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- Thankful for Martin Luther King
- What is socialism?
- American Experiment’s Katherine Kersten Tops Star Tribune’s Most Read Opinion Columns in 2020
- Research shows that America’s media is peddling fear, not news, on Covid-19
- Follow American Experiment on Parler!
- Grateful for your support!
- Remembering the Gettysburg Address
- On election day, people are preparing for civil unrest. Pull yourself together, America
- Can you guess Minnesota’s most popular Halloween candies?
- Will Governor Walz Spare Vikings Fans From Attending Their Games?
- U of MN webinar focuses on 12 steps to recover from ‘white conditioning’
- Final Score: A Selection of Writings that Reflect Mitch Pearlstein’s Intellectual Prowess
- Looking for a new name? How about the Washington Bureaucrats?
- States’ Most Interesting Google Searches During COVID-19
- When anti-capitalism is racism
- When radical leftists seized the DFL in the 1940s, the great Minnesota liberal, Hubert Humphrey, chased them out
- Goodbye, Columbus
- The Truth About Crime, Race and Policing in America
- Abolitionism in Minnesota
- Racial justice: The new religion?
- Macalester, Through The Looking Glass
- The media reporting of Minnesota’s Covid-19 outbreak is divorced from reality
- In The Tank (Ep251) – Exploring Cancel Culture
- Milton Friedman: Is Welfare a Basic Human Right?
- Research finds that high minimum wage rates disproportionately hurt African-American men
- Gov. Walz pushes expanded ‘Ban the box’ laws which research shows negatively impact the employment prospects of young black and Latino men
- Juneteenth: An opportunity to celebrate progress but also recognize where more work can be done
- Still Banned in the State of Hockey, Minnesota Youth Team Laces up in Fargo
- Review: The Third Pillar by Raghuram Rajan
- The State could have protected the Columbus statue – they chose not to
- Review: Rocking Toward a Free World by András Simonyi
- The Sorrows of Minneapolis: A Prayer for Our City
- Could this be the end of the movie-going experience as we know it?
- The Death of George Floyd and the Events Thereafter
- What Happens to Dozens of Minority-Owned Businesses Destroyed in Riots?
- Walz Close to Naming Ellison Special Prosecutor in Floyd Case
- IN THE TANK (EP245) – TRUMP THREATENS TWITTER AND SECTION 230
- Why the National Guard Was Available But Not on Minneapolis Streets Until Too Late
- Undiminished: American Experiment’s work continues, albeit from home
- Remembering and thanking our military heroes on this significant Memorial Day
- This Memorial Day, remember Lt. Harvey Johnson
- Babylon Bee: MasterClass Replaces All Instructors With Greta Thunberg
- New documentary features Justice Thomas discussing his life, legacy, and legal theories
- Rest in Peace, Frank Costanza
- Sunday Funnies from the Babylon Bee: Facebook Introduces Karen Reaction Button
- Minnesota must recover from its pandemic of fear
- State Fun Police Shut Down Creative Drive-in-Movie Night At Birch’s On the Lake
- In The Tank (Ep241) – Planet of the Humans: The Socialist and Anti-Human Message
- What can the Tiger King teach us about economics?
- Eddie Cochran, 1938-1960
- Teaching kids kindness during National Autism Awareness Month
- Column: Are we capable of sacrificing well enough long enough?
- Smart SBA Rules and Religious Freedom
- Minneapolis facing a rise in business burglaries.
- Keeping kids entertained—and educated—for free
- Celebrating Women’s History Month
- Sunday Funnies from the Babylon Bee: Man Working From Home Encounters Nasty 10-Matchbox-Car Pileup On Evening Commute
- 1776 Initiative Counters New York Times’ 1619 Project
- The State of Minnesota’s Economy: 2019
- Lewis Shrugs
- Paul Krugman: From Anakin to Darth
- It’s Brexit Day – How did we get here?
- School choice gets the nod from Billie Eilish
- Mayor Exposes Radical “Equity” Training in Government and Schools
- Liberalism Causes Achievement Gaps
- Capitalism is the greatest anti-poverty scheme ever discovered
- Labor union gets called out for #MeToo hypocrisy
- Did the Vikings lose because of Minnesota’s high taxes?
- In The Tank (Ep225) – One Child Nation, Overpopulation and Climate Alarmism
- Think Tanks In High-Stakes Wager Over Playoff Game
- Reality is Hard: It’s time to proclaim the value of entrepreneurial businesses and the people who use their success to make all of us prosper.
- The Truth Exactly Backward
- The Tragedy of Hubert Humphrey
- Kersten Makes Star Tribune’s List of Most-Read Writers for 5th Straight Year
- Racially Right Mixes of Debaters?
- Was that the best decade ever?
- We live in the luckiest era in history, and here’s why
- Wisconsin Football Teams Sweep Minnesota
- In The Tank (Ep222) – Looking Back at 2019 and Star Wars Review
- The transit system lesson we can learn from The Simpsons
- On Brexit, why are Americans so against democracy for Britain?
- In The Tank (Ep220) Mostly Baby Yoda And Some Other Mildly Interesting Stuff, Too
- Today, I’m thankful for liberty
- A Thanksgiving Prayer for America
- How Gopher football is turning gatorade into wine
- Red Wing is the place to go for a ‘bike science’ degree
- In The Tank (Ep218) – Reaction to Capitalism vs. Socialism Soho Forum Debate
- Sugar Ray Robinson vs the IRS
- The Pros and Cons of Marijuana Legalization
- Review: Midway
- College athletes create the value so they should get the money, shouldn’t they?
- In The Tank (Ep216) – American Greatness, A Cold Civil War, Powering Our World
- Sunday Funnies: “Dad Tax” On Candy Forecasted For Record High This Halloween
- In The Tank (Ep215) – Alarmists rain on Halloween, Warren’s M4A Plan
- When a liberal got a tax demand
- Seven lessons of Prohibition
- In the Tank (Ep214)- Free Speech is Under Attack
- When Hubert met Nikita
- Keith Ellison is wrong: There is no ‘Pink Tax’
- Bde Maka Ska? Change the Name. Rewrite History. Redefine Politics.
- Prohibition and women’s suffrage: A 100-year review
- Video: Trump rally protesters turn violent
- The Handmaid’s Tale was inspired by socialism
- What can we do to help young people become independent and analytical thinkers?
- Randy Dobnak shouldn’t be ashamed of driving for Uber
- What’s More Telling in Minneapolis? High Crime or High Condos?
- Is Tim Walz a Canute?
- England vs USA…in rugby?
- George Will’s Campaign Guarantee about Family Fragmentation
- Public broadcasting = Government broadcasting
- Walz Doubles Down on Deleted Video of Wife at Public TV Forum
- A Liberal Journalist Experiences Radical Progressivism in the NYC Schools
- Public TV Deletes Video of MN First Lady Under Pressure From Top Walz Aide
- Is that person or comment racist, or just tone-deaf?
- Should the federal government really be putting the Packers on TV? (Take 2)
- Football, meet your granddad
- Counterpoint: Article on CEO pay lacked balance, perspective
- When a Minnesotan went to Israel
- The Washington Post Smears the Center’s Katherine Kersten
- “Hey, Pals, This is Reading Kind of Ripe”
- Join our team!
- D. A. Pennebaker, 1925-2019
- Critics Couldn’t Beat Boris Johnson, So Now They’re Calling Him ‘Hard Right’
- The War on Greater Minnesota
- Want to predict the future political pulse of American voters? Look at Canada.
- It was fifty years ago today! – 1969
- “No Safe Spaces” Screening Was a Smash
- What the American Experiment means to me
- Is the US Women’s Soccer Team Really Underpaid?
- Review: Chernobyl
- Response to Comments In New York Times Article
- Green Bay radio station edits song that references Minnesota Vikings
- Slugging Together Again for the First Time
- Review: Deadwood
- Why Is Minnesota Making War On the Little Sisters of the Poor?
- Minneapolis cancels “sacred” race-segregated staff meetings; Pearlstein calls out Identity Politics
- A Burden Don Fraser Learned to Bear
- Obit Hits and Errors
- Rest in Peace, Bart Starr
- This Memorial Day, remember the individuals who gave their lives
- Candace Owens returns for another successful Annual Dinner
- The Thatcher Revolution at 40
- By Far the Largest Observable Factor
- A Classically Liberal Take on Sports and Other Extracurricular Activities
- The Diversity Delusion with Heather Mac Donald at Center Lunch Forum
- Minneapolis officials say they won’t change Lake Calhoun signs back to Lake Calhoun; Bde Maka Ska to remain
- Bde Maka Ska is now just Lake Calhoun. And Cofffman Union will remain Coffman Union.
- Has Mobility in the United States Really Declined?
- In The Tank (ep188) – Facebook Censors Haskins, Warren’s College Debt Scam, and Booster Seats
- Save for Senator Lee, Republicans are Pretty Much Silent, Too
- Bernie Is a Capitalist, Whether He Likes It or Not
- When the ‘Anti-fascists’ go fascist
- Review: The Highwaymen
- Candace Owens talks war on cops with police officer
- The Year I Met Margaret Thatcher…Twice (RIP, Mrs. Thatcher) by Jeffrey C. O’Brien
- Popular Scooters Boot Out Bike Sharing in St. Paul
- Teachers’ Unions Oppose Charters Schools; Use the Power to Strike to Stop Competition from Charter Schools
- My Joe Biden Story
- Why does socialism always end up in oppression and poverty?
- The three stages of socialism: From Brave New World to ‘It wasn’t real socialism’
- Minnesota last state standing with 3.2 beer
- Does Ilhan Omar know that a Jewish Army Veteran Was the First American to Die in Somalia?
- “Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”
- Remembering Margaret Thatcher on International Women’s Day
- Just Asking
- Where Was Minnesota’s Media on Klobuchar Concerns?
- Unearthing Scholastic Seriousness with Back-Boned Courage in St. Paul?
- An Artful (and Accurate) Expression of Left-Wing Fantasies
- Panera Cares Closes Last “Pay-What-You-Can-Restaurant”
- The same people who want ‘the rich’ to pay for everything also want to tax them out of existence. How will that work?
- Alexis de Tocqueville on Sanders and Socialism
- In Defense of CEO Pay and Rich People
- The Trouble With Solar
- In The Tank (ep177) – Green New Deal Insanity, Panera Cares Fail, Stadium Subsidies
- Creedence Clearwater Revival: America’s greatest rock n’ roll band
- Minnesotans ask Google for break-up advice
- Augsburg Faces Backlash After Professor’s Suspension Over “N-Word” Controversy
- The Community Virtues of Voting in Person
- Duluth Teachers File Complaint Over “Huck Finn” and “Mockingbird” Ban
- Review: None of My Business by P. J. O’Rourke
- Busing Redux?
- False Feminism: How we got from sexual liberation to #MeToo
- Minnesota teachers are judged solely by the color of their skin; asked to change curriculum for black students.
- The Women’s March does not stand up for all women; these policy proposals do
- Martin Luther King, Colorblind Radical
- Witty Comebacks That Could Have Changed History
- Dear Educated Women, Blue-Collar Men Can Earn Great Livings
- 30 years ago today: President Reagan’s Farewell Address to the Nation
- Bird Box is a pro-Trump film
- Look for the Winter Issue of Thinking Minnesota ft. Minnesota’s Beer Boom
- American Experiment Seeks Full-Time Communications Director
- My NFL Picks Were Hot Garbage This Season
- Kirk Cousins shows that a pay off to an investment is not guaranteed
- New ‘Miracle Foods’ Arrive; But What About The Old Ones?
- Why “Urban Conservatism” is Not a Contradiction in Terms
- Thousands Scammed By Organic Food Fraud
- The big question facing America: Is Die Hard a Christmas film? A Debate
- Greedy Innkeeper or Generous Capitalist? by Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein
- Fake News Hits Fergus Falls: CNN Award-Winning Journalist Fired for Fabricating His Story
- Becoming an American: how our Elite has Cheapened Citizenship
- Wisconsin Sports Stadiums Cleaner Than Minnesota’s
- Why I’m Still an Adoption Romantic—Just a Less Starry-Eyed One
- Harvard Study: Gender Pay Gap Explained Entirely by Work Choices of Men and Women
- Title IX: What was it meant to do and the nightmare it has become
- Congress: Help Small Employers Offer Retirement but Fairly Allocate Its Costs
- When President George H. W. Bush Keynoted an American Experiment Annual Dinner
- ASCH: The Scientifically Ignorant Drive GMO Debate
- Poverty, Culture & Marriage
- Marco Rubio and How Ideas and Think Tanks Matter
- Let’s Help Small Employers Offer 401(k)s But Not at the Expense of My Kids
- What’s Urban Conservatism and How Might It Help?
- Guthrie Theater Declares “Happening” and “Amber Sanctuary”
- Crackpot California Cage-Free Ballot Measure Threatens MN Farmers
- ACSH: Sea Salt: Possibly The World’s Dumbest Product
- Read someone you disagree with
- Biased Much? Why Is the Star-Tribune Using a Misleading Photo of The Proposed PolyMet Mine?
- What’s More Telling about America?
- Are negative political ads effective? Find out at Center lunch event 1 week after November elections.
- Embarrassed Duluth City Council Considers Crack Down
- Unruly Mob Takes Over Duluth City Council Meeting
- Beating Back Bigotry, One Sears Catalog at a Time
- It’s the government sector, not the public sector
- The Trials of Harvard and Harvard’s Elizabeth Warren
- Loneliness, Polarization and Them: Why We Hate Each Other—and How to Heal
- More Birds Are Getting Drunk This Year, MN Town Advises Residents
- Milton Friedman: Capitalism or socialism, which is more humane?
- Venezuela hikes its minimum wage and trashes employment. What are the lessons for Minnesota?
- “My Abject Apology if This Unsafe Space Has Caused Anybody Fright”
- Justice Kavanaugh Sits: What does it mean for Roe v. Wade?
- Will Left-Wing Ideology Trump Fundamental Fairness for Kavanaugh?
- Alan Dershowitz On Free Speech
- Breaking News: Tech Giants are Biased
- Subsidized Film about Ilhan Omar: Liberals are good at capturing tax dollars to advance their agenda.
- The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine our Culture
- The biggest battle in American history started 100 years ago today
- Counterpoint: No numbers, only words, in appraising single-parent households
- Two Dead As People Leave Housing In Favor of Homeless Camp Near Cedar Riverside
- “Happy Constitution Day, if You Can Keep It: The long-term survival of the Founders’ design depends on people, not parchment.”
- Minnesota is losing the economic border battle, let’s hope we do better in the football one
- No-Hit Wonders
- Ken Starr and a Gracious Call Home
- Well done Saints!
- Milton Friedman: Politics and Violence
- On Labor Day, be thankful that we don’t have to do as much laboring as our ancestors did
- Superbowl LIII Picks and Division Winners
- Who is Dr. Jordan B. Peterson & Why Does The Left Hate Him?
- Fellow POW from Minnesota Salutes McCain
- 1968 around the world
- Double Bravo! “Lenny” & “Steve”
- Failed education ideas about to transform Twin Cities region
- So long, Sharknado!
- Milton Friedman: The Intellectuals and Collectivism
- Rest In Peace, Aretha Franklin
- Anne Tyler’s Novels Offer Important Lessons on the Inner Workings of Families
- Arvonne Fraser: American Experiment Contributor
- Training Wheels for a Lifetime of Hard, Honest Work
- Cartoon of the Day
- Socialism is not about sharing, it is about coercion
- Is Diversity Our Strength? Should There Be Any Limits?
- Media Ignores Vast Improvement in Nation’s Air Quality
- Black Lives Matter Blocks Intersections Downtown After No Charges Filed Against Officers Involved in Fatal Thurman Blevins Incident
- Cheating at Play, Cheating in Life?
- Study Confirms Millennial Men are Still Playing Video Games in Their Parents’ Basements
- King Curtis, 1934-1971
- Firing-up Liberty Genes
- Should the federal government really be putting the Packers on TV?
- Left-Wing Vandalism Ramping up in Minneapolis
- Going Tubbing with Barbara Carlson
- Anti-Janus Outrage: Allegations of Racism, Authoritarianism Alleged by Desperate Unions
- Drag Queens at the St. Paul Public Library. Too provocative for kids?
- What Does Botched Fireworks Cancellation Mean for St. Paul?
- Teachers’ Union is Meeting on the 4th of July Instead of Celebrating American Independence
- Independence Day, 1918
- On July 4th Celebrate American Exceptionalism
- Today’s Public Libraries: No to Little House on the Prairie but Yes Drag Queens?
- Sex, Pipelines and Pensions: American Experiment in the Media
- Sex and the single mind: The origins of #MeToo
- 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?
- Questions Both Women and Men Should Ask Potential Spouse
- Save the Minneapolis Art Institute (MIA) from itself: Join and Speak Up
- American Experiment comments on PELSB’s attempt to redefine “cultural competency”
- Saint Paul Public Library celebrates Pride with Drag Story Hour: All Ages Welcome?
- Happy 34th birthday to Ghostbusters, the greatest pro-free market movie ever made
- Governor Dayton Declares Today “Paul Simon Day” While Your Tax Dollars Are Slip Slidin’ Away
- From One Nightmare to Another 50 Years Ago
- MN Rep. Keith Ellison boycotting NFL over new national anthem policy
- CAE’s Adjunct Fellow Kevin Terrell: “Start Reading Now” in Minneapolis reaches 5,500 Children
- Memorial Day Promise by Immigrant Author Katharine Jirsa Reynolds
- Will NFL Ban on Kneeling Matter in MN Congressional Race?
- This Memorial Day, remember the men of the Mi Amigo
- Trump’s Quiet Virtues
- Star Tribune Touts Higher Taxes–Except for Newspapers
- Bad behavior all around: 2015 Teacher of the Year using profanity, Fox News Commentator assaulted at restaurant
- Candace Owens’ American Experiment Speech Continues to Create Buzz
- Frank Drebin was right, the monarchy is ‘silly’, but think before you get rid of it
- Summer Movie Night: The Fight of Our Lives. Defeating the Ideological War Against the West.
- What Makes Motherhood Worthwhile
- Candace Owens Wowed a Center Crowd of 550. Watch Her Speech Here!
- Letter to GOP Leadership: No Pre-K Expansion; Preserving the K-12 Mission
- Happy Star Wars Day: May the 4th Be With You
- Memo to Legislature: Resist Dayton’s Push for Expansion of “Free” Pre-K
- 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
- NFL DRAFT: VIKINGS HOPING TO REPLICATE LAQUON TREADWELL SUCCESS
- Don’t Miss Courageous Candace Owens May 8 in Minneapolis: Be part of Center’s largest forum EVER!
- Suicide of the West by Jonah Goldberg
- How Kanye West broke the internet with 7 words
- Millennials are ignorant of history. They also like socialism. Coincidence?
- Don’t Be Fooled By the Minnesota “Conservative” Energy Forum
- Tucker Carlson Wows Sold-Out Crowd at Annual Dinner
- 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?
- Noteworthy Performances of All Kinds
- Is Our Culture Dead?
- Believe in the Fairy Tale
- If it bleeds, it leads but is that good?
- Recalling Baseball Moments Vividly
- Learn Less, Earn Less
- The Modern World: It’s Not All Bad!
- When Harry Became Sally: The Left’s Assault on Reality
- Center Goes to CPAC
- Newsweek Fraud Investigation Has Minnesota Roots
- One-Sided Star Tribune Coverage of Anti-Janus Rally Reveals Deep Bias
- Happy Valentine’s Day. Now Go Get Married.
- Another Mass Shooting: the Left Uses Tragedy and Students to Ignore a Culture of Death
- Heart-Warming Valentine’s Day Headlines
- Target: Happy Valentine’s Day To My “Person!”
- Media Fails to Disclose U of M Professor’s Role with Anti-Trump Group in Dozens of Interviews
- Celebrate the Birthday of President Reagan by going to Caucus Night, Tonight
- Cheating In an Ice Fishing Tournament? Only In Minnesota! [Updated]
- Two Nice Super Bowl Stories
- SKOL: Snow Days are Fun, Living in “The North”
- Dennis Prager: I was Wrong, Trump is a Great President
- SPLC’s Bogus Hate List Cited to Slur Muslim Reformer Meeting MN Legislators
- The Negro Is Your Brother: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’
- Life Time Fitness Bans Cable News
- Keith Ellison Endorses Political Violence
- I Am Thankful for Many Things: Center Finishes HUGE Year!
- “Resist Trump” Racial Equity Program Pockets 275k From MN Taxpayers
- A Democratic Vision: Teachers ordered to segregate by race in Evanston, IL
- Ode to Mitch Pearlstein
- Conservative Speaker Ben Shapiro Not Welcome on Concordia Moorhead Campus
- Created Equal
- Back in the USSR: What life was like in the Soviet Union
- Franken’s Views on Women Were Exposed Years Ago
- Meltdown In New Brighton Over “White Privilege”
- Mitch Pearlstein Roast Summary, Reflection and Poem
- Franken Exposed on Rogue Hollywood Billboard
- PC Activists Poised to Rename Lake Calhoun
- Top 10 Things American Experiment is Thankful For
- Washington Post: What If Al Franken Resigns?
- The Soviet Experiment, 100 Years On
- Don’t Miss Star Parker’s Cure for Racial Polarization
- Star Parker Previews Her Speech At Our Next Lunch Forum
- Here’s What Would Happen Without Deer Hunting & What Does Happen With It
- In London, the Vikings will be following in the Monarchs’ footsteps
- Vikings Fans Stand Up to Protesters Kneeling for Anthem
- White Privilege Training for Edina’s Custodians and Bus Drivers? Can It Get Any Crazier?
- “Stranger Things” Sci-Fi Series Isn’t All That Strange
- Thinking Minnesota is Attracting a Mountain (Literally!) of New Subscribers
- Pop Culture is Finding its Way into Presidential Portraiture
- It is pledge time at MPR: Why I am not a member of NPR/MPR (again this year)
- SKOL! It’s Columbus Day in Minnesota.
- Deer Herd is Up, Along With Your Odds of a Collision
- Answering a Liberal Diatribe
- Liberals Respond As Usual, By Bullying
- Congratulations to the Minnesota Lynx. Now get out and support them
- MN Lynx Clinch WNBA Title, Twins Lose But Still Make History
- “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 Constitutional Right to Kneel? No, Actually
- Is Minnesota Nice? Not If You Are a Conservative
- Are Politics Preventing Vikings From Signing Controversial Kaepernick?
- A Statistically Sound Star Tribune Article on Income Disparities
- Sunday Mornings at Church? Or Sunday Mornings at Starbucks?
- Dairy Queen “Politically Incorrect” Sign Stirs Up a Blizzard
- Romeo and Juliet at the Guthrie
- Leftists Want to Replace Christopher Columbus With…Prince?
- The Abnormal Danger of Waxing about Norms
- In today’s economy, education must be a lifelong thing
- Thinking Minnesota Is Now On Sale at Barnes & Noble
- Are Three Percent of Minnesota Youths Transgender? Of Course Not
- Minneapolis on the Brink From Leftward Lurch
- Why Do Twin Cities Have Lowest Rate of Black Home Ownership In the Country?
- Protesters Blockade and Drive Dayton Off Lake Mille Lacs
- Hugh Hewitt’s spot on advice to the President: Be combative, but not cruel
- Veterans Restore Lost Grave of MN Civil War Soldier
- Center’s Annual Dinner Is a Smash Hit!
- Minnesota’s “Antifascists” Are Fascists
- My Quick Conservative Take on the Minneapolis Mayoral Candidates Debate
- Senator Franken Cancels Appearance with Second Liberal Comedian
- MN Senator Franken Stands By Kathy Griffin Despite Gory Photo of Beheaded Trump
- Is Truth the First Casualty of Art?
- Media Wants It Both Ways in U of M Coverage
- Star Tribune: As Biased As Ever?
- Why Can’t Young People Get Out of Their Parents’ Basements?
- Fake News From St. Olaf to AP’s Nazi Photos
- Why Are 600 Demonstrators News?
- How Much Weight Does MN’s “Best State” Ranking Hold?
- Liberal Policies Are Devastating America’s Young
- MPS Board Backed Into a Corner by Protesters
- UOM Names Journalism School After Hubbard TV and Radio Pioneers
- Lenin’s Vanguard at Wellesley College: Get Thee To Hillsdale
- Female Genital Mutilation Comes to Minnesota
- Where have all the Liberals Gone? I found one!
- A Voice of Reason But is Anyone on the Left Listening?
- Ho, Ho, Ho: $300,000 in Taxpayer Funds for Jolly Green Giant Museum
- Unacceptable Racism and Sexism From House Minority Leader
- Is the U of MN “Bias Response Team” Chilling Free Speech?
- Greater Minnesota Is Rejecting Liberalism
- Yesterday’s Love Stories: The Gray Divorce Phenomenon
- A city-country mice divide in Minnesota? We don’t see it that way
- Charles Murray and High-End Collegiate Know-Nothings
- A Day Without a Woman?
- Why Should Artists Want Government Support?
- Media Outrage Over White House “Block” is a Double Standard
- Dayton Outraged Because Federal Government No Longer Regulates Bathrooms
- The Liberal Media: Biased, Yes, But Also Incompetent
- With Thanks to Michael Novak
- Taxpayer-Funded Library Networks Promote Anti-Trump “Resistance”
- A Day Without Immigrants?
- The Truly Celestial Captain Kirk
- How Much Does Black Lives Matter Matter?
- Basic Differences Between Left and Right
- 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
- Inappropriate Poem Raises Question: Why Public Art?
- I Am Thankful for Many Things: Center Finishes Best Year Yet!
- Painting of 1862 Dakota War Removed From State Capitol
- Desperately Seeking Islamophobia
- American Experiment Is “Ramping Up,” “Surging”
- What Wasn’t Said about Mobility in this Year’s Elections?
- American Experiment Files Complaint: Star Tribune “Reporter” Chris Serres
- Will Trump treat liberals kinder than liberals have treated conservatives? Columnist dishes liberals a pretty good polemic.
- A Star Is Born?
- Top 10 Things American Experiment is Thankful For
- The Transgender Tragedy
- We Should Expect More from MPR on St. Anthony Police Story Than Just Another Bias Narrative
- The Joy of Knowing “I Built That”
- Welcome, the Antonin Scalia Law School
- Met Council Spins Controversial Race-Based Parks Plan
- Star Tribune’s Minnesota Poll Is At It Again
- Don’t Miss CAE Fall Briefing featuring Jonah Goldberg Oct. 24 at Guthrie Theater
- Shelby Steele Now (Part 6): How Political Correctness Imposes an Empty, Tyrannical Conformity on Society
- Shelby Steele Now (Part 5): Throwing Fuzzy and Unattainable Idealisms at Profound Problems
- Shelby Steele Now (Part 4): The Great Divide between Liberal and Conservative America
- Shelby Steele Now (Part 3): How Liberalism Offers Absolution from America’s Past Sins
- Shelby Steele Now (Part 2): Promoting racism as the greatest barrier to black advancement is liberalism’s greatest source of power.
- Shelby Steele Now: His Important Message for Our Polarized Society (Part 1)
- Greetings From Nashville
- What It Means To Be Minnesota’s Think Tank
- Met Council Wants Legacy Funds for Race-Based Park Plan
- Blue State Exodus: It Isn’t Just Minnesota
- Quotas on the Menu at General Mills
- American Experiment at the Fair
- The Mamaw of All Elegies
- Up North & The State Fair
- America Salutes Minnesota Gen. John Vessey, a ‘Soldier’s Soldier’
- Are Blue States Better?
- Liberals Try to Censor Movie Critical of Hillary Clinton
- The Essential Courage and Journalistic Precision of Heather Mac Donald
- Why Does the Star Tribune Block Comments on Select Issues?
- Is the Star Tribune Deliberately Promoting Delusion on Policing and Race?
- Police Walk Out on Lynx Game In Protest
- Families and the Fourth
- Going Forth on the Fourth
- Weiner!
