetoed tax bill would focus tax relief on seniors, families, and small businesses
- Dayton is vetoing good education legislation. We need your help.
- Connecticut’s Experience: Taxing the Rich Doesn’t Work
- Eliot Seide’s Foolish Take on High Minnesota Taxes
- It’s tax day: Minnesota, a land of progressivity
- A Competition For “Tax Fairness”? That’s Delusional
- Ho, Ho, Ho: $300,000 in Taxpayer Funds for Jolly Green Giant Museum
- Tax Credits For Student Loan Payments? A Terrible Idea
- Minnesota Ranks In the Top Five!
- Why Are Minnesotans So Overtaxed?
- Road Work Ahead as Cities Move Away From Street “Fees”
- Minnesota Supreme Court ruling on St. Paul fees already having statewide impact
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- Why “Urban Conservatism” is Not a Contradiction in Terms
- The big question facing America: Is Die Hard a Christmas film? A Debate
- Title IX: What was it meant to do and the nightmare it has become
- Minnesota Faces Severe Firewood Shortage
- What’s Urban Conservatism and How Might It Help?
- What’s More Telling about America?
- The Trials of Harvard and Harvard’s Elizabeth Warren
- Loneliness, Polarization and Them: Why We Hate Each Other—and How to Heal
- “My Abject Apology if This Unsafe Space Has Caused Anybody Fright”
- The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine our Culture
- Counterpoint: No numbers, only words, in appraising single-parent households
- Who is Dr. Jordan B. Peterson & Why Does The Left Hate Him?
- Training Wheels for a Lifetime of Hard, Honest Work
- Study Confirms Millennial Men are Still Playing Video Games in Their Parents’ Basements
- Going Tubbing with Barbara Carlson
- Drag Queens at the St. Paul Public Library. Too provocative for kids?
- Today’s Public Libraries: No to Little House on the Prairie but Yes Drag Queens?
- Legalized Marijuana is Putting a Generation of Kids at Risk. Will Minnesota Follow Colorado?
- Why are public schools feeding students, who are not in school, during the summer?
- St Paul Schools hire principal with an interesting resume: Misused State Funds, Drunk Driving Arrests
- Questions Both Women and Men Should Ask Potential Spouse
- American Experiment comments on PELSB’s attempt to redefine “cultural competency”
- Saint Paul Public Library celebrates Pride with Drag Story Hour: All Ages Welcome?
- Religious Freedom Narrowly Protected 7-2: Baker Does Not Have to Make Cake for Same-Sex Couple
- CAE’s Adjunct Fellow Kevin Terrell: “Start Reading Now” in Minneapolis reaches 5,500 Children
- Trump’s Quiet Virtues
- The Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
- What Makes Motherhood Worthwhile
- Happy Star Wars Day: May the 4th Be With You
- Girls Flock to Join Cub Scouts on First Sign-Up Day
- Minnesota’s “Brave New World” of education
- The Latest Battle In the Statue Wars: Stephen Foster
- Minnesota Youth Symphonies offers free hands-on music experience for children ages 3 to 14
- Remembering Dr. King: What would he say about K-12 “restorative justice” discipline policies?
- MN High School Theater Program is 1 of 50 Nationwide to Receive $10K Grant
- Noteworthy Performances of All Kinds
- Is Our Culture Dead?
- Two Nice Super Bowl Stories
- SKOL: Snow Days are Fun, Living in “The North”
- Educational Freedom & MLK’s Dream
- Parental Choice is Working: Why are the teachers’ union and Hollywood attacking charter schools?
- SKOL! It’s Columbus Day in Minnesota.
- Deer Herd is Up, Along With Your Odds of a Collision
- “Good Thing We’ve Gotten Past All That P.C. Nonsense”
- The NFL would find it easier to tell politicians to mind their own business if they weren’t taking cash from them
- A Statistically Sound Star Tribune Article on Income Disparities
- Sunday Mornings at Church? Or Sunday Mornings at Starbucks?
- Romeo and Juliet at the Guthrie
- Leftists Want to Replace Christopher Columbus With…Prince?
- Veterans Restore Lost Grave of MN Civil War Soldier
- Senator Franken Cancels Appearance with Second Liberal Comedian
- MN Senator Franken Stands By Kathy Griffin Despite Gory Photo of Beheaded Trump
- Target Doubles Down on LGBT Agenda—Lesson Not Learned?
- MPS Board Backed Into a Corner by Protesters
- Female Genital Mutilation Comes to Minnesota
- Refugee data: That’s not Minnesota Nice
- Why Should Artists Want Government Support?
- With Thanks to Michael Novak
- Is Boycott a Factor in Slumping Target Sales?
- Sushi? Hey, It Might Be Carp!
- Proudly Detailing Sexual Assaults
- DFL: Expanding Government Unions and Our Dependency on the State
- Category: Crime
- Category: Economics
- Milton Friedman explains why high taxes deter investment
- New York restaurants cut staff hours as minimum wage hits $15
- Minnesota has lagged the nation on Research & Development spending since 2012
- Government is raising prices to help people with the cost of living – Happy new year!
- Kirk Cousins shows that a pay off to an investment is not guaranteed
- Greedy Innkeeper or Generous Capitalist? by Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein
- High taxes sap Minnesota’s productivity, economic growth
- 72% of US based economists oppose a federal minimum wage of $15.00 per hour
- Harvard Study: Gender Pay Gap Explained Entirely by Work Choices of Men and Women
- The Pioneer Press gets confused between GDP per capita and GDP per worker
- Minnesota’s economic performance continues to be unimpressive. And there are signs for concern about the future
- The Importance of Economic Liberty
- Free Markets Incentivize Service
- Profit and Loss Guide Discovery
- The Problems with Price Controls
- Prices Communicate Dispersed Knowledge
- Supply and Demand Together
- Supply
- Demand
- Comparative Advantage, Division of Labor
- Thinking at the Margin
- Scarcity and Opportunity Cost
- Subjective Value and Trade
- What CNN Gets Wrong in Its Coverage of Seattle’s New Minimum Wage Law
- Whats going on in the Minnesota labor market?
- As the US economy booms, Minnesotans are feeling the benefits
- The details of minimum wage laws show why they are so harmful
- Facing a ‘labor shortage’, Minnesota’s employers are raising pay and benefits
- (Not) workin’ at the car wash
- Milton Friedman: Good wealth, bad wealth
- The U.S. is world’s most competitive economy for first time in a decade
- As St. Paul’s politicians prepare to hobble the city’s labor market with a $15 minimum wage without tip credit, D.C.’s are getting rid of it
- Since 2010, per capita GDP has grown faster in Wisconsin than in Minnesota
- A history of American economic policy in six books
- Why did Amazon raise its minimum wage to $15?
- In 2017 American workers were more willing and able to quit their jobs for better pay. This bodes well for future pay increases
- In her Star Tribune piece, Kshama Sawant did not tell the truth about Saint Paul’s proposed $15 minimum wage
- Is Minnesota’s ‘labor shortage’ nudging wages higher?
- A tip credit will go some way towards mitigating the harm that St. Paul’s leaders want to do to the city’s labor market
- Minnesota’s ‘labor shortage’ offers the opportunity for higher wages
- Minnesota is losing the economic border battle, let’s hope we do better in the football one
- No support for minimum wage increase
- With another dubious assumption, Harvard study authors tilt the scales against mining
- On Labor Day, be thankful that we don’t have to do as much laboring as our ancestors did
- On the minimum wage, wishful thinking must not take the place of economic analysis
- ‘High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty’ – What is going on in the labor market?
- Employers Shed College Requirements As Economy Booms
- How free markets promote the ‘common good’
- Kudos to Crow Wing Power For Their Truth in Billing
- Can immigration boost per capita GDP growth?
- Cartoon of the Day
- Evidence suggests that moving away from seniority pay improves teacher quality
- Marriage, Military Service, Black Churches, and More Mundane Founts
- Milton Friedman explains who wins and who loses when government mandates higher labor costs
- David Cooper of the Economic Policy Institute replies to our reply and gets it all wrong
- Wisconsin-Minnesota comparison was flawed
- Advocates of minimum wage hikes are living in a fantasy world
- Prevailing wage laws freeze less skilled workers out of labor markets, just like minimum wage laws
- Wages need to rise in real terms, not just nominal terms
- Mayor Carter should stop squandering political capital on his harmful minimum wage policy, and get serious about tackling crime in St. Paul
- Happy 34th birthday to Ghostbusters, the greatest pro-free market movie ever made
- Meet robot Ronald McDonald
- Hoyt Lakes Mayor: “PolyMet is Our Superbowl”
- Evidence shows that higher minimum wages reduce other elements of worker compensation
- Milton Friedman on the minimum wage
- Henry Hazlitt: Do Deficits Make Jobs?
- Minnesota should reduce its individual income tax rates
- Minnesota’s wage growth ranks 45th in the United States
- Public policy must take into account what is not seen as well as what is seen
- Who earns the minimum wage?
- Minnesota job growth lags; tax reform seen as one solution
- Economics argues against $15
- BNSF Steps Up Investment: $810 Million To Get Minnesota’s Products to World Markets
- Skilled immigrants needed to boost Minnesota’s economy
- Want to raise pay? Don’t wave a placard, invest in capital and skills
- Minimum wage: Nonprofits and small businesses struggle when it’s raised
- Trade is not about ‘winners’ and ‘losers’
- Tight labor markets and rising wages aren’t just a feature of Minnesota’s economy
- Minimum wages are bad public policy
- Do You Understand Your Local Economy?
- Stephen Moore on Trumponomics
- Why These Restaurant Workers Want Less Than the Minimum Wage
- Citizens League report shows that Saint Paul should tread carefully over the minimum wage
- Heart-Warming Valentine’s Day Headlines
- More workers will help us prosper, if they’re the right kind of workers
- New research shows that minimum wage laws have reduced teenage employment and left them less skilled
- After enacting the disastrous $15 minimum wage in Minneapolis, activists now have Saint Paul’s labor market in their sights
- As Americans move to freer states Minnesota loses out
- Minimum wages go up, Red Robin’s employment goes down
- Minimum wage laws don’t boost wages, they just outlaw jobs
- Capitalism is the greatest anti-poverty program the world has ever known
- A ‘shortage’ of workers in Minnesota is driving wages up
- Market forces, not political decrees, create sustainable wage increases
- Minimum wage’s unintended consequences
- Youth Unemployment Worldwide: The Canary in the Coal Mine of Excessive Regulation
- Housing costs and occupational licensing requirements are stopping Americans from moving
- How to Cure Inflation
- Milton Friedman demolishes the federal jobs guarantee
- Minnesota’s economic performance has room for improvement
- Why do central bankers never learn?
- The economics of Christmas lights
- Who Protects the Consumer?
- Minnesota ranks 40th in the US for economic freedom
- The government doesn’t need to regulate your six pack of Coors Light
- Minnesota needs productive workers but it is losing those it already has
- More workers will help us prosper, if they’re the right kind of workers
- A more productive Minnesotan workforce can offset a declining share of workers
- Minnesota’s shrinking share of workers will slow the state’s future economic growth
- Back in the USSR: What life was like in the Soviet Union
- Minnesota’s new jobs are increasingly found in lower productivity sectors
- From Cradle to Grave
- Henry Hazlitt: How to Taper Off Rent Control
- Minneapolis’ minimum wage hikes shut down Whiskey Junction
- Minneapolis’s High Minimum Wage Claims More Victims
- Minnesota’s households have high incomes, but only because each one contains more workers
- Back to the Future at Dayton’s?