- An Extra-Modest Word about Fathers on Their Day
- Neglecting What Matters in Neglect Deaths
- Choosing Your Partners Carefully
- 870 Attend American Experiment’s Annual Dinner
- The Metropolitan Council’s Disparities Report: The Limitations of Racial Explanations
- Jason Riley Rocks Minneapolis
- Category: Economy
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 1/15/21
- Covid-19 restrictions greatly impacted bars and restaurants in the third quarter
- Minnesota’s high level of tax burden
- How Americans moved in 2020
- Six Minnesota craft breweries ask state government to #FREETHEGROWLER
- In-person K-12 learning is essential to a well functioning economy
- Covid-19 shutdowns are crippling Minnesota’s labor market
- Mickey’s Diner Among Bars and Restaurants Seeking Donations to Survive Shutdowns
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 1/8/21
- Minnesota’s 2021 minimum wage hike: bad policy coinciding with very bad timing
- Minnesota is one of the top worst performing states when it comes to new business creation
- Thousands Without Heat As Colorado Eco-Terrorists Attack Natural Gas Line
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 1/1/21
- Minnesota GDP saw significant growth in the third quarter
- The Twin Cities saw record restaurant closures in 2020 thanks to the lockdowns
- With a surging population, Sioux Falls keeps housing affordable by building more of it
- Minneapolis Leads Nation in Falling Rents
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 12/25/20
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 12/18/20
- Who makes up the minimum wage workforce?
- Minnesota’s unemployment situation for November
- New BLS survey data shows how businesses responded to Covid-19
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 12/11/20
- Long term unemployment up in new BLS jobs report
- Sign up to help Minnesota’s craft breweries survive the second shutdown
- Mayor Carter should not veto a reduction in the distance requirement between Saint Paul’s liquor stores
- Minnesota ranked first in the nation for its business survival rate
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 12/4/20
- 26 out of 30 Minnesota jobs in demand right now don’t require a four-year degree
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 11/27/20
- Minnesota had the fifth highest level of cigarette smuggling in the US in 2018
- Entrepreneurship has surged during Covid, and Minnesota should move to capitalize on this trend
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 11/20/20
- New unemployment numbers still paint a gloomy picture for Minnesota
- If you can work from home, you can work from another – lower tax – state
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 11/13/20
- Celebrating Women in Apprenticeships
- Veterans find new career opportunities in skilled industries
- To climb tax rankings, Minnesota can reform its property tax base
- To climb tax rankings, Minnesota can reform its individual tax base
- To climb tax rankings, Minnesota can reform its corporate tax base
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 11/6/20
- Widespread adoption of remote work is driving mass exoduses from high tax states
- Eviction moratoriums have hurt landlords and they might exacerbate the housing crisis in Minnesota
- Low educated people and recessions
- Who has been hurt by the shutdown the most?
- Minnesota’s policymakers need to be aware of Iowa’s tax reforms
- Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 10/30/20
- How have federal taxes changed for different income groups historically?
- BEA estimates show that GDP grew significantly in the third quarter
- Declining rents due to rising vacancies around the country hold a lesson for Minnesota policymakers
- Covid-19 and shutdowns claim another Minnesota business: City Pages
- Studies have found that Biden’s tax plan will destroy the economy – here’s why
- #GoodJobsNow campaign connects Minnesotans looking for work with businesses looking for help
- Restaurant closings are still piling up in Minneapolis, and things could get worse
- Ex-Vikings Mascot Ragnar Now Cheers for Trump Business Tax Cuts
- Minnesota slips a place, to 46th, on the Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 10/23/20
- Apprenticeship program helps students of all ages reap success
- The Metropolitan Airports Commission just adopted the disastrous $15 minimum wage ordinance for an already ailing airline industry
- A new study estimates that raising the minimum wage to $15 could result in the loss of 2 million jobs after taking Covid-19 into account
- How state policy affects economies on opposite sides of the Red River
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 10/16/20
- To survive the winter, Minnesota restaurants are investing in extending patio dining season
- Minnesota’s unemployment rate fell to 6% in September, but it’s not good news
- COVID-19 will cost the US $16 Trillion
- Minnesota’s Border Battles: How state policy affects economies at the margin
- “Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer.”~WHO
- Great Jobs virtual forum on motivating a multigenerational workforce
- Is this the new economic normal?
- The Cato Institute awarded Governor Walz a D on his tax and spending record
- Due to in-door dining capacity limits, some restaurants are considering closing down for the winter
- Already battered down by the Covid-19 shutdown, restaurants fear growing lawlessness in Minneapolis will kill their business
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 10/2/20
- 10 states have enacted major occupational licensing reforms since 2019
- Minnesota’s fall in GDP so far in 2020 is worse than the U.S. average
- New study shows that increasing economic freedom leads to lower poverty rates
- A post-COVID-19 agenda for Minnesota’s state government: The economy
- Fed Survey shows that low income earners experienced largest growth in household income between 2016 and 2015
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 9/25/20
- New research provides more detail on how early Covid-19 stages affected small businesses
- Millionaires want the government to permanently raise taxes on them, but that would be bad for the economy
- A decrease in housing supply, coupled with high demand for houses during the crisis has pushed housing prices up
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 9/18/20
- Poverty was going down in the US before the pandemic
- Current capacity limits could spell even more trouble for the hospitality industry if they persist through winter
- Regulation reform can help ease the childcare crisis in Minnesota
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 9/11/20
- Florida voters to decide on whether the state should raise its minimum wage
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 9/4/20
- Economic theory tells us why we should not be surprised that Google, Amazon and Apple decided to pass on higher taxes to consumers through higher prices
- Surly brewing announces plans to permanently close its destination beer hall, state mandated capacity limits to blame
- Report finds that, in August, Minneapolis had the 5th largest decrease in 1-bedroom median rent nationally
- Zoom sees tremendous growth during the COVID-19 pandemic due to significant increase in demand for the video calling software
- The lockdown would have been worse without Amazon and Jeff Bezos’ increased wealth is a reward for that
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 8/28/20
- Review: The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
- States that stayed open fared much better than states that shut down
- According to evidence, raising the minimum wage is one sure way of pushing low skilled individuals into even lower paying jobs
- Lake Elmo is facing a budget deficit due to an accounting error, but its city council will more likely raise taxes rather than cut spending
- Minneapolis Businesses Rebuilding After Riots Burned Again by City Hall
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 8/21/20
- Uber and Lyft almost shut down their services due to California’s anti-freelancer law
- Minnesota Unemployment went down in June, but job growth slowed down
- The middle class is shrinking, but that is because people are getting richer
- Target is doing better than Walmart during the pandemic because its customers are doing better
- The economic damage of rioting lingers for a long time
- 22 out of the 30 in-demand MN jobs don’t require college degree
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 8/14/20
- Research continues to shows that trade protectionism is merely self-harm policy
- Jeff Bezos’ wealth grew because people were using Amazon much more than usual during the pandemic
- Xcel Energy warns of possible power outages similar to South Australia due to growing renewable presence
- Sen. Harris banks on the parochialism of American ‘liberals’
- Federal Regulations cost nearly $2 Trillion in 2019
- Downturn exposes Duluth’s vulnerability to dependence on tourism tax
- The Covid-19 induced recession may have just delivered the biggest economic blow to young people, especially Millennials
- What are the costs of lockdowns?
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 8/7/20
- One way to put unemployed persons back in the workforce is to loosen occupational licensing laws
- Anti-Mining Special Interest Groups Are Trying to Kill Coal To Stop Mining in Minnesota
- Some childcare providers have survived the covid-19 pandemic by essentially paying to take care of children
- Many parents will have to stop working if most schools don’t fully reopen
- A Crisis in Childcare
- California wants to raise taxes on the state’s highest income earners, but that would be disastrous
- Minnesota Center For Energy and Environment thinks governments “have room” to raise taxes in communities losing coal plants
- As crime rises in Minneapolis, businesses are looking elsewhere
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 7/31/20
- New research suggests creating Interstate compacts to end Economic development subsidy war between states
- The U.S. economy wasn’t the only one to tank in the second quarter
- GDP tanked in the second quarter, but by how much?
- Minorities were hit harder by job losses
- Home Renovations in Minnesota Cost More, Deliver Inferior Returns
- Small businesses are finding it hard to rebuild after riots
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 7/24/20
- Metro Democrats Take Aim At Minnesota’s Mining Industry (Again)
- Coronavirus and Competition Too Much for City’s Fitness Center
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 7/17/20
- Milton Friedman on the FDA
- Unemployment numbers show that Minnesota Unemployment fell in june as more businesses started reopening
- The economic suppression will hurt today’s graduates for years to come
- School closings could significantly reduce future earnings of today’s students
- Lack of access to affordable childcare costs Indiana employers $1.8B a year
- Babylon Bee: Governors Reinstate Lockdowns To Combat Recovering Economy
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 7/10/20
- The childcare industry needs more than financial assistance, it needs regulation reform
- Florida’s Occupational Freedom and Opportunity Act will reduce or eliminate licensing requirements for multiple professions
- Minnesota’s GDP shrinks by 4% in the first quarter of 2020
- New research from the U of M highlights the rural-urban divide associated with access to childcare services
- Mayor Carter’s ‘guaranteed income’ scheme is just a new name for more welfare
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 7/3/20
- Target raised its minimum wage only because it can afford to do so; small businesses cannot
- Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 6/26/20
- Spanish conservation experts call for tighter regulation on art restoration: a classic example of how overregulation begins
- Shutdown Leads to Cuts in Staff and Services, Higher Property Taxes for Local Governments
- The Courage to Reject a COVID-19 Shutdown
- Research suggests temporary ban of foreign workers might hurt the economy more than it will help
- The economic suppression will hurt today’s graduates for years to come
- Minnesota had a nearly 50% decrease in Leisure and Hospitality Employment from May 2019 to May 2020
- Webinar: Coming Back From COVID
- Xcel Proposes $3B in Renewable Projects to Bolster Corporate Profits During Pandemic
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/19/20
- While unemployment was down nationally in May, Minnesota was one of three states where it rose
- How is the American economy coping with Covid-19?
- Study finds college grads earn significantly higher income
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/12/20
- Research finds minority-owned businesses were disproportionately affected by lockdowns
- MN border town losing business to WI over shutdown rules
- Police reform: How about outsourcing some of the services the police provide?
- Minnesota *Still* Has the Worst of Both Worlds With COVID19, Highest Death Rate Per Capita and Highest Unemployment Claims of Any Neighboring State
- New health and safety protocols prove burdensome as childcare providers eye reopening
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/5/20
- Governor Walz has loosened restrictions on restaurants and other establishments
- Skills Wanted: Skills acquisition shown to be just as valuable as a bachelor’s degree
- Tesla’s Elon Musk: Four-year degree isn’t “evidence of exceptional ability”
- Restaurants and bars are finding it hard to operate with new rules
- Opening schools did not worsen covid-19 spread in Denmark and Finland
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/29/20
- California anti-freelancer law is leading to a shortage of anesthesiologists in the state, potentially making surgery more dangerous
- How Covid-19 might make the affordable housing problem worse
- Gen Z’er interested in a construction career? There’s an app for that.
- MN American Legion Mobilizes Against Walz’s Restaurant Restrictions
- The economy will recover after production has recovered
- Why the Great Society Wasn’t
- Efforts to support women in technical careers continue
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/22/20
- Minnesota’s unemployment rate soars to 8.1%
- How Met Council, Local Governments Deny Affordable Housing to the Working Poor
- Covid’s Assault on Entrepreneurs
- Restaurants, bars, barbershops and other establishments to open on June 1st but with some heavy limitations
- How Gov. Walz can help give Minnesota’s businesses some certainty
- State of MN Demands High School Students Return Mistaken Coronavirus Unemployment Checks
- Twin Cities restaurants close en masse as uncertainty reigns
- Layoffs Due to Virus Lead to Dissension at Duluth City Hall
- Uprising in Garrison as Minnesota business owners fight for their livelihoods
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/15/20
- High unemployment is what the economy ends up with when unemployment pays more than going to work
- Fed survey finds that Job losses have hit poor Americans the hardest
- Over 100,000 small businesses have permanently closed due to the coronavirus
- Some Businesses Set to Reopen Regardless of Walz’s Expected Extension of Shutdown
- Virtual campus tours give students firsthand knowledge of technical career opportunities
- How is the state government deciding which businesses will reopen and which won’t?
- Unemployment kills too
- Minnesota candy store allowed to re-open, deemed “essential”
- Is Gov. Walz preparing to end the Coronavirus shutdown?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/8/20
- The Leisure and hospitality industry has a long way to go to fully recover after reopening
- Let My People Go! MN One of Only Ten States Still Banning Church Services
- While Minnesota Sends Police to Shut Down A Barbershop, Texas Gives Guidelines For Today’s Reopening
- The Coronavirus shutdown is a crisis for low paid workers
- Minnesota Has Highest COVID-19 Death Rate, and Highest Unemployment Rate, Out of Any Neighboring State
- The SEC has loosened regulation to make it easier for businesses to raise capital
- During the lockdown, every day is Big Business Saturday
- Why this is not the right time to push for higher minimum wage
- Minnesota cannot tax its way out of its budget deficit
- Access to childcare is essential to reopening the economy
- Coronavirus shutdown’s crushing effects on thousands of Minnesotans are nothing to sneer at
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/1/20
- Research finds consumers pay for corporate taxes through high retail prices
- 7,500+ Minnesotans tell Walz: Let us work!
- Minnesota lockdown extended for restaurants and other customer-facing businesses
- Webinar Archive: Master Class in Public Policy
- Small businesses are now having to compete with high unemployment benefits in order to keep workers
- Tight regulation is making survival harder for craft breweries amid the shutdown
- Minnesota’s businesses are suffering from a lack of certainty. Gov. Walz can help with that
- Uncertainty regarding the shutdown is what is more threatening to businesses and the economy
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/24/20
- Census Bureau data shows a slowdown in new Business formation
- Research shows new and young businesses account for a large share of growth
- What we need to start reopening Minnesota’s economy
- TOMORROW: How Regulations Affect Your Everyday Life
- How have the Coronavirus shutdown’s job losses varied across Minnesota?
- You can now take out wine and beer with your food order
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/17/20
- Minnesota is closer to passing a bill allowing restaurants to sell alcohol to-go
- Why small businesses tend to get the short end of the stick of any economic downturn
- As the Coronavirus shutdown continues, new sectors of the economy are hit
- Small Town Papers Face Cuts Due to Coronavirus Impact
- Right now is the best time to loosen childcare regulation
- Mining Is An Essential Industry, Tourism Is Not
- The economic cost of the Coronavirus shutdown continues to mount
- Farmers are dumping produce due to low demand
- Some (more) businesses won’t be reopening after the Coronavirus shutdown
- How prepared is Minnesota to cover unemployment benefit claims?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/10/20
- Manufacturing companies are starting to see more job losses
- A Blue-Ribbon, Blue-Collar Life
- Minnesota’s GDP growth ranked 38th nationally in the fourth quarter of 2019
- Governor Walz should allow Minnesota’s breweries, bars, and restaurants to sell alcohol in any size package for at-home consumption
- States are suspending rules to ensure access to childcare
- In The Tank (Ep237) – Coronavirus Response: Modern Monetary Theory
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/3/20
- Minnesota would benefit from less strict childcare business regulation
- Thousands of Golfers Petition Walz for a Mulligan on Course Closures
- As the Coronavirus shutdown sends unemployment soaring in Minnesota, who is hiring?
- Costco Backs Out of Proposed Duluth Store Due to Cost and City Issues
- Some businesses won’t be reopening after the Coronavirus shutdown
- Manufacturing scholarships available to students of all ages
- This Week’s Master Class: What can state governments do to influence the economy?
- Regulatory rollbacks due to coronavirus show we need to cut red tape.
- In The Tank (Ep236) – Coronavirus: Free to Choose Medicine and Deregulation
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/27/20
- Minnesota restaurants seeking to do to-go sales of alcohol amid shutdown
- The coronavirus shutdown is wreaking havoc on Minnesota’s economy
- Introducing: a Master Class Series in Public Policy
- Missouri eases child care regulation to improve access
- ‘Low-skilled’ does not mean ‘Not important’
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/20/20
- The problem with price gouging laws
- Rochester Library Points the Way to Online Delivery of Services Despite Coronavirus Shutdown
- Coronavirus exposes the need to structure regulation around small businesses
- Minnesota’s below average economic growth is not because of ‘convergence’
- Regulatory costs disproportionately affect small businesses
- Matt Murphy, the man who married his buddy to avoid inheritance tax
- Paychecks were growing before minimum wage hikes
- Will Concerns Over Coronavirus Lead to a State Price-Gouging Law?
- Minnesota’s economy has below average growth
- How might coronavirus impact Minnesota’s economy?
- The city of Reno might increase recreational fees to cover cost of high minimum wage
- How we can afford tax cuts
- Work-based learning program connects students with careers
- The coronavirus is exposing the bad side of the “use-it-or-lose-it” rule for airport slots
- How does Minnesota’s economy really compare to its neighbors?
- Minnesota Microdistilleries Push for a More Even Playing Field
- What drives state economies?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/6/20
- English Language Classes for Cambria Workers Catching on at Other Companies
- Berlin’s rent controls have slowed house building
- Bill Kills Controversial Licensing Requirement for Independent Makeup and Hair Stylists
- Thomas Sowell on the Welfare state
- The coronavirus has reduced wealth inequality by making the rich less rich
- The 1619 Project gets it wrong about the American economy
- Childcare service shortage is bad not just for parents, but also for the economy.
- Cut estate tax to increase state revenue
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/28/20
- In 2017 Half of Taxpayers Paid 97% of all Federal Income Taxes
- Research shows that most of America’s rich earned their wealth
- Did the Vikings lose because of Minnesota’s high taxes (revisited)?
- “Uber for Everything” Is Revolutionizing Africa’s Economy
- Marriott Seeks $2.5 Million in Tax Breaks for Mankato Hotel
- A changing gold standard: The overlooked value of associate degrees and certificates
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/21/20
- Neel Kashkari on Affordable Housing-Only the private sector, through increased housing supply, will be able to address the affordable housing crisis
- Increasing regulation driving childcare providers out of business in Washington
- How does the Senate Republican tax bill stack up?
- There is no such thing as a free lunch
- ‘The rich’ do not control politics
- Would Minnesotans support a new payroll tax to cover paid family and medical leave?
- Training programs and employer partnerships help young people build careers
- High-tax Minnesota suffers when losing residents to other states
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/14/20
- Proposed Increase in childcare funding will not lower prices or reduce shortage of childcare providers
- Work-based learning program sets students up for success
- Where are Minnesotans going to and coming from?
- Immigration can increase GDP, but can it increase GDP per person?
- Vermont governor is right about the negative consequences of raising minimum wage
- Should we ignore facts because they are politically inconvenient?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/7/20
- Subsidies never make anything,even housing, affordable
- Dunwoody College hosts annual autonomous snowplow competition
- More on Minnesota’s out-migration
- How productivity drives wages – The theory and evidence
- Are numbers racist?
- Migration out of Minnesota is on the rise
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/31/20
- Research finds occupational Licensing has no effect on consumer choice
- Evidence from the U.S. and Israel shows that minimum wages disproportionately hurt small businesses and their owners
- City Pages calls for a MAXIMUM wage
- Research shows that expanding housing supply reduces the price of housing
- Minnesota’s Three-Tier System can take no credit for the craft beer boom
- Robots are Replacing Workers in Poland Due to Raise in Minimum wage.
- Childcare cost is high in Minnesota, but state subsidies are not the answer.
- City of Dayton fails in effort to impose new fees on new housing
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/24/20
- Space Force is Paul Krugman’s dream come true
- As the Supreme Court upholds Minneapolis’ $15ph minimum wage, is it time to junk the state minimum wage?
- Surveys show Americans are in favor of raising taxes on (other) rich people
- California shows how environmental mandates in building codes make housing unaffordable
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/17/20
- Minnesotans are fleeing to avoid estate tax, so repeal it
- Downtown Minneapolis loses another business
- Even champagne excise taxes are high in Minnesota
- Minnesota’s GDP growth lags the national rate for the fourth consecutive quarter
- France tried to ‘soak the rich’ – They said ‘Au revoir’
- New study suggests that eliminating the federal minimum wage would minimize suicide deaths
- It is US consumers that pay for tariffs, not China
- Unaffordable housing is the price policymakers ask us to pay for high taxes, fees, and regulations
- Taxing capital income, especially for redistribution, is not the solution to inequality
- Hiking the minimum wage won’t boost the economy
- Big Lake High School’s work-based learning program sets students up for success
- In The Tank (Ep224) – 2020: Is Life Getting Easier or Harder? Future of EVs
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/3/20
- Bernie Sanders’ hypocrisy on Amazon
- A 2020 lesson for policy makers; Intentions do not matter, results do
- On net, 65 people moved to Minnesota from other states last year
- Why Employment Matters
- Scholarships available to Minnesotans pursuing high-demand occupations
- Can policy do anything about Minnesota’s below average population growth?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/27/19
- Hey Minnesota Liberals! Stop Complaining About Low-Wage Service Jobs Unless You Support More Mining
- Norway’s government hiked sugar taxes, Norwegians went shopping in Sweden
- This mostly private effort to help the homeless should be supported
- New research shows that Minnesota’s state government increased smoking by taxing e-cigarettes
- Center’s Great Jobs project visits Red Wing
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/20/19
- Legalized marijuana = Lower sales of beer, higher sales of chips
- Workforce Development on the Reservation
- Remember that time the end of net neutrality was going to cause “the end of the internet as we know it”? That was awesome
- Costly Surcharges on the Menu as Diners Pay for Restaurant Regulations
- What is the impact on workers when minimum wage hikes put them out of work?
- In The Tank (Ep221) – COP25 was a Joke and Talking MMT with Bob Murphy
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/13/19
- Finland is a high tax country because it taxes everybody heavily
- As well as looming federal tax hikes, Minnesota’s microdistilleries are threatened by antiquated state regulations
- Tax hikes are threatening Minnesota’s microdistilleries
- Minnesota`s exports fall in second and third quarter
- Despite Record Snow Duluth Ski Hill May Close Without Taxpayer Bailout
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/6/19
- Congress passed a luxury tax to ‘tax the rich’, but it brought in no revenue because ‘the rich’ changed their behavior
- Regulatory burden on Nonprofits is not the main issue with evaluating equity grants
- The worrisome trend of so many jobs requiring a four-year degree
- Minnesota’s minimum wage laws are harming youth employment
- “If you can’t pay $15 an hour you should go out of business”. Actually, no.
- Minnesota’s Workforce to 2050
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/29/19
- Explaining Public Goods to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- New research suggests that the average net social value of occupational licensing is negative
- Minnesota Still one of 10 Worst States for Business Taxation.
- Government won’t let ‘free enterprise’ even try to address the Twin Cities’ housing problems
- It isn’t Minnesota’s high taxes that make it a great place to live or get educated
- National Apprenticeship Week: More Important than Most Other Weeks (Not to Mention Days)
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/22/19
- What Percentage of Students in Anoka County are Suited for Careers in the Trades?
- The City of Corcoran planned to use building permit fees to finance its city hall renovation
- Why is state law stopping Minnesota’s beauticians doing weddings?
- Property taxes illustrate the problems with ‘wealth taxes’
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/15/19
- What needs to be understood about price control schemes, including minimum wage laws – They never work
- Entitlement Liabilities Are a Graver Threat to the Next Generation of Americans Than Climate Change
- Rochester’s High Property Taxes Threaten Small Businesses
- Minnesota’s liquor laws are throttling its distilleries
- California hiked taxes on the rich, they left, and revenues were only half those forecast
- Minneapolis ranked 40th among US cities on ease of doing business.
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/8/19
- Minnesota is the 5th most tax unfriendly state for retirees
- Let Me Introduce Myself
- Minnesota had the the 17th fastest growing economy in the United States in the second quarter of 2019 – But the first quarter numbers were worse than we thought
- Olmsted County Taxpayers on Hook for $1.5 Million in Uncollected Fees
- Research shows that Minnesota’s estate tax is a net revenue loser for the state government
- Understanding Minnesota’s Taxable Candy
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/1/19
- New Trades Ambassador program connects students with skilled trades
- Minneapolis council’s war on small businesses
- Minneapolis council is going to waste money studying discredited policy or ‘rent control’
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/25/19
- Portland voters put a 1% tax on large retailers, complain when retailers pass it on to them
- Minnesota ranks 45th on the Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/18/19
- What is wrong with ‘scalping’?
- Target announced higher hourly wages then cut hours
- The winners of the 2019 Nobel prize in economics
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/11/19
- Minnesota Remains One of Worst States for Cigarette Smuggling
- Make the Twin Cities Great Again!
- With manufacturing slowing, Minnesota’s uncharacteristically low taxes on manufacturers are more important than ever
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/4/19
- Who decides whether billionaires should exist? We all do
- Numbers on job openings and wages in Minnesota deal a severe blow to the ‘Fight for 15’
- What does data on job openings say about Minnesota’s labor market?
- The laws forcing Castle Danger to lay off staff are there for the benefit of retailers, not consumers
- High-tax Minnesota lagging in economic growth
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/27/19
- Minnesota’s lags the U.S. average on Personal Income growth but leads on transfer income growth
- How We Know California’s New Rent Control Law Will Make Its Housing Shortage Worse
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/20/19
- Minnesota’s unemployment rate is down from July to August, but the number of people unemployed is up 20% over the year
- Which training programs for skilled workers perform best?
- Technicians and ‘One of the Greatest Scientific Achievements of the 21st Century’
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/13/19
- Tiny Houses Turn Out to be No Big Deal in Minnesota
- Is Minnesota less vulnerable to a recession?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/6/19
- New research finds that people move in response to taxes
- Evidence from San Francisco shows that rent control makes income inequality worse
- Affordable housing is rare because it’s illegal to build
- Legacy program prepares young men for electrical lineman career: “It’s more than just a job”
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/30/19
- New research shows that lower state taxes can increase entrepreneurship
- Is a four-year degree a good investment?
- To grow Minnesota’s economy, we need tax cuts from state rather than federal government
- New data offers more concerning signs on Minnesota’s labor market
- High school auto mechanic internship program prepares students for future careers
- Google and Facebook Will Just Get Stronger if Regulators Get Their Way, Europe’s Experience Shows
- Productivity and pay are linked – A rising tide still lifts all boats
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/23/19
- Should we worry about a ‘labor shortage’ or rising unemployment in Minnesota?
- Minnesota’s cities are soaking homeowners and not complying with state law
- Why Keynes Believed Efforts to Fight Income Inequality Hinder Economic Growth
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/16/19
- Minnesota’s cities are seeing falling employment and rising unemployment numbers
- Minnesota’s unemployment rate is up again, from 2.8% to 3.4% in a year
- Minnesota has the fourth most expensive childcare in the country. Is this lowering female employment?
- Minnesota – Above average for population growth, below average for employment growth, top for unemployment growth
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/9/19
- Nobody Home at St. Paul Mayor Carter’s Rental Property
- Do Minnesota’s music therapists really need a license?
- President Trump’s misguided trade war is hitting Minnesota’s farmers
- Occupational licensing and expensive housing are stopping Americans moving around. That is a problem.
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/2/19
- Twenty Presidential Scholars, More than Technically Speaking
- How bad is Minnesota for occupational licensing?
- Google’s College Search Feature Only Covers Four-Year Colleges
- Minnesota’s above average Corporate Taxes drive our below average entrepreneurship
- Europe’s lesson for America on the talent gap: Hire older workers
- Why aren’t contractors building more starter homes? Excessive fees imposed by state and local politicians
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/26/19
- Minnesota spends less than the U.S. generally on research and development. How can state tax policy help?
- Minnesota had the the 36th fastest growing economy in the United States in the first quarter of 2019
- Five of eight Minnesota Reps. voted to hike the minimum wage to $15 and destroy 1.3 million jobs
- Tips to ‘Remedy’ Construction Labor Shortage
- Bernie Sanders’ actions, not his empty words, show the real effects of minimum wage hikes
- Should Tracking Be Back on Track?
- In the Tank (EP200) – Socialism and Modern Monetary Theory
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/19/19
- 4 Ways Employers Respond to Minimum Wage Laws (Besides Laying Off Workers)
- Excessive fees and regulations make Twin Cities housing expensive – The facts behind our new radio ad
- Economist’s View Column: Growler regs aren’t about protecting consumers
- Where Do Phones Come From? A Manufactured Fact of Life
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/12/19
- “Busting the College-Industrial Complex”
- Minnesota law forcing some breweries to halt growler sales
- Occupational licensing laws are about protecting producers, not consumers
- Occupational licensing laws are another example of regulations which kill economic growth
- State regulations will force craft breweries to lay workers off
- How regulations stifle the economy
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/5/19
- The unintended consequences of price ceilings and price floors
- Journalists, too, should judge policies by their results rather than their intentions
- The Center’s Great Jobs project participates in home education conference
- Excessive regulations and fees make Twin Cities housing expensive. Rent control won’t solve that
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/28/19
- ’80s Fears of a Japanese “Economic Pearl Harbor” Look Silly Today—But They’re Instructive
- Minneapolis: Home to the Future of Career and Technical Education
- Twin Cities housing isn’t expensive because developers and landlords are ‘greedy’
- Rent controls aren’t the solution to the affordable housing shortage
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/21/19
- Mining jobs pay more than hospitality jobs because they are more productive. Why is that?