- If Minnesota’s workers were as productive as the US average, we would each be $3,500 better off
- Anatomy of a Crisis
- Milton Friedman: Giving Thanks for Free Enterprise
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/24/17
- Market forces got the Mall of America’s workers Thanksgiving off and O/T on Black Friday
- Minnesota’s economy grew more slowly than 43 other states in the second quarter of 2017
- Minnesota’s hard working labor force masks below average worker productivity
- The Tyranny of Control
- Henry Hazlitt: The Consequences of Decontrol
- Venezeula’s economic and social collapse shows that Bernie Sanders is another “useful idiot”
- Personal Income growth in Minnesota is driven by increases in transfer payments and shows our state’s poor performance on productivity
- Minnesota’s workers are less productive than the national average
- Minnesota’s economic growth is lagging
- The Power of the Market
- Last Ditch Lawsuit Filed to Save Minneapolis Jobs
- A new report from the Center finds that Minnesota’s economic performance continues to be lackluster
- The Soviet Experiment, 100 Years On
- More St. Paul mayoral candidates on the minimum wage
- Henry Hazlitt: Squeezing the Price Balloon
- A tale of two stadiums
- Minnesota’s economy hinges on the new mining jobs
- Don’t let pipeline protesters silence Minnesotans
- Henry Hazlitt: Meat and the Speed of Decontrol
- Gov. Dayton is beginning to see the light on mining
- Henry Hazlitt: Price-Fixing Brings Bottlenecks
- Where do St Paul’s mayoral candidates stand on the minimum wage?
- There are lots of jobs in wind energy…just not much energy
- Do sports stars deserve multi-million dollar salaries? Well, yes, some of them do
- The State of Minnesota’s Economy – What does our state’s economist think?
- The federal government should help rebuild Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. It should not bail it out of its longstanding fiscal crisis
- Congratulations to the Minnesota Lynx. Now get out and support them
- Cut or abolish the corporate income tax to help workers
- As Target shows, market forces can drive wages up
- How can public sector employers afford a $15 minimum wage?
- Hurricane Bloomberg Hits Minnesota Pension Funds: TRA at 50% Funding or Worse
- To insulate Minneapolis from the effects of bad policy, $15 activists need to hobble neighboring areas too
- When you measure it properly, worker’s compensation is driven by productivity
- Wage mandates drive investment toward machines, away from labor
- A fair day’s wage for a fair day’s production
- There is no ‘race to the bottom’ in states reducing their capital taxes
- A growing population does not guarantee a growing economy
- Gov. Dayton looks to make Amazon an offer they can’t refuse. What might that be?
- Investment and innovation can soften the blow of the ‘labor shortage’
- Hurricane Harvey will not be an economic boon for Texas
- Now how about a capital day?
- Hurricane Harvey – How the private sector can help
- How do economies grow?
- Category: Employment
- Category: Minimum wages
- Category: Elections
- Category: Environment
- Business North: Nolan Was Frustrated by DFLers Who Opposed Mining
- Eye On Mining: Gov. Walz Talks Copper-Nickel Mining
- Listen Up: The Great Minnesota Mining Debate Featuring Isaac Orr and Kevin Lee of Minnesota Center of Environmental Advocacy
- Twin Metals Keeps On Winning, Despite Best Efforts of Urban DFL
- “Sportsman’s View: Clean Water More Valuable Than Copper” Recycles Discredited Anti-Mining Talking Points
- In Boost to Ag Groups, Peterson Praises Wolf Delisting Letter
- When Will Fair Trade Coffee Drinkers Embrace Fair Trade Cobalt?
- ACSH: Sea Salt: Possibly The World’s Dumbest Product
- American Experiment Congratulates PolyMet on DNR Permit to Mine
- View Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources Polymet Press Conference Here
- Biased Much? Why Is the Star-Tribune Using a Misleading Photo of The Proposed PolyMet Mine?
- Anti-Mining PAC Endorses Walz, Ellison, and a Slew of Other DFL Candidates
- Duluth News Tribune Story Paints Inaccurate Picture of American Experiment’s Duluth Mining Rally
- One Step Closer: MN Environmental Agencies Send Proposed Polymet Permit Changes to EPA For Approval
- St. Paul Residents Resist Mandated Garbage Collection
- Is Minneapolis Park Board’s Toxic Image Hurting Superintendent Search?
- Copper, Nickel, and Titanium Mining Would Nearly Offset Estimated Population Decline in Northern Minnesota
- Wall Street Journal: Mining Cobalt in the Congo is Still Dirty and Dangerous
- “See You Next Summer!” Said the Tourism Jobs
- Star Tribune: Check the Methodology in Analyzing Arguments in Mining Debate
- New Park Board Commissioners’ Proposed Pay Raise Comes Under Fire
- Minnesota’s Massive Manganese Deposits- More Wealth Under Our Feet
- Duluth News Tribune: Statewide View: The more they learn, the more Minnesotans support copper mining
- Duluth News Tribune: DNR Denies Petition for Additional Polymet Environmental Review
- Center Report Ramps Up Debate Over Benefits of Environmentally Responsible Mining
- Upper Michigan’s Population Dwindles Despite “Sustainable” Tourism Economy
- Michigan Could Have Four Non-Ferrous Mines Within Four Years. Will Minnesota Have Any?
- For New Park Board Members Change Starts With Big Pay Raise
- “Visitors can get you only so far,” Upper Michigan Hungry For More Mining
- Environmentally Responsible Mining Will Boost MN’s Economy $3.7 Billion a Year and Create 8,500 Jobs
- PolyMet Amendment Dropped From NDAA
- Painter’s Stance on Mining is a Dumpster Fire
- Good Governance: Dayton Reinstates Former Essar Steel Mineral Rights Leases
- Strib Article: The trouble with recycling: It’s a plastic paradox
- Twin Cities Schools Gobble Up Most of the Mining Revenue
- The Inside Story: American Experiment Attends Trump’s Mining and Trade Policy Roundtable in Duluth
- Senator Tina Smith Proposes Amendment to Help PolyMet as the Project Gains Steam
- Pipeline Proponents Go On Offense
- Bipartisan Effort to Scrap Outdated Environmental Regulation Faces Dayton Veto
- Good News! Interior Department Reinstates Leases for Twin Metals Minnesota Mine Project
- Taking Back Earth Day
- State Pollution Agency’s Power Grab on Northern Lakes Slapped Down–Again
- So You Want Wind Turbines But Don’t Want Copper Mines?
- American Experiment Refutes Mondale’s Misleading Claims on Mining
- A Gold(en) Mining Opportunity for Minnesota
- Recycling Won’t Cut It- We’ll Need New Mines
- MN Wind Turbines Shut Down Over Safety Concerns From Ice [UPDATED]
- Just Say No: Increase in Gas Tax Would Fuel More Congestion, Reward Bad Policy
- Is MN Ag Department Playing Politics With Farmers’ Water Tests?
- Controversial State Water Regulation Slapped Down
- MN Sheriff Uses Obscure State Law to Take Over Wolf Kill Investigations
- Strib’s Sustainable Food Series Panned by Ag Experts
- Key Legislators Make the Bipartisan Case for met Council Reform, Again
- Taxpayer and Ratepayer Subsidies Squandered as Suburb Dismantles Solar Project
- EPA Cleans House After Obama-Era Advisers Pocket $77 Million in Grants
- Dayton Must Not Allow Militant Enviros to Suppress Pipeline Debate
- Here’s What Would Happen Without Deer Hunting & What Does Happen With It
- MN Taxpayers Fund Controversial Anti-Pipeline Video Game
- State Agency Bows to Militant Activists Canceling Pipeline Hearings
- Bipartisan Support for State Wolf Management Angers Enviro Hardliners
- Video: Police Let Militants Shout and Shut Down State Pipeline Hearing
- Cops Let Enviros “Do Their Thing” and Shut Down New Pipeline
- Dakota Access Pipeline Sues Greenpeace Protesters
- Opposition to logging and mining undermine northern Minnesota’s economy and global environment
- Pro-Mining Unions and Businesses Rip Forest Service “Charade”
- Pollution Agency Advises Against High Carbon Vacations
- Minnesota Joins States Fighting Plastic Bag Ban
- As Minneapolis plastic bag ban nears, state agency says environmental benefits of paper over plastic is a myth
- Minneapolis City Council Considering Rubber Mulch Ban
- Category: Energy
- China: No Wind Or Solar If It Can’t Beat Coal On Price
- Video: My Friend Justin Haskins Talks The Green New Deal On Tucker Carlson Tonight
- Peter Foster: Another Report Reluctantly Admits that ‘Green’ Energy is a Disastrous Flop
- Want “Carbon Free” Electricity? Promote Hydroelectric Power
- If Pelosi is so Concerned About Climate Change, Why Does She Oppose Yucca Mountain?
- Xcel Energy Property Taxes Soar 131.6 Percent Since Minnesota Began Mandating Renewable Energy – Ratepayers are Stuck with the Bill
- Ringing in the New Year with The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly for Energy and Environmental Policy for 2019
- Could You Power Your Home With A Bike? Not Even Close
- Our Take: Complicated Economics of Community Solar Gardens Subject of Debate
- Happy Festivus, Everyone!
- German Co2 Emissions Remain Stubbornly High
- No, Xcel’s Pledge to be Carbon-Free by 2050 Does Not Make Good Business Sense
- Higher Than Expected Natural Gas Prices Highlight Importance of Coal-Fired Power Plants
- If Efficiency Is No Longer Cost Effective, We Shouldn’t Subsidize It
- Macron Blinks in Fuel-Tax Dispute With Yellow Vests
- Xcel Energy Commits to 100 Percent Increase in Electricity Rates (And Then Some)
- Utility Dive Names Xcel Energy “Utility of the Year.” We’re Less Impressed
- American Frackers Are Dismembering OPEC
- Revenge of the Diesel Class: Yellow Vest Protests Continue to Rage in France Over Climate Taxes
- Japan is Restarting Their Nuclear Power Plants: When Will Minnesota Legalize New Nuclear Power Plants?
- In Case You Ever Question Our Renewable Energy Arguments – Here’s Xcel Agreeing with Us
- Another One Bites the Dust: Wisconsin Wind Farm Decommissioned After Just 20 Years
- Anti-Pipeline Protesters Ruin Theater of Public Policy Performance for Everyone
- The Production Tax Credit: Corporate Subsidies & Renewable Energy
- Want to Save on Your Utility Bill? This Minn. Nonprofit Has Some Tips
- Listen Up: Isaac Orr Talks About the Importance of Keeping Existing Power Plants Running on the Plugged in Podcast
- A Little Math Shows Switching to Natural Gas Will Probably Increase Fuel Costs for Minnesota Ratepayers
- Republicans Who Favored Renewable Energy Got Clobbered in the Midterms
- Fracking, Not Renewables, Is the True Energy Revolution of Our Time
- As Blue Wave Fizzles to Purple Haze, There Are Reasons for Optimism Amid Midterm Results
- High Industrial Electricity Prices Harm Manufacturing Sector
- If Renewables Are So Cheap Why Is Germany’s Electricity So Expensive?
- If Wind Energy Saves Ratepayers Money, Why Does Xcel Brag About How Wind Investments Increase Profits for Shareholders?
- Dayton Considers Iron Range Solar Plant A Highlight of His Economic Development Legacy: What Do You Think?
- BREAKING NEWS: DNR Issues Permit to Mine for PolyMet Project!
- Connexus Energy Becomes Nation’s First Electric Co-Op to Bilk Its Members With Solar Plus Storage, Hooray!