- Can northern Minnesotans rely on seasonal tourism jobs?
- Czary Knights for American Manufacturing?
- In northern Minnesota, tourism jobs pay less than mining jobs
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/14/19
- Paul Krugman’s Predictions about “Austerity” Aren’t Aging Well
- The ‘labor shortage’ is good for workers
- Northern Minnesota’s Iron Will
- Walmart’s CEO tells Congress to hike the minimum wage – Well he would say that, wouldn’t he?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/7/19
- Economic planning should be done by individuals
- Lower taxes, not tax credits, are good for state fiscal health
- What Econ 101 says about taxes (and tariffs)
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/31/19
- Despite the trade war, Minnesota’s exports rise again
- ND Saloon Makes a Federal Case Out of City Ban on Murals
- Going with the FLOE: Students gain real-life job experience in manufacturing
- Despite findings of fraud, Carolyn Ham still getting paid while on leave
- Great News! PolyMet Wins First Round of Court Challenges!
- Big Lake High School leads the way in work-based learning
- What did the legislative session mean for Minnesota’s economy?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/24/19
- Fewer Minnesota teens are working and that is a problem
- Tariffs are biting into Minnesota’s farm economy
- Corporations don’t actually pay corporate tax
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/17/19
- Minnesota might rank 3rd overall, but on economic policy it ‘could do better’
- MN manufacturers report worker shortage hinders growth
- No, high taxes aren’t why Minnesota ranks highly
- Sense and nonsense about Minnesota’s taxes
- The already weak case for hiking taxes on Minnesotans just got weaker
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/10/19
- California Politicians Hiked Gas Tax, Now Demand Investigation Into State’s $4 Per Gallon Gas Prices
- Who will pay for the 70% gas tax hike? You will
- The economy is a positive sum game – We can all get better off
- Income and wealth are not fixed ‘pies’
- Minneapolis-Based Brewery, Indeed, Expands Business in The Good Land (Milwaukee)
- Presidential Orders Seek to Kickstart Mining Industry Revival
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/3/19
- City Pages declares its ignorance on economics
- Below average growth since 2010 has cost $1,418 for every Minnesotan
- Minnesota had the 22nd fastest growing state economy in 2018
- Republicans are wrong to push preemption: we should abolish the state minimum wage instead
- We’re all ‘the rich’ when politicians look to tax the wealthy
- Modern Monetary Theory: Debunking the Latest Incarnation of Government’s Magic Money Tree
- Legal Loophole in CCAP allows child care centers to bill for services they do not provide
- In The Tank (ep187) – American Experiment’s John Phelan on Modern Monetary Theory, Return Free Filing, Game of Thrones
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/19/19
- Who’s going to pay for all this? The ‘rich’? Think again
- Send Illegal Aliens to Sanctuary Cities? Be careful what you wish for.
- A Minnesotan’s response to Tax Day
- The ‘working rich’ pay a disproportionately large share of income taxes, Sen. Klobuchar, that’s why income tax cuts ‘disproportionately’ benefit them
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/12/19
- Women let the sparks fly in welding competition
- Research shows that, in most cases, ‘the rich’ worked for their money
- Summit Academy provides tuition-free training that gives Minnesotans new opportunities
- Is Minnesota’s government really so broke it needs to hike your taxes?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/5/19
- Rep. Lesch argues that higher taxes in Minnesota disadvantage Minnesotans. Then he says we should hike the capital gains tax and estate tax
- Minnesota should abolish its estate tax. Rep. Gomez wants to raise it
- Rep. Sandell moves a bill to give Minnesota the second highest marginal rate of capital gains tax in the United States
- 5 Reasons Raising the Minimum Wage Is Bad Public Policy
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/29/19
- “Well, if you don’t like paying high taxes why don’t you move to…New Hampshire?”
- Minnesota has the highest car rental taxes in America
- What is going on in Minnesota’s labor market?
- Army Corps of Engineers Grants Final Permit for PolyMet Mine
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/22/19
- Experts said that Brexit would wreck Britain’s economy. Instead, it is thriving. Sound familiar?
- Gov. Dayton’s veto is to blame for tax filing complexity, not federal tax cuts
- Career as an electrician offers bright future
- No, it isn’t Minnesota’s high taxes that make our state great
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/15/19
- Review: Trumponomics by Stephen Moore & Arthur B. Laffer
- As Minnesotans feel the bite from higher taxes, they look to reduce their tax burden
- “If an employer can’t pay a ‘living wage’ they shouldn’t be in business” – As Forepaugh’s Restaurant in St. Paul closes, activists get their way
- “Opportunity Connect”: Bridging Education and Employment Through A Unique Pilot Initiative
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/8/19
- Doing Quite Well in the Trades
- Minnesota should repeal its estate tax
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/1/19
- Socially Conscious Car Sharing Service Lobbies for Tax Loophole
- The state government’s surplus is projected to be smaller, but that does not justify tax hikes
- Excerpts from the Center’s New Book: Education Roads Less Traveled
- Lost Labor Now Found
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/22/19
- Sen. Warren’s wealth tax revenue estimates assume that ‘the rich’ will not change their behavior. That is unrealistic.
- Minnesota doesn’t need Gov. Walz’s gas tax hike
- Minnesota plumber highlights successful career: “It’s like a golden ticket”
- On Taxes, Schafer Gets It Half Right
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/15/19
- Is career and technical education just enjoying its 15 minutes of fame?
- Tapping Into Greater Minnesota’s Can-Do Attitude
- A smaller refund does not mean that you didn’t get a tax cut
- The “Great” and “Entrusted” American Experiment (No, Not the Think Tank)
- Why Affordable Housing Is So Hard to Find in America’s Big Cities
- “How College Debt Ate My Parents’ 401k”
- The Twin Cities’ ‘affordable housing’ shortage was caused by their politicians
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/8/19
- Data shows that states with lower taxes have higher quality of life
- Minnesota has high business taxes which research shows hurt our economy. Will Gov. Walz raise them?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/1/19
- Beer Boom
- Research shows that higher state business and personal tax rates mean fewer businesses, less employment, and reduced capital investment
- Elections Should Be Held One Week After Tax Day
- Despite evidence, Minnesota Democrats want to hike the minimum wage by 74% for small businesses
- People want more government spending – As long as someone else pays
- Higher tax rates on the rich won’t mean more tax revenues for the nation
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/25/19
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez falls for the ‘fixed pie fallacy’
- STEMentor in the Twin Cities Preps Students for STEM Careers
- Making Sense of the Stock Market’s Wild Gyrations
- When comparing economic policies, border counties are a good place to look
- How Much Do Duplicate Medical Assistance/MinnCare Accounts Cost Taxpayers?
- Empirical evidence shows that minimum wage hikes are bad public policy
- If you pay them, they will come – Bad arguments for minimum wage hikes
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/18/19
- Employers look to hire ex-felons trained in technical programs
- Milton Friedman explains why high taxes deter investment
- Higher taxes mean less innovation
- New York restaurants cut staff hours as minimum wage hits $15
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/11/19
- Eye On Mining: Gov. Walz Talks Copper-Nickel Mining
- SAY WHAT? American Experiment’s Greater Minnesota Advisory Board will tap into can-do attitudes on policy initiatives.
- Canada hiked taxes on top earners and top earners paid less tax
- Listen Up: The Great Minnesota Mining Debate Featuring Isaac Orr and Kevin Lee of Minnesota Center of Environmental Advocacy
- Higher tax rates doesn’t necessarily mean higher tax revenues
- Ideas for improving the lot of American workers (open minds requested)
- Shrimp Plant Picks South Dakota Due to MN Red Tape
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/4/19
- Tax cuts are not ‘giveaways’, they are ‘take-less-aways’
- Government is raising prices to help people with the cost of living – Happy new year!
- Turning Away Business
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/28/18
- Why cigarette taxes don’t work
- High taxes sap Minnesota’s productivity, economic growth
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/21/18
- PolyMet Granted Key Permits from Minnesota Pollution Control Agency!
- 72% of US based economists oppose a federal minimum wage of $15.00 per hour
- City Pages: State with lowest tax burden is “crushing” its neighbors
- The internet still exists a year after Bernie Sanders declared “the end of the internet as we know it”
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/14/18
- 81% of economists agree that rent controls are bad policy
- Millennial men lagging in workforce participation
- “Labor Day Project” Helps Employers Rethink Recruitment Efforts
- New data shows which Minnesota counties saw economic growth…or not
- What About More Experienced Workers in Transition?
- Minnesota doesn’t need higher gas taxes
- Tax Conformity: That Ship Has Sailed
- Four-Year Snobbery Over There, Not Here
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/7/18
- “Sportsman’s View: Clean Water More Valuable Than Copper” Recycles Discredited Anti-Mining Talking Points
- 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
- New Report: Minnesota’s Economy Continues to Lag in Key Areas
- If we want carbon taxes without riots, reduce other taxes
- The Importance of Economic Liberty
- Manufacturing industry faces talent shortage, but innovative MN programs are here to help
- 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
- In Boost to Ag Groups, Peterson Praises Wolf Delisting Letter
- Scarcity and Opportunity Cost
- Subjective Value and Trade
- When Will Fair Trade Coffee Drinkers Embrace Fair Trade Cobalt?
- Being pro-free enterprise is not the same as being pro-big business
- High Electricity Prices Cripple Australian Manufacturers, Is Minnesota Next?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/9/18
- Uponor wows urban students with plastic pipe manufacturing
- What CNN Gets Wrong in Its Coverage of Seattle’s New Minimum Wage Law
- Saint Paul’s workers need a tip credit
- Whats going on in the Minnesota labor market?
- Continue to Encourage Young People into Trades
- As the US economy booms, Minnesotans are feeling the benefits
- MPR Covers Impact of Mining on Upcoming Elections: Cites American Experiment Mining Research and Advertising Campaign
- Precision Manufacturing’s Precise Challenge
- A new idea to secure Americans in retirement; put social security taxes to work
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/2/18
- American Experiment Congratulates PolyMet on DNR Permit to Mine
- The details of minimum wage laws show why they are so harmful
- Policy uncertainty is holding back business investment and slowing economic growth
- Facing a ‘labor shortage’, Minnesota’s employers are raising pay and benefits
- Duluth News Tribune Story Paints Inaccurate Picture of American Experiment’s Duluth Mining Rally
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/26/18
- (Not) workin’ at the car wash
- One Step Closer: MN Environmental Agencies Send Proposed Polymet Permit Changes to EPA For Approval
- It isn’t Minnesota’s high taxes that make the state great
- Construction Career Pathways: “Looking for the road to success? Build it yourself.”
- Center of the American Experiment Holds Pro-Mining Rally in Duluth
- Milton Friedman: Good wealth, bad wealth
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/19/18
- 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
- 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
- Taxes are incentives – even for divorce
- Since 2010, per capita GDP has grown faster in Wisconsin than in Minnesota
- A history of American economic policy in six books
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/5/18
- Why did Amazon raise its minimum wage to $15?
- TwinWest Chamber of Commerce event connects leaders on talent & workforce issues
- In 2017 American workers were more willing and able to quit their jobs for better pay. This bodes well for future pay increases
- The Tax Foundation lays out Minnesota’s high taxes and their consequences
- Fed: Economy “Remarkably Positive,” and Unprecedented in Modern History
- In her Star Tribune piece, Kshama Sawant did not tell the truth about Saint Paul’s proposed $15 minimum wage
- MN Startup Becomes Official Licensed Partner of PGA Tour
- Wyoming Machine wins award from U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- Minneapolis Property Taxes Skyrocket. This is Why We Can’t Have Grumpy Things
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/28/18
- Minnesota ranks 43rd in the country for business taxes
- Copper, Nickel, and Titanium Mining Would Nearly Offset Estimated Population Decline in Northern Minnesota
- Is Minnesota’s ‘labor shortage’ nudging wages higher?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/21/18
- Check Out the Thinking Minnesota Poll
- What are the prospects for wages in Minnesota?
- Metro transit, unable to hire enough drivers at $19.94 an hour, launches an apprentice program
- 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
- Nuances of College Debt
- Minnesota’s ‘labor shortage’ offers the opportunity for higher wages
- Austin Pushes Businesses to the Brink with Potential 15 Percent Levy Hike
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/14/18
- Wall Street Journal: Mining Cobalt in the Congo is Still Dirty and Dangerous
- St. Paul: Think Before You Act on Minimum Wage
- No support for minimum wage increase
- If tourism is an alternative source of prosperity for northern Minnesota, why isn’t it already?
- “See You Next Summer!” Said the Tourism Jobs
- Star Tribune: Check the Methodology in Analyzing Arguments in Mining Debate
- 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
- Feds Reopen Northern Minnesota to Mining Exploration! Are You Tired of Winning Yet?
- The Virtues of Charitable Efforts Syncing with Business Requirements
- Britain cut corporate tax rates and corporate tax revenues went up
- UN Says Capitalism Must End to Save the Planet- Another Yawn
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/31/18
- Teacher turned carpenter lives out dream to build
- 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
- If billionaires want the government to have more of their money, why not just give it to them?
- Duluth News Tribune: Statewide View: The more they learn, the more Minnesotans support copper mining
- Does above average alcohol tax revenue illustrate how regulations impact economic growth?
- On the minimum wage, wishful thinking must not take the place of economic analysis
- Employers reach out to people with disabilities
- Learning from 26 Million Job Postings
- How government can keep housing affordable for everyone: stop making housing more expensive and stop trying to help
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/24/18
- Upper Michigan’s Population Dwindles Despite “Sustainable” Tourism Economy
- Michigan Could Have Four Non-Ferrous Mines Within Four Years. Will Minnesota Have Any?
- ‘High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty’ – What is going on in the labor market?
- “Visitors can get you only so far,” Upper Michigan Hungry For More Mining
- “Any Chance of Paying Off Your College Loans by Your Silver Anniversary?”
- Employers Shed College Requirements As Economy Booms
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/17/18
- Join Great Jobs at TwinWest Chamber of Commerce’s Talent Symposium
- How free markets promote the ‘common good’
- Can immigration boost per capita GDP growth?
- Evidence shows that high corporate tax rates lower entrepreneurial activity
- Minnesota Beer Taxes are the 10th Highest in the Country
- Comparing the economic records of Minnesota and Wisconsin governors
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/10/18
- Marriage, Military Service, Black Churches, and More Mundane Founts
- Milton Friedman explains who wins and who loses when government mandates higher labor costs
- Cigarette taxes are regressive and don’t reduce smoking very much
- We want higher wages, but higher minimum-wage laws are not the answer
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/3/18
- Grape Success: Vineyard Manager Crushes it with 2-year Degree
- Metro Transit has jobs going at $19.94 an hour. So why do we need a $15 an hour minimum wage?
- Trump’s tariffs are just a big ‘Buy Local’ campaign
- Mining generates 10 times more economic value than leisure, hospitality
- David Cooper of the Economic Policy Institute replies to our reply and gets it all wrong
- Wisconsin-Minnesota comparison was flawed
- MPR: Richard Painter and Tina Smith Differ on Mining
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/27/18
- Good news for young people: Paid internships are becoming the norm
- PolyMet Amendment Dropped From NDAA
- Advocates of minimum wage hikes are living in a fantasy world
- In the late 1990s, Minnesota cut its top rate of income tax. What happened to income tax revenues?
- “Student loan regret” increasingly troubles young Americans
- Economy Hums and Mining Rebounds Up North
- 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
- Higher tax rates do not bring more revenue
- Painter’s Stance on Mining is a Dumpster Fire
- Mrs. Greene Goes to Washington: Trump Administration to Roll Back the Dayton-Smith-DFL Union Dues Skimming Scheme
- Prevailing wage laws freeze less skilled workers out of labor markets, just like minimum wage laws
- Why Automation Sometimes Races But More Often Chugs
- Wages need to rise in real terms, not just nominal terms
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/13/18
- Mayor Carter should stop squandering political capital on his harmful minimum wage policy, and get serious about tackling crime in St. Paul
- New Technology Platform Will Help Businesses Attract and Retain Top Talent
- Milton Friedman on free trade
- On CNBC’s ranking of America’s Top States for Business, Minnesota’s economy tumbles 12 places
- Higher productivity drives higher wages, not the other way around
- ‘Magical thinking’ might make us feel good about ourselves, but it is no basis for public policy
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/6/18
- Minnesota ranks 8th nationally for its reliance on income taxes
- Evidence suggests that, compared to Wisconsin, Minnesota’s minimum wage hikes have cost restaurant jobs and lowered youth employment
- What trade means for Minnesotans
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/29/18
- Teens need foundation formed from entry-level, summer jobs
- Big Lake High School’s Apprenticeship Program Provides Students With Career Options
- What does the Supreme Court’s Wayfair decision mean?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 22/8/18
- Small towns are paying people to move there
- Hiring teenagers today
- Twin City Hardware hires employees before positions open
- The Inside Story: American Experiment Attends Trump’s Mining and Trade Policy Roundtable in Duluth
- Property taxes show that taxing wealth is easier said than done
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 15/8/18
- PolyMet Land Swap to Close June 28
- ‘It’s going to be a mess’ come tax season – CPAs speak out on Gov. Dayton’s parting gift to Minnesotans
- “I Like My Hands. They are My Work.”
- 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
- Minneapolis Property Owners Winning War With Tax Assessor
- Meet robot Ronald McDonald
- Minimum wages – My life in fast food
- A $15ph minimum wage would hit St. Paul Parks and Rec hardest
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/1/17
- Minnesota ranks 6th nationally for per capita state and local income taxes
- 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
- Evidence shows that higher minimum wages reduce other elements of worker compensation
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/25/17
- County Blinks Over Duluth Tax Assessments
- Milton Friedman on corporate taxes
- Tax beer more and you get less drinking. Why don’t policymakers apply this logic to work?
- 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
- MCTC helping undecided students figure out their course of action
- Young Minnesotans start manufacturing company in Winsted
- Duluth Businesses Clash With Tax Assessor
- 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
- Agriculture as a Peach of a Career
- 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
- Milton Friedman on the minimum wage
- 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
- My productive visit to St. Cloud to talk about the refugee resettlement program
- Business Complaints Lead City to Reconsider Tax Disguised as Fee
- 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
- Minneapolis Residents Revolt Over Skyrocketing Property Valuations
- Legislators Blink Over Backlash to Costly Eyelash Extension Regs
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/27/17
- Happy Tax Freedom Day Minnesota!
- Career and Technical Education: Not your grandpa’s vocational education
- 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
- The Minnesota House moves to regulate fantasy football
- Construct Tomorrow shares hands-on construction experiences with students
- Henry Hazlitt: Do Deficits Make Jobs?
- 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
- Thinking Minnesota Poll: Is a four-year degree necessary to achieve the American Dream?
- Estate tax is an incentive to leave Minnesota
- MN Community and Technical Colleges Encourage Women to Enter the Trades
- 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
- Henry Hazlitt: For True Tax Reform
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/13/17
- Minnesota needs fewer rules and fees to solve its affordable housing problem, not more government spending
- 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 should reduce its individual income tax rates
- Minnesota’s wage growth ranks 45th in the United States
- Recent legislation has been tough on businesses in Minn. border cities
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/30/17
- Public policy must take into account what is not seen as well as what is seen
- Minnesota should lower its corporate tax rate
- Skills Wanted: Companies focus on what workers can do, not what degree they hold
- Personal Income growth in Minnesota is driven by increases in transfer payments
- Who earns the minimum wage?
- 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
- State Initiatives Work to Eliminate Lingering Stigma of “Vocational” Education
- Minnesota job growth lags; tax reform seen as one solution
- Does Our National Conversation about College Debt Adequately Take Interest into Account?
- Georgia and Idaho cut taxes following federal tax reform
- Gov. Dayton overstates his economic achievements
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/16/17
- It wasn’t luck that made Ireland’s Celtic Tiger roar
- Minnesota should ditch its alternative minimum tax for corporations
- Teens Show Interest in Trade School, and That’s Okay
- Transforming Workforce Development
- Economics argues against $15
- Minnesota should abolish its estate tax
- Skilled immigrants needed to boost Minnesota’s economy
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/9/17
- January employment report: Minnesota’s job growth is concentrated in lower productivity sectors
- 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
- Don’t use tariffs to close the trade deficit
- Trade is not about ‘winners’ and ‘losers’
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/2/17
- Tight labor markets and rising wages aren’t just a feature of Minnesota’s economy
- 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
- Minimum wages are bad public policy
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/23/17
- Minnesota Apprenticeship Summit: “Build Your Workforce Through Apprenticeship”
- Do You Understand Your Local Economy?
- Stephen Moore on Trumponomics
- Why These Restaurant Workers Want Less Than the Minimum Wage
- Tax Refugees Flee to States with Lower Taxes
- Citizens League report shows that Saint Paul should tread carefully over the minimum wage
- 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?
- 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
- America’s Leading Scholar and Fan of Apprenticeships
- Career Exploration Tool Exposes Students to “Best Fit” Career Paths
- The Minnesota Myth
- On Business Taxes, Minnesota Is Near the Bottom
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/9/17
- China’s communists recognize that taxes are disincentives
- Minnesota’s economy hinges on the new mining jobs
- After enacting the disastrous $15 minimum wage in Minneapolis, activists now have Saint Paul’s labor market in their sights
- 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
- As Americans move to freer states Minnesota loses out
- Raise a glass to lower business taxes
- Minimum wages go up, Red Robin’s employment goes down
- Minimum wage laws don’t boost wages, they just outlaw jobs
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/26/17
- 3M Joins Long List of Companies Benefiting From Tax Reform
- Capitalism is the greatest anti-poverty program the world has ever known
- 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?
- Thousands of Minnesotans Get Bonuses and Pay Hikes Thanks to Tax Cuts [UPDATED]
- Does California’s government have a clue what it is doing?
- Why Did Amazon “Snub” the Twin Cities?
- A ‘shortage’ of workers in Minnesota is driving wages up
- 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”
- Here’s an issue we can all agree on: End ridiculous, anti-competitive occupational licensing
- Who Asks the Right Questions About Refugees?
- Twin Cities cut from Amazon’s HQ list
- Thousands of Minnesotans Get Bonuses and Pay Hikes Thanks to Tax Cuts [UPDATED]
- Market forces, not political decrees, create sustainable wage increases
- Research shows that state income taxes increase inequality by growing government
- Is MN Ag Department Playing Politics With Farmers’ Water Tests?
- Minimum wage’s unintended consequences
- How to Stay Free
- When It Comes to Tech Jobs, Minnesota Is Out In the Cold
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/12/17
- Youth Unemployment Worldwide: The Canary in the Coal Mine of Excessive Regulation
- Refugee Admissions Are Down: Trump the Executive in Action
- Coming: Apprenticeships for white-collar jobs?
- Housing costs and occupational licensing requirements are stopping Americans from moving
- Companies deal with pressure to raise wages in Minneapolis
- Thousands of Minnesotans Get Bonuses and Pay Hikes Thanks to Tax Cuts [UPDATED]
- How to Cure Inflation
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/5/17
- Florida Is Recruiting Minnesota’s Citizens
- High-tax states should abandon misguided schemes and focus on lowering taxes
- Milton Friedman demolishes the federal jobs guarantee
- Strib’s Sustainable Food Series Panned by Ag Experts
- Minnesota’s economic performance has room for improvement
- Minnesota’s economy: we can do better
- Who Protects the Worker?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/29/17
- Why do central bankers never learn?
- The economics of Christmas lights
- Who Protects the Consumer?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/22/17
- What will the federal tax bill mean for Minnesota?
- Minnesota ranks 40th in the US for economic freedom
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/15/17
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Henry Hazlitt: What’s Wrong with Our Labor Policy
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/8/17
- Minnesota’s new jobs are increasingly found in lower productivity sectors
- From Cradle to Grave
- Henry Hazlitt: How to Taper Off Rent Control
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/1/17
- 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
- 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 State of Minnesota’s Economy: Performance Continues to be Lackluster
- Eliminating deductions will hit high-tax Minnesota
- The Tyranny of Control
- Henry Hazlitt: The Consequences of Decontrol
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/17/17
- Skills Matter More Than Type of Degree
- 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
- What does the Senate’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act mean for Minnesota?
- The Power of the Market
- Last Ditch Lawsuit Filed to Save Minneapolis Jobs
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/10/17
- A new report from the Center finds that Minnesota’s economic performance continues to be lackluster
- 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
- Minnesota’s employers get creative to beat the labor ‘shortage’
- More St. Paul mayoral candidates on the minimum wage
- Henry Hazlitt: Squeezing the Price Balloon
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/03/17
- A tale of two stadiums
- September employment data shows how Minnesota’s urban areas compare with neighboring states
- The state and local tax deduction allows high tax states to pass some of the burden on to others. It should be ended.
- Minnesota’s economy hinges on the new mining jobs
- Don’t let pipeline protesters silence Minnesotans
- Henry Hazlitt: Meat and the Speed of Decontrol
- 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
- President Trump Updates Executive Order on Refugees: Could Help MN Track Costs
- Gov. Dayton is beginning to see the light on mining
- September employment report: Jobs gains in high productivity sectors should boost Minnesota’s economy
- Henry Hazlitt: Price-Fixing Brings Bottlenecks
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 20/10/17
- Minnesota ranks 46th out of 50 states for business taxation
- Unfair History and Under-Enrollment in Non-Four-Year Programs
- Minnesota’s consumers, not its politicians, should be picking winners and losers
- Where do St Paul’s mayoral candidates stand on the minimum wage?
- Do sports stars deserve multi-million dollar salaries? Well, yes, some of them do
- Minnesota agency reports lower than forecast revenue and lower economic growth in 2018
- 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
- 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
- Minnesota Ranked Second Least Tax-Friendly State in U.S.
- Cut or abolish the corporate income tax to help workers
- By fighting the removal of the state and local tax deduction, Minnesota Democrats show that tax rates do matter
- It’s Minnesota Manufacturing Week. Celebrate the policies which help our manufacturers bloom
- Will MN Business Climate Deter Amazon?
- Data shows Minnesota’s metropolitan areas slipping relative to its neighbors
- 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
- How Many Occupations Does It Take to Buy One House and Sell Another?
- As Target shows, market forces can drive wages up
- How can public sector employers afford a $15 minimum wage?
- Economic growth in Minnesota’s urban areas is lagging our peers
- 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
- August employment report: Minnesota’s job growth is concentrated in lower productivity sectors
- Minnesota is Among the Least Economically Free States
- 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
- Do the Twin Cities Have a Realistic Shot at Amazon’s Headquarters?
- 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’
- Why Do Apple, Facebook and Twitter Oppose Internet Deregulation?
- Hurricane Harvey will not be an economic boon for Texas
- Now how about a capital day?
- Trump Brings Back Work Requirement for Welfare
- Minnesota leads nation in good jobs that don’t need a four-year degree
- Minnesota foundations lead way in training needy citizens for in-demand jobs
- When the Welders Came to Capitol Hill
- How do economies grow?
- How have the Twin Cities been doing economically?
- Rural Broadband Providers Back Trump’s Move to Scrap Net Neutrality
- Where do Minnesota’s legislators stand on federal tax reform?
- CMMA is model for state’s manufacturers
- Great Work by an Intern on Her Summer Vacation
- Got a spare two months? Read Minnesota’s regulations
- Keith Ellison demands a $15 minimum wage but doesn’t pay his interns
- Last Call As Twin Cities Suburb Privatizes Liquor Sales
- Why robots support a higher minimum wage
- More workers will help us prosper, if they’re the right kind of workers
- Minnesota Revenues Falling Below Forecast
- Thomas Friedman agrees with the Trump agenda
- 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?
- Too Risky: Co-op Turns Down $4.9 Million State Broadband Grant
- 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
- Strong growth in physicians licensed in Minnesota
- 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
- Revolutionary new tool helps employers find skilled workers
- Tapani Sisters of Wyoming Machine show the way on closing the skills gap
- Tax something, you get less of it. Policymakers have always known that
- June employment report: Good news from Minnesota’s labor market
- Businesses seeking older skilled workers to fill gap
- Employment data upends liberal narrative on the border battle between Minnesota and Wisconsin
- 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
- Who Needs a Four-Year Degree?