- Xcel Tries To Trick Customers Into Thinking They’re Being Treated
- An Energy Injustice: Low Income Households Will Subsidize Wealthy Ones Under New Handouts for Community Solar
- Renewable Groups Predictably Scrutinize Great River Energy’s Continued Use of Coal
- The Value of Renewable Energy: How Much Does Reducing Carbon Emissions in Minnesota Affect the World?
- Don’t Forget, Trump’s Tax Cuts Brought Down Your Electricity Bill
- Xcel has Been Increasing Rates to Pay for Expensive Wind Farms
- California Electricity Shutoffs Increase Up 64 Over Five Years- Minnesotans Should Take Note
- Xcel Should Save Sherco 1 and 2, Skip the Wind
- Beware of “Conservative” Groups Pushing For Renewable Energy and Carbon Taxes
- Why the Trump Administration is Correct to Remove Co-Benefits from Mercury and Carbon Dioxide Regulations
- So Much for that Green Energy “Revolution.” Saudi Arabia Cancels $200 Billion Solar Project
- Incredibly Liberal St. Paul Neighborhood Rebels Against Energy Efficient, LED Lighting
- Fossil Fuels and Hydro, Not Wind or Solar, Power Sub-Saharan Africa
- Why Wind Energy Cannot Fully Displace Traditional Energy Sources
- Dayton’s Department of Commerce Threatens Clean Water By Opposing Line 3
- City Is Far Better Off Seeking Energy Efficiency, Not Renewable Energy Goals
- Gusher! North Dakota Has Four Times More Oil Than Estimated
- Minnesota Regulators Approve Controversial Wind Farm Despite Local Opposition
- Clear Energy Alliance: The Cause
- EIA: One in Three U.S. Households Faces a Challenge in Meeting Energy Needs
- Local Media Glosses Over High Cost of Stoneray Wind Farm
- The United States is Now the Largest Global Crude Oil Producer
- Clean Energy Businesses Advocates Make the Case for More Green Energy Handouts
- Oh Snap: New England Energy Markets Undermined By Renewables Subsidies. Will Minnesota Learn From the Looming Disaster?
- Confessions of a Former Xcel Energy Employee- Can Minnesota Avoid Wreckage Seen in Colorado?
- Two Dozen Anti-Pipeline Protesters Arrested in Bemidji: They Aren’t The Heroes They Think They Are
- Bemidji Police Break Up Pipeline Protest
- Company Proposes Building 71 Wind Turbines in Dodge County at a Whopping $4.3 Million A Pop
- Future of Wind “Uncertain” After Federal Subsidies Expire
- Trump Administration Releases Revised Clean Power Plan
- City of Minneapolis Opposes Clean, Emission-Free Hydroelectric Power In Their Backyard
- Gov Primary Recap: What Do Tuesday’s Results Mean for Energy and Environmental Policy?
- Sorry, Citypages. Free Enterprise Has Nothing To Do With Renewable Energy Growth
- “Clean” Energy Jobs Report Shows Solar Is a Make-Work Program
- Solar Company Accused of Defrauding More Than 80 Minnesota Customers
- Connexus Squanders $31 Million on Solar Plus 2 Hours of Battery Storage
- Stunning Lack of Intellectual Diversity on Energy Board Explains Poor Decisions in Minneapolis
- Minneapolis 100 Percent Renewable Target: More Expensive Virtue Signalling
- State Doles Out Even More Money For Solar Power
- This Cartoon Perfectly Encapsulates the Limited Usefulness of Wind and Solar
- Minnesota Electric Bills Have Increased 58% Due to Expensive Wind Energy Investments
- Wisconsin Consumer Protection Group Say Focus on Electric Bills Instead of Rates Obscures High Cost of Electricity: What Can Minnesota Learn?
- New Great Plains Institute Study Hides the High Cost of Reducing CO2 Emissions
- Ontario, Canada, to Scrap 758 Renewable Energy Contracts to Protect Ratepayers
- Power Outages in Texas: What Minnesota Can Learn
- American Wind Energy Association Whiffs in Their Attack on Our Report
- Media Warns Pipeline Chaos Could be Coming to MN
- Minnesota’s Goal for 80% Carbon Reductions by 2050 will be Expensive – and Xcel Agrees
- EPA Submits Clean Power Plan Replacement to White House: How This Helps Minnesota
- Today is Going to Be a Scorcher. What Energy Source Will Power Your Air Conditioner? (Hint, It Isn’t Wind)
- Minnesota Plans to Retire 1,829 MW of Coal and Replace it with 7,200 MW of Wind, Solar, and Gas
- Norman Rogers: “Wind and Solar Are Dumb Electricity”
- Rising Electricity Prices Threaten Mining Jobs, the Iron Range
- Enjoy Your Fossil-Fueled 4th of July!
- Drama Surrounding Line 3 Approval Shows Dayton’s PUC Has Lost Touch With Reality
- Fantastic Strib Editorial: Copper Mining Worries Many. Many Also Use Copper.
- Analysis Of Line 3 By Commerce Department Was Unbelievably Shortsighted
- MPR Podcast: Rivers of Oil Good, Despite Some Factual Errors
- Limited Lifespans of Wind Turbines Result in Higher Costs of Energy
- Oil Spill From Train Cars Shows We Still Need Pipelines
- Citypages Graciously Posts Our Reply to Their Article About Our Wind Billboards
- Xcel Energy Seeks Eagle Kill Permit for Wind Farm
- Enviros Panic Over Judge’s Rejection of Wind Farm
- Dayton Reaffirms Minnesota’s Commitment to Foolish Paris Climate Accord Pledges
- Minnesota Adds More Expensive and Unnecessary Solar as Electricity Prices Continue to Soar
- Tesla Cuts 3,600 Jobs As the Company Hemorrhages Cash
- North Dakota Pipeline Paves Way for Enbridge 3
- Supporters Turn Up Heat on Dayton to Approve Pipeline
- Germany to Cut 6,000 jobs in Wind Sector in Coming Years
- Democrats’ Attempt to Blame Trump Administration for High Gas Prices is Pinnacle of Hypocrisy
- Indiana Utility Wants to Raise Electricity Bills as the Company Accommodates More Solar, Wind, and Natural Gas
- Happy Twin Cities Bike to Work Day! Your Bike Ride is Environmentally Meaningless
- Love Water and Oil, New Line 3 Will Help Us Do Both
- Are Wind Companies Rushing Projects to Scoop Up Subsidies?
- Has Wind Reduced Dependence on Fossil Fuels? Not in Europe, New Study Shows
- Are the Batteries Coming?
- Counties Warn Pipeline Protests Could Cost Taxpayers
- Despite Billions in Subsidies, Solar is Far Less Efficient than Burning Trash
- Regardless of Ruling, Winona County Frac Sand Ban is Bad Public Policy
- Legislative Victory: Wind Energy Giveaway Pulled from Omnibus Bill
- American Experiment Talks Energy Policy on Up and At ‘Em Podcast
- American Experiment Submits Comments Urging Repeal of the Clean Power Plan
- Former Wind Developer Now Regrets His Involvement in Wind Energy
- Your Taxes, My Friend, Are Blowing in the Wind
- American Experiment Responds to Critical Energy Post
- Three Reasons Gas Prices Will Be Higher this Summer, and One Reason They Won’t Be as High as They Could Be
- Minnesota Falls in State Mining Rankings, Again…
- Fracking: 101 – A Video
- U.S. About to Shatter Oil Production Records
- Electricity Sales Fall the Most Since the Great Recession
- Minnesota Mines Sand, Too
- Don’t Be Fooled By Solar4Schools Programs
- Article: Twenty-One Bad Things About Wind Energy- and Three Reasons Why
- How Installing Wind Energy Increases Electricity Prices
- American Experiment’s Wind Energy Campaign Comes to Freeborn County
- American Experiment Testifies in Front of MN House of Representatives Committee on Job Growth and Energy Affordability Policy on Wind Energy
- The Sleight of Hand Behind Renewable-Energy Job Numbers
- Solar Power Strikes Out in Carver County
- “Free” Solar Subsidy Comes Back to Bite Maplewood
- Will Minnesota Learn From Germany’s Green Energy Failures?
- Proposal Would End Electricity Sales Tax as GOP Tackles Soaring Utility Bills
- Dakota Access Pipeline Already a Huge Success, Close to Capacity
- Does Oklahoma’s Backlash Against Big Wind Point Way for MN?
- Residents’ Revolt Against MN Wind Farm Makes National News
- Blaine Homeowners Reject Nation’s “First Certified Green Neighborhood”
- Center’s Radio Ad & Policy Report Focus on Failure of Wind Energy
- Power Prices Go Negative! But…Is This a Good Thing?
- Early Christmas Present as Township Kills Western MN Wind-Solar Project
- The High Cost of Our Failing Wind Policies: Why Minnesota’s electricity costs are above the U.S. average and emissions are rising
- Minnesotans’ Electric Rates: Gone With the Wind
- Pipeline Remains On Hold But Not Protesters
- MN City Reconsiders and Rejects Solar as Too Risky
- Xcel Reveals Solar Garden Power Costs Double Other Sources
- In Minnesota, “Green” Energy Fails Every Test
- MN Unions and Businesses Throw Clout Behind $2 Billion Pipeline
- Pipeline Protesters Camp Out in Northern MN
- Busted! Cops Crack Down on Enbridge Pipeline Extremists
- Minnesota raises the price of energy, relying on economic theory once more
- Solar “Gardens” Labeled Solar “Scam” by Economist
- American Energy Will Restore Prosperity, If We Let It
- After being sued for defamation, Greenpeace admits its claims are hyperbole and not factual
- Renewable Energy Standard Could Be a Blowout
- Key points about the Dakota pipeline you probably never heard
- Cops Clamp Down on Bemidji Pipeline Protesters
- After election, MN regulators must revisit closure of coal plants in Becker community
- MN Utility Files for Huge Rate Increase to Pay for Wind and Solar
- Paper by Former American Experiment Intern Reveals the Hidden Cost of Wind to Electricity Consumers
- Cronies vs. Eagles? No Contest!
- Category: Crazy Liberalism
- Category: Courts
- Category: Cinema
- Category: Center Events
- Category: Climate
- Natural Gas, Not Wind or Solar, Is the Main Cause of Reduced CO2 Emissions
- Thousands Scammed By Organic Food Fraud
- Texas City Featured in Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Sequel’ Lost Millions in its Green Energy Gamble
- Guess Who’s to Blame for the Rise in Catastrophic Wildfires?
- New Technologies, Not Paris Climate Agreement, Will Do the Job
- Assessing the Fourth “National Assessment” of Climate Change
- Tempering the Alarm About Sea Level Rise
- Resources Are Almost 5 Times as Abundant as They Were in 1980
- Canadians Revolt Against Trudeau’s Carbon Taxes
- Massive Protests Erupt Across France as Government Ratchets Up Fuel Taxes
- French Tax on Gas and Diesel Triggers Enormous Protests
- Patrick J. Michaels Discusses Climate Change on FOX’s Life Liberty & Levin
- While CO2 emissions rise in Europe, the U.S. leads the world in cuts for the ninth time this century
- Will Global Warming Destroy Us All? Probably Not
- MN Judge Does A Disservice To All Minnesotans By Letting Pipeline Protesters Off the Hook
- Wind Farms May Actually Warm the US, Controversial Study Finds
- Are There Also Benefits to More Carbon Dioxide in the Air? Yes, There Are
- Star Tribune Fooled by Cherry-Picked Data: How the Left Demagogues on Climate Change
- Paris Climate Treaty Continues to Fall Apart
- Will Line 3 Become the Next Major Pipeline Protest?