- 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 housing crisis is government made
- Minnesota’s revenue shortfall offers a sign for concern and a lesson in economics
- Don’t vote for $15, work for it
- Great Jobs and a Perfectly Fitting Story
- With wage hike, Minneapolis ignores economic laws
- A ‘liberal’ economist on minimum wages
- 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
- I’d be dancing, too (if I lived in a luxury loft subsidized by taxpayers).
- 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
- Do State Employees Have 6 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave? Or Not?
- Jobs in Minnesota without a four year degree
- May employment report: Minnesota needs more productive jobs
- An Economist’s View: Dayton’s rich-vs.-the-rest economic view is simply wrong
- Dodd-Frank: Wrong diagnosis, wrong prescription
- Minnesota needs more productive jobs
- Economic inequality does not cause poverty
- Taxpayer money is not the solution for North Minneapolis’ vacant lots
- Vetoed tax bill would focus tax relief on seniors, families, and small businesses
- BMW’s Success with Germany’s Apprenticeship Model
- Government Red Tape Could Hold Up Duluth Ski Project for Years
- Flow of Refugees Slows, But Costs Are Still Unknown
- Connecticut’s Experience: Taxing the Rich Doesn’t Work
- Tax the rich? Done. Chase them from the State? Done.
- Disastrous Winter for Taxpayer-Subsidized Spirit Mountain Skiing in Duluth
- Is “Affordable Housing Crisis” Driving Somalis Out of Eden Prairie?
- Eliot Seide’s Foolish Take on High Minnesota Taxes
- It’s tax day: Minnesota, a land of progressivity
- Minnesota vs. Wisconsin
- A Competition For “Tax Fairness”? That’s Delusional
- Tax Credits For Student Loan Payments? A Terrible Idea
- 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
- Welfare Fraud Can Be
Profitable Lucrative! [Updated]
- Minnesota Hands Out Welfare to Ineligible Recipients
- Minnesota, Land of 10,000 Lakes and One Shrimp Farm?
- Minnesota Ranks In the Top Five!
- Understanding the New Tax Plan America Needs
- Why Are Minnesotans So Overtaxed?
- Refugee data: That’s not Minnesota Nice
- The Unintended Consequences of MN’s High Cigarette Taxes
- Business Calls for More Immigrants: At What Cost to Taxpayers?
- Government, Not Wall Street, Caused Financial Crisis
- Coming Soon: Sunday Liquor Sales?
- New report pinpoints several aspects of state tax code that challenge Minnesota’s competitiveness
- Minnesota’s New Year’s Resolution
- Millennials Voted On the Economy
- Cigarette Smuggling Soars in Minnesota After Big Tax Hike
- Many Minnesotans to Pay Just Shy of the Highest 2016 Income Tax Rate in the Nation
- Sagging Liquor Profits Force Edina Munis to Compete
- Contractors Pressed to Shop Subcontractor Bids as MnDOT Misses Minority Goal Again
- Will General Mills be the next Minnesota Fortune 500 company lost to a takeover?
- Uber Drivers: A Preferred Way to Get Around When I Travel and a Great Income and Flexible Job for Many
- Court Blocks Controversial O.T. Regs Imposed by Executive Order
- Business friendly policies spur stronger growth in counties across Minnesota’s border
- Why Can’t Young People Afford Houses?
- Nearly Twice As Many Work In Government As In Manufacturing
- More of the Same: “Nothing Spectacular” in State Jobs Report
- 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
- Affordable Housing? Not For Twin Cities Families
- 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
- Why the Minimum Wage Is a Bad Idea
- Don’t Miss Our BIG Minimum Wage DEBATE This Tuesday (Sept. 20)
- Minnesota’s high-tech industry can do much better
- Are Voters Catching On to the Minimum Wage?
- Even Where It’s Good, Minnesota’s Economy Isn’t Great
- Minnesota’s Economy: No Beacon of Prosperity!
- Minnesota’s Economy Faces a Turning Point
- Download American Experiment’s Blockbuster Report on Minnesota’s Economy
- Star Tribune Editorial Urges Bipartisan Focus on Center’s Economy Report
- 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
- 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
- Do Rental Limits on Homeowners Harm the Poor, Middle Class and Minorities?
- How Strong Is Minnesota’s Economy, Really?
- Despite risky behavior, pension funds are coming up short
- 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
- Don’t Miss CAE Forum on How Dodd-Frank Hurts Small Business with Top Expert Peter Wallison
- Is the Customer Always Right? Or Do Businesses Have the Right to Refuse Service?
- A response to various objections to American Experiment’s report, “Minnesotans on the Move to Lower Tax States 2016”
- Perception please meet the reality of Minnesota’s jobs climate
- Minnesota job growth still falls behind U.S.
- Minnesota Economy No Victory for Dayton
- Category: Education
- Elementary students return to their classrooms
- Should states skip testing this spring?
- More Seniors Hold Off on College as Aid Applications Dive
- Hundreds Report Problems Over Gov. Walz’s Mask Mandate for Youth Sports
- A Plea for Help as Students Blast Distance Learning at Legislative Hearing
- Are the concerns of 5,000 Minnesotans ‘white supremacy’?
- Parents of children in private and charter schools more satisfied with student progress than parents of children in public district schools
- Interactive map: Type of learning model being used by Minnesota school districts & charter schools
- Public Meeting on Social Studies Standards Happening Monday
- Education can’t be the great equalizer if schools are closed
- Frustration on the rise among Rochester Public Schools parents over school plans
- To understand the new social studies standards, just look at who wrote them (Part 2)
- To understand Tim Walz’s new social studies standards, just look at who wrote them
- New study finds less suicide among students with education options
- Many Students Falling Further Behind with Schools Still Closed
- Raise our standards!
- U of M Regent Calls on New CFO Frans to Cut Bloated Bureaucracy and Criticizes His $450,000 Salary
- State leaders should seriously consider Special Education Savings Accounts to better serve Minnesota’s most vulnerable students
- MN Social Studies Standards are Under Revision: Here are top 5 areas of concern
- Gov. Walz’s updated order still leaves students behind
- U of M Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Tuition Refund for Online Classes
- Some Schools Refuse to Close Despite Virus Because It’s Better for Kids
- With NAEP testing postponed, state testing is even more important
- How unaffordable is childcare in Minnesota?
- Dr. Fauci Flip Flops on School Closures, Now Urges Schools to Reopen
- More studies show unions and politics driving school closures
- Even if in-person instruction resumes in January, the average student will still have lost seven months of learning
- Without sports, will more students disengage from school?
- Part II: What will education look like under a Biden administration?
- Updated guidance tells districts to plan on administering state assessments for the school year
- Millions of students in distance-only learning model have limited contact with teachers
- ‘Our kids are not all right’: New report finds teens struggling due to school closure and isolation
- Policymakers can help teachers focus on reading
- Part I: What will education look like under a Biden administration?
- Survey says: Students struggling with remote learning
- Minnesota has an opportunity to help more families access the education options they are interested in
- COVID silver lining? Study finds pandemic may improve teacher quality
- Huge Numbers of St. Paul High School Students Failing Virtual Classes
- Did teacher retirements surge in 2020?
- MN Voters Approve Fewest K-12 Funding Levies Since 1996
- Gov. Walz issues new school guidance, but it falls short of what’s needed
- ‘Still left behind’: Achievement outcomes of low-income students persistently low
- A ‘recipe for rational government’: Flexibility and choice in education
- Frustration mounts over continued school closures. It’s time to give Minnesota parents more educational power.
- Reading scores drop among U.S. high school seniors
- Minnesota school of choice highlighted as ‘Back-to-School’ success story on U.S. Department of Education website
- Survey Says: Parents of students doing online learning worry about them falling behind
- Report estimates as many as 25% of marginalized Minnesota students missing from school since March
- Big Enrollment Dip as Metro Parents Pull Kindergartners Out of Public Schools
- Research finds few links between schools and COVID-19 cases
- Students Hold Protest to Get More Face Time with Teachers
- How COVID-19 upset the case against school choice
- Economist’s view: Schools aren’t super-spreaders
- St. Cloud Public School Enrollment Dips as Parents Seek Alternatives
- Parents worry about learning loss from remote learning
- Do school choice programs hurt traditional public schools by taking money away from them?
- A post-COVID agenda for Minnesota’s state government: Education
- How COVID-19 is ‘super-spreading’ school choice
- Note to schools: Here are spending areas to rethink so you spend money more wisely
- Schools Still Push Parents to Pass Dozens of Referenda Despite Covid Downturn
- Literacy gains more likely when students learn more social studies
- Prominent Black leaders release curriculum to counter 1619 Project
- It’s (in-person) back to school for several large MN school districts
- Eight MN elementary schools recognized for progress on closing achievement gaps
- Survey says: Support for school choice surges as schools start
- Assessments matter: Students still need to master reading, writing and math—even during a pandemic
- Learning pods explained
- Are school reopening efforts in Iraq similar to school reopening efforts in the U.S.?
- Schools Stunned by MN High School League’s Huge COVID-19 Fee Increase
- Joe Biden and teachers’ union share same feelings on charter schools
- Teacher Truths: You will not lose seniority or tenure if you resign from the union
- School Closures’ Long-Term Impact on U.S. Economy at More Than $14 Trillion
- Why is the MN State High School League Still Banning Fall Football?
- Nearly Two-Thirds of Young American Adults Don’t Know Key Facts About Holocaust
- How many MN teachers are “at risk”?
- List of MN Principals Who Pledge to ‘Decenter Whiteness’ [UPDATED]
- Study finds that younger children are hurt more by school closures than are older children
- Mankato the Latest Greater MN District to Keep Cops in Schools
- Parent group calls for boycott of Minneapolis Public Schools
- Governments seeking additional K-12 education aid should fund students over institutions
- Closed schools = Economic cost
- Parents Are Fed Up, Turn to Pandemic Pods and Other Alternatives
- In-person learning is an essential business, but if schools are going to remain closed, parents shouldn’t be forced to pay for them
- MN professors tell white parents to keep kids in public schools to show they aren’t racist
- Virtual Fire Drill
- MDE Guidance on Student Transportation is ‘Confusing’ and Leading to Services Being Denied
- Government-run schools alienating large numbers of families
- Minnesota’s public schools have little to show for decades of increased spending
- Rising costs of teacher retirement systems do not reflect improved benefits
- Private schools gain edge with re-opened classrooms this fall
- High school exit exams decrease arrests
- Resources on alternative learning options
- Study finds disparities in demand for online learning resources between low and high income areas, which will widen achievement gaps
- MPS School Board votes down distance learning resolution, wants to wait for state guidance
- Alternative learning options for this fall should be more accessible
- Multiple surveys confirm distance learning didn’t go well
- Rally at Gov.’s Mansion to re-open Minnesota’s schools Sunday July 26
- MN school plans for the fall will be announced July 30
- NYT announces education podcast titled, “Nice White Parents”
- Disparities will widen if schools don’t reopen
- Families look to homeschooling as uncertainty over schools reopening continues
- New Duluth Superintendent Aims to Keep Police Resource Officers in Schools
- MN private religious schools likely to open this fall
- Funding students instead of systems
- Thomas Sowell publishes new book: “Charter Schools and Their Enemies”
- Survey Says: 64% of MN parents want kids in school this fall
- School leaders call for billions more in additional education aid—are they crying wolf?
- Landmark Decision Paves the Way for Expanding Minnesota Educational Freedom
- Duluth Students Petition to Get Police Out of Schools
- Years of test-score data suggest charter schools don’t harm traditional public schools
- MN Legislature is missing an opportunity to support kids
- WI School District Proposes Layoffs Based on Qualifications, Not Seniority
- Student Performance is Slipping, but Minnesotans Still Love Their Schools.
- Allergic to Accountability: Big Education demands more and more money, with little to show for it
- Education policy recommendations that not only assist K-12 students but are also fiscally responsible
- MN Schools Allowed to Reopen for Summer
- American Experiment speaks up for education choice
- Minneapolis Public Schools board approves controversial redistricting plan
- National poll finds 4 out of 10 families more likely to homeschool after lockdowns end
- Confusing a fundamental right as an absolute right
- A student’s perspective: “I’m learning more with distance learning”
- 5 ideas to support parents with learning from home
- Education Savings Accounts: A targeted solution during the coronavirus crisis
- Harvard Law School Cancels Anti-Homeschooling Summit
- Parents concerned their child won’t be prepared for next school year, education advocates favor extending it
- On this 40th anniversary of the U.S. Department of Education, how are students doing under national standards?
- Private schools eligible for equitable services under CARES Act programs
- Exploring the different educational options available to MN families
- The coronavirus has opened up opportunity to make education better
- U.S. 8th graders don’t know much U.S. history
- Education researcher suggests parents should try “unschooling” during coronavirus pandemic
- Harvard law professor wants to ban homeschooling, calls it “dangerous”
- More accountability needed for nearly $600 million aimed at low-performing students
- Adding more nature to distance learning
- Homeschooling: A ‘blessing in disguise’ for some amidst a health care crisis
- Education survey for MN parents
- Abigail Thernstrom, R.I.P
- Parents and students react to homeschooling during coronavirus
- Coronavirus school closures provide opportunity to rethink our education system
- TOMORROW: How good are Minnesota’s public schools, really?
- Patience needed as distance learning experiences glitches
- For parents: How to keep your sanity as kids learn from home
- MN schools closed through May 4
- Map: State education systems respond to coronavirus
- Catholic schools work to overcome challenges from Coronavirus
- A wonderful classroom setting: Nature
- National teachers’ union AFT endorses Biden
- School Closures Map
- Alternative learning resources for MN students
- School choice program benefits public school students
- Law Firm at Center of Discredited Trump Dossier Hired by U of M
- St. Olaf College states student teachers “must” join union’s pre-professional organization
- Teacher merit pay has positive effect on student test scores
- Constitutional amendment on schools won’t help, will hurt
- Message to bureaucrats: ‘Controlled choice’ is an oxymoron
- Public views on education should play a bigger role in 2020 election debates
- Grading standards do impact student achievement
- Mitch Pearlstein Testimony on Civics Education
- Public school hashtag during National School Choice Week backfires
- Tom Steyer opposes school choice despite taking advantage of it for his kids
- Public schools are incorporating ‘1619 Project’ into history curricula
- New book gives families an objective look at all education options
- National poll shows tremendous support for school choice policies
- Celebrating National School Choice Week
- Wisconsin’s union recertification requirement represents true workplace democracy
- Finland’s test scores drop, teachers’ union says solution is more funding
- When the teachers’ union supports school choice
- Minnesota Teacher’s Stunt to Kneel for National Anthem Near Trump Falls Flat
- Charter schools do serve ‘actual students,’ and families choose these schools for a reason
- Education needs a mantra for the New Year
- Amending MN’s constitution won’t solve the achievement gap, but at least the conversation has started
- Teachers’ union supports bill allowing physical restraint of students
- No, education spending hasn’t decreased; and no, more money won’t fix America’s schools
- Tackling the Teacher Pay Debate
- Do open enrollment laws and charter schools ‘steal’ students from district schools?
- Teachers’ union encourages English teachers to promote political agenda around climate change
- Charter schools are not the villain
- Education reform pioneer shares her fight for school choice in latest memoir
- Teachers’ union calls charter school closings ‘racist’ but didn’t want them opened in the first place
- The New York Times ‘1619 Project’ revisited
- Tis the Season of Progressives Fleeing Charter Schools?
- Americans strongly support school choice, confidence in public schools improving is low
- The increasing politicization of education curriculum
- Elizabeth Warren flip-flops on school choice
- Personalized Learning: Why this rising trend in education is concerning
- Proposed licensing changes would require all new educators to receive ‘equity’ training
- Why are reading scores across the country falling?
- Accenture report highlights the need for tech-related apprenticeships for community college students
- The Indiana teachers’ union rally: ‘Circus, but no bread’
- The Left’s attempt to redefine science
- Understanding charter schools and their role in public education
- 10-hour school day?
- Duluth School Board Under Fire Over Closed Door Meetings
- 3 big concerns with showering more dollars on schools
- School districts politicize students after their levies pass
- Halloween deal sends Chicago students back to school
- Dunwoody celebrates women pursuing technical careers
- “The Black and White Beauty of Fixing Things”
- MN High School Girls Compete to Persuade at State Capitol
- Industry-education partnerships boost aircraft repair enrollments
- Math–It’s Oppressive!
- Fangtastic news for teachers: There is still time to get union PAC contribution back
- AOC’s inadvertent case for educational freedom
- The Compatibility of Political Progressivism and “Something Else” Educationally
- ‘We Can Support Our Teachers and Still Call B.S. on This Chicago Strike’
- Survey says: Teachers and principals view relationship differently
- Why Do Minnesota Schools Still Cancel Classes for the Teachers’ Union?
- Minnetonka school board caps enrollment, a case for expanded school choice
- Don’t let the union pick your politics
- Report confirms persistent achievement gap, students unprepared for college
- Test Scores Falling? Change the Test!
- Five facts teachers’ unions won’t admit
- It’s All Chinese to Me (In a Good Way)
- The truth about rights outside of union membership
- Iowa increases tax-credit scholarship cap, helps more students access their school of choice
- Big Lake High School students learn there is no one path to success
- MN Educators: Make your choice about union membership today
- Teacher Opt-Out Window Ends Monday, Know Where the Dues Go
- Great Jobs Without a Four-Year Degree goes to Alexandria
- How well do Minnesota’s schools really compare?
- Supporting school choice is a no brainer for Americans
- MN teachers’ resignation window closes Sept. 30
- MN teacher gets settlement from St. Paul school district
- Teachers’ unions complain about charter schools, but students at these schools succeed
- Minnesota school district with ‘second highest’ math proficiency only a C+
- Bluff Country Collaborative sparks new connection between rural schools and employers
- Pushing back against teachers’ union is not an attack on teachers
- New Educated Teachers Video: ‘My School Year as a Non-Union Member’
- Educated Teachers mailer raises awareness on how dues are spent
- What Back-to-School Means for Teachers
- MN student academic performance drops again; where are the results of all our spending?
- Inescapable Reality, Not Victim Blaming
- It’s Day 1: Teachers’ window to resign from union membership has opened
- School Choice in Action: More students leave Minneapolis Public Schools
- Teacher can seek punitive damages from St. Paul School District
- Is teachers’ union membership the only option for protection from lawsuits? No.
- Education MN President’s Weak Attempt to Smear the Center
- Teachers voice concern over school discipline reform
- ‘If I leave my teachers’ union, who will defend me?’
- ‘Freeloader’ claims disparage public employees unions fought to represent
- St. Paul Teachers Put Benefits Ahead of Students
- Teachers, here are four misconceptions about your rights outside of union membership
- Winning Poster in Teachers’ Union Contest Uses Soviet-Style Imagery
- Are Minnesota’s Schools the “Worst In the Nation”?
- School Discipline Reform: Doing More Harm Than Good, Studies & Teachers Say
- Teachers unaware of union options
- National Teachers’ Union Fears Competition, Locks Down Local Unions Looking for an Exit
- National Teachers’ Union Adopts New Social Agenda, Votes Down Proposal to Prioritize Student Learning
- Tyranny of the 10 Year Olds
- Teachers believe they should be able to join or quit a union at any time
- Teachers, job protection is available outside of union membership
- Teachers, you made it to summer break! Now it’s time to consider your options on union membership.
- Teachers: Do you know your rights when it comes to union membership?
- Candidate for National Teachers’ Union Board of Directors Gets 101 Percent of the Vote
- National Teachers’ Union Will Incorporate Concept of ‘White Fragility’ into Staff Trainings & Literature
- National Teachers’ Union Representative Assembly Convenes
- Myth: Public schools are held accountable while private schools are not
- The Underappreciated Possibilities of Private School Options
- Top 5 Reasons Educators Join Alternative Organizations
- The Janus Effect: Teachers’ union opens resignation window to 30 days
- Top 5 Reasons Educators Opt-Out of Union Membership
- Private school choice programs benefit students
- Myth: Educational choice programs violate separation of church and state
- Survey says: College students feel campus climate silences free speech
- National Teachers’ Union Claim of No Members Lost Day After Janus is Misleading
- Study finds D.C. school choice program increases student satisfaction
- Florida adds another school choice program, Minnesota fails to pass tax-credit scholarships
- Voluntary Pre-K held at 2017 level, but does not target neediest children
- Postsecondary education: And who — who — will take the road less traveled by?
- Local charity ‘Start Reading Now’ aims to develop a love of reading in kids
- The Ins and Outs of Minnesota’s Education Omnibus Bill
- Repairs to 18 St. Paul schools will cost 61% more than projected. But hey, it’s only (your) money
- The Historic Fairness of Standardized Admissions Tests
- New Orleans’s education success story: A model worth following
- Celebrating charter schools and the educational opportunities they bring to students
- Divided legislature takes different approaches to education spending
- “Am I a bad colleague if I leave my teachers’ union?”
- True Teacher Appreciation: Respect for educators’ voice and choice
- Teachers hold their tongues about union policies to not offend colleagues
- Comparatively Speaking, How Much K-12 Spending Goes to Teacher Salaries?
- Poll: 1 in 3 teachers want to negotiate salary & benefits for themselves
- Where is Edina Schools’ 2017-18 Annual Report, and why can’t we see it?
- Accountability in the Edina Public Schools Then and Now—A World of Difference
- New evidence that academic rigor still takes a back seat to a social mission in Edina Public Schools
- Can Edina’s Schools Be Saved?
- Misconceptions teachers are told about opting out
- Myth: Only students from affluent families benefit from educational choice programs
- Minnesota teachers are trapped by arbitrary union terms, forcing them to fund Education Minnesota’s partisan political spending.
- Myth: Educational choice programs that offer scholarship tax credits are funded with public dollars
- (Partial) Book Review: Unprofitable Schooling
- Myth: Educational choice programs exacerbate racial segregation
- Teachers, do you know your rights?
- Myth: Educational Choice Programs Take Money From Public Schools
- The Empire Strikes Back at Teacher Licensing Reforms
- Do Minnesotans get high value for high taxes? Evidence suggests the answer is no
- Opportunity Scholarships Would Give More MN Families Access to Better Schools
- Proposed teacher licensing changes rebuild roadblocks
- Do Union and Nonunion Teachers Differ in Their Opinions?
- Teachers: Your salary and benefits won’t be affected if you aren’t members of the union
- Teachers: You won’t lose tenure or seniority if you aren’t members of the union
- Hard to Fathom Male and Female Graduation Rates
- Teachers report increase in student behavioral issues
- What Elizabeth Warren Could Have Taught Marco Defunis
- DFL Bill Disenfranchises Voters on Expiring School Referendums
- Florida’s School Choice Efforts Boost College Prospects
- Teachers less likely to recommend teaching profession to friend or colleague
- What is the average teacher pension in Minnesota?
- “Just Missing” Online Learning Projections
- We celebrated School Choice last week, now let’s work on expanding it
- Duluth School Board Pays Out $55,000 to Citizen Watchdog
- 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
- ‘What Percent Are You?’: 1/3 of Teachers’ Union Employees are in Top 5% Income Bracket or Higher
- Newly-elect Governor Walz alludes to pre-K being one focus of his education agenda
- Teachers’ union labels its political activity as ‘the envy of every political organization in MN’
- Recapping Significance of Supreme Court Janus Decision in 2018
- U of M Presidential Searches and Watergate
- New Year, Same Debt
- What would happen if a cabinet secretary walked out during a congressional hearing?
- 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
- “NEA Convention by the Numbers” from Ace Union Reporter Mike Antonucci Plus New Report Coming Soon
- Charter Schools Hunt for a Home While Buildings Stay Vacant
- The U of M Has Every Right – and Obligation – to Defend Itself
- Separate But Equal Continuing Legal Education
- 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
- Sweeping lawsuit would create a general mess
- MN & WI schools both recognized for academic excellence, but only WI schools recognized for progress on closing achievement gaps
- Big Lake Students Explore Apprenticeships During Career Fair
- Milton Friedman: Judge public policies by their results, not their intentions
- Education Minnesota endorses political candidates & “recommends” them to members
- Union Executive and Staff Pay Far Exceeds Teachers; State Union Dues Increase Again
- 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”
- 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
- On freedom, Minnesota ranks only 37th in America
- Non-Union Teacher Associations Offer Educators Double Protection
- Urban Minority Students Aren’t Getting the Education They Need
- Taxpayers to Get Squeezed After Minneapolis School District Mismanages Their Budget, Again…
- Evidence suggests that moving away from seniority pay improves teacher quality
- MN Teachers’ Union Calls Attention to Center’s Employee Freedom Project and Billboards
- Minnesota Needs to Address Labor Shortage in Education Curricula
- Research suggests that collective bargaining laws harm students, with black and Hispanic men particularly affected
- Teachers want unions to focus more on professional needs, but are they listening?
- Teachers’ Unions Scramble to Remain Relevant
- Billboards Work!
- Lawsuit Charges U of M Bias Against Conservative Ben Shapiro
- National Education Association Meeting: A Social Justice Summit?
- Twin Cities Schools Gobble Up Most of the Mining Revenue
- Catholic Schools and Embracing the Elusive
- Rural Schools Show Off Pride in Agriculture and Country
- Survey Says: MN teachers have heard very little, if anything, about Janus case
- Good News: Assaulted Para-Teacher Will Recover. Bad News: Schools are Really Dangerous for Teachers
- Pension Funding: the Pension Problem Will Return, Again
- Educators increasingly subjected to violence by students
- Gov. Mark Dayton: holding his breath until he turns blue at elementary school
- Teachers Agree: Teachers’ unions make it “harder to fire bad teachers”
- One Year Alternatives to College: Educational institutions for the “digital age”
- 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!
- A message to high school seniors: College is one choice, but it isn’t the only choice
- Teacher workplace democracy is a principle but not a practice
- What Middle School Students Need to Know about Great Jobs Without a Four-Year Degree
- Young Communists of Minnetonka
- Coming Soon: Greater Chaos in Our Classrooms
- Rush City’s Dennis Frandsen offers free college for his hometown’s high school seniors
- Gov. Dayton’s relentless pursuit of our small children, and union revenues: Will the GOP hold the line?
- NAEP and the Imperative of Breaking Academic Sweats
- The Frequent Fright of Student Debt
- The political ideology favored by teachers’ unions is not reflective of all members
- MN High School Theater Program is 1 of 50 Nationwide to Receive $10K Grant
- Education Minnesota tells members the Center is a “group to watch”
- Obama School Discipline “Guidance” To Be Revoked
- Katherine Kersten responds to Comm. Cassellius’s Counterpoint in today’s Star Tribune
- Violence at Edina High School
- Katherine Kersten responds to the TWO Counterpoints aimed at her in today’s Star Tribune
- Community and Technical Colleges Tweak Programs to Meet Labor Demand
- Undisciplined: Chaos may be coming to Minnesota classrooms, by decree
- Must Read: Kersten Expose on Coming Chaos in MN Classrooms
- The Thrill is Gone: Minnesota Students Are Being Deprived of Real Protest. Even in Chaska.
- Professor invited to speak at U of MN will lecture on “decentering whiteness”
- Children Are Being Used to Call for Gun Control Wednesday: Keep Your Children Home (In Protest) #KeepYourKidHome
- Did Tim Klobuchar Lie to a Senate Committee?
- Middle School Experiential Learning Program Exposes Students to Different Career Field Every Month
- Should Academic Balance Be Required in Public Schools?
- Why Are Schools Busing Students to Protests?
- Should Teachers Have the Right to Strike? A Look at West Virginia and the Twin Cities.
- An Edina High School Student Writes
- “School Discipline Gaps” in Minnesota: Are They Really a Mystery?
- Word of Edina’s School Decline Is Spreading
- U of M Faces Potential Lawsuit Over Barring Shapiro From Main Campus
- Teachers Challenge Duluth Schools on Censoring ‘Mockingbird’ and ‘Huck Finn’
- How to reach high school students? Manufacturers try going straight to their parents
- Lego Building Competition Introduces Students to Construction Careers
- Where Are U of M Duluth Champions of Banned Books Now?