- Minneapolis Becomes 65th U.S. City to Adopt 100% [Fraudulent] Renewables Goal
- Cheer Up, Bonnie. Things Are Getting Better
- State Solar Power Mandate Under Fire at Capitol
- A Little Clear Thinking and Perspective on the Houston Flood and Climate Change
- This time we are three years from climate disaster: Being an alarmist means never having to say you’re sorry.
- Dilbert on Climate “Science”
- Camp Ripley Takes Aim at Global Warming
- Why Green Energy Subsidies Don’t Pay
- 2016 El Nino Warmth Not Statistically Warmer than 1998 El Nino Year
- Climate Change 12: Reasonable Balance is Needed. How Over-Regulation Kills People.
- Climate Change 11: Alarmists predict doom but a healthier world is reality
- Climate Change 10: Why we argue about it, unsettled science and the moral question.
- Climate Change 9: How Useful (or Accurate) is a Forecast 75 Years Out That Won’t Be Noticeable for 300 Years?
- Climate Change 8: “Pseudoscience,” Politicized Science, and the Consequences of Energy Poverty
- Climate Change 7: How Global Warming is Both a “Hoax” and a Legitimate Area of Study
- Climate Change 6: The Beginning of the U.S. Mess with Politicized Science
- VA Spends 300K to Study Defunct St. Cloud Wind Turbine
- Climate Change 5: The Basic Structural Problem with Climate Change Research
- Climate Change 4: Recent Research on Climate Sensitivity Favors Lukewarmers
- State Environmental Agency: Christmas Gifts Bad For Landfills
- MN Ethanol Plant Builder Gives 125k to Tribe Protesting Pipeline
- Climate Change 3: The Grand Narrative Availability Cascade is Making Us Stupid
- Climate Change 2: Clinging to models that don’t even come close
- Climate Change 101
- Why Won’t Xcel Come Clean on Cost of “Clean” Energy?
- Join Us For Climate Hustle!
- Renewable Mandate Drives New Increase in Utility Bills
- How We Know That Human-Caused Global Warming Is a Joke
- Category: Conservatism
- Category: Constitutional Law
- Category: History
- Category: Federal taxes and spending
- Category: Freedom of the press
- Category: Gender
- Category: Government
- Category: Great Jobs
- Dear Educated Women, Blue-Collar Men Can Earn Great Livings
- SAY WHAT? American Experiment’s Greater Minnesota Advisory Board will tap into can-do attitudes on policy initiatives.
- Ideas for improving the lot of American workers (open minds requested)
- Turning Away Business
- Millennial men lagging in workforce participation
- “Labor Day Project” Helps Employers Rethink Recruitment Efforts
- What About More Experienced Workers in Transition?
- Four-Year Snobbery Over There, Not Here
- Manufacturing industry faces talent shortage, but innovative MN programs are here to help
- Uponor wows urban students with plastic pipe manufacturing
- Efforts to Encourage Young People into Trades Must Continue
- Precision Manufacturing’s Precise Challenge
- Construction Career Pathways: “Looking for the road to success? Build it yourself.”
- TwinWest Chamber of Commerce event connects leaders on talent & workforce issues
- Jeff Johnson and Tim Walz Share Very Similar Pages Regarding “Great Jobs Without a Four-Year Degree”
- Big Lake Students Explore Apprenticeships During Career Fair
- Wyoming Machine wins award from U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- Nuances of College Debt
- Teacher turned carpenter lives out dream to build
- Employers reach out to people with disabilities
- Learning from 26 Million Job Postings
- “Any Chance of Paying Off Your College Loans by Your Silver Anniversary?”
- Join Great Jobs at TwinWest Chamber of Commerce’s Talent Symposium
- Grape Success: Vineyard Manager Crushes it with 2-year Degree
- Good news for young people: Paid internships are becoming the norm
- “Student loan regret” increasingly troubles young Americans
- Why Automation Sometimes Races But More Often Chugs
- New Technology Platform Will Help Businesses Attract and Retain Top Talent
- Big Lake High School’s Apprenticeship Program Provides Students With Career Options
- Small towns are paying people to move there
- Hiring teenagers today
- Twin City Hardware hires employees before positions open
- “I Like My Hands. They are My Work.”
- One Year Alternatives to College: Educational institutions for the “digital age”
- MCTC helping undecided students figure out their course of action
- Young Minnesotans start manufacturing company in Winsted
- Agriculture as a Peach of a Career
- A message to high school seniors: College is one choice, but it isn’t the only choice
- What Middle School Students Need to Know about Great Jobs Without a Four-Year Degree
- Career and Technical Education: Not your grandpa’s vocational education
- Construct Tomorrow shares hands-on construction experiences with students
- Rush City’s Dennis Frandsen offers free college for his hometown’s high school seniors
- Thinking Minnesota Poll: Is a four-year degree necessary to achieve the American Dream?
- MN Community and Technical Colleges Encourage Women to Enter the Trades
- The Frequent Fright of Student Debt
- Skills Wanted: Companies focus on what workers can do, not what degree they hold
- State Initiatives Work to Eliminate Lingering Stigma of “Vocational” Education
- Does Our National Conversation about College Debt Adequately Take Interest into Account?
- Community and Technical Colleges Tweak Programs to Meet Labor Demand
- Teens Show Interest in Trade School, and That’s Okay
- Transforming Workforce Development
- Minnesota’s Copper and Nickel Deposits are World Class
- Middle School Experiential Learning Program Exposes Students to Different Career Field Every Month
- Minnesota Apprenticeship Summit: “Build Your Workforce Through Apprenticeship”
- How to reach high school students? Manufacturers try going straight to their parents
- Lego Building Competition Introduces Students to Construction Careers
- America’s Leading Scholar and Fan of Apprenticeships
- Career Exploration Tool Exposes Students to “Best Fit” Career Paths
- Coming: Apprenticeships for white-collar jobs?
- Entrepreneurial Mentoring and a Vital Community Institution in North Minneapolis
- Degree Inflation Pushes Out Skilled Workers
- New “one-stop” website showcases the latest on “Great Jobs” for students, parents, educators and employers
- Companies deal with pressure to raise wages in Minneapolis
- A View on Higher Ed: Results show 2-year degree holders often outearn college-educated peers
- “Legacy Minnesota” Program Prepares High Schoolers for Careers in Energy Industry
- How does Deed Determine Effectiveness of Workforce Training Programs?
- Minnesota High Schools are tackling our state’s “skills gap” crisis head-on
- CAREERCODE: A revolutionary new tool to overcome Minnesota’s “skills mismatch” challenge
- Learning and Doing Math Vocationally
- Skills Matter More Than Type of Degree
- The Increasingly Powerful Role of Student Debt in Shaping Careers and Lives
- Technically Speaking, What Might Minnesota Learn from Tennessee?
- Apprenticeship Programs Leave Students Debt-Free & Work-Ready
- Vocational Education: Worth its Weight in Gold
- Unfair History and Under-Enrollment in Non-Four-Year Programs
- Tune In to Hear Our New Great Jobs Radio Ad
- Advice for employers in Greater Minnesota: A report from the front
- Students Learn What Manufacturing Is—And What It Isn’t
- Great two-year programs that often out-earn four-year college grads
- It’s Minnesota Manufacturing Week. Celebrate the policies which help our manufacturers bloom
- Center Study: Minnesotans Without College Degrees Often Out-Earn Four-Year College Grads
- How Many Occupations Does It Take to Buy One House and Sell Another?
- Minnesota leads nation in good jobs that don’t need a four-year degree
- Higher Education and Careers: Schumpeter’s Creative Construction
- Minnesota foundations lead way in training needy citizens for in-demand jobs
- When the Welders Came to Capitol Hill
- Does “Great Jobs Without a Four-Year Degree” Hint at Tracking? Not in the Smallest Way
- The Importance of Listening Closely to Students and Recent Graduates in Technical Fields
- West Virginia leads the way in transforming high school CTE to boost the state’s economy
- Technical education can save parents from drowning in college debt
- CMMA is model for state’s manufacturers
- Great Work by an Intern on Her Summer Vacation
- In today’s economy, education must be a lifelong thing
- Revolutionary new tool helps employers find skilled workers
- Tapani Sisters of Wyoming Machine show the way on closing the skills gap
- Businesses seeking older skilled workers to fill gap
- “I Come to Mostly Praise Higher Education, Not Bury It”
- Postsecondary education for non-dummies
- Who Needs a Four-Year Degree?
- Where Does the Idea Everyone Should Go to College Come From?
- Innovative Dunwoody program helping women and minorities find great jobs
- Don’t vote for $15, work for it
- Great Jobs and a Perfectly Fitting Story
- Lifting the stigma on vocational education and technical training
- Educational and Career Advice and a Barely Changing Score
- Good News about Apprenticeships
- Jobs in Minnesota without a four year degree
- What’s CTE? And It Increased High School Graduation Rates by HOW Much?
- An Impressive “Hand’s On, In-the-Seat” Program in Staples
- BMW’s Success with Germany’s Apprenticeship Model
- Category: Greater Minnesota
- Category: Freedom of Speech
- Category: Firearms
- Category: Fraud
- Category: Health Care
- Category: Families
- Category: Governance
- Newly-elect Governor Walz alludes to pre-K being one focus of his education agenda
- Is Downtown Minneapolis Doing Better than the City Council’s Makeup Might Suggest?
- Carter Not Fazed by Turmoil in IT Department
- Gov. Mark Dayton: holding his breath until he turns blue at elementary school
- Sen. Franken’s Last Hurrah
- MN Supreme Court Upholds Dayton Defunding of Legislature
- Nearly 1 in 4 MN Cities Lose Money on Muni Liquor Stores
- City Councilor’s Blog Encourages More Citizen Watchdogs
- Contrary to Star Tribune headline, constitutionality of Dayton’s veto is far from resolved
- Will Judge Order Hodges to Let Minneapolis Taxpayers See Budget?
- Governor Dayton’s Retaliation Against Legislature Violated the Minnesota Constitution
- US Bank Stadium Suites Scandal Leads to Reforms
- Minneapolis Focuses on Threat to Environment Over Public Safety
- Shrimp Farm Comes to MN Despite Dropped Subsidy
- Salary Boost for Ramsey Commissioners, Tax Hike for Ramsey County
- Politically-Connected Davis Sentenced in Corruption Case
- Minneapolis School Board “Forced” Into Decision-Making
- Government on Government Lobbying Cost MN Taxpayers Millions in 2016
- Is Betsy Hodges One of America’s Worst Mayors?
- MN House Passes Bill to Crackdown on Freeway Protesters
- Residents Oppose Paying Officials’ $43,000 in Legal Bills
- Klobuchar & Franken Grill Gorsuch, End Up Getting Burned
- “Concern” Over New Chick-fil-A in St. Louis Park
- Win-Win: How Rural and Urban Minnesotans Both Benefit
- Millions in State Subsidies for MN Shrimp Industry?
- Minneapolis: the DFL’s Bad Apple
- Too Much Secrecy, Not Enough Accountability
- More Political Spring Cleaning After US Bank Stadium Scandal
- Should David Roe, Minnesota labor leader, be lionized?
- Kelm-Helgen Out In Backlash Over US Bank Stadium Suites [Updated]
- Federal Funding in Doubt, MPR Turns to MN Taxpayers
- I told you so? Crockett update on Public Pensions.
- Thousands More Threaten to Leave–Not the U.S. But the Bureaucracy
- Newly Elected Outsiders Take Charge in Cities and Counties
- Who Gets Free U.S. Bank Tickets? DFL Activists
- No More Freebie Tickets for Political Insiders at U.S. Bank Stadium
- SEIU and State Ordered to Halt Early Contract Talks in Boost for PCA Decertification Drive
- Is St. Paul Still a Sanctuary City?
- Tina Smith is running for governor by spending taxpayer funds with giveaway to her core constituency: government unions
- Citizen Watchdog Ousts Mayor With Open Meeting Law Violations
- Dayton Administration Approved Sending MN Law Enforcement to ND Protest
- Residents Still Fighting City’s Trash Takeover
- U.N. Controversy Taints Mayor Hodges’ Wonder Woman Day
- Kim Crockett: Freedom will be short-lived without the Constitution
- State Agency Tells Minnesotans to Go Green with Cosmetics
- Why Is Minnesota’s Legislature So Polarized?
- Another Minnesota City Restricts Right to Rent Out One’s Home
- Minnesota Supreme Court Protects Citizens from Unfair Taxes Disguised as Fees
- Your Medicaid dollars at Work: SEIU asks Personal Care Attendants for political donations
- Two Dayton Cronies to Keep High Paying Stadium Jobs
- Brexit, Uncertainty and Pension Losses: there is a lot of that going around
- Fed-Up Judge Finds State Agency in Contempt
- Case Not Completely Closed on Minneapolis Corruption
- Rampant Voter Fraud in Minnesota?
- Is Public Transit a Relic of the Past?
- Met Council Seeks to Promote Trailer Parks In Suburbs
- St. Paul Superintendent Let Go In Wake of Controversy Over School Violence
- Race Quotas For Parks: Seriously?
- Supreme Court Justices and Religion, College Admissions and Race
- Sometimes It Takes a Village to Raise the Issue of Government Transparency
- Nearly 75 percent of workers who would qualify for Minneapolis paid sick leave live outside the city
- New lane miles do reduce congestion
- Is it fair to ask whether Governor Dayton is a man of his word?
- Residents Petition to Reclaim Freedom of Trash
- 2016 Session Update: Met Council’s Southwest LRT and Failed Model for Regionalism Jams up Transportation for Minnesota
- Why Does Minnesota’s A.G. Want to Silence Critics?
- Minnesota Supreme Court hears arguments in case that could limit use of fees to raise revenue
- Pension Funds Just Realized Minnesotans Are Healthy
- Pricey Senate Office Building Also Comes at the High Cost of Never Settling a Serious Constitutional Challenge
- Who is Rebecca Friedrichs and Why Do Public Unions Fear Her?
- Here’s Why Union Bosses Hate California Teacher Rebecca Friedrichs
- The Obama Administration Clears the Way for States to Require Retirement Plans for Private Sector Employees
- The Hidden Costs of a Mandatory Public Pension Plan
- ‘Mother of open meeting law cases’ heads to court
- Bloomington residents sue city over garbage rights
- Police Authority and Arrested Resistance
- How Governor Dayton and the DFL Re-Defined Who is a “Public Employee” to Benefit Their Political Party
- The States Wade into Retirement Security for Private Sector Employees
- Pension Quick Facts
- Pension reform advocate wins in deep-blue Rhode Island
- Category: Education
- St. Paul teachers support Los Angeles teacher strike. Do you?
- $1,300 To Take A Class in Eco-Feminism? No Wonder Gen Z Is Opting for Trade School Instead of College
- How good are Minnesota’s schools?
- Minnesota Gets a ‘C’ in Parent Empowerment
- Recapping Significance of Supreme Court Janus Decision in 2018
- U of M Presidential Searches and Watergate
- New Year, Same Debt
- MN Educators Have Excellent Options for Non-Union Protection
- University of Minnesota Proposes Extra Science Tax
- Why the University of Minnesota’s New President is Not a Current University President
- Reformed MN Teacher Licensing System Now in Effect
- Charter Schools Hunt for a Home While Buildings Stay Vacant
- The U of M Has Every Right – and Obligation – to Defend Itself
- Public unions: Navigating new era of opting in rather than opting out
- Why Eric Kaler’s Successor Likely Will Be a Rookie
- Research suggests that hiring ‘diversity officers’ is a waste of money
- “Public Support Climbs for . . . Charter Schools and Universal Vouchers”
- Research suggests that collective bargaining laws harm students, with black and Hispanic men particularly affected
- Catholic Schools and Embracing the Elusive
- Pension Funding: the Pension Problem Will Return, Again
- Educators increasingly subjected to violence by students
- An Expansion of Educational Opportunities Formerly Hard to Envision
- True Teacher Appreciation: Restoring educators’ voice and choice
- Educated Teachers Project Launches Statewide Information Campaign
- Inside the Hornets’ Nest: Edina’s 5-hour school board meeting over the word “frightening”
- Teacher Appreciation Day: Fun Facts on Average Salaries
- National Teacher Appreciation Day: Thank you, teachers!
- Teacher workplace democracy is a principle but not a practice
- Coming Soon: Greater Chaos in Our Classrooms
- NAEP and the Imperative of Breaking Academic Sweats
- Should Academic Balance Be Required in Public Schools?
- An Edina High School Student Writes
- Teachers Challenge Duluth Schools on Censoring ‘Mockingbird’ and ‘Huck Finn’
- Where Are U of M Duluth Champions of Banned Books Now?
- Duluth Dumbs Down Its Curriculum
- Survey Says: Local District School is Not Parents’ First Choice
- Parents and Students Confront Edina School Board on Political Indoctrination
- Sixth Straight Year of Decline in Students for MN State Schools
- Katherine Kersten Adds Explosive Follow-up to Her Investigation of Edina’s Public Schools
- Coming Soon: National School Choice Week at the MN State Capitol
- Millennials: The School Choice Generation
- Season Cheer: Edina Student Wins the Congressional App Competition
- What’s Wrong with Our Schools?
- US Civil Rights Commission Turns to American Experiment on School Discipline Issue
- Edina Schools’ Equity Trainer Says Whites Must Change “From the Cells Out”
- See Katherine Kersten on Fox & Friends Re: Edina Public Schools
- Kersten responds to Star Tribune Counterpoints re: Edina School District’s racial identity policies
- Racial identity policies are ruining Edina’s fabled schools
- Best Serving the Interests of Students, Not the Bureaucratic Convenience of Grown-Ups
- Schools That Focus on Indoctrination Rather than Education Pay a Price
- School Choice in Action: Minneapolis & St. Paul Families Leave Neighborhood Schools
- Teacher Absenteeism a Big Problem in MN Public Schools
- Perpetual Omissions in Stories about Minnesota’s Achievement Gaps
- MN Public Schools Miss the Mark: Test Results Stagnant, Achievement Gap Persists
- What Do We Do When School Reform Fails? Redux.
- Another Year of Mediocrity for Minnesota’s Public Schools
- What If Rudy Perpich Were Still Fighting for School Choice?
- Teachers’ Union President Says School Choice is Racism
- K-12 Gender Toolkit Puts Kids at Risk
- Brainerd Teacher Faces Suspension Over Trump Yearbook Controversy
- Kersten: Put children’s safety ahead of ideology
- MN Education Dept. to Approve Radical Transgender School Guidelines
- Is there a link between school spending & student achievement?
- How Many Truly Need a Four-Year College Degree?
- Great Jobs for Grads Without a Four-Year Degree
- MN High School Yearbook on Trump: “I would like to behead him” [Updated]
- MN Teacher Licensing Bill Passed by House & Senate, Headed to Dayton
- Lesson Learned! School Board Stands Up to Near-Mob of Protesters
- Dayton Vetoes Education Bill, Continues Push for Universal Pre-K
- Calling All Graduates! Great Jobs Without A Four-Year Degree
- St. Paul Schools Blame Teacher for Getting Beaten Up and Disabled
- “Even if You Do Go to College, Learn a Trade in the Summers”
- How to Rein in State Pre-K Program While Helping At-Risk Kids
- Gov. Dayton should take olive branch offered on pre-K
- School Choice Scholarships Expand Opportunity for All Students
- College Student Fees Targeted By Youngest MN Lawmaker
- “White Privilege” Checklist on Display in U of MN Residence Hall
- A Teachable Moment for State Teaching Board
- Former MN Teacher of the Year Gets the Boot Under Last In, First Out System
- Political Correctness and “Alternative Bureaucracies”
- Should Teacher Layoffs Be Based on Seniority or Effectiveness?
- Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and the Updated Soulcraft of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Minnesota Court of Appeals Dismisses Case Seeking Far-Reaching Busing Order
- Why Do Colleges Get Away with Price Gouging and Predatory Lending Practices?
- Guess Who’s to Blame for the Skyrocketing Cost of Higher Ed
- Chile’s School Choice Success Story
- Blocking the School House Door
- Mayhem In the Schools
- Secretary Betsy DeVos: The First Cabinet Pick Ever Saved by the Vice President
- Critics of school choice bear the burden of proof now
- Kim Crockett on the Betsy DeVos Nomination as Secretary of Education
- Chicago Tribune Defends Betsy DeVos and School Choice
- U.S. Senator recalls Minnesota’s historical contribution to School Choice at Betsy Devos Hearings
- Betsy DeVos and Over-the-Top Fears of Privatizing Public Schools to Their Last Stub of Chalk
- What if the University of Minnesota was less politically correct?
- Driving Occasionally on the Right
- Increasing Educational Alternatives is the Opposite of Tracking
- Why are Scooby Doo and Michael Scott on MN Sanctuary Campus Petition?
- Universities Face Loss of Funding Over Sanctuary Campuses
- Chicago Tribune: Betsy DeVos’s Education Department Could Create Incentives for States to Expand Vouchers
- Reading on the One Hand, Writing on the Disjointed Other
- Students Need to Take Responsibility, Too
- An Invitation to More Violence in the St. Paul Public Schools
- Will chaos reign in St. Paul’s high school hallways?
- New lawsuit aims to bring race-based busing back to Minnesota
- Arrests Provide Teachable Moment on Teacher Union Politics
- Parents’ Lawsuit Threatens Education Minnesota’s Grip on Schools
- Defending the Rights of Schools that Teach Self-Sacrifice
- Apprenticeships (No, Not His Kind)
- How Did Education Fare Legislatively? Less than Fair.
- Taxpayers Press for Referendum Re-Do in Bid to Halt School Construction
- The Dangerous Listing of American Education
- Is There a Connection between Education Spending and Student Achievement?
- Political Correctness and the Sociology of Ignorance
- Oh, Boys
- A Week of Education News
- Are Low-Income Students the Reason Why the U.S. Does Poorly on International Tests? No.
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- Category: Uncategorized
Books
Events
Videos
Audio
- New Center Radio Ad: Mining will add a BIG boost to Minnesota's economy (8.18, 30 sec.)
- Isaac Orr discusses the Center's new mining report on KOZY-AM in Grand Rapids (3 min., 9.12.18)
- New Center Radio Ad: You can love the environment and cell phones and electric cars (8.18, 30 sec)
- Isaac Orr & Rookie discuss the high cost Minnesota pays to feel good about wind energy (8.27.18, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Center's BIG campaign to show how environmentally responsible mining will boost Minnesota's economy (8.20.18, 3 min.)
- Copper, Nickel, and Titanium Mining Will Boost Minnesota's Economy
- Isaac Orr & Rookie discuss how Minnesota's HUGE mining reserves can be tapped in an environmentally responsible way (8.6.18, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss EducatedTeachersMN.com and how public employees can opt out of their union (7.30.18, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss the Center's "fun" Summer Issue of Thinking Minnesota (7.23.18, 3 min.)