- Duluth Schools Under Fire From National Group for Censorship
- 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
- Politicization of Edina Schools Continues to Receive National Attention
- National Media Picks Up Center’s Expose on Indoctrination in Edina Schools
- Sixth Straight Year of Decline in Students for MN State Schools
- Educational Freedom & MLK’s Dream
- Tucker Carlson recognized as a ‘Higher Ed Hero’ & will be featured at Center’s Annual Dinner
- Katherine Kersten Adds Explosive Follow-up to Her Investigation of Edina’s Public Schools
- 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
- Coming Soon: National School Choice Week at the MN State Capitol
- Evidence suggests that collective bargaining for teachers harms students
- Educational advance for parent choice: 529 accounts available for K-12 public, private and religious schools
- American Experiment Scores Two of 2017’s Top Ten Op-Eds
- A View on Higher Ed: Results show 2-year degree holders often outearn college-educated peers
- U of MN Refutes Memo that Calls Santa Claus & Christmas Trees “Not Appropriate”
- Millennials: The School Choice Generation
- Season Cheer: Edina Student Wins the Congressional App Competition
- What’s Wrong with Our Schools?
- Why Would Congress Punish Colleges That Decline Federal Funds? A Hillsdale Mom Makes the Case for That ‘Hillsdale Exemption’
- “Legacy Minnesota” Program Prepares High Schoolers for Careers in Energy Industry
- Learning and Doing Math Vocationally
- Free Speech Is Under Attack On Minnesota’s Campuses
- US Civil Rights Commission Turns to American Experiment on School Discipline Issue
- Video: Edina High School Students Refuse to Stand for Veterans
- How “Creepy” is Video Targeting Edina High School Conservative Students?
- Ongoing Turmoil at Edina High School as Police Investigate Video [Updated]
- Do mandatory fees trap students into supporting groups they don’t agree with?
- Parental Choice is Working: Why are the teachers’ union and Hollywood attacking charter schools?
- Teacher Reveals Required English Course Aims to Eradicate White Privilege at Edina High
- What Counts as a “Crisis” at the Teachers’ Pension Funds?
- Edina Schools’ Equity Trainer Says Whites Must Change “From the Cells Out”
- Are Edina Public Schools Giving Taxpayer Money to the ACLU? [UPDATED]
- See Katherine Kersten on Fox & Friends Re: Edina Public Schools
- Edina Lefties Try to Push Back, But Fail Miserably
- Center’s Exposé Dominates Debate Over Edina Schools
- Kathy Kersten Needs Defending in the Same Way a Fish Needs a Bike Path
- Great two-year programs that often out-earn four-year college grads
- Kersten responds to Star Tribune Counterpoints re: Edina School District’s racial identity policies
- Watch the Presentation that Kicked Off the Edina School Controversy
- Racial identity policies are ruining Edina’s fabled schools
- Edina’s Superintendent Misrepresented Facts to Civil Rights Commission
- How Leftism Can Ruin a School District
- Teacher’s Lawsuit Against St. Paul School District Moves Forward
- Children will pay the cost of sacrificing education for indoctrination
- A Curriculum of Political Indoctrination in Edina’s Public 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
- Center Study: Minnesotans Without College Degrees Often Out-Earn Four-Year College Grads
- School Choice in Action: Minneapolis & St. Paul Families Leave Neighborhood Schools
- Teacher Absenteeism a Big Problem in MN Public Schools
- Higher Education and Careers: Schumpeter’s Creative Construction
- 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
- Perpetual Omissions in Stories about Minnesota’s Achievement Gaps
- MN Public Schools Miss the Mark: Test Results Stagnant, Achievement Gap Persists
- The DFL’s “Young Learners” Marching to Pre-School This Fall
- 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
- “I Come to Mostly Praise Higher Education, Not Bury It”
- Kathy Kersten’s Better Bloggerville Welcome
- MN Dept. of Education Approves Controversial Transgender Toolkit
- 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
- Postsecondary education for non-dummies
- Transgender Toolkit for MN Schools [UPDATE]
- The Rebellion Against Left-Wing Politics in the Schools Continues, and It Isn’t Only Edina [Updated]
- Hear Denisha Merriweather’s Story: Why school choice is still the best answer to Minnesota’s achievement gap
- Where Does the Idea Everyone Should Go to College Come From?
- Edina Parents and Students Rebel Against Politics in Classroom
- Innovative Dunwoody program helping women and minorities find great jobs
- Kersten gets message out that terrific careers don’t require a costly four-year degree: Op-ed reaches 28 community newspapers
- AchieveMpls helps students find great jobs that don’t require a four-year degree
- Why No Erasing of Blaine’s Name Too?
- Edina Teachers Take Sides In Partisan Politics
- Rising fees, not low minimum wages, are hitting college students
- Lifting the stigma on vocational education and technical training
- Is there a link between school spending & student achievement?
- Educational and Career Advice and a Barely Changing Score
- Good News about Apprenticeships
- How Many Truly Need a Four-Year College Degree?
- What’s CTE? And It Increased High School Graduation Rates by HOW Much?
- The Educational Value of Beautiful and Physically Demanding Things
- Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities
- An Impressive “Hand’s On, In-the-Seat” Program in Staples
- Great Jobs and Inclusive Growth
- Legislature Ends Special Session: News on Transportation, Met Council & Education
- Teachers Union Urges Resistance to DeVos & “Cruel” Education Budget
- Great Jobs for Grads Without a Four-Year Degree
- Transgender Toolkit for MN Schools Based on Controversial Obama Rule
- Dayton sacrifices children on the altar of government unions, again
- MN High School Yearbook on Trump: “I would like to behead him” [Updated]
- K-12 Education Omnibus & Educator Licensing Bills: VETOED
- MN Teacher Licensing Bill Passed by House & Senate, Headed to Dayton
- Lesson Learned! School Board Stands Up to Near-Mob of Protesters
- Dayton is vetoing good education legislation. We need your help.
- St. Paul Teacher Seeks to Hold District, and Students, Accountable for Assault
- 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
- Center Launches Major New Education Program
- 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
- Is Gustavus College’s “Fake News” Guide Reliable or Biased?
- A Teachable Moment for State Teaching Board
- Former MN Teacher of the Year Gets the Boot Under Last In, First Out System
- Why 4-Year-Olds Should Beat Governor Dayton Back with an Olive Branch
- Political Correctness and “Alternative Bureaucracies”
- Students at Gustavus: White Lab Rats?
- St. Olaf Hate Threatens Conservative Students: At Least Two Leave School
- 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
- What Kinds of Jobs Are We Talking About?
- 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
- The Many Virtues and Similarities of Transatlantic Plumbing
- 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?
- DHS says all-day Kindergarten has reduced pre-school options for parents
- 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
- Little League baseball: Youth sports’ lessons are lasting
- Fergus Falls educators, manufacturers take on the skills gap
- When Public Officials Read Troubled Situations Less Well than Troubled Kids Actually Read
- 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
- Met Council Seeks to Promote Trailer Parks In Suburbs
- Defending the Rights of Schools that Teach Self-Sacrifice
- St. Paul Superintendent Let Go In Wake of Controversy Over School Violence
- 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.
- Category: Energy
- Tune in to California Car State Senate Testimony
- Minnesota Considers Green New Permitting Process
- In the Tank Ep277: Big Tech’s Assault on Free Speech, Dallas Sonnier on the Movie “Run, Hide, Fight”
- Sad News: Closure Dates Announced for Boswell Power Plant
- MNCEF Releases Another Shoddy Pressure Poll
- Chinese Solar Companies Tied to Slavery
- Almanac Does Not Condone LaDuke’s Line 3 Holocaust Analogy
- Inappropriate Discussion Between Xcel Energy, Public Utility Regulators
- Clear Energy Alliance: Climate Censorship
- In the Tank, Ep 276: Siege on the Capitol, Biden Climate Emergency?
- Mining Jobs Grow in December While Hospitality Jobs Plummet
- Minnesota Auto Dealers Sue Walz To Stop California Car Mandates
- Georgia Senate Results Mean Boatloads of Bad Energy Policy
- Biden Cabinet Picks Bode Poorly For Twin Metals, Minnesota’s Economy
- Engineering Mindset: How Heat Pumps Work
- Start 2021 By Signing Our Petitions to Stop California Cars and Higher Energy Costs!
- Meet the Man Who Owns the Bulldozer Operating World Record
- A Zero Emission Minnesota Would Have Zero Measurable Impact on Global Temperatures
- Comments on Xcel’s Resource Plan: Nuclear Isn’t “Clean” and No New Natural Gas Plant
- Wind and Solar Special Interests Spent Big To Defeat Senate Conservatives
- Xcel Energy is Decommissioning and “Repowering” Five Wind Facilities Before the End of Their 20-Year Useful Lifespan
- Merry Christmas!
- Electric Vehicles Are “Trickle Down” Environmentalism
- Toyota’s President Says Electric Vehicles Are Overhyped
- Clown Show: Union of Concerned Scientists Claims Nuclear Power Plants Are Not Clean Energy
- Walz Pushes Forward With Unpopular California Car Mandates
- Power Hungry Podcast: Jim Cooper Returns
- In The Tank Episode 274: Poll on The Great Reset and Socialism
- Why Minnesota Power’s Electricity Isn’t Actually 50 Percent “Renewable” According to Minnesota’s Renewable Energy Mandates
- Robert Bryce: California’s Natural Gas Bans Are Drawing Fire From Black And Latino Leaders
- Germany’s Energy Disaster 20 Years Later
- Despite COVID Restrictions, DFL Legislators Head North to Protest Line 3
- Industrial Customers to Be Hit Hard By Xcel Energy Price Increases
- Sunday Funnies: Climate “Logic”
- Large Nuclear Reactor Reaches Full Power in United Arab Emirates
- Illinois Farm Bureau: Know Your Rights When Considering Wind or Solar Agreements
- U.S. Air is So Clean, COVID-19 Shutdowns Didn’t Change Pollution Levels
- Webinar from Twin Metals Minnesota
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- San Francisco Bans Natural Gas in New Home Construction in a State That Can’t Keep the Power On
- Real Clear Energy: The End Game
- Tune in at Noon Today for “What Mining Can Do For Minnesota!”
- Join Us Tomorrow For A Webinar on Mining in Minnesota!
- Line 3 Gets Final Approval, Allowing Construction to Move Forward
- Final Line 3 permit approved; Construction to begin soon
- The Browning of the Golden State
- In the Tank: Liberals Ungrateful Under the Trump Administration
- Michael Shellenberger: Why Biden Can Unite America With Nuclear Power — Or Divide It With Renewables
- Pipeline Opponents Need Better Math
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- General Motors Recalling All 17-19 Chevy Bolts Due to Fire Risks From Batteries
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- The Power Hungry Podcast: Bjorn Lomborg
- Minneapolis Energy Grants Will Raise Energy Prices For Everyone Else
- Wind and Solar Developers Don’t Want To Pay Their Own Costs To Connect To The Grid
- Line 3 Opponent, Winona LaDuke, Unhinged on Almanac
- Rebutting Regulation: No, Free Market Economics Did Not Win the War On Coal
- Will Line 3 Approvals Bring Dakota Access Pipeline Styled Protests?
- ITTe269: Socialists are Taking Over the Democratic Party
- Washington State Utility Says “No More Wind”
- More Than 1,800 Minnesotans Have Said “NO!” To Xcel Energy’s Green New Deal
- Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald 45 Years Later
- Keith Ellison Questions Xcel Energy’s Spending Plans Due to Rising Electricity Prices
- In The Tank ep268: Election 2020 Results. It’s Not Over!
- Grid Operator: Electricity Supply Could Be At Risk This Winter
- Seven Energy and Environment Takeaways from the Minnesota Elections
- Surprising No One, Xcel Is Raising Electricity Prices 20 Percent
- In The Tank Ep267: Election 2020 Predictions, IL Fair Tax Analysis
- Line 3 Construction Complete in Canada, North Dakota and Wisconsin, Still Delayed in Minnesota
- Green New Preview: Biden Wants to End Gas Car Sales But Hasn’t Said When
- Wind Industry Spends $100,000 To Defeat Conservative State Senator in Kansas
- Wind Turbine Blade Crashed Down in Iowa (Again)
- Thoughts on Biden and Trump Debate: You Can’t “Transition Away” From Oil Without Killing Fracking
- Biden’s Mining Stance: *Anonymous* Sources In Reuters Article Tell Us Nothing
- Must Listen: Judith Curry on the Power Hungry Podcast
- ITTe266: COVID-19 Lockdowns 7 Months Later, Health Care Reimagined
- On Minnesota Copper Mining Issues, Biden is Mum, But Betty McCollum’s Staff Isn’t
- Politico: The One Incredibly Green Thing Donald Trump Has Done
- Residents’ Opposition Leads Minnetrista to Slap Moratorium on Solar Projects
- Xcel Energy Ties Executive Pay to Emissions Goals: Minnesotans Pay the Price
- Study: Solar Panels Reduce Nearby Property Values
- Jim Cooper: An Open Letter On Environmental Racism on the Power Hungry Podcast
- In the Tank Episode 165: Big Tech Censors Hunter Biden Story
- Minneapolis City Council’s War on Cars Delays Rebuilding in Wake of Riots
- Two DFL Legislators Hit Reverse on Opposition to California Car Mandates
- Isaac Orr Discusses The VP Debate on Justice and Drew
- 123 Legislative Candidates Sign Pledge Opposing California Car Mandates
- Trump EPA Sends Letter Trolling California’s Ban on Gas-Powered Cars
- Daniel Yergin on the Power Hungry Podcast: The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
- In The Tank Ep264: VP Debate, Energy and The Supreme Court
- Sign Our Petition and Say NO to an Xcel Energy Green New Deal!
- Some Quick Thoughts on the Harris-Pence Debate: Fracking, Energy and the Green New Deal
- Local View: After Summer Internship, I’m a Believer in PolyMet
- Trump Issues Executive Order to Support American Mining
- Harvard Study Finds Wind Turbines Will Cause More Warming In Minnesota Than Emissions Reductions Would Avert
- Smoke From California Wildfires Decreases Solar Generation in CAISO
- In The Tank Podcast, Ep. 263: Debate Breakdown, Climate Alarmists Doubling Down
- Study: Mining Supported 11,600 Minnesota Jobs in 2019
- Wind and Solar Developers Want To Force You To Pay Their Transmission Costs
- Robert Bryce: California Assemblyman Says State’s Push For Electric Vehicles Fuels ‘Environmental Racism’
- California Democrat: Working Families Should Not Subsidize Renewable Energy
- Line 3 Replacement Would Provide Massive Economic Benefits
- Stossel: Government Fueled Fires
- China Announces Bogus Climate Target, The Left Swoons. Rinse Repeat.
- California To Ban the Sale of New Gas and Diesel Cars and Trucks By 2035
- I Was Not Selected to Serve on the Governor’s Advisory Council on Climate Change
- What’s Wrong with Wind and Solar?
- Nearly 5,000 Minnesotans Send Emails Opposing California Car Mandates to Gov. Walz, MPCA
- Otter Tail Power Will Build 50 Megawatts of Solar, But Its Electricity Will Come from Coal and Gas in the Dakotas
- In The Tank Ep259: Yes, Biden Wants to Ban Fracking
- U.S. Approves First Small Commercial Nuclear Reactor
- California is Still Struggling to Keep the Lights On
- Walz: California Car Mandates for Thee, International Scout Getting 11.4 Miles Per Gallon for Me
- Indiana Community Beats Back Industrial Wind Facility
- California Blackouts: A Reality Check for Minnesota’s Wind and Solar Ambitions
- Could Alberta, Canada become the 51st state?
- DFL State Central Committee Formally Supports A Moratorium Banning Copper-Nickel Mining in Minnesota
- Michael Shellenberger: Stop Blaming Climate Change For California’s Fires. Many Forests, Including The Redwoods, Need Them
- Solar Panels Are Starting to Die. What Will We Do With The Megatons Of Toxic Trash?
- Why Transitioning to Renewable Energy Leads to Power Outages
- Xcel Should Skip the Solar and Wind and Plan for A Nuclear Future
- On The Air: Isaac Orr Talks California Car Mandates With Mark Allen on Thief River Falls Radio
- Clear Energy Alliance: California Scapegoating
- ITTe257: California’s Green Energy Blackouts, DNC was a Joke
- Xcel’s Electric Vehicle Scheme Will Give Wealthy Liberals More of Your Money
- Statewide View: California Car Mandates Not Right for Minnesota
- Walz Delays Line 3 Again, Proving Modern “Environmentalism” Has Little To Do With The Environment
- Michael Shellenberger: Democrats Say California Is Model For Climate Action But Its Blackouts Say Otherwise
- Millions of Californians Lose Electricity Due to Cloud Cover, Low Wind Speeds
- Wind and Solar Prices Are Rising
- Michael Shellenberger: new documentary film, ‘Juice,’ challenges elitism of anti-growth environmentalism
- Pro-mining DFL senator ousted in August 11 primary
- How Much Metal Would A Minnesota Green New Deal Require? Part Two
- Biden Announces Opposition to Alaskan Pebble Mine, What Does it Mean for Minnesota?
- Illegal Mining Threatens Gorillas in the Congo
- Xcel Energy CEO, Ben Fowke, Was the 4th Highest Paid CEO in Minnesota in 2019
- How much metal would a Minnesota Green New Deal require?
- Global wind turbine fleet to consume over 5.5 million tons of copper by 2028
- Michael Shellenberger Triggers House Democrats By Speaking the Truth About Wind and Solar
- Walz Wants Electric Vehicles to Be 20 Percent of All Vehicles on the Road By 2030
- Minnesota Department of Transportation Has 25 Year Agreement to Buy Solar Because Panels Don’t Last Much Longer Than That
- How Long Can You Power a Light Bulb With Two Pounds of Fuel?
- Opposition Gears Up for Walz’s Drastic Clean Car Minnesota Scheme
- California’s $10 Billion Blackouts
- Jason Isaac: ERCOT’s Phantom Reserve Margins Spell Trouble for Summertime
- Northeast Minnesota Has Lost 10,500 Tourism-Related Jobs Since March 16th
- Conservative Energy Policies Can Help Young People, Low-Income, and Minority Households Far More Than Liberal Ones
- Biden’s New Energy Plan Is Terrible
- Costs of Energy Efficiency Investments Are Double Household’s Energy Savings, Study Including Former Obama Economic Advisor Concludes
- Biden-Sanders Unity Plan for An All-Electric School Bus Fleet is a Terrible Idea
- Second lawsuit filed against MN AG Ellison over secret dealings, refusal to release records
- California Will Use Diesel This Summer (and Imports) To Keep The Lights On
- Air Quality Was Worse During COVID Shutdown Despite Far Fewer Cars on the Road, Data Shows
- Mexico Pulls the Plug on Wind and Solar
- Wind Waste: A Video From the Clear Energy Alliance
- Congressional Democrats Ditch Rep. Stauber’s Anti-Child-Labor Measure for Green Energy Minerals
- In The Tank (Ep250) – Apocalypse Never with Michael Shellenberger
- The Biggest Incentive for Solar in Minnesota
- Bureau of Land Management Moves To Prepare Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed Twin Metals Project
- A Conservative Vision for Energy Policy in Minnesota
- Dislike Wind and Solar? Support Advanced Nuclear Power! Action Requested Today
- House Democrats Propose Billions In Additional Subsidies for Wind, Solar, and Electric Cars
- Michael Shellenberger: On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare
- In the Tank EP 249: The Current State of Climate Alarmists
- Families With Xcel Energy Pay More For Their Electricity Than People Living In All But 12 States
- Great River Energy’s Battery Is More Publicity Stunt Than Source of Power
- Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison Wages Lawsuit Against American Energy Companies
- Iowa Utility Board Proposes Use of Eminent Domain to Force Renewables On Landowners; Phony Conservative “Land and Liberty Coalition” is Silent
- Canadian Hydroelectric Transmission Line Will Bring In More Renewable Energy Than All Minnesota Solar Projects – But None of It is “Renewable”
- Virtual Event: Environmental Climate Change, Contagion and Cataclysm
- Debunking the Minnesota “Conservative” Energy Forum’s Talking Points: Renewables Don’t Strengthen Our National Security, They Weaken It
- Debunking the Minnesota “Conservative” Energy Forum’s “Cleaner and Cheaper” Talking Points: How Clean Are Renewables, Really?
- Why the Minnesota “Conservative” Energy Forum’s “Cleaner and Cheaper” Slogan is a Fraudulent Talking Point
- Why Do the Minnesota Conservative Energy Forum and Fresh Energy *Still* Have the Same Liberal Funders?
- Why is the Minnesota “Conservative” Energy Forum Intentionally Misleading Conservatives on Energy Issues? A Series
- Electric Vehicle Costs Fall, But They’re Still Unprofitable
- Utility, Co-Op Support of ECO Act is Crony Capitalism, Plain and Simple
- How the Fires Affected Air Quality in Minneapolis
- By Delaying Line 3 Replacement, Again, The Walz Administration is Flagrantly Ignoring “The Science”
- Online Dashboard Shows 82 Percent Electric Vehicles Are Registered in the Twin Cities
- Despite Subsidies, Electric Car Sales Remain Below 2 Percent of National Auto Sales
- ECO Act Could Increase Your Winter Heating Bill
- Minnesota Quitting Coal 9 Percent Slower Than The National Average, Despite Electricity Prices Rising 30 Percent Faster
- Germany Just Built a Brand New, Clean, Beautiful Coal Plant
- Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans Removed Due to Alleged Copyright Infringment
- Tune in Tomorrow! What Energy Policy Could (and Should) Look Like in a Post-COVID-19 World
- In The Tank (Ep244) – Global Elites Are Prepping for a Global Reset
- How “Clean Energy First” Would Increase Electricity Rates for Xcel Customers
- The ECO Act Would Force You To Subsidize Electric Vehicles
- Shutting Down Boswell Energy Center Would Devastate the Iron Range Economy
- How Falling Production From Wind Turbines Increases the Cost of Wind Energy
- Minnesota Wind Facilities Responsible for Hundreds of Bird and Bat Fatalities to Start 2020
- U.S. Wind Turbine Output Drops Steeply After Ten Years, When The Subsidies Expire
- Todd Myers: The Coronavirus Lockdown Has Not Made the Air Cleaner
- At 32 Years Old, I’ve Lasted More Than 1.5 Times Longer Than Most Wind Turbines
- Conservatives Should Say No To Proposed Fuel Switching Provisions of Conservation Improvement Program Bill
- Benjamin Zycher: Earth Day 2020: The Exhaustion of the Climate Left
- ACTION ALERT! Tell Your Legislator Clean Energy First Will Increase Electricity Prices and Could Kill 10,000 Jobs ASAP
- Rob Port Podcast: “The Plant is Worthless Without the Power Line.”
- How Does Minnesota Coal Use Stack Up Against China, the Whole United States?
- Washington Times: Harvard Quietly Backtracks on Air Pollution-Coronavirus Deaths Link
- Great River Energy’s Coal Creek Closure Reliant Upon $105 Million in Taxpayer Subsidies Per Year
- MPCA Gets It Right On Not Regulating Greenhouse Gases on Dairy Farm Expansion
- COVID-19 Shutdown Hasn’t Resulted In Better Air Quality, Minnesota Air Monitoring Data Shows
- Michael Shellenberger on ‘Planet of the Humans’: Capitalism Isn’t The Problem With Renewable Energy – It’s Physics
- Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy Sectors Shed 85,000 Jobs in March Due to COVID-19
- Recycling Markets Have Changed. Will Minnesota Cities Adapt?
- Why the Renewable Industrial Complex’s Attacks On Michael Moore’s Planet Of the Humans Are Wrong
- In The Tank (Ep240) – Review: Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans
- Study in International Journal of Sustainable Energy Finds Wind Turbines Are Not Cost Effective
- You Must Watch Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans
- Earth Day: Capitalism is Saving the Planet and Why Environmentalists Should Support Nuclear Power
- Guest Post: Minnesota Doesn’t Own North Dakota
- Xcel’s $46 Billion Plan to go 50% Renewable Energy
- Minnesotans Don’t Want California Car Mandates, Even If the Natural Resources Defense Council Does
- Keystone XL and Line 3 Transportation Capacity Would Exceed OPEC Imports
- Tune in at Noon Today to Learn Everything Wrong With Minnesota’s Green New Deal!
- TOMORROW: Everything Wrong with the Green New Deal
- Montana Regulators Approve New Copper Mine
- Forbes: To Fight The Coronavirus, The World Returns To Fossil Fuels
- Our Perspective: New Suburban Solar Projects Part of a Wave of New Projects in Minnesota
- Walz Administration Plans to Push Ahead with Controversial California Car Mandates After Coronavirus Situation has Settled
- Minneapolis Not Enforcing Plastic Bag Fee Through At Least July 1, 2020
- San Francisco Bans Reusable Bags, Reverses Plastic Bag Ban in Coronavirus Fight
- Energy jobs report shows that “clean energy” is all about creating unproductive jobs
- Metro To Miners: You’ll Have to Do Something Else
- Walz Wisely Designates Oil and Natural Gas Pipelines as “Essential Operations” During COVID-19 Shutdown
- What Would a Joe Biden Fracking Ban Look Like? Part Seven: Rising Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Jobs Report Calls Quality, Quantity of Solar Jobs Into Question
- Gas Prices Will Soon Be Under $1 As a Result of COVID-19 Lockdowns, Saudi and Russian Price War
- Federal Coronavirus Spending Excludes Renewable Energy Subsidies, A Benefit to All Americans
- What Would a Joe Biden Fracking Ban Look Like? Part Six: Impossibly Expensive Electricity
- Should Minnesota Ban Reusable Shopping Bags That Could Transmit the Coronavirus?
- What Would a Joe Biden Fracking Ban Look Like? Part Five: A Fracking Ban Would “Make America Dependent Upon Russia and OPEC, Again!”
- Duluth City Council Backs Off Controversial Plastic Bag Fee with Coronavirus Concerns
- What Would a Joe Biden Fracking Ban Look Like? Part Four: Holy $1,325 Heating Bill Increase, Batman!
- Duluth May Bag Plastic Bag Fee with Coronavirus Concerns Over Recycled Sacks
- Darling, is the Wind Blowing? I’d Like to Go to the Hospital For COVID-19
- What Would a Joe Biden Fracking Ban Look Like? Part Three: A $3,000 Pain at the Pump for Minnesota Families
- What Would a Joe Biden Fracking Ban Look Like? Part Two: Devastating Economic Impacts
- Banned Drive-Thrus Now Embraced by Minneapolis Mayor Frey in Coronavirus Crisis
- What Would a Joe Biden Fracking Ban Look Like? Part One: What is Fracking?
- What Would a Joe Biden Fracking Ban Look Like? A Series
- Plastic Bags Save Lives, So Why are “Environmentalists” Trying to Ban Them?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/13/20
- Coronavirus Could Keep Wind Industry From Soaking Up More Subsidies
- Wind Turbine Owned by Apex Clean Energy Catches Fire in Texas
- Minnesota Electricity Rates Increased Again in 2019, Reaching New All-Time Highs
- Isaac Orr Joins American’s For Prosperity Radio to Talk Energy and California Car Mandates
- Coronavirus-Induced Shortage of Solar Panel Components Highlights China’s Major Role in Solar Supply Chain
- Sunday Funnies: Rom Rebuked at Ely Mining Meeting
- Four Takeaways from The Capx2050 Transmission Planning Report
- Efforts to Prevent The Walz Administration’s California Car Mandates Advance in the Senate
- Despite More Turbines, Minnesota Wind Production in 2019 Was Still Below 2017 Levels
- Clear Energy Alliance: The EV Dream
- Xcel Energy Provides Strong Testimony Against the Community Solar Program
- Senator Rarick Cites American Experiment’s Mining Research in the Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice
- Minnesota Ranked as 4th Biggest Mining State in 2019
- Tune in at 1pm As Isaac Orr Testifies (Again) on Governor Walz’s California Car Mandates
- Federal Data Confirms Minnesota Solar Panels Don’t Work Well in Winter
- Why Is Governor Walz Trying to Mandate Cars That Nobody Wants?
- Why Did Minnesota Solar Jobs Fall by Six Percent in 2019?
- Come Out to Moorhead Tomorrow For The Morning In Minnesota Breakfast Series!
- Bill Makes Recruiting and Training Activists to Vandalize Pipelines a Felony
- Lawmakers Needn’t Worry About Minnesota Conservative Energy Forum Push Polling
- Real Clear Energy: Money & Power: New FOIA’d Documents Offer Ugly Candor About ‘Green Energy’
- Sunday Funnies: Tesla- Pretend to Save the Environment While Looking Rich
- In The Tank (Ep230) – Fracking Facts, and the Stratifying Democratic Presidential Field
- My Response to Fox 9’s “The Last Gasp of Coal”
- Bloomberg: Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills
- Can Mining in Minnesota Reduce Child Labor in the Congo?
- Baltimore County Admits It Hasn’t Been Recycling Glass for 7 Years. It Still Encourages Residents to Recycle Glass.
- Suburb Poised to be First to Withdraw From Controversial GreenStep Program
- Clear Energy Alliance: Bernie’s Energy Plans Make AOC Look Sane
- Pollution Control Agency Steps in It on Cow Emissions, Shows They Have No Business Regulating Greenhouse Gases On the Agriculture Industry
- Walz Accelerates Push for Unpopular California Car Mandates in Minnesota
- Federal Data Show Walz’s Line 3 Delay Has Been an Anti-Science Charade
- House To Hear McCollum’s Minnesota Mining Ban Bill Tomorrow in D.C.
- Our Perspective: Xcel Quarterly Profits up 35 Percent, Buoyed by Rate Increases
- Sunday Funnies: Greta Thunberg, the Anti-Capitalist Climate Change Activist, Files to Trademark Her Own Name
- German Electricity Prices Have Increased 2.5 Times Since 2008
- On the One Year Anniversary of the Polar Vortex, Wind Was 0.16 Percent Productive
- The “How Do We Make This Bill Less Ugly?” – Proposed Changes to Improve Clean Energy First
- Plymouth City Council Rejects Controversial GreenStep Cities Agenda
- The Bad: Senate’s Clean Energy First Bill Would Probably Be A Blank Check to Xcel Energy
- The Good: Senate’s Clean Energy First Bill Could Reduce More Emissions at Lower Cost than Walz/House Proposals
- In the Tank (Ep 227) Doomsday Clock Set to 100 Seconds, Trump Talks Climate Change at Davos
- Despite Massive Wind and Solar Spending, Minnesota Carbon Dioxide Emissions Essentially Flat Since 2012
- California Wants to Ban Gas-Powered Lawn Equipment, Will Governor Walz Try to Ban Gas-Powered Snow Blowers in MInnesota?
- Study Finds Carbon Dioxide Taxes Reduce Industrial Competitiveness: Implications for Minnesota
- MIT: Organic Farming is Worse for the Environment Than Conventional Farming
- Sunday Funnies: Rep. Omar Says PolyMet Setback Is a Victory Against Fossil Fuel Executives
- American Experiment Policy Fellow Isaac Orr Applies for Governor’s Advisory Council on Climate Change
- Center of the American Experiment Testifies on the Minnesota Senate’s Clean Energy First Bill in Rochester
- Clear Energy Alliance: Riot Fuel
- Friction Among Minnesota Greens and Blue Collar Workers Intensifies After PolyMet Delays
- Minnesota Court of Appeals Delays PolyMet Project
- Minnesota Had More Wind and Solar in 2018 than Ever Before But CO2 Emissions Went Up
- Video: The Year 2019 on ElectricityMap [Europe]
- In Response: Dairy Farm Expansion Will Have Zero Significant Impact on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- The One Billion Dollar Solar Failure in Nevada
- Xcel Energy Electricity Bills Will Increase $50 This Year Due to Renewable Energy
- Communities Still Wary of GreenStep Cities Program at 10 Year Mark
- Solar Panels Produce Tons of Toxic Waste—Literally
- Minneapolis City Council Would Rather Have Boarded Up Businesses than Burger King
- South Carolina Has Much Lower CO2 Emissions and Lower Electricity Prices Than Minnesota
- The State of Electric Cars?
- A Cold California
- Net Metering: How People With Solar Panels Are Picking Your Pocket
- This Year in Energy and Environment: 2019 Edition
- Spare the Electric Space Heater (and Turn Up the Gas) to Save Money and Keep Warm this Winter
- Sunday Funnies: Unicorns More Realistic Than Running a Grid on Renewables and Batteries
- Why Does Minnesota Have More Power Plants Than Texas?
- How the Renewable Energy Grinch Stole Your Christmas Budget
- Sunday Funnies From the Babylon Bee: California Considering Tax On Breathing
- Grid Operator Study Shows Complexity of Integrating Renewables Increases Exponentially After 30 Percent
- Great News! Twin Metals Submits Its Mine Plan to State and Federal Agencies for Review
- Thank You! American Experiment Readers Accounted for 13 Percent of California Car Mandate Comments!
- Reality, Physics, Emerge as Greatest Obstacles to Renewable Growth
- Production at Nobles Wind Facility Continues to Plummet
- Sunday Funnies From the Babylon Bee: Poll Finds Most People Would Rather Be Annihilated By Giant Tidal Wave Than Continue To Be Lectured By Climate Change Activists
- Mitchell South Dakota: Home of The Corn Palace and Wind Turbine Blade Landfill Exhibit?
- 100 Percent Wind+Solar+Batteries= $1,036.80 Monthly Electric Bill, According to An Xcel Energy Slide Show and EIA Data
- You’re Seeing Water Vapor, Not Smoke
- Turkey Point Nuclear Plant Will Operate for 80 Years, While Wind Turbines Still Last for 20 Years
- American Experiment Submits 27 Pages of Comments Opposing the California Car Mandates
- It’s National Miners Day- Thank A Miner
- Are Liberal Minnesota Energy Policies Making Pollution Worse?
- I’ll See You in Kiester Tonight!
- Reactions to Proposed Rate Increases Shows Minnesota Citizen’s Utility Board Cares More about Renewables Than Ratepayers
- Wisconsin Utilities Rake in Increased Profits as Wind and Solar, Transmission Spending Increases
- Sunday Funnies: Germany is Building New Coal Plants
- Statewide View Column: Trump Can Stop Walz From Turning Minnesota into a Cold California
- You’re Getting Black Friday Deals Everyday on Oil and Natural Gas Thanks to Fracking
- I’m Thankful for Your Generosity
- Rural County OKs Minneapolis Developer’s Solar Project Over Constituents’ Concerns
- Governor Walz’s California Car Mandates Will Have No Meaningful Impact on Pollution
- Are Governor Walz’s Proposed California Car Mandates Racist?
- China is Building 34 Times More Coal Than Exists In Minnesota, So Why Are We Raising Our Power Prices?
- Duluth News Tribune: In Response Column / It’s True: No Waste-Rock Piles, No Acid Mine Drainage at Twin Metals
- MIT Pumps the Brakes on Electric Vehicle Cost Decline Estimates
- Help Us Stop Governor Walz From Imposing California’s Car Rules on Minnesota!
- MPUC Continues to Address Utility System Reliability: Gas System Shortcomings Addressed, Electric Generation Issues Receive Scant Attention
- Wind Power Purchase Agreement Prices Rise 44 Percent in MISO from Q3 2018 to Q3 2019
- Our Perspective: Minnesota’s Days of Cheaper Electricity Seem Numbered
- If Xcel Is Your Electricity Provider, Congrats: You’re Paying The Most Expensive Electricity Rates in Minnesota
- Sunday Funnies: Bablyon Bee- Greta Thunberg Mural Equipped With Laser Eyes That Shoot At SUVs
- More Minnesota Mining! Talon Metals Seeks More Exploration on the Tamarack Deposit
- Bloomberg: California’s Next Electricity Headache Is a Looming Shortage
- Windfail: Individual Wind Facilities Were Less Productive in 2018 than 2017 in Many Regions of the Country
- Three Things Xcel Energy Doesn’t Want You to Know About Their Massive Increase in Electricity Prices
- Argus Leader: Sioux Falls Landfill Tightens Rules After Iowa Dumps Dozens of Wind Turbine Blades
- Sunday Funnies: Deicing Wind Turbines with Helicopters
- NREL Data: There’s Virtually No Demand for Voluntary Renewable Energy Programs
- High Electricity Prices Killed More Than 1,280 People in Japan After The Government Foolishly Shuttered All Nuclear Facilities Following Fukushima
- Mass Decommissioning of German Wind Turbines Could Cost Hundreds of Millions of Euro More than Planned, Overwhelm Disposal Capacity
- Video: Walz’s Plan to Force California Car Standards in Minnesota Rear Ends Consumers
- Forget Greenland — Trump Should Offer Statehood to These Canadian Provinces
- Mining or the environment is a false choice; we can have both
- Center of the American Experiment wins awards for research and advocacy with nationwide impact
- Forbes: California Utility Spent $44 Billion on Renewables, $1.5 Billion on Fire Prevention
- GreenStep Cities Program Rebuffed Again in Plymouth
- Xcel Energy Sponsors Gala for Anti-Mining, Anti-Farming, Pro-Wind and Solar Green Group To Help Them Pad Their Profits
- Good News on Polymet! Minnesota Court of Appeals Rules Environmental Groups Can’t Move the Goalposts
- Dear Governor Walz, Please Don’t Turn Minnesota Into California
- Clear Energy Alliance: Production Up, Emissions Down
- Fudging The Numbers: Why Wind and Solar Cost Estimates from Bloomberg New Energy Finance are Almost Certainly Wrong
- Replacing Fossil Fuel Electricity Generation with Solar Boosts Costs and Income Inequality
- Does Popularity of Mountain Biking in Duluth Come at Expense of Environment?
- Why Are Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith Sponsoring Minnesota Anti-Mining Legislation?
- City Journal: Battery Derangement
- Californians Learning That Solar Panels Don’t Work in Blackouts
- Groups Dispute Cost of Renewable Energies
- Celebrities admit they’re climate hypocrites. Say they’ll keep being climate hypocrites
- Let Them Use Solar: California Power Outages Highlight Economic Disparity
- WindFail: Congestion on Transmission Lines Hinders New North Dakota Wind Farms
- Don’t Believe the Wind Industry’s Steel Tariff Talk, They Always Wanted More Subsidies
- Cows in the Crosshairs: Environmental Groups Take Aim at Minnesota Farmers
- Problems with Metro Transit Electric Buses Show the Technology Isn’t Ready for Primetime
- Sunday Funnies: Diesel Powered Tow Truck Rescues Bus of Anti-Oil Protesters
- In The Tank (Ep212) – NBA Kowtows to China, California Blackouts
- California to Shut Off Electricity to 2.5 Million People Customer to Avoid Wildfires
- Waverly Couple Says Forty Acre Solar Installation Isn’t a Good Neighbor
- Long Island Liberals Wake Up to How Green Extremism Hurts Constituents
- Problems with Metro Transit Electric Buses Show the Technology Isn’t Ready for Primetime
- Sunday Funnies: Tesla Police Car Runs Out of Battery During High Speed Chase
- California Forced to Subsidize Natural Gas Plants to Prevent Widespread Blackouts
- It Costs $532,000 to Decommission A Single Wind Turbine
- Another One Bites the Dust: Federal Judge Rejects Challenges to PolyMet Land Swap
- Looming Nickel Shortage Threatens to Slam the Brakes on Governor Walz’s Electric Vehicle Mandates
- As $7,500 Federal Subsidies Expire, Electric Vehicles Are About to Get More Expensive
- Sunday Funnies: Wind Powered Electric Chair?
- Three Must-Know Facts About Governor Walz’s Plan to Impose California Car Mandates on Minnesota
- If Governor Walz Had “Followed The Science,” We Would Have Started Building Line 3 Already
- Washington Post Poll Shows Most People Unwilling to Pay $2 Per Month Tax to Fight Climate Change
- American Energy Alliance: Sorry California, You Don’t Get to Choose What Vehicles the Rest of America Can Drive
- Wind Produced 4 Percent Less Electricity Through June 2019 than Through June 2018, Despite More Turbines Online
- Sunday Funnies: Cobalt Mining in the Congo for Renewable Energy Sources
- Renewables Threaten German Economy & Energy Supply, McKinsey Warns In New Report
- Talk About Bad Timing: McKnight Foundation Announces Big Green Giveaway One Day Before Jamie Long Scandal Breaks
- Statewide View Column: Closing Down Coal Gives China’s, India’s Iron Industries An Edge
- Fresh Energy Is Still Intentionally Misleading Minnesotans on Energy Issues: A Series
- Liberal Anti-Mining Activists Support Wind and Solar Because it Will Make it Too Expensive to Mine in Minnesota
- Justice and Drew: Jamie Long’s Cushy University Job Was Created to Refute American Experiment’s Energy Work
- Sunday Funnies: Designing a Grid With Wind and Solar
- In The Tank (Ep208) – Dem Debate, Mandatory Firearm Buyback, and Trump’s Flavor Ban
- Clear Energy Alliance: Battery Fantasy
- Shellenberer: The Real Reason They Behave Hypocritically On Climate Change Is Because They Want To
- Lomborg: The Danger of Climate Doomsayers
- Retiring Worn-Out Wind Turbines Could Cost Billions that Nobody Has
- Sunday Funnies: Bernie vs. The Speed Bag
- While Liberal Environmental Groups Delay Mining in MN, Canada Approves Another Mine
- The Physical Impossibility of Renewable Energy Meeting the Paris Accord Goals
- There is No Holy Grail: Some Perspective on Battery Storage
- Shellenberger: Why Everything They Say About The Amazon, Including That It’s The ‘Lungs Of The World,’ Is Wrong
- Clueless Minneapolis City Leaders and Sam Rockwell Are the Problem, Not Natural Gas Use
- Why the Green “Real” Deal, Is Just as Dumb as the Green New Deal
- Argus Leader: Sioux Falls Landfill Tightens Rules After Minnesota Dumps Dozens of Wind Turbine Blades
- Bloomberg: Lack of Wind Causes Texas Electricity Prices to Skyrocket 40,000%
- Elizabeth Warren Brings Her Campaign Against Reality to Minnesota
- Wind Power Is Collapsing In Germany, Does Lt. Governor Flanagan Know?
- VIDEO: Isaac Orr visits Willmar, MN for a discussion on energy policy
- Great News: MN Supreme Court Deals Blow to Anti-Mining Groups’ Hopes of Delaying PolyMet
- Solar Power is Increasing Pollution in North Carolina, According to Utility Data
- Minnesota Wind Generated More Electricity Than Coal in April 2019, But That’s Not Really Relevant
- The War On Meat Has Begun: Join the Resistance
- Alliant Energy to Close Iowa Nuclear Plant for More Wind. Bad for Ratepayers, Bad for the Environment
- Wind energy might generate jobs, but not necessarily in Minnesota
- WindFail: Minnesota Wind Facilities Could Produce Less Electricity in 2019 Than In 2018
- Burning Wood Pollutes More than Coal-Fired Power Plants and Factories in Minnesota, Should We Ban Campfires?
- Solar Roads Turned Out To Be A “Colossal Failure”
- In The Tank (EP204) – Climate “Contrarians” Blacklisted?
- Secretary of Agriculture Perdue Defends Decision to Renew Mineral Leases
- The Environmental Disaster of Solar Energy
- Low-Cost Natural Gas Saves Thousands of Lives By Lowering Heating Bills
- Wind Turbine Landfill or Mass Grave? We Report, You Decide
- Howdy from Austin, Texas
- Capitalism is Saving the Planet Part Seven: Most Ocean Plastic Comes From The Developing World
- Expiring Subsidies, Not Free Markets, Driving Minnesota Solar Growth
- Capitalism is Saving the Planet Part Six: Minnesota Forests Are Flourishing
- Mark Your Calendars for My “Morning in Minnesota” Talk on our Report Doubling Down on Failure: How a 50 Percent By 2030 Renewable Energy Standard Would Cost Minnesota $80.2 Billion
- St. Paul Green Party Mayoral Candidate’s Paper Straw Response to my PiPress Article Doesn’t Hold Up
- Doubling Down on Failure Nominated for National Award For Most Influential Research, Vote Now!
- Midwestern Wind Turbines Were 3 Percent Useful Last Weekend
- In The Tank (ep202) – Craziest Proposals From Democratic Candidates
- Iowa Utility: Lower Fuel Costs Won’t Offset Rising Prices
- Capitalism is Saving the Planet Part 5: American Farmers Are Saving the Trees Through Innovation
- Isaac Orr: Minnesota’s High Electric Bills Will Continue to Rise Higher
- Minnesota’s Air is Great, Again
- Navy Times: Coal is the Most Reliable Source of Electricity for Our Military
- American Frackers, Not Wind and Solar, Increase Our National Security
- Cloudy With a Chance of Blackouts: Island-Wide Outage on Kaua’i, Clouds Block Solar Recovery After Generator’s Cable Failure
- Iron Range Legislators Clap Back At Anti-PolyMet Letter Written by 18 Metro-Area DLF’ers
- DFL Legislators Want to Halt PolyMet, Urge Governor To Cancel Permits
- Xcel Energy CEO Made $26.2 Million in 2018 As Your Electric Bill Reached a New All-Time High
- 11 Ways Minnesota Families Are Subsidizing Solar
- Capitalism is Saving the Planet Part 4: Ridley: Rejoice, the Earth Is Becoming Greener
- Why Do the Minnesota “Conservative” Energy Forum and Fresh Energy Have the Same Liberal Funders?
- What is the ‘Conservative Energy Network’ and Why is it Backed by Leftist Funders?
- Twin Metals Dry Stack Announcement Is Great News, No Matter What The Anti-Mining Groups Say
- BREAKING NEWS: Twin Metals Minnesota Proposes Most Technologically Advanced Mine in Minnesota History
- Rebuking Renewables: Le Sueur County Places Moratorium on Solar Gardens and Solar Farms
- Sierra Club: Stop Obsessing About Recycling
- They Thought Battery Storage Would Be Cost Competitive With Natural Gas By 2014: 6 Years Later It’s Still Not True
- Capitalism is Saving the Planet Part 3: Would You Rather Mine in Venezuela? I Didn’t Think So
- Capitalism is Saving the Planet Part 2: In Soviet Russia, Air Pollutes You
- Indiana Utility Regulators Deny New Natural Gas Facility To Replace Coal: The Reason Why May Surprise You
- Like It Or Not, You’re Paying $2.6 Million For Brooklyn Park’s Solar Panels
- Capitalism is Saving the Planet Part 1: Wealth Makes Health, Eventually
- Plymouth Steps Back From Controversial GreenStep City Program
- Flanagan and Senjem To View The German Energy Failure Firsthand
- Oh Gee, I Guess We Need Oil Products After All: Walz Signs Exec. Order to Ease Fuel Delivery Amidst MN Gas Shortage
- IAEA Discusses The Potential Of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)
- My Trip To the White House
- Isaac Invited to the White House for Trump Speech on the Environment
- Tesla’s Solar Roof Costs $85,000, Much Higher Than Previously Advertised
- Grassroots Protests Help Bring Down Oregon Climate Tax
- Renewables Will Make Minnesota Less Energy Independent, Not More
- Will Peggy Flanagan View German Energy Policy as As The Failure That It Is?
- Will The U.S. Choose Dependence, or Independence, For Critical Minerals?
- Most Canadians Unwilling to Pay Much for Carbon Tax: Poll
- Rep. Gruenhagen Gets It on Energy and Minnesota’s Green New Deal
- Republican State Senators in Oregon Flee the State to Prevent A Devastating Carbon Tax
- The Electric Vehicle Tax Credit For The Wealthy Is Up For Extension
- Every Wind Turbine and Solar Panel Built Today Will Be Scrap Metal by 2050
- Four Reasons Why Lori Sturdevant Is Wrong on Republicans, Renewable Energy
- Oil Imports From OPEC Reach 30 Year Low Thanks to Fracking
- On This Day: The 25 Year Battle Between North Dakota and Minnesota Over Energy Regulations
- From Colorado: Xcel Energy Put Shareholder Profits Before Pueblo Families and Kids’ Education
- Trump’s ACE Rule Can Help Minnesota Miners and Manufacturers, Will The Utilities Let It?
- 4 Reasons Why The ACE Rule Is Good For Minnesota
- Trump’s Affordable Clean Energy Rule Can Save Minnesota Billions
- State Pollution Agency Throws Cold Water on Summer Fun
- Should EV Charging Stations Be Regulated as Utilities? Kentucky Joins Majority to Say ‘No,’ Minnesota Should Too
- Mortenson Construction to Use Robotic Equipment On “Primarily Renewable Energy Projects”
- American Experiment Opposes the Carbon Tax Scam
- In the Tank (EP195) – “Luxury Communism.” News in The Digital Age, Deepfakes
- New Study Finds Wind and Solar Are Still More Expensive Than Existing, Even Brand New, Fuel-Based Generators
- China is Building 89 Shercos in the Coming Years
- Global CO2 Emissions To Skyrocket As India Plans To Build 42 Shercos in the Coming Years
- Xcel Energy Will Spend More Than $2 Billion To Maintain Existing Wind Turbines Through 2034
- Despite Terrible Solar Resources, Xcel Wants to Spend Billions on Solar Panels
- Even Magic Can’t Make Green Energy Work
- Isaac Orr on WCCO: Minnesota Miners Helped Win D-Day
- Energy industry there to produce energy, not jobs
- Isaac Orr Talks About The Failed Wind Turbine at the St. Cloud VA on Justice and Drew
- Rob Port: Xcel’s Coal-Free Plan is Politics Not Reality
- Pollution Control Equipment Has Greatly Reduced Emissions at Minnesota’s Clean, Beautiful Coal Plants
- This D-Day Anniversary, Remember the Soldiers, and Remember Minnesota’s Iron Miners
- While Liberal Environmental Groups Delay MN Mining, Canada Approves Another Mine
- Electric Bills in Minnesota Reach Record Highs in 2018
- Electricity From Failed St. Cloud VA Wind Turbine Cost 160 Times More Than Coal
- Appeals Court Ruling Will Delay Line 3 Replacement, Again
- Duluth News Tribune: In Response: Judging Twin Metals Now is Premature, Purely Speculative
- Sam Rockwell is Incorrect on Cars, Climate
- In the Tank Ep 193, ICCC13, Automation, and THE FUTURE
- Senator Osmek Unloaded on House DFL Energy Proposals, and It Was Glorious
- Xcel’s Plan to Close Coal Plants Early Is Bad News for Minnesota Families and Businesses
- Fears Over Nuclear Energy Are Overblown
- In The Tank (ep192) – “Debanking” Conservatives, Socialism, Sanders “Berns” Charter Schools
- If Renewable Energy Saves Consumers Money, Then Explain These Trends Showing the Opposite
- Isaac Talks About Xcel’s Coal Plant Closure Plan on Justice and Drew
- Wind Subsidies for Xcel Energy’s Minnesota Operations Totaled More Than $49 Million in 2016
- From Colorado: Xcel Energy’s Green Dreams Are a Farce
- Exclusive: Tesla Expects Global Shortage of Electric Vehicle Battery Minerals – Sources
- A Climate-Change Drubbing in Australia
- Batteries Cannot Make Renewables Reliable
- How Well Do Electric Vehicles Perform in Our Extreme Weather?
- In the Tank (EP 191) Chernobyl! Loan Shark Prevention, and GoT’s Libertarian Ending?
- Fresh Energy Is Still Intentionally Misleading Minnesotans on Energy Issues: Part Six – How Decoupling Will Make Things Worse For Ratepayers
- Fresh Energy Is Still Intentionally Misleading Minnesotans on Energy Issues: Part Five – The High Cost of Wind Energy
- DFL Senator From Iron Range Signals He Won’t Support Carbon-Free Power Mandates At This Time
- North Dakota Has $5 Million War Chest To Sue Minnesota Over Energy Issues
- Fresh Energy Is Still Intentionally Misleading Minnesotans on Energy Issues: Part Four – Why Energy Efficiency Won’t Save You Money
- Fresh Energy Is Still Intentionally Misleading Minnesotans on Energy Issues: Part Three – Energy Efficiency in Minnesota Isn’t So Spectacular
- Fresh Energy Is Still Intentionally Misleading Minnesotans on Energy Issues: Part Two – Electricity vs. Natural Gas Usage
- 100 Percent of Minnesota Coal is Lower Cost than Wind or Solar
- Fresh Energy Is Still Intentionally Misleading Minnesotans on Energy Issues: Part One – Electricity Rates
- Most Solar Jobs Are Construction Jobs and Most Jobs Are In Hennepin County
- America Is Partially Responsible for Venezuelan Crisis, But Not In The Way Representative Omar Thinks
- From Wisconsin: Why Are We Paying We Energies $430 Million in Profits on a Coal Plant That Shut Down Last Year?
- Walz Administration Couldn’t Be More Wrong About Nuclear Power
- Minnesota Now Fifth-Largest Mining State, It Could Have Been Number Two
- Refuting “Local View: Minnesota Must Aggressively Move to Less-Costly Renewables”
- The King Banaian Show: 4/27/19 HR 2: Isaac Orr and the Cost of Renewable Energy Mandate
- Without Subsidies, Wind and Solar Are Still the Most Expensive Energy Sources In Minnesota
- Minnesota Madness! New Video Sums Up Our New Study
- Isaac Orr Talks The High Cost of Renewable Energy Mandates on AFP Radio
- One Korean Nuclear Reactor Would Produce As Much Electricity As All Minnesota Wind Turbines at a Much Lower Cost
- University of Chicago: Renewable Energy Mandates Increase Electricity Costs
- Government Mandates, Not Free Markets, Responsible for Minnesota’s Solar Growth
- Environmental Hypocrites of the Left
- It’s All About the Subsidies, Baby! Minnesota’s Wind Farms Are Being Rebuilt to Capture More Subsidies
- Minnesota and Wisconsin Are About the Worst States To Put Solar Panels, Research Shows
- Star Tribune: Technology, Cost Could Hamper Efforts for 100 Percent Carbon-Free Grid in Minnesota by 2050
- Earth Day 1970
- Updating Prosperity: New Data Show Benefits of Non-Ferrous Mining Could Be Even Bigger, If We Don’t Screw It Up
- Electric Car Subsidies Hurt Middle Class Americans to Benefit the Wealthy
- American Experiment Receives Warm Welcome at Minnesota Mining Meeting
- Guest Column: ‘Wind Turbine Cancer’ – Is President Donald Trump Crazy? Maybe Not.
- Building More Wind Will Add $240 Per Year To Electric Bills For Alliant Energy Customers in Iowa
- The Case for a Green ‘No Deal’
- Minnesota Should Keep Burning Clean, Beautiful Coal
- MN Green New Deal, or Green Leap Forward? HF 2836 is the Latest in Minnesota’s Green New Deal Saga
- Minnesota’s Biggest Electric Co-op Rejects Green Activists for Board
- In The Tank (EP186) – Artificially Inflated Green Jobs Numbers, Geoengineering, Tax Freedom Day, and Lindsey Stroud on Vaping
- Minnesota Citizen’s Utility Board Harms Ratepayers By Advocating For Bad Policy
- The Dirty Little Secret Behind Clean Energy Jobs
- The point of the energy industry is to produce energy, not jobs
- MN Commerce Department Commissioner Kelley Tips His Hand: “Carbon Free” Still Means No New Nuclear
- Walz’s Comments on Public Utilities Commission Appointment is an Ominous Sign for Line 3, Rational Energy Policy
- No, Wind Capacity Factors Are Not 50 Percent in Minnesota, And That’s Very Important
- No State Imports More Electricity Than California
- Isaac Orr: Lower Electricity Costs From Going Carbon-Free? Wanna Bet, Gov. Walz?
- Doubling Down on Failure Installment Four: Renewable Energy Fails Cost/Benefit Analysis Using Minnesota Public Utilities Commission Social Cost of Carbon
- House DFL Wants To Give People $2,500 Rebates for Electric Car Purchases
- MN House Energy and Climate Finance Committee Modeling Should Include Future Wind Speeds
- Doubling Down On Failure Installment Three: Carbon Dioxide Emissions
- Doubling Down on Failure Installment Two: Generation, Utility Profits, Property Taxes, and Transmission
- In The Tank (EP 184) A Bad Week for the Left: Russia Collusion, Green New Deal, and ObamaCare
- The Dirty Secret Behind “Clean Energy”
- Minnesota’s Third-Largest Wind Farm is Already Losing Steam: Output Falls 14 percent from 2014 Highs
- Even U.S. Senate Democrats Aren’t Crazy Enough to Vote For the Green New Deal
- House Energy and Climate Finance and Policy Division Drops 78-Page, Energy-Illiterate Omnibus Bill
- Would You Like Some Child Labor with That Electric Car?