- Mitch Pearlstein & Rookie discuss Great Jobs Without a Four-Year Degree (7.9.18, 3 min.)
- Rebecca Friedrichs & Rookie discuss the teachers' union and their left-wing politics (7.2.18, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss Janus case and Center's billboards welcoming NEA Convention to Minneapolis (6.25.18, 3 min.)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss the massive cost of Gov. Dayton's veto of the tax bill (6.18.18, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss traffic and how capacity is not being added (6.11.18, 3 min.)
- Isaac Orr & Rookies discuss how mining could add $3.4B to the Minnesota economy, equivalent to hosting 9 Super Bowls a year, for 20 years (6.4.18, 3 min.)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss the Minnesota tax nightmare caused by Dayton's veto (5.29.18, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Center's 2018 traffic billboard campaign (5.14.18, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss roll out of EducatedTeachersMN.com (5.7.18, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss launch of Center's 2018 traffic campaign (4.30.18, 3 min.)
- CAE Radio ad for Forum with Candace Owens running on KMOJ (4.18, 30 sec.)
- Isaac Orr & Rookie discuss new wind energy video: MN Blows Billions at MNGreenEnergyFails.com (4.23.18, 3 min.)
- Tom Mason & Rookie discuss Spring Issue of Thinking Minnesota magazine (4.16.18, 3 min.)
- Katherine Kersten & Rookie discuss The Vanishing Minnesota Worker and the coming exploding number of unfilled jobs (4.9.18, 3 min.)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss the high cost of Minnesota's high estate tax (3.26.18, 3 min.)
- Catrin Thorman & Rookie discuss Kersten Sunday Star Tribune op-ed about how racial discipline quotas will lead to classroom chaos (3.19.18, 3 min.)
- Kathy Kersten & Rookie discuss academic balance bill before Legislature responding to Edina schools left-wing indoctrination (3.12.18, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss wind energy, Center's new billboard (3.5.18, 3 min.)
- Hear Catrin Thorman, LIVE from the U.S. Supreme Court steps, discuss the Janus v. AFSCME worker freedom case (2.26.18, 3 min.)
- Steve Moore: The Truth about Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in America (2.21.18, 60 min.)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss the new tax law's effect on Minnesota (2.19.18, 3 min.)
- Katherine Kersten & Rookie give an update on the Edina schools racial indoctrination fiasco (2.12.18, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss why Minnesota's not attracting tech jobs (2.5.18, 3 min.)
- Catrin Thorman & Rookie discuss national School Choice Week (1.22.18, 3 min)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Center's new magazine and Minnesota's failed energy policy (1.15.18, 3 min.)
- Tom Steward & Rookie discuss a misguided racial equity training program that is receiving government funds (1.8.18, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss the Center's HUGE 2017 and ambitious plans for 2018 (1.2.18, 3 min.)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss why tax cuts did not cause Minnesota's projected deficit (12.4.17, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss how most MN teachers have never even voted to support their union (12.4.17, 3 min.)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss how Minnesota's productivity lags the national average (11.27.17, 3 min.)
- John Phelan & Rookies discuss how MN productivity, not GDP, is what matters (11.20.17)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss Minnesota's lackluster economy (11.13.17)
- Star Parker: How Improving Our Communities Will Cure Racial Polarization (11.7.17, 60 min.)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss new Center report on Minnesota's mediocre economy (11.6.17)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss importance of Enbridge 3 pipeline to Minnesota (10.30.17)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss teacher's union tactics (10-23-17, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss wind power and MN losing it's energy price advantage (10.16.17, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss some of the left-wing indoctrination going on in Edina schools (10.9.17, 3 min.)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss Minnesota's success in manufacturing (10.2.17, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Fall Briefing with Mark Steyn (9.25.17, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss union auto-renewal agreements (9.18.17, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss Gov. Dayton's veto of the Legislature (9.11.17, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss upcoming Center reports (8.28.17, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Center state fair handout on congestion (8.14.17, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss legislative funding court case (8.7.17, 3 min.)
- Kathy Kersten & Rookie discuss Minnesota's new "Transgender Toolkit" (7.17.17, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss release of summer Thinking MN on traffic congestion (7.10.17, 3 min.)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss Seattle's minimum wage fiasco (7.5.17, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss Gov. Dayton's veto of the Legislature (6.26.17, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Center traffic and bumper stickers (6.19.17, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Met Council and traffic congestion (6.5.17, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss legislative session, Nelson gives it a 'C' (5.30.17, 3 min.)
- Crockett & Rookie discuss Pre-K and Gov. Dayton's opposition to Opportunity Scholarships (5.22.17, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss Gov. Dayton using early ed to build up unions (5.15.17, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss collapse of Obamacare (5.8.17, 3 min.)
- Catrin Thorman & Rookie discuss Gov. Dayton using early ed to expand unions (5.1.17, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss housing crisis of Somalis being "forced out" of Eden Prairie (4.24.17, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss the Minnesota legislative session so far (4.10.17, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss SW light rail and transit funding (4.3.17, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss bill to subsidize the shrimp industry in MN (3.27.17, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Gov. Dayton's threatened shutdown over 5% spending cut (3.20.17, 3 min.)
- Center Calls on Dayton to Cut Spending, Not Shut Down Government
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss new legislation to protect Minnesota from voter fraud (3.6.17, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Gov. Dayton's co-ed bathrooms position (2.27.17, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss CAE Forum on why liberal policies are bad for young people (2.20.17, 3 min.)
- How Washington is Betraying America's Young with Diana Furchtgott-Roth (2.22.17, 1 hr.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss why liberal policies are bad for young people (2.13.17, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss refugees impact on MN budget (2.6.17, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss school choice and Betsy DeVos (1.23.17, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss immigrants and refugees (1.30.17, 3 min.)
- George Parker, fmr. DC teachers union president, discusses school choice at DeLaSalle HS (1.26.17, 67 min.)
- Kim Crockett discusses Betsey DeVos & 2017 Session on AM-1130 (1.19.17, 15 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss how to fix health care in MN (1.16.17, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss big issues in new legislative session (1.9.17, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss how Minnesota can make economy more competitive (3 min., 12.26.16)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss the huge union spending in the election (12.19.16, 3 min.)
- Key Clip from Heather Mac Donald War on Cops Forum (12.12.16, 3 min.)
- The War on Cops with Heather Mac Donald (12.8.17, 60 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss how Minnesota is losing the jobs border battle (11.28.16, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss War on Cops Forum Dec. 8 (11.21.16, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss Voter Fraud in Minnesota (11.7.16, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss CAE's Magazine "Thinking Minnesota" (10.31.16, 3 min.)
- Tom Steward & Rookie discuss MNsure's hidden costs (10.24.16, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie Obamacare's Unaffordability in Minnesota (10.17.16, 3 min.)
- CAE Personal Care Attendant ad (10.16, 30 sec.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Minnesota tax competitiveness (10.10.16, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss gun-free zones in Minnesota (9.26.16, 3 min.)
- BIG Minimum Wage Debate w John Marty, Dan McElroy & Mark Perry (9.20.16, 1 hr.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss big fee court case win (9.19.16, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss the minimum wage (9.12.16, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss CAE's comprehensive report on the Minnesota economy (8.29.16, 3 min.)
- Crockett & Rookie discuss special session (8.22.16, 3 min.)
- Kersten & Rookie discuss Black Lives Matter and Crime (8.15.16, 3 min.)
- Press Conf.: Minnesota's Mediocre Economy Threatens States Future (8.15.16, 30 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Minnesota's Mediocre Economy (8.8.16, 3 min.)
- Rebecca Friedrichs & Rookie discuss teacher unions (8.1.16, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss PCA union decertification effort (7.25.16, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss shootings and how Dayton embarrassed MN (7.18.16)
- Hinderaker Hosts Joe Soucheray Garage Logic Show (7.15.16, Hr. 2)
- Hinderaker Hosts Joe Soucheray Garage Logic Show (7.15.16, Hr. 1)
- Mitch discusses families on AM980 with Paul Ridgeway (7.12.16)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss trailer parks in the suburbs (7.5.16)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss racial equity in park use (6.27.16)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss Mpls. paid sick leave policy (6.20.16)
- Kim Crockett & The Rookie discuss Minnesota pension insolvency (6.13.16)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss fixing Minnesota's congested roads (6.6.16)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie review the legislative session (5.30.16)
- How Dodd-Frank Damaged Comm. Banks & Hurt Small Businesses
- Katherine Kersten discusses St. Paul school violence with assaulted teacher Aaron Benner
- Kersten & St. Paul teacher Aaron Benner discuss school violence & racial equity (5.2.16)
- Tom Steward & Anthony Sanders of the Institute for Justice discuss home rental restrictions
- Crockett & Kersten Discuss Reforming the Met Council on AM1130
- Peter Nelson & Dale Kurschner discuss Minnesota's Great Wealth Migration
- Met Council's Obscene Housing Subsidies on CAE Weekly Radio Show
- Kathy Kersten discusses St. Paul school violence on AM1130's Jack Tomczak Show
- Excepts from Jason Riley Lunch on Center's weekly radio show
- Employee Freedom on CAE Radio Show (3 min., 2.22.16)
- Peter Nelson Discusses MNsure Premiums on Jack & Ben
- Peter Nelson Discusses MNsure Premiums on King Banaian Radio Show
- Hugh Hewitt interviews Mitch Pearlstein
- From Family Collapse to America's Decline Interview with Mitch Pearlstein
- Safeguarding and Rebuilding America's Physical Infrastructure: The Indispensable Role of Markets
- The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future
- Free Speech and Free Elections
- How Virtual Learning Can Truly Transform Schools
- The Revolution in Parenthood: The Global Clash Between Adult Rights and Children's Needs
- What We've Learned About Cutting Budgets
- The Age of Reagan
- Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage
- Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education
- The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom
- Mobility First: A New Vision for Transportation in a Globally Competitive Twenty-First Century
- If I Were Writing John McCain's Acceptance Speech Thursday Night ... Or Rewriting Barack Obama's Last Week
- Lincoln's Political Faith: Does It Still Have a Place in Presidential Leadership?
- Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: What Are the Real Economic Costs?
- Can Politicians Hold to Principle without Brutalizing Each Other?
- Iran: What Should the United States Do?
- Protecting the Constitutional Right to Earn an Honest Living
- Educational Entrepreneurship: Why is There so Little?
- A Kitchen Table Conversation About Minneapolis and Its Future
- Searching for Climate Change: A More Temperate Take on Global Warming
- Who Really Cares: America's Charity Divide; Who Gives, Who Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- Achievement Gaps: What Will it Take to Close Them?
- Sprawl: A Compact History
- What Ought Conservatives Push for this Legislative Session? (Especially Now that DFLers Control Almost Everything)
- Is America an Experiment? Vitalizing Conservatism in Minnesota and the Nation
- Why Do They Act That Way? The Media's Enlightening—and Shady—Influences on Children
- Consumer-Directed Health Care: What Does it Mean? Where are We Headed?
- Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Know About Our Schools and Why it Isn't So
- Early Childhood Education: Do Enthusiast Exaggerate What It Can Do?
Articles
- Why are we in such a hurry for our little kids to grow up?
- Approaching college in a spirit of craftsmanship
- Don’t put another train on the kids’ credit card
- Was Trump and Clinton's Campaign Silence Regarding Family Fragmentation Golden?
- How a Medicaid program for people who are disabled is funding politics
- No Thug Left Behind
- Oxfam is wrong about ‘obscene’ wealth
- How much is 'Green Bling' costing your town or city?