- In The Tank (ep183) – Robert Bryce, Juice the Movie, Modern Monetary Theory, and State Nullification
- Editorial Counterpoint: Concerns About Wind Energy Aren’t Overblown
- Doubling Down on Failure Installment 1: Comparing the Costs of Wind and Solar, Nuclear, and Coal
- Trump Mocks Wind Power: ‘When the Wind Doesn’t Blow, Just Turn Off the Television’
- Statewide View: Skyrocketing Electricity Prices Threaten Minnesota Mining
- El Niño Has Caused a 14 Percent Drop in Wind Generation, Could Global Warming Render Wind Turbines Worthless?
- Doubling Down on Failure Fact Sheet
- Sunday Funnies: Wind and Solar Edition
- “Darling, is the wind blowing? I want to drive my Tesla.”
- Greta Thunberg, Student Protesters Should Demand Better Solutions to Climate Change
- Changing the Conversation: Cost Estimates for Wind Energy Need Additional Context
- Two Answers I’d Like on Xcel Energy’s Carbon Report
- What Energy Sources Do “Green” Countries Use? Hint – Not Wind or Solar
- How a 50% renewable energy mandate will hurt the state’s economy
- American Experiment Releases Groundbreaking New Study on the High Cost of Renewable Energy Mandates in Minnesota
- Controversy Over Wind Turbine Shutdown in Cold Hits North Dakota
- Star Tribune calls out Walz for irresponsible Enbridge pipeline delay
- EIA Expects Wind Installations To Plummet After Federal Subsidies Expire
- How Much Would One Day’s Worth of Battery Storage Cost Minnesota Households? $820 per Year, for 20 Years
- In The Tank (ep181) – IL Progressive Tax, Cali County Bans Solar Farm, Gov Steals Dog for Tax Debt
- HF 1956: MN Green New Deal Denies Role for Nuclear and Large Hydro
- Walz Embraces Energy-Illiterate Green New Deal for Minnesota
- Xcel Blames Snow Cover for Poor Performance of Solar Panels During Polar Vortex
- Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet
- In The Tank (ep180) – $100+ Trillion Green New Deal, Solar Panel Waste, Medicare for All, Min Wage
- Xcel Was Caught Short By Arctic Cold
- Watch It Live at 1pm! Minnesota Utilities Testify on Polar Vortex in Front of MN Public Utilities Commission
- Grid Operators Confirm: Wind Didn’t Work During Polar Vortex
- Minnesota is Number One! In Expensive and Inefficient Community Solar Installations
- EIA: Extreme Cold in the Midwest Led to High Power Demand and Record Natural Gas Demand
- The Green New Disaster is Coming Early to New York
- The Big Problem With Wind, Solar, and Batteries
- In the Tank Episode 179
- Minnesotans Are Not Getting A Deal on Their Electricity Bills
- SF1372 Eliminating Size Limits on Hydropower is Smart Policy
- Helping the U of M Energy Transition Lab Understand Energy
- American Experiment Testifies on the High Cost of Community Solar at the MN Senate
- Politicians’ environmental regulations drive the high housing costs they complain about
- Mix One Part Green New Deal With One Part Polar Vortex
- In the Tank Episode 178 Green New Deal FAQ Fail, 70% Tax Rate!? Pacific Legal Foundation
- Green New Delusion Would Require Lots of Mining, But Will Walz Allow it in MN?
- A Valentine’s Day Ode to Fracking: Column
- Closing Argument with Walter Hudson: Isaac Orr Talks Energy
- American Experiment Testifies on Bill to Increase Renewable Energy Mandate
- Farms Use Boatloads of Energy
- Nationally Renowned Climate Scientist Judith Curry Cites Our Analysis of the Polar Vortex in Testimony to U.S. House of Representatives
- Isaac Orr Talks Energy on King Banaian Show
- State Agency: Your Clothes Are Polluting the Planet
- Last Week’s Cold, This Week’s Trespassers, Shows We Need a Pipeline Protection Bill
- Nuclear Is Less Costly Than You Think
- Gas Tax Issue Illustrates Rural, Urban Divide
- Dear Bernie: Oil Fuels Your Beloved Scandinavian Spending Spree
- Two Podcasts: Same Rant About the Need of Reliable Energy
- Budweiser Uses Super Bowl Ad To Promote Wind Power
- Bitter Cold Shows Reliable Energy Sources Are Critical
- Wind Power Engineering and Development: Why Wind-Turbine Gearboxes Fail to Hit the 20-year Mark
- Why We Need Coal: Xcel Urges Minnesota Residents to Lower Their Thermostats to 60 Because of “Significant Strain” on Xcel’s Natural Gas System
- It’s Negative 24 Degrees and the Wind Isn’t Blowing. This is Why We Need Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power, Not Renewables
- Germany is Largest Buyer of Russian Natural Gas
- Germany To Burn Beautiful, Clean Coal For 19 More Years
- EIA Data: Wind Replaced Natural Gas, Not Coal in 2017
- In the Tank Episode 175
- Throwing Shade at the Solar Pathways Analysis: 70 Percent Solar and Wind Would Require We Build 6 to 11 More Capacity Than Nuclear Would Require: At a Massive Cost
- Minnesota Utilities Spur Wind Turbine Building Boom…In North and South Dakota
- MPCA Testimony: The Air Is Getting Cleaner
- Center of the American Experiment Submits Comments Supporting Twin Metals Minnesota Mineral Lease Renewal
- With Rise of Electric Vehicles, a New Foreign Energy Dependence Looms
- Trump’s Energy Policies Bode Poorly for Putin
- Minnesota Vikings Help Cover the Cost of Innagural Parties for Governor Walz
- Should Minnesota Require Rooftop Wind?
- Only Two Electric Cars Premiered At Detroit Auto Show
- The World Is Getting Better, Declares Op-Eds in Leading Newspapers
- China: No Wind Or Solar If It Can’t Beat Coal On Price
- Natural Gas, Not Wind or Solar, Is the Main Cause of Reduced CO2 Emissions
- Video: My Friend Justin Haskins Talks The Green New Deal On Tucker Carlson Tonight
- In The Tank: Episode 173
- Business North: Nolan Was Frustrated by DFLers Who Opposed Mining
- 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?
- Yes, It’s True, You Are Turning Into Your Parents
- 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
- For Iron Range 2019 Can’t Get Here Soon Enough
- Twin Metals Keeps On Winning, Despite Best Efforts of Urban DFL
- Could You Power Your Home With A Bike? Not Even Close
- Our Take: Complicated Economics of Community Solar Gardens Subject of Debate
- Texas City Featured in Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Sequel’ Lost Millions in its Green Energy Gamble
- Happy Festivus, Everyone!
- 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
- German Co2 Emissions Remain Stubbornly High
- Tempering the Alarm About Sea Level Rise
- Resources Are Almost 5 Times as Abundant as They Were in 1980
- Stauber and Nolan Push Last Ditch Passage of Mining Bill
- 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
- PETA Asks People to Stop Using ‘Anti-Animal Language,’ Including Common Phrases
- 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
- 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
- Another One Bites the Dust: Wisconsin Wind Farm Decommissioned After Just 20 Years
- Minnesota Faces Severe Firewood Shortage
- New York Times Climate Model Shows Minnesota Has Cooled
- Anti-Pipeline Protesters Ruin Theater of Public Policy Performance for Everyone
- Patrick J. Michaels Discusses Climate Change on FOX’s Life Liberty & Levin
- Activists Lose Latest Round in Vital Pipeline Replacement Project
- The Production Tax Credit: Corporate Subsidies & Renewable Energy
- Want to Save on Your Utility Bill? This Minn. Nonprofit Has Some Tips
- MPUC Chair’s Nomination for New Job Raises Concerns
- 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?
- ACSH: Conventional Farms Are Better For Environment Than Organic Farms
- 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?
- View Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources Polymet Press Conference Here
- 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
- Orr “Mines” the Theater of Public Policy for Laughs
- Anti-Mining PAC Endorses Walz, Ellison, and a Slew of Other DFL Candidates
- 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
- While CO2 emissions rise in Europe, the U.S. leads the world in cuts for the ninth time this century
- MPUC Bows to Activists in Delaying Vote on Natural Gas Plant
- 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
- Will Global Warming Destroy Us All? Probably Not
- Join Us for Pro-Mining Rallies Next Week in Duluth and Hibbing
- 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
- Minnesota Keeps Shutting Down Inexpensive Power Plants: Why Not Expensive Renewable Energy Centers?
- Anti-Mining Group Is Wrong About Minnesota’s Mineral Wealth
- Are There Also Benefits to More Carbon Dioxide in the Air? Yes, There Are
- California Electricity Shutoffs Increase Up 64 Percent 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
- Have a mobile phone? Then consider why mining in Minnesota is preferable
- 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
- Star Tribune Fooled by Cherry-Picked Data: How the Left Demagogues on Climate Change
- Local Media Glosses Over High Cost of Stoneray Wind Farm
- The United States is Now the Largest Global Crude Oil Producer
- Gold Exploration Expands in Northern Minnesota
- Minnesota Public Utilities Cowards
- Clean Energy Businesses Advocates Make the Case for More Green Energy Handouts
- Minneapolis City Planners: You Must Drive 37 Percent Less
- With another dubious assumption, Harvard study authors tilt the scales against mining
- Oh Snap: New England Energy Markets Undermined By Renewables Subsidies. Will Minnesota Learn From the Looming Disaster?
- Minnesota’s Massive Manganese Deposits- More Wealth Under Our Feet
- Star Tribune Urges Serious Debate Over More Mining
- “Get Ready for Sticker Shock on California’s Last-Minute Clean Energy Proposals” – Even California Reconsiders Costly Energy Mandates
- Minnesota’s Rich Mining Tradition Still Runs Deep
- 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
- Duluth News Tribune: DNR Denies Petition for Additional Polymet Environmental Review
- Center Report Ramps Up Debate Over Benefits of Environmentally Responsible Mining
- Future of Wind “Uncertain” After Federal Subsidies Expire
- Environmentally Responsible Mining Will Boost MN’s Economy $3.7 Billion a Year and Create 8,500 Jobs
- 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?
- In Blow to Minnesota’s Farmers, District Court Revives Obama’s WOTUS Rule
- Kudos to Crow Wing Power For Their Truth in Billing
- Sorry, Citypages. Free Enterprise Has Nothing To Do With Renewable Energy Growth
- Video: 99 Percent of Plastic in Oceans Comes from Other Countries
- “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
- Summer Issue of Thinking Minnesota is out
- American Wind Energy Association Whiffs in Their Attack on Our Report
- Media Warns Pipeline Chaos Could be Coming to MN
- Good Governance: Dayton Reinstates Former Essar Steel Mineral Rights Leases
- 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
- Strib Article: The trouble with recycling: It’s a plastic paradox
- 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
- Paris Climate Treaty Continues to Fall Apart
- Enviros Panic Over Judge’s Rejection of Wind Farm
- Will Line 3 Become the Next Major Pipeline Protest?
- 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
- Senator Tina Smith Proposes Amendment to Help PolyMet as the Project Gains Steam
- Supporters Turn Up Heat on Dayton to Approve Pipeline
- Minnesota to Benefit From Chinese Shift to Higher Quality Iron Ore
- Why Enbridge 3 Pipeline Matters to Minnesota
- 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
- Electric Cars are Mostly for Wealthy People, and You’re Subsidizing Their Purchase
- 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
- Pipeline Proponents Go On Offense
- Are Wind Companies Rushing Projects to Scoop Up Subsidies?
- Has Wind Reduced Dependence on Fossil Fuels? Not in Europe, New Study Shows
- Congo Uses Child Labor in their Cobalt Mines, So Let’s Mine Cobalt in Minnesota, Instead
- 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
- Bipartisan Effort to Scrap Outdated Environmental Regulation Faces Dayton Veto
- Good News! Interior Department Reinstates Leases for Twin Metals Minnesota Mine Project
- Minneapolis Becomes 65th U.S. City to Adopt 100% [Fraudulent] Renewables Goal
- Remember the Titaniums
- 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
- Federal Energy Subsidies Declined Since 2013, Solar and Wind Still the Big Winners
- MN House Jobs and Energy Omnibus Includes A Giveaway to Wind Developers
- Taking Back Earth Day
- Cheer Up, Bonnie. Things Are Getting Better
- 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
- State Solar Power Mandate Under Fire at Capitol
- Three Reasons Gas Prices Will Be Higher this Summer, and One Reason They Won’t Be as High as They Could Be
- So You Want Wind Turbines But Don’t Want Copper Mines?
- Minnesota Falls in State Mining Rankings, Again…
- American Experiment Refutes Mondale’s Misleading Claims on Mining
- 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
- The Perfect Meme Debunking Renewable Energy
- Renewable energy costs more jobs than it creates
- Don’t Be Fooled By Solar4Schools Programs
- Article: Twenty-One Bad Things About Wind Energy- and Three Reasons Why
- A Gold(en) Mining Opportunity for Minnesota
- How Installing Wind Energy Increases Electricity Prices
- American Experiment’s Wind Energy Campaign Comes to Freeborn County
- Are more solar jobs a good thing?
- 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
- Recycling Won’t Cut It- We’ll Need New Mines
- Solar Power Strikes Out in Carver County
- “Free” Solar Subsidy Comes Back to Bite Maplewood
- Will Minnesota Learn From Germany’s Green Energy Failures?
- Minnesota’s Copper and Nickel Deposits are World Class
- 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?
- MN Wind Turbines Shut Down Over Safety Concerns From Ice [UPDATED]
- Could MN’s Biggest County Split Up Over Mining?
- Residents’ Revolt Against MN Wind Farm Makes National News
- Minnesotans Should Save $200 Million on Gas and Electric Bills Thanks to Federal Tax Cut
- Blaine Homeowners Reject Nation’s “First Certified Green Neighborhood”
- Mining Proponents Cheer For PolyMet
- Hundreds of Supporters Back Copper Mining at Public Hearing
- First MN Copper Mine on the Verge of Approval
- Another Obama Era Obstacle to MN Mining Bites the Dust
- Center’s Radio Ad & Policy Report Focus on Failure of Wind Energy
- Electricity utilities are less likely to invest under ‘liberal’ regulators
- Power Prices Go Negative! But…Is This a Good Thing?
- Minneapolis Adds $2 Million Climate Surcharge to Utilities
- Feds Reverse Controversial Ban on Northern MN Mining
- 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
- House Passes Bill Ending Obama Mining Ban in Northern MN
- More Mining Companies Exploring Possibilities in Northern MN
- MN City Reconsiders and Rejects Solar as Too Risky
- Xcel Reveals Solar Garden Power Costs Double Other Sources
- EPA Cleans House After Obama-Era Advisers Pocket $77 Million in Grants
- Dayton Must Not Allow Militant Enviros to Suppress Pipeline Debate
- 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
- Iron Range Up in Arms Over State’s Latest Environmental Overreach
- There are lots of jobs in wind energy…just not much energy
- In Minnesota, “Green” Energy Fails Every Test
- MN Unions and Businesses Throw Clout Behind $2 Billion Pipeline
- Pipeline Protesters Camp Out in Northern MN
- Time for Minnesota to update 1970s-era pipeline permitting process
- MN Wolf Population Way Up But Court Still Bans State Management
- Rift Over Mining Splits Duluth DFL
- Minneapolis Eliminates Parking Spots to Deter Driving
- A Little Clear Thinking and Perspective on the Houston Flood and Climate Change
- Busted! Cops Crack Down on Enbridge Pipeline Extremists
- Cops Let Enviros “Do Their Thing” and Shut Down New Pipeline
- Dakota Access Pipeline Sues Greenpeace Protesters
- Fewer mining jobs means big-time economic problems for Minnesota
- Opposition to logging and mining undermine northern Minnesota’s economy and global environment
- Iron Range to Trump: We Need More Mining
- Minnesota raises the price of energy, relying on economic theory once more
- Met Council Holds Workshop on Climate-Caused Racism
- Pro-Mining Unions and Businesses Rip Forest Service “Charade”
- 10k Reward for Eco-Vandals Behind Death of Thousands of MN Mink
- Pollution Agency Advises Against High Carbon Vacations
- This time we are three years from climate disaster: Being an alarmist means never having to say you’re sorry.
- Northern Minnesotans Urge Boycott of Feds’ Hearing on Mining Ban
- Minnesota Joins States Fighting Plastic Bag Ban
- Key Members of Congress Support Overturning Obama MN Mining Ban
- Solar “Gardens” Labeled Solar “Scam” by Economist
- Will He or Won’t He? Plastic Bag Ban Now Up to Governor
- Titanium Breakthrough Could Be Bigger Than Taconite for Iron Range
- Dilbert on Climate “Science”
- Camp Ripley Takes Aim at Global Warming
- As Minneapolis plastic bag ban nears, state agency says environmental benefits of paper over plastic is a myth
- American Energy Will Restore Prosperity, If We Let It
- State Regulators Holding Up Another Critical Oil Pipeline
- After being sued for defamation, Greenpeace admits its claims are hyperbole and not factual
- Why ‘Yuge’ Meeting on Obama MN Mining Ban May Not Matter
- Renewable Energy Standard Could Be a Blowout
- Will Legislators Bag Minneapolis Plastic Bag Ban?
- Residents Furious as City Levels Hundreds of Trees to Sell Wetland Credits
- Pollution Agency Tells Minnesotans to Stop Buying Stuff
- St. Paul Residents Trash New Recycling Program Problems
- St. Louis County Turns to Trump to Overturn Obama Mining Ban
- Star Tribune common sense and the Gorsuch nomination
- Why Green Energy Subsidies Don’t Pay
- Key points about the Dakota pipeline you probably never heard
- 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?
- Cops Clamp Down on Bemidji Pipeline Protesters
- 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
- After election, MN regulators must revisit closure of coal plants in Becker community
- 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
- MN Utility Files for Huge Rate Increase to Pay for Wind and Solar
- Why Won’t Xcel Come Clean on Cost of “Clean” Energy?
- Paper by Former American Experiment Intern Reveals the Hidden Cost of Wind to Electricity Consumers
- Regulatory delay in approving pipeline puts tax revenue and jobs at risk in northern Minnesota
- Cronies vs. Eagles? No Contest!
- Join Us For Climate Hustle!
- Renewable Mandate Drives New Increase in Utility Bills
- How We Know That Human-Caused Global Warming Is a Joke
- Court Loss Over North Dakota Coal Stokes Long-Shot Appeal by Dayton
- Clear Cut Trees Reveal Solar Power’s Environmental Downside
- Category: Governance
- What Biden’s presidency could mean for childcare
- State Website for Seniors to Sign Up for Vaccine Crashes Immediately
- ‘COVID Hypocrisy’: Map tracks officials who violate their own coronavirus restrictions
- Despite loosened restrictions on indoor dining, some restaurants are in no rush to reopen
- Session preview event turns into Orwellian speech exercise
- Lawsuit Claims MMB Commissioner’s Rogue Pay Increase for State Union Violates Law
- Indoor dining capacity limits wreaked their own havoc during the summer
- Walz’s Mask Mandate for Youth Sports Ripped as Unscientific
- Hopkins Could Eliminate Duplicative City Inspections Required to Sell Home
- Thousands of Minnesotans Unable to Pay Utility Bills in Pandemic
- So much uncertainty still surrounding lockdown orders in Minnesota
- Why do bar and restaurant owners feel the full force of the law while people sealing off city blocks don’t?
- Walz’s Mask Mandate for High School Sports Questioned
- DFL Senator’s inauguration party shows the hypocrisy and randomness of rule by Executive Order
- UPDATED: DFL state senators plan event in breach of Gov. Walz’ guidelines
- Evidence from numerous studies prove lockdowns do not control the coronavirus
- Famous Hopkins discount movie theatre permanently closed due to Covid-19 restrictions
- No evidence supports extending restrictions on businesses in Minnesota
- Long List of COVID Closed Restaurants and Bars Sparks Revolt
- Trump signed a new executive order loosening occupational licensing restrictions around the country
- Covid-19 has brought to light the irrationalities of city planning
- Duluth Under Pressure to Delay Plastic Bag Fee on Consumers Again
- Mayor Says Other Businesses Should be Allowed to Open like Casino
- Governor Walz should let businesses open if he really wants to support them
- Wisconsin to Resume Wolf Hunting Season, But What About Minnesota?
- The regressive effect of regulation
- Minnesotans Do Laps in Wisconsin Around Walz’s Pool Shutdown
- Larvita McFarquhar Gets Her License Taken Away
- The case for occupational licensing reform in the next legislative session
- Business Leaders Urge Financially Strapped Duluth Convention Center and Tourism Office to Merge
- Minnesota has consistently ranked among the least free states in the US historically
- People don’t always do what politicians tell them to
- Minnesotans are once again flocking to Wisconsin where bars and restaurants remain open
- Businesses in Walz’s Hometown of Mankato Pan Latest Lockdown
- Push for 20 MPH Speed Limit Runs into Opposition in Rochester
- Covid-19 and the future of childcare regulation
- Freedom wins from the 2020 election
- Violence and Election Losses Over Defunding Police Draw New Attention to Minneapolis
- How are restaurants and bars reacting to new restrictions?
- It’s Your Money!
- How Minnesota drowns would-be horse teeth floaters in excessive licensing laws
- A post-Covid-19 agenda for Minnesota’s state government: Governance
- High interest on credit cards? Blame strict regulation for that
- Embattled City Council President’s Announced Departure Emboldens Pro-Police Citizens Group
- According to top health officials, Minnesotans are to blame for any new additional Covid-19 restrictions
- Why doesn’t the data that closes bars re-open schools?
- The irony with Governor Walz`s ‘targeted’ lockdown measures
- Regardless of Results, it Will Be Rule By Regulators
- Effect of Trump Deregulation Will Last Regardless of Election Outcome
- COVID-19 is being used as a cover to constrict freedom across the world
- Time to End One-Man Rule
- Literature on childcare says strict regulation on childcare=higher prices
- News You Won’t Get Anywhere Else
- Parents Defy State HS League to Stage Their Own State Soccer Tournament
- California Legislature amends pro-worker law after influx of requests for exemption
- [LIVESTREAM] Election Integrity in 2020
- By being so nakedly partisan, Big Tech companies are making it harder for free marketeers to defend them
- How regulation prevented a City Council member from solving childcare shortage in Duluth
- Infectious disease experts warn that lockdown measures will bring irreparable damage
- The share of the state’s ICU beds in use is the correct benchmark for Gov. Walz’ Covid-19 emergency measures
- Will Bloomington Voters Send City Hall a Message with Trash Issue on the Ballot?
- The downside to heavily subsidized childcare
- More bad ideas for Covid-19 benchmarks
- On a childcare forum hosted last weekend, one provider cited issues with regulation enforcement
- Spirit Mountain to Get Another Taxpayer Bailout
- Is the share of cases coming from ‘community spread’ a useful benchmark for Gov. Walz’ emergency powers?
- Is the ‘positivity rate’ a good Covid-19 benchmark?
- Minnesota’s COVID-19 emergency has passed. Why haven’t Gov. Walz’s emergency powers?
- The state government is gunning for The Busted Nut
- More and more states are taking on occupation licensing reform, greatly reducing barriers to work
- Joe Biden on Hubert Humphrey, 1976
- New research shows regulatory growth increases operating costs for businesses
- Minnesota is one of the 13 states where its legal for the government to steal home equity
- Is Sale of City Driving Range Just the Start in Duluth?
- Wedding Barn Owners Say “I Don’t” to State Sprinkler Mandate
- VIDEO: Here’s why it’s so expensive to buy a home or afford rent in the Twin Cities
- Some grape growers feel threatened by court ruling that struck down MN law mandating wineries use MN grown grapes
- Federal Court Overturns State Law Mandating Winemakers Use MN Grapes
- Minnesota law is increasing demolition costs for riot-burned buildings
- SD Gov. Kristi Noem to receive “Courage in Government” award at Virtual Gala 2020
- Minneapolis Holds Up Permits for Burned Out Businesses Hoping to Rebuild
- Coronavirus Threat Fails to Deter Election Judges in Mankato
- In Minnesota, laws are only applied sometimes to some people
- Mayor Frey blames Governor Walz for being too slow to deploy the National Guard and quell the recent riots
- In the Tank Episode 254: Biden Chooses Kamala for VP? Teachers Threaten Strikes Over COVID
- False Alarm
- Total Failure
- Gov. Walz’ emergency powers enable him to bully business into backing his actions
- How would a statewide mask mandate be enforced?
- Gov. Kristi Noem Highlights 🌟
- With arbitrary law making, enforcement, two Minnesotas are emerging
- With its arbitrary making and enforcement of laws, the state government is creating two Minnesotas
- We’ve got your back, now have ours! 🤝 Cast your vote for American Experiment!
- GOP Lawmakers Vow to Return Columbus Statue to State Capitol
- Gov. Kristi Noem: The Courage to Reject a COVID-19 Shutdown
- Rochester City Council’s Big Pay Raise Leads to Big Campaign Issue
- Voters Alliance Sues Minneapolis Over State Law to Protect Absentee Ballots
- What is the point in a mask mandate which won’t be enforced?
- What is Gov. Walz doing with his emergency powers?
- Gov. Walz doesn’t need to keep his emergency powers
- The Minneapolis Riots: The Constitutional right to peaceful protest must be upheld, but that does not include rioting
- Could Cities’ Extended Emergency Orders for Coronavirus Undermine 2020 Elections?
- Minnesotans say they support the lockdown. Their actions suggest otherwise…
- Dysfunctional DVS Does It Again with Driving Test Backlog Projected to Hit 110,000
- Minnesota liberals are determined to undermine First Amendment rights
- Remember Pep’s Bake Shop
- Unprecedented, unwarranted restrictions on freedom
- Gov. Walz and Ag. Ellison twiddle as Minnesota’s small businesses burn
- In The Tank (Ep243) – Joe Biden Resurrects Bernie’s Socialist Policies
- How have Minnesota and its neighboring states responded to the Coronavirus?
- DFL Incumbents Suddenly Raise Red Flag About Online Voting After Losing Endorsement
- In The Tank (Ep242) – Coronavirus and Civil Disobedience
- Gov. Walz might not get to choose when the shutdown ends, Minnesotans might end it for him
- Walz Should Look to Local Governments on How to Make Necessary Cuts Due to Covid
- Lakefield City Council Won’t Enforce Governor Walz’s Stay At Home Order
- Babylon Bee: China Impressed By Michigan Governor’s Totalitarian Policies
- Sen. Carolyn Laine is Wrong: Minnesota Cannot Stay on Lockdown for 18 Months
- Gov. Walz to decide on lifting ‘Stay at Home’ order this week
- Gov. Walz extended the stay-at-home order to buy us time. Are we using it?
- A State Senator’s powerful plea to reopen Minnesota’s economy
- In The Tank (Ep239) – Coronavirus: Are People Fed Up?
- Is an end to the Coronavirus shutdown in sight?
- Coronavirus emergency aid for K-12 schools coming soon
- How the density craze is ruining urban life
- Financial Fallout from Coronavirus Forces Cities to Cut Back Progressive Plans
- In The Tank (Ep238) – Bernie Drops Out! Good Coronavirus News?
- Minneapolis should adjust funding program to help more families
- Conflict of Interest Concerns Dog DFL Senator Hired by Duluth College
- Gov. Walz extends stay home order to May 4
- To produce more masks, President Trump should lean on the FDA and CDC, not 3M
- Finally! Bloomington Gets to Vote on Freedom to Choose Garbage Hauler
- Limited Access to Government During Shutdown Raises Transparency Concerns
- Why have Minnesota’s legislators left our state’s first responders high and dry?
- Questions for Authorities in Greater Minnesota Over Stay-at-Home Order
- Map: How states are fighting coronavirus with public policy
- Coronavirus Aid Package Fails Because Liberal Democrats Want Green New Deal, Student Debt Forgiveness
- Getting government out of the way to fight the coronavirus
- NEW DATE: 2020 Annual Dinner Featuring Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- The Onion: Vindictive Amy Klobuchar Elected Mayor Of South Bend, Indiana
- Federal Court Strikes Down Minneapolis and St. Paul Voter Registration Requirement for Landlords
- MN Secretary of State Links to Pro-Warren Website for Super Tuesday Poll Finder
- In The Tank (Ep232) – Bernie Sanders’ Spending Proposals are INSANE!