- The facts prove police bias is a phantom issue
- Bettering black lives: President Obama's missed opportunity
- After an ugly election season, can we celebrate what unites us?
- Many caregivers want out of union's iron grip
- Transgender Conformity at Nova Classical Academy
- It's time to vote again on the personal care attendant union
- St. Paul should stop using ‘fees’ to fund street maintenance
- Counterpoint: Gov. Dayton's attack on Republican leader's truthfulness is absurd
- Michael Saltsman: Painless? Study on $15 Minneapolis wage doesn't add up
- Editorial counterpoint: There ought be a law to prevent that ... Oh, wait!
- PCA union takes choice as well as voice from Minnesota families
- Americans of all sorts get along better than sour clichés have it
- Editorial counterpoint: Absenteeism issue missed a big point – the kids
- Statewide view: Minnesota losing economic ground to other states
- Minnesota’s economy can do better
- General Mills' ad agency quotas leave a sour taste
- State's economy heading in wrong direction
- Star Tribune Editorial: Pay heed to Minnesota's worker productivity problem
- Editorial counterpoint: As far as transit goes, Minneapolis is acting like a brat
- Economy: Minnesota can do better. And needs to.
- Ford Foundation will fund Black Lives Matter Big Time
- Editorial counterpoint: Why fight over light rail when there's bus rapid transit?
- Minnesota, where the economy is not even average
- Minnesota's Economy: Mediocre Performance Threatens the State's Future
- "Cops Are Racist" Story Line Ignores a Great Many Facts
- SEIU Raids Minnesota Medicaid by Matt Patterson
- Establishing Paternity and Responsible Fatherhood
- Prime Minister Cameron’s Prime Remarks
- Minnesota needs a Brexit from the Met Council and regionalism: Dakota County makes a move
- Specifically, What Must We Do to Repair Our Culture of Massive Family Fragmentation?
- The Unacknowledged Worlds of Unmarried Fathers
- The perfect defeats the good as Dayton vetoes pension bill
- Diversity, quotas and the riddles of affirmative action: Food for thought
- Transportation policy : Enough with the Minneapolis-centric goals.
- Why Minneapolis sick leave is on shaky legal ground
- Minn. tax plan jeopardizes its health
- Why Does Minnesota's A.G. Want to Silence Critics?
- Debate rages over whether Minnesota loses taxpayers to lower tax states
- Clear Cut Trees Reveal Solar Power's Environmental Downside
- Minnesota is, in fact, losing the ultrarich
- "Where the Boys Are"
- Taxpayers Press for Referendum Re-Do in Bid to Halt School Construction
- Why the Met Council Needs Reforming Now
- Legislative Session is Looking like an 'All or Nothing' Proposition
- Counterpoint: The Met Council Needs a Lot More Than Tweaks
- Minnesotans Vote with Their Feet in Move to Lower-Tax States
- Minnesota Supreme Court hears arguments in case that could limit use of fees to raise revenue
- The Dangerous Listing of American Education
- The Twin Cities Met Council: A Comparative Assessment
- Minnesotans on the Move to Lower Tax States 2016
- Mayhem in the Classroom
- Don't Miss CAE Forum on How Dodd-Frank Hurts Small Business with Top Expert Peter Wallison
- The Metropolitan Council’s Disparities Report: The Limitations of Racial Explanations
- Is the Customer Always Right? Or Do Businesses Have the Right to Refuse Service?
- Jamar Clark, Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown: Thick Common Threads
- Kim Crockett Testimony on Employee Freedom before Gov't Ops. Comm. (HF 3585)
- Our Greatest Thinkers Knew It Long Ago: There's a Better Approach to Teaching than 'Culturally Relevant Pedagogy'
- A response to various objections to American Experiment’s report, “Minnesotans on the Move to Lower Tax States 2016”
- The School Safety Debate: Mollycoddle No More
- Regarding Minnesota's Budget: New Data Demonstrate the Problem with Tax Hikes
- Is There a Connection between Education Spending and Student Achievement?
- Kim Crocket Letter to Star Tribune Re: Unionizing Child-Care Providers
- Testimony: Utility Franchise Fees Imposed by Cities are Often Taxes in Disguise
- Political Correctness and the Sociology of Ignorance
- Oh, Boys
- A Union-Organizing Campaign that Doesn’t Add Up
- Child Care Providers Hope to Vote Against Union Like Vermont
- Medicaid Estate Claims: Not the Debt but the Surprise that’s the Problem
- Jason Riley Rocks Minneapolis
- A Week of Education News
- People enrolled in Medicaid through MNsure discover their assets are subject to estate claims
- Pension Funds Just Realized Minnesotans Are Healthy
- Are Low-Income Students the Reason Why the U.S. Does Poorly on International Tests? No.
- Childcare Election Postcard
- MNsure errors in determining eligibility cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars
- Counterpoint: Poll on What to Do with State Surplus (Conveniently) Fails
- Perception please meet the reality of Minnesota's jobs climate
- Fixing Minnesota's Healthcare Starts with Giving Insurers Flexibility
- Minnesota job growth still falls behind U.S.
- Pricey Senate Office Building Also Comes at the High Cost of Never Settling a Serious Constitutional Challenge
- 2014 Health Care Savings Date Back to when Republicans Controlled the Minnesota Legislature
- Who is Rebecca Friedrichs and Why Do Public Unions Fear Her?
- Here’s Why Union Bosses Hate California Teacher Rebecca Friedrichs
- How States Can Revive Defined Contribution Health Plans
- School Vouchers for low-Income Parents Would Further State's Goal of Equal Opportunity
- Working Paper: State Strategies to Revive Defined Contribution Health Plan Options in Response to New Federal Obstacles
- Pre-emptive Groveling May Not Prevent College Turmoil
- Excising Woodrow Wilson
- The Obama Administration Clears the Way for States to Require Retirement Plans for Private Sector Employees
- The Hidden Costs of a Mandatory Public Pension Plan
- Racism in Schools is Overstated
- ‘Mother of open meeting law cases’ heads to court
- Document Reveals Commerce Pressured PreferredOne to Make Unreasonable Assumptions to Justify Low Rates
- Brookings study reveals Minnesota’s individual insurance market is not faring well under ACA
- Bloomington residents sue city over garbage rights
- Police Authority and Arrested Resistance
- More insurers pressured to lower MNsure rates: Time to remove politics from rate-setting process
- How Governor Dayton and the DFL Re-Defined Who is a “Public Employee” to Benefit Their Political Party
- The States Wade into Retirement Security for Private Sector Employees
- Renaming Lake Calhoun
- Pension Quick Facts
- PENSIONS: Keeping the Promise
- Minnesotans may pay for soccer stadium after all (John Oliver says it’s a bad idea)
- Supreme Court renames Obamacare SCOTUScare: Court offers to write all future legislation for Congress to save time and face
- Where does the King v. Burwell ruling leave us today?
- 2015 Fall Briefing
- The Myth of Big Returns for Public Investment
- Pension reform advocate wins in deep-blue Rhode Island
- State Solutions in an Era of Federal Control
- Whatever the Number Now, Minnesotans Face Big Unfunded Liability
- State Pension System Needs Serious Reforms
- Busing Is Not the Answer
- ABA Report on "Gender Gap"
- School Choice and Rhetorical Excess
- Homeschooling Adventure
- Vouchers, Flat Tax and Emotional Language
- Back-to-Basics Approach Best
- State Should Fight NAACP Suit
- Tolerance
- Welfare Reform
- Trinity School and Standards
- Environmental Education
- SHOULD MINNESOTA OPT OUT OF SOCIAL SECURITY
- Let's Examine These Exams
- RADICAL THEORIES UNDERLIE PROPOSED DIVERSITY RULES
- To Live Fully and Joyfully
- A Lesson Better Untaught
- What the Headlines Don't Reveal
- The Conservative Movement
- Children Deserve Far Better
- Protect Students From Internet Porn
- Intolerance on the Left
- Textbook Pushes Needs of 'Self' Over Marriage
- Paternalism and the State of Welfare
- Hate Crimes
- Tobacco
- Political Cups of Coffee
- When Smart People Do Dumb Things
- St. Thomas Stoops Far Too Low In Its Next 'Common Text'
- The Right Way to Love the Planet
- Wisconsin's approach differs from Minnesota's; it works
- Natural Leadership
- Orphanage idea gets better reception
- Center of American Experiment is conservative but nonpartisan
- Free speech, so long as we agree
- Recent immigration gains currency as economy baseline
- Society has been welcoming to adopted biracial child
- Ideology burdens 'multicultural' bandwagon
- Court-ordered 'elimination of bias' seminars threaten freedom of thought
- Goldberg's revelations about media bias should come as no surprise
- U.N. is hardly voice of morality on matter of Iraq
- Liberty vs. Security?
- Childhood Obesity
- Education or Indoctrination?
- Voluntary personal accounts were proposed long ago
- Individual Rights vs. Group Rights
- Fourth Generation Warfare
- The Die Harder States
- Sen. Durbin Letter to CAE
- Conceal and Carry
- CIVIL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL COOPERATION
- S.F. 2255 would implement important consumer protections in the event an Exchange is established in Minnesota
- Cain's Pain: A Three-Minute History of Neoconservatism
- What Is "Education for Democracy"?
- Thinking Minnesota: Summer 2010
- Thinking Minnesota: Spring 2011
- People should need a photo ID to vote
- The good life (for unions especially)
- Who, exactly, aspires to soak the rich?
- 50 years after farewell speech, Eisenhower is seen in newly appreciative light
- Always room in the budget for white guilt
- Health Care Solutions Still Depend on State Efforts
- Preparing for an Even More Demanding Future
- University of Minnesota Proposes Far-Reaching Conflict-of-Interest Policy
- America is well served by Mayo Clinic's thoughtful health-reform critique
- Single-Payer Advocates Release Another Medical Bankruptcy Study
- Terminal Patients (and Their Families) Benefit From Straight Answers
- Medical Home Policy Recommendations
- What to Expect from Uniform Pricing of Health Care Services
- Are 4 in 10 Americans Really Underinsured?
- New Budget Tools for a Balanced Minnesota
- Culture, Compassion, and Conservatism
- State taxes and nonprofit contributions: connecting the dots
- The Executive Branch, How Much Power to the States?
- Maybe Fewer People Should go to College
- Federal Help Has Strings Attached
- Red Fords, Tea Partiers, Ann Richards, and Minnesota Populism
- Who to blame for a school's sad demise?
- Good work on election reform, legislators. Now, let's turn to photo ID
- Give legislators credit for increasing election integrity
- Another Interpretation of the Unallotment Statute
- Southern Comfort
- 'Unallotment' case offers a welcome argument about separation of powers
- Instead of judicial races, retention elections
- Look to the GOP's Patients' Choice Act and Dr. Emanuel for mechanisms to contain health-care costs
- 'Up north' isn't there just for your pleasure
- "Developmental" Writing Classes
- Save GAMC -- by raising it above lesser priorities
- Profoundly tone deaf and wrong
- Conservatives and Charity
- Absentee voters deserve more time
- No Consensus on Health Insurance Exchanges: Congress Should Rely on States and Consider Health Insurance Premium Accounts
- Editorial: Election repairs - the debate advances
- The Mayo Clinic: High quality yes, but low cost?
- Taxpayers should view reform's spending projections with a healthy distrust
- A note on health care projections
- A Kennedyesque Note on Sonia Sotomayor & Connecticut Firefighters
- Unallotment? Entitlements!
- Where battle line is drawn on health care
- Minnesota Senate begins to recognize the need for affordable energy
- Testimony on Behalf of The Healthy Minnesota Plan
- Nobel laureates and Minnesota taxes
- Hennepin Avenue and Braying Bloggers
- Hennepin Avenue: One mean street
- A message -- perhaps a hard one to hear -- about education funding
- Dwelling on Institutional Racism Will Not Close the Achievement Gap
- Let's give it up for hard times
- Assessing the Politics of Future CO2 Regulations
- It's Time to Take the Losses
- Why employers won't cut and run when individuals own health insurance
- Government Must Not Prolong the Market-Cleansing Process
- Free Marketers Must Remain Vigilant
- Confidence, Credit and Growth
- “Regime Uncertainty”
- Five Questions
- WHAT'S A FREE MARKETEER TO THINK? Volume 8
- Transparency, Government-Sponsored Enterprises and Financial Derivatives
- The Inevitable Apocalyptic Crash
- Jefferson, Jackson and Van Buren Would Have Understood
- WHAT'S A FREE MARKETEER TO THINK? Volume 7
- The 2000s in Retrospect
- Let Entrepreneurs Fix the Problem Government Made
- Marx was Right (Groucho, that is)
- WHAT'S A FREE MARKETEER TO THINK? Volume 6
- Myths and Realities of the Credit Crisis
- Sordid Tales of a Mobile Loan Closer
- WHAT'S A FREE MARKETEER TO THINK? Volume 5
- Failure to Act will Cost Much More in Dollars and Pain
- "As in a Bomb Going Off"
- Goodbye to All That
- Using Assets Subject to the Inheritance Tax
- WHAT'S A FREE MARKETEER TO THINK? Volume 4
- Government Actions Encouraged: Wall Street's Risky Business
- "Much Like the War Bonds of the 1940s"
- No Returning to Capitalism as We Have Known It
- Hayek was Right
- Same Fix as with Failed Savings & Loans
- Don't Give into a Protection Racket
- Distorting the Very Idea of Free Markets
- Not So Fast!
- Gold. Solid as a Rock
- No Democracy will Allow its Economy to Implode
- WHAT'S A FREE MARKETEER TO THINK? Volume 2
- WHAT'S A FREE MARKETEER TO THINK? Volume 1
- Losses are Part of the Market Process
- The Elephant in the Room
- Emperor Paulson?
- A Bailout that Sacrifices Freedom for Dependency
- AARP Peddles Medical Bankruptcy Myth to New Extreme
- Notes from the conventions: Cops, ‘Country First’ ... and a candidate in a league of her own
- Housing assets should help finance long-term care
- Evangelical New Urbanism
- Climate-Change Policies Come With a Price Tag
- In tooth and claw
- Omnibus health bills fall short
- Single-payer complexities
- HSAs need more flexibility to serve those with chronic illnesses
- Keep the Constitution Out of Conservation Funding
- In tipping, it's time to think two-dollar bill
- Should Medicare be Means-Tested?
- Health Insurance Exchange would put people back in control of their healthcare
- If only Clinton had spent time behind the counter
- What the Headlines Missed in Governor Pawlenty’s Health Policy Speech
- What is a Liberal Education?
- Study generates ideas to make good legislature better
- Apologies
- Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Education Summits
- Policy Brief on S.F. 639
- Tobacco
- Minnesota creating ever new classes of certified victims
- Court-ordered 'elimination of bias' seminars threaten freedom of thought
- Trinity School and Standards
- To Live Fully and Joyfully
- Girls in School
- An Act Not of Censorship but of Stewardship
- "Values" Have Replaced "Virtues"
- Ideologically driven gifted assessment hurts students, too
- Ideology burdens 'multicultural' bandwagon
- Slavery
- St. Olaf's Academic Freedom Fight
- At universities, a troubling imbalance
- Teen Challenge Operates on Faith but then Pays for it
- How a Poor Family Was Rich
- Critics Would Teach About an Oppressive America
- Ortega's Defeat Victory For Freedom
- Educational Diversity Rules
- Hate Crimes
- Wellstone tribute turned tragedy into a campaign prop
- In the face of fear, Brits stood firm
- Women's Vote
- Rediscovering Value of the Melting Pot
- State School Board's Dubious Diversity Rules
- Bring back Caesar's tongue
- What Is A Liberal Education?
- New Iraqi inspections are almost certain to fail
- Turning the Boy Scouts into Pariahs
- Now the Language of Good and Evil is Returning to America
- The Death of Princess Diana
- Reducing opportunities in the name of gender balance
- NAACP Lawsuit Could Force Proven Failure on Schools
- Sexual Ballet Has Become A Slamdance
- 'State of Our Unions' Spots Troubling Trends
- Tank Tops Are Not Worthy of Girls
- Is DARE Doing Kids More Harm?
- What Welfare Should Be
- Real Story on "Women's Vote"
- Our schools can do a far better job of teaching patriotism
- ADA Regulatory Overkill Is Disabling Business
- State program aims to inject cultural correctness into day care
- 'Skeptical Environmentalist' dissects myths
- Heroes Noble Sacrifice
- What Is "Education For Democracy"?
- Classical Education Opens Young Minds
- Dutcher's audit of Brooklyn Park looks like grandstanding
- Presidents' Private and Public Lives
- The damage Title IX does in pursuit of statistical parity
- History begs to differ on Democratic view of parties tolerance
- Patronized in paradise: a political fable of Hawaii's history
- Promise Keepers
- When schools got rid of Washington
- Movies Teach Our Children What To Admire
- Religions Help Economies Thrive
- Gospel of Inclusion?
- Recycling May Be Worst Choice
- Society should try to save kids from effects of divorce
- Many are Hurt by the Laissez-faire Family
- What's Next For Conservatism?
- Truman's Teachers Offered Enduring Lessons
- A Community of Strangers
- Reforming Adoption: Putting Children First
- The risks of cohabitation
- Sen. Wellstone's Poverty Tour
- Respect for law was common ground in Revolution
- Talking About Out-of-Wedlock Births and Single Parenthood
- What Better Time to Review U.S. History
- MinnesotaCare: A Law That Lost Its Way
- Abiding Love in North Dakota
- Let the Forest Service do its job
- Restructuring Minnesota's Electric Industry
- A Lesson in Expecting More from Young Men
- State Should Fight NAACP Suit
- Civil Rights and Social Cooperation
- Challenge doomsayers to 'show me the science'
- Protect Students From Internet Porn
- Affirmative Action Not the Answer
- Haste or Hardiness?
- Academy teaches history with integrated approach
- Footing the Bill
- Life Without Boundaries
- Divided Science and Unfounded Policy
- Back-to-Basics Approach Best
- His 'real man' is one who bullies
- Cosmopolitan's Philosophy of Unfettered Freedom
- Bean Counting for a Better Minnesota
- Students Who Know So Little
- Knowledge of history, and of self
- Reforming Welfare
- Welfare Should Instill Tough Virtues
- Jerusalem
- Why All Schools Should Compete, and Not Just in Sports
- To Level Playing Field, Schools Must Help Boys
- School Choice
- Renewing American Compassion
- The Conservative Momentum
- A welcome renaissance in geography
- Now girls have the advantage in school
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Beware the lie behind sexual 'liberation'
- Americans Can Learn from Gophers Wrestlers' Quest for Excellence
- "Expert Knowledge" vs. Wisdom
- Students Who Know So Little
- Core Knowledge Curriculum Delivers Vision and Results
- St. Thomas Stoops Far Too Low In Its Next 'Common Text'
- Novels and True Diversity
- Environmental Education
- Blame multicultural education for drop in reading skills
- Study of classics can illuminate executives
- Old Books Continue to Wield Peculiar Power
- First Minnesota Volunteers
- Today's pacifist church leaders could learn from Niebuhr
- Peer Pressure
- For Story On Love, Check Out C.S. Lewis Instead Of Modern Bride
- When tawdriness is 'America's best'
- Why Learn Western History?
- Celibacy of the priesthood is a church strength, not a liability
- What it Means to be a Libertarian
- Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century
- Orphanages: Did They Throttle the Children in Their Care?
- Who Won the Industrial Policy Debate?
- Virtuous Markets? The Market as School of the Virtues
- The Constitutional Case for Universal School Choice in Minnesota
- 1994-1996: A Conservative Realignment?
- Why Liberals and Conservatives Should Agree on Adoption
- Restoring American Leadership Abroad
- Radical Theories Underlie Proposed Diversity Rules
- Lani Guinier Reconsidered
- Wisconsin's approach differs from Minnesota's; it works
- Political Correctness and Academic Freedom at the University of Minnesota
- Reclaiming Dangerous Neighborhoods
- Rethinking Divorce
- What To Do About the Schools
- Mayhem in the Middle
- Ten Not-So-Tentative Truths
- Feminism and the First Lady: The Politics Of Virtue And Vice
- Should Minnesota Opt Out of Social Security?
- The Tyranny of the Urgent: Where Do Children Fit on Our Priority List?
- How Government Turns the Learning Curve from Green to Brown
- The Legal Case -- and the Fairness Case -- for Vouchers
- Gulf that separates Europe from America is philosophical
- Disruptive Protesters
- Hold off on the Profile
- Why Blame Third World Poverty on First World Greed?
- How not to address claims of 'racial profiling'
- Tom Reed's Integrity in Politics
- If FBI missed chances, blame the liberal establishment
- George Washington's Character
- Goldberg's revelations about media bias should come as no surprise
- 'Profile of Learning' for High Schools Is Severly Flawed
- Crackdown on little offenses can help prevent the big ones
- Many texts offer students only sugar-coated view of Islam
- Facts Needed in Environmental Education
- St. Olaf's Nobel Peacenik Prize
- When We Play, We Experience Joy that Seems to Transcend Time
- 'Peace movement' often backs policies that would stifle justice
- Profile Sacrifices Kids
- Council of Churches is too cozy with Castro
- Proof that the classics speak to everyone
- Profile requires surgery, but don't hold your breath
- ...Gross Moral Turpitude.
- Tabloid exploits don't stop today's politicians
- Demise of dating on campus bodes ill
- Goosebumps is Shock Fiction
- Mixed-sex wrestling is a step back from equality and
- No amount of tweaking can repair the Profile of Learning
- The ideas and events of 1776 came together to reshape the world
- Diversity Training's False Premise
- Virtue of hope illuminates 'Lord of the Rings'
- Finding Moral Courage Beyond 2004 Headlines
- Kids, Schools, and Politics: Protecting the Integrity of Taxpayer Resources
- Sexual Ballet Has Become A Slamdance
- Abstinence Sex Ed Class
- Pornography is Anything But a 'Victimless Crime'
- A case of NEA whines won't help to improve the schools
- Performance-Based Pact Can Help Schools
- Attacked for their looks
- Meet the needs of all kids
- If only Minnesota had passed a sex offender bill sooner
- Little House Saga Offers Lessons and Revelations
- Education or Indoctrination?
- 'A republic, if you can keep it' ... or remember what that means
- Childhood Obesity: It's the Taxpayers' Fault
- Individual Rights vs. Group Rights: The Erosion of a Founding Principle
- Advice and Consent: The Role of the Senate in Political Appointments
- Let's Not Play Games with Safety
- After Adopting a Biracial Child
- School Choice: Changing the Terms of the Debate
- School Daze
- The Bell Curve
- Happy New Year
- Newtonian Reactions
- Assume Nothing
- Optimism
- America's Image
- Voluntary personal accounts were proposed long ago
- Society has been welcoming to adopted biracial child
- Wrestling With Government Interference
- Welfare Reform
- Political Poetry
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