- 47,000 Duplicate Accounts at State DHS Cost Taxpayers a Bundle
- Commissioner No-Shows Force Minneapolis Park Board to Cancel Meetings
- Criminal Justice: A new option for felons seeking redemption
- More Drama as Rochester Civic Theatre Returns Taxpayer Funds to City
- St. Cloud City Council Finally Ditches Speech Restrictions
- MN Supreme Court Rules Bloomington Disenfranchised Voters on Trash Petition
- What can Minnesotans expect from the 2020 legislative session?
- Are Minnesotans getting good government for their high taxes?
- Rochester Considers Crackdown on Taxpayer Funding of the Arts
- Ex-Senator Enjoys Good Life with Leftover Campaign Funds
- Local and State Government Under Fire for Lack of Transparency
- Taxpayer Costs Soar as Play Declines at Rochester City Golf Courses
- U.S. Supreme Court hears high-stakes school choice case
- Will St. Cloud Rescind Controversial Gag Rule on City Councilors?
- In The Tank (Ep226) – Shrinking States vs. Growing States, Sanders Warren Feud
- Ball of Collusion
- A Prosperity Agenda
- Embattled Inspector General Gets Another $132,000 State Job at DHS
- Why is government so wasteful with your money?
- MN Taxpayers Would Spend $17 Million a Year to Subsidize Duluth Train
- Rochester City Councilors Vote to Double Salaries for Themselves and Mayor
- Sunday Funnies: Escalators Can Never Break, Unless It’s the MN State Government.
- Crime, budget, population numbers suggest public safety needs more attention in St. Paul
- Check Out American Experiment’s New Scandal Tracker
- Where Does the Buck Stop in the Unfolding DHS Scandals?
- L.A. teachers’ union claims endorsement process is ‘democratic,’ only pushes one candidate
- County Board Warned Raising Property Taxes For Citizens Group is Illegal
- How the Latest DHS Scandal is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
- Sunday Funnies: Bernie Feels the Bern
- Is the Minneapolis Park Board Playing Office Politics?
- After 2016 heartburn, labor unions take their time with political endorsement
- More Than Organized Garbage Controversy is on the Ballot in St. Paul
- Walz Doubles Down on Taxpayer Subsidies for Failed Amtrak Train Lines
- Fraud and Mismanagement Should Be Red Flag for City Funding of Credit Union
- Watch: Trump rally draws huge crowds in Minneapolis
- Trump/Frey Spat Suggests DFL Stands for “Different standards For Liberals”
- Minneapolis council decides that spending money on events doesn’t generate offsetting economic benefits after all
- St. Paul Mayor Carter Threatens Residents With Huge Tax Increase Over Garbage Vote
- The Masquerade of Good Government
- The Lesson of Prohibition
- In The Tank (Ep210) – Government Spending Waste Report, Bernie’s Wealth Tax
- Did St. Cloud City Council Violate State Law?
- MN Supreme Court Upholds St. Paul Residents’ Vote on Garbage
- The most important election of 2019
- The Ellison-Bloomberg Connection
- Midnight in Minneapolis: “It’s the Wild, Wild West”
- Feel Good Minneapolis Wage-Theft Ordinance Could Undercut State Law
- The Righteous Losers
- WSJ Columnist Kimberley Strassel Explains Mueller Testimony, Will be Keynote Speaker at Center’s Fall Briefing
- Backlash Forces St. Cloud to Ditch Drastic Rental Property Mandates
- Legislative Recap: American Experiment leaves an impact in St. Paul
- Paper Rips Walz on Lack of Transparency Over State Agency Meltdown
- MN Amtrak Ridership Declines Again in 2018
- St. Paul Residents Remain Defiant Over Vote on Garbage
- Only Fed Hearing on Removing Wolf from Endangered Species List Held in Brainerd
- Widespread Campaign Finance Violations in Suburb of Minnetrista
- Lawsuit Claims St. Paul Failed to Implement Own Sick Pay Policy
- St. Louis Co. Commissioner Cracks Down on Amazon Orders
- Gov. Walz Fails to Stay the Execution of Kenilworth Trail until SWLRT is funded
- In The Tank (ep194) – 2020 Dem Presidential Candidates, Medicare 4 All, Climate Change
- Garbage In, Government Out? Residents Challenge Bloomington Garbage System
- 2019 Legislative Recap
- St. Cloud VA to Scrap Dysfunctional $2.5 Million Wind Turbine
- No Funding for Proposed Duluth Train This Year
- End government shutdown threat for good with bipartisan legislation
- City Changes Drive Half of Trash Haulers Out of St. Paul [UPDATED]
- Are Minnesota Taxpayers Being Taken for a Ride by Amtrak?
- Kenwood Resident Makes Impassioned Plea to Reroute Unsafe SWLRT and Save Urban Oasis
- Minneapolis Wants to Ban New Drive-Thru Windows
- How much of your money do our politicians think they are entitled to?
- This is a Whopper: Minnesota’s HQ2 Amazon bid was lost in the Cloud.
- KARE 11 Investigates: ‘Stay Away Pay’ costs taxpayers millions
- A Tale of Two Tims
- MN Secretary of State Stonewalls Court-Ordered Release of Voter Data
- Strib Political Reporter Backtracks on DFL Cronyism Expose
- Intervention > Unintended consequences > Intervention…
- Should policy be judged on its intentions or its outcomes?
- Foundation Pulls the Plug on City’s Chief Resilience Officer
- Mayor Carter didn’t have $100k for Independence Day fireworks but does have $225k for a “human-powered gliding” competition
- In The Tank (EP185)- Jonathan Williams and the Pension Crisis; Green Real Deal; and the Electoral College
- Minnesota’s craft brewers are left high and dry by the Omnibus Liquor Bill
- County Attorney’s Hiring of Son Raises Nepotism Controversy
- Suburban Campaign Finance Controversy Heats Up
- Inspector General at DHS Placed on Paid Leave Following Report of Welfare Fraud
- U of M Political Pundit Rips Sanders in National Media
- Senate GOP takes action on Child Care Fraud: Calls for DHS Inspector General Ham to Step Down
- Hundreds of DFL Voters Disenfranchised in Senate District 11 Primary
- Metro Transit: The most dangerous LRT system in America?
- Campaign Complaint Rocks Minnetrista
- Help Wanted: City Compliance Officer to Monitor Duluth Businesses
- Democratic Senators Move to Disenfranchise Minnesotans
- Minnesota has lagged the nation on Research & Development spending since 2012
- Some parts of the federal government should stay shut down
- Is Government Shutdown New Business as Usual?
- Why does government get ripped off so easily?
- Is Minnesota really the fourth best governed state in the union?
- St. Paul Library Goes Fine Free But It Could Cost You
- Court Backs Climate Change and Calls for More Protests
- Dayton Leaves Big MNLARS Mess Behind
- Dayton Approves Huge Raises for Government Employees On His Way Out the Door
- Roseville Whiffs on Liquor License for New $3 Million Golf Clubhouse
- Fred Barnes: Three ‘Easy’ Steps to a Trump Re-election
- How big is government in your county?
- 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?
- Winthrop Taps Reserves, Cuts Cops and Pothole Repairs to Subsidize Internet Network Debt
- Someone Better Tell the Met Council Planners: Millennials Moving to the Suburbs in Droves for Better Schools and Bigger Houses
- Duluth to “Rebrand” by Streamlining Some City Services
- Southwest LRT funding has left the station: Will Trump Insist that Met Council Appointments Follow Federal Law?
- Tom Emmer Selected to Lead Republican House Campaign Arm
- Taxpayers Push for Vote on City’s Pricey Community Center Plan
- Is Minnesota introducing taxation without representation?
- Think Your Vote Doesn’t Count? Or that Voter Fraud Does Not Matter? Al Franken “Won” By 312 Votes and Provided the 60th Vote for Obamacare
- St. Paul Residents Resist Mandated Garbage Collection
- Report scores Gov. Dayton a ‘D’ on fiscal policy
- Residents’ Opposition Puts a Lid on Edina Pols’ Pet Project
- Minnesota’s Roads Receive a Dismal D-Plus Rating
- Out of Control Minneapolis City Council Meetings Raise Concerns
- Is Minneapolis Park Board’s Toxic Image Hurting Superintendent Search?
- Jeff Johnson and Tim Walz Share Very Similar Pages Regarding “Great Jobs Without a Four-Year Degree”
- Will Citizens’ Last-Minute Opposition Trash St. Paul City Garbage Grab?
- Federal Agencies Scrutinize Met Council Compliance
- “Who will believe thee, Isabel?” Women Senators Reverse Decades of Progress
- Teachers: You do not have to meet with a union rep before resigning this week.
- Mayor Carter: The grinch who stole Independence Day
- September 24-30 is decision time for Minnesota Educators: Union Sets Narrow Exit Window Once a Year
- DFL Blames Republicans For Their Own Policy
- The Onion Nails It, Publishes Its Own Anonymous OP-ED
- New Park Board Commissioners’ Proposed Pay Raise Comes Under Fire
- Progressives Standing in the Way of the Blue Wave
- Florida’s Gubernatorial Primary and Memories of Howard Cosell
- Lewis Doubles Down on Met Council Accountability
- For New Park Board Members Change Starts With Big Pay Raise
- State “IT” Services: Legislative Auditor Releases Report Detailing Serious Mismanagement, Disregard for Legal Requirements
- Much Ado About Something at the Met Council
- Is Downtown Minneapolis Doing Better than the City Council’s Makeup Might Suggest?
- Who is Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente and why is he on the Primary Ballot for the U.S. Senate?
- Met Council has a new director of equal opportunity but not enough bus drivers. Some Routes Suspended.
- Governor Dayton Will Regret Vetoing Tax Cuts After Seeing U.S. Growth Numbers
- Minneapolis ponders new ID Card for Illegal Immigrants and other “Constituencies”
- Southwest LRT Summer Newsletter: spending, delays continue while total costs rise
- MN Secretary of State Fights Court Order to Release Voter Data
- Met Council Policies Threaten Dream of Home Ownership
- Public Pools to Robotic Mowers: The Minnesota Bonding Bill
- MN County Overestimates Property Assessments by $133 Million
- Ex-Contracter Slams State Government Incompetence
- Overturning ‘fair share’ union fees would restore balance
- MN High Court Rules for Citizens Fighting Bloomington on Garbage
- MINNESOTA VOTERS ALLIANCE v. State of Minnesota and Joe Mansky: The First Amendment Wins, Again!
- A Year Later Vehicle Registration System Still in Meltdown Mode
- Why do regional planners ignore the future of transportation?
- Carter Not Fazed by Turmoil in IT Department
- Residents Petition to Reinstate Cancelled 2019 Local Elections
- Religious Freedom Narrowly Protected 7-2: Baker Does Not Have to Make Cake for Same-Sex Couple
- What is in the big $1.5 billion bonding and public works bill? A new pool for New Hope
- Hoyt Lakes Mayor: “PolyMet is Our Superbowl”
- Bonding Bill Fine Print Undercuts Met Council Powers
- Minnesota’s Mr. Wrong: Gov. Dayton’s Math and Reasons for Vetoing Tax Bill Don’t Hold Water
- Thank you Star Tribune for urging Gov. Dayton to ‘keep the greater good in mind’ and sign the ‘protest’ bill
- Dayton Likely to Quash Met Council Reforms Again
- Five Years Later, Citizen Watchdogs Get Their Day at MN Supreme Court
- Dayton wants $138 million in “emergency” funding to cover school district budget deficits
- Press Freedom and Bridges to Bucharest
- Lewis Amendment Addresses Met Council’s Flawed Governance Model
- Special screening of the movie Little Pink House: Friday night April 27 at the Lagoon Cinema
- Lawmakers Revive Bill Cracking Down on Freeway Protesters
- Minneapolis FBI Agent Leaked Classified Documents Because of Racism
- State Pollution Agency’s Power Grab on Northern Lakes Slapped Down–Again
- DFL Legislators Livid Over Millionaire Who Took Food Stamps to Expose Loophole
- St. Anthony’s Out-of-Town Junket Violates Open Meeting Law
- Duluth Ordinance Could Give Part-Timers More Paid Time Off Than Full-Time Workers
- Report claims MN IT official knew of vehicle licensing system problems
- Should MN amend the constitution (again) to get dedicated funds for roads?
- Dayton’s MnDOT testifies that it cannot prioritize mobility or reduce congestion in Metro area
- Legislators Demand Tougher Oversight Despite Threat of MNLARS Layoffs
- Lawmakers Target “Monster” Met Council Again
- Nobles Rips State Auditor Otto for Treatment of CPAs
- Minneapolis City Attorney Looks Other Way As Mayor and Council President Break Rule on Rehiring Her
- Should Minnesota Restrict What We Wear to the Polls? The U.S. Supreme Court Will Decide.
- AFSCME’s “Talking Points” Misconstrue Purpose of Janus Case
- Can Congress Over-Ride FTA Recommendation Against Funding Light Rail and Bus Rapid Transit? Maybe.
- Another Encounter Between MN Rep. Keith Ellison and Farrakhan Revealed
- Another Blank Check Won’t Fix MNLARS Meltdown
- Rep. Ilhan Omar, Secretary of Homeland Security in Pretend Shadow Cabinet
- Betty McCollum Embarrasses Herself
- Dayton’s $6,000 Ticket to His “People’s Stadium”
- Met Council: If it is such a great regional model, why is it the only one after 50 years?
- MN Was State Least Affected by Government Shutdown
- No End in Sight for Backlogged Vehicle Registration System
- Will Klobuchar and Smith Vote for Shutdown Over Saving Children’s Health Program?
- Rochester Spends $150,000 on “New Destination Brand”
- Controversial State Water Regulation Slapped Down
- Minnesota DFL Donor Uses His ‘Republican’ Group to Post Anti-Trump Billboards
- MN Sheriff Uses Obscure State Law to Take Over Wolf Kill Investigations
- MN Federal Judge Nominee Stras Gets Last Laugh on Franken
- Legislators Threaten to Eliminate State IT Agency Over DVS Mess
- Iron Range Editor Blasts “Metro-Centric” Sen. Smith
- St. Paul’s Mayor Gets Off to a Bad Start
- Sen. Franken’s Last Hurrah
- Mapping The Swamp of the Administrative State
- Minnesota is at serious risk of losing a seat in Congress
- Is Minnesota really the best governed state in the union?
- Administration Slashes Federal Regulations at Record Rate
- U.S. Unfunded Pension Liabilities Exceed $6 Trillion: Minnesota’s Share is at least $118.7 Billion
- The Day Mitch Carved Up the Minneapolis City Council
- MN Democrats Torn Over Whether Franken Should Go
- Do New MN Voter Fraud Charges Make Case for Election Integrity Commission?
- State Hires Private Company in Panic Over Drivers Licenses
- Key Legislators Make the Bipartisan Case for met Council Reform, Again
- Back to the Future at Dayton’s?
- Can New Management Salvage Disastrous New Vehicle Licensing System?
- The Real Al Franken Revealed: Will it Break the Log-Jam on Judges?
- Franken Busted for Abuse of Nomination Process
- MN Supreme Court Upholds Dayton Defunding of Legislature
- Vanity Plates Latest Problem With Troubled Vehicle Registration System
- Memo to the Minnesota Supreme Court: Do Your Job
- Nearly 1 in 4 MN Cities Lose Money on Muni Liquor Stores
- Former Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber Drawn Into Mueller’s Russia Probe
- Taxpayer and Ratepayer Subsidies Squandered as Suburb Dismantles Solar Project
- Report concludes Minnesota’s budget is prepared for the next moderate recession, but tax collections are among the most volatile
- Video: Police Let Militants Shout and Shut Down State Pipeline Hearing
- City Councilor’s Blog Encourages More Citizen Watchdogs
- OLA Jim Nobles Releases Critical Met Council Transit Audit: Legislative Leaders React
- Star Tribune Expose Omits Late Minnesotan’s DFL Connections
- Public Safety Becoming Key Issue in Minneapolis Mayoral Race
- Is Roseville Effectively the Twin Cities First Sanctuary Suburb?
- Has Southwest Light Rail Hit a Speed Bump—or The Wall?
- Prominent DFL Donor, Key Figure in Corruption Scandal Commits Suicide in L.A.
- Who should Trump appoint to the Fed?
- Contrary to Star Tribune headline, constitutionality of Dayton’s veto is far from resolved
- Dayton Accused of Secret Deal with Tribes on Mille Lacs Walleye Limits
- Pension director says, “It’s a crisis” – Minnesota’s government pensions shortfall soars to $6,000 for every Minnesotan
- Will Met Council’s Secretive Deal Keep SWLRT Alive?
- Mr. Dayton, you can’t always get what you want
- Will Judge Order Hodges to Let Minneapolis Taxpayers See Budget?
- Franken and Klobuchar Use Obscure Senate Ploy to Block MN Judge
- St. Paul Mayor Proposes More Transparent Budget After City Loses Landmark Case
- Out-of-Control State Agency to Pay Nearly $1 Million in Botched “Investigation”
- Governor Dayton’s Retaliation Against Legislature Violated the Minnesota Constitution
- Minnesota’s Secretary of State Refuses to Cooperate With Voter Fraud Investigation [Updated]
- US Bank Stadium Suites Scandal Leads to Reforms
- Property Rights Activists Slam Supreme Court Decision on St. Croix River
- Minneapolis Launches Controversial “Hate Crime” Hotline
- Minneapolis Focuses on Threat to Environment Over Public Safety
- Is Governor Dayton Bigoted Against Minnesotans?
- Shrimp Farm Comes to MN Despite Dropped Subsidy
- Salary Boost for Ramsey Commissioners, Tax Hike for Ramsey County
- A Special Session Over Driver’s Licenses for Illegal Immigrants?
- Governor Dayton’s Attempt to De-Fund the GOP Legislature: Troubling Tactics, Apocalyptic Prose and Fake Federalism
- Will Governor Dayton Sign or Veto Omnibus Bills Today?
- All the reasons the Met Council screwed up $BIG TIME by forcing light rail
- $800 million bonding bill rejected by House as too small
- Minnesota’s decline: Why Minnesota may lose a congressional seat in 2020
- Howard Root Wows Lunch Forum Crowd
- Politically-Connected Davis Sentenced in Corruption Case
- City Councilor Posts Veiled Facebook Threat to MN Congressman
- Trump Threatens Press Freedom? Ridiculous
- Are Polls Accurate or Misleading? Dayton’s Approval Rating is 62 Percent
- Minneapolis School Board “Forced” Into Decision-Making
- Government on Government Lobbying Cost MN Taxpayers Millions in 2016
- Congress Set to Rein in Met Council With Help From American Experiment
- Is Betsy Hodges One of America’s Worst Mayors?
- Hodges’ Mayoral Re-election Campaign Focuses on Trump: Why?
- A Different Kind of Election Fraud in Minnesota?
- Minnesota May Lose a Congressional Seat. But Why?
- A response to Hopkins real estate developer: Southwest LRT is a sweetheart deal for developers, terrible deal for taxpayers
- A Theater District’s Bad Stretch of Bad Actors
- MN House Passes Bill to Crackdown on Freeway Protesters
- A Step Toward Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform
- Out of touch? Franken and Klobuchar oppose Gorsuch while even the Star Tribune recommends confirmation
- Residents Oppose Paying Officials’ $43,000 in Legal Bills
- Klobuchar & Franken Grill Gorsuch, End Up Getting Burned
- Crockett and Actuary Testify at the Pension Commission: Keeping the Pension Promise
- “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
- Is the Minnesota Commerce Department Out of Control?
- Dayton Threatens to Shut Down Minnesota’s Government
- Too Much Secrecy, Not Enough Accountability
- Minneapolis City Council Considering Rubber Mulch Ban
- VP Candidate Kaine’s Son Busted at Anti-Trump Rally in St. Paul
- More Political Spring Cleaning After US Bank Stadium Scandal
- Voter Fraud in Central Minnesota
- Congressman Jason Lewis Files Bill to Contain the Met Council
- Bill proposes provisional ballots to help guarantee certain voters are truly eligible to vote
- First Time Activist? Not Exactly
- Lawmakers Aim to Make the Met Council Accountable
- Obama Rule Expands Met Council Boundaries
- Should David Roe, Minnesota labor leader, be lionized?
- Kelm-Helgen Out In Backlash Over US Bank Stadium Suites [Updated]
- America’s Young Betrayed
- Mayor Hodges: No Comment on Campaign Dirty Trick
- Why Liberal Policies Are Bad For Young People
- Federal Funding in Doubt, MPR Turns to MN Taxpayers
- I told you so? Crockett update on Public Pensions.
- Refugee Resettlement: A Federal Policy Funded by Minnesotans
- Don’t Fear Real ID
- Thousands More Threaten to Leave–Not the U.S. But the Bureaucracy
- City Debates Turning Down Grant in Latest Met Council Flap [updated]
- Newly Elected Outsiders Take Charge in Cities and Counties
- Twin Cities Couple Fights Mandatory City Property Inspections
- Minneapolis: Not Liberal Enough?!
- Urban Insanity In Minneapolis
- Minnesota Elector Refuses to Vote for Clinton
- Who Gets Free U.S. Bank Tickets? DFL Activists
- No More Freebie Tickets for Political Insiders at U.S. Bank Stadium
- Why Did St. Paul Kick Cops Off Review Board?
- SEIU and State Ordered to Halt Early Contract Talks in Boost for PCA Decertification Drive
- Legislative Auditor Investigating Stadium Perks for Political Insiders
- Is St. Paul Still a Sanctuary City?
- Dodd-Frank forced my neighborhood community bank to sell
- 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
- Steven Hayward’s Spot-On Analysis of the Challenges Ahead
- Election Judges May Still Monitor Ineligible Voters Despite Court Loss
- Buyers’ Remorse Over $500 Million Public Investment in Vikings Stadium?
- Road Work Ahead as Cities Move Away From Street “Fees”
- Might Trump Carry Minnesota?
- Pre-Election Hearing Ordered for MN Election Judges Concerned Over Voter Fraud
- Dayton Administration Approved Sending MN Law Enforcement to ND Protest
- MN Secretary of State Sued for Instructing Election Judges to Let Felons and Others Known to be Ineligible to Vote
- Residents Still Fighting City’s Trash Takeover
- Dayton Misfires in Misleading Attack on MNsure Critics
- U.N. Controversy Taints Mayor Hodges’ Wonder Woman Day
- Kim Crockett: Freedom will be short-lived without the Constitution
- King Banaian: Let Cigars and Rum Lead the Way to Freedom for Cuba
- The Candidates Are Bad, So Let’s Give Them More Power!
- 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
- State Agency Tells Minnesotans to Go Green with Cosmetics
- Why Were Cops Called to League of Women Voters Forum in Red Wing?
- Trump releases Child Care Plan. Doesn’t the president, even Congress, have more important things to do?
- Duluth City Council Rejects Anti-Mining Measure
- Minnesota Supreme Court ruling on St. Paul fees already having statewide impact
- Why Is Minnesota’s Legislature So Polarized?
- Another Minnesota City Restricts Right to Rent Out One’s Home
- Minnesota Supreme Court should find state law preempts Minneapolis minimum wage proposal
- Minnesota Supreme Court Protects Citizens from Unfair Taxes Disguised as Fees
- Governor’s Intransigence Blocks Special Session
- Met Council to Spend $25 Million to Monitor Race-Based Use of Parks
- 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
- Liberals Rely On Punctuation to Subvert the Declaration of Independence
- Case Not Completely Closed on Minneapolis Corruption
- Rampant Voter Fraud in Minnesota?
- Is Public Transit a Relic of the Past?
- 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
- Crockett’s Quick Pension Update 2016: Minnesota’s Slow and Quiet Bailout
- 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: Health Care
- What should we make of the near elimination of flu in Minnesota?
- Arizona continues to lead in healthcare licensing reform
- Minnesota’s Covid-19 vaccination program is lagging
- Minnesota’s Covid-19 ICU hospitalizations are down 66% from their December peak
- Ten months in, New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo recognizes that Covid-19 policy does involve trade offs
- Minnesota’s Covid-19 ICU hospitalizations are down 58.8% from their December peak
- Minnesota’s officials need to be honest about Covid-19
- A study found a significant increase in deaths of despair during the pandemic
- Gov. Walz should end his shutdown of Minnesota’s bars and restaurants
- A closer look at Gov. Walz’s Executive Orders shows how arbitrary and unscientific they are
- Here is what Minnesota’s contact tracers are asking
- A new study finds lockdowns 10 times more costly to public health than not locking down
- Confirmed: The state government’s contact tracers are asking questions which boost the share of cases traced to bars and restaurants
- What science is telling Gov. Walz that bars on reservations are safe but bars off them are not?
- Minnesotans have eradicated the flu by masking and distancing. So how did Covid-19 survive?
- Covid-19 cases rose together in Minnesota and its neighbors, and they are falling together too
- Minnesota’s ICU hospitalizations are down 6.2% from their November peak
- The Department of Health’s own data does not support Gov. Walz’ continued attacks on Minnesota’s bars and restaurants
- Why is the state government hiding the questions its Covid-19 tracers are asking?
- Minnesota’s Covid-19 numbers started improving before Gov. Walz’s latest shutdown
- If credibility is currency, Tim Walz is going bankrupt over COVID
- What does new research suggest for Minnesota’s Covid-19 policy?
- Covid-19 ICU hospitalizations are down 4.5% from their November peak
- Gov. Walz is not following the data in closing cinemas
- Gov. Walz is not following the data in closing gyms
- If Minnesota’s mask mandate isn’t working, it isn’t because people aren’t complying
- Let’s return common sense to our COVID policies – action alert
- Minnesota’s ICU capacity is down 34% from November
- Drug Overdose Deaths Spike Statewide Since COVID Restrictions
- Minnesota’s Covid-19 tracing regime is being overwhelmed
- Gov. Walz is not following ‘the science’ in banning your family Thanksgiving
- Gov. Walz has failed to protect Minnesota’s care homes
- If Minnesota is running out of ICU beds, Gov. Walz has failed in his central aim in the fight against Covid-19
- Minnesota’s total ICU capacity has fallen by 229 beds – 10.6% – since early October
- The data show that restaurants and bars have been linked with just 1.7% of Minnesota’s Covid-19 cases since June 10th
- Minnesotans are in a battle with Covid-19, but state government and local media should stop scaremongering
- More evidence shows that lockdowns have been detrimental to children`s mental health
- Six months on, Gov. Walz’ ‘Five-Point Plan for protecting Minnesota’s Long-Term Care residents and workers from Covid-19’ is failing
- Where does Minnesota stand in its fight against Covid-19?
- Minnesota’s shortage of trained ICU nurses shows why we should join the national Nurse Licensure Compact
- Minnesota’s Covid-19 model is coming back. Will it be any more accurate this time around?
- COVID Cases Surge In Europe
- Europe’s COVID-19 experiences show that mitigation measures can only mitigate, they cannot stop the spread of the virus
- Do Masks Work?
- What do the numbers tell us about Covid-19 hospitalizations in Minnesota?
- A post-Covid-19 agenda for Minnesota’s state government: Healthcare
- Yale researchers found that childcare programs are not a big contributor to the spread of Covid-19
- Telehealth could improve healthcare access in Rural Minnesota post-COVID
- Mental health providers in Minnesota deem telemedicine convenient and beneficial
- Data shows ban on elective services disrupted routine health care for kids
- Minnesota’s Department of Health is going to stop reporting the number of people in hospital with Covid-19
- Where does Minnesota stand in its fight against Covid-19?
- Minnesota’s Covid-19 strategy has gone from ‘Two weeks to flatten the curve’ to ‘Indefinitely to eliminate the virus completely’
- In mid-July, a surge of Covid-19 hospitalizations was forecast. It hasn’t happened
- CDC survey finds that a quarter of young adults contemplated suicide during the pandemic
- Continued school closures will worsen a public health crisis
- Research suggests that people took measures to halt the spread of COVID-19 without waiting for government to tell them
- Minnesota’s Covid-19 crisis is primarily a crisis in its care homes. How will a new lockdown solve that?
- Who is hit hardest by Covid-19?
- Minnesota’s care homes are a Covid-19 disaster area. How can we improve that?
- Since Wisconsin reopened, it has had 50% fewer Covid-19 deaths per capita than Minnesota
- The state government’s handling of Covid-19 in Minnesota’s care homes has been a disaster, not that you’d know it from the media
- School closures are detrimental to the well-being of children
- New research suggests 10 times more Minnesotans might have been infected with Covid-19 than we know of. Here’s why that’s good news.
- Ban on “elective” procedures caused delays for cancer screenings which could increase mortality among cancer patients
- Sick Seniors: Minnesota’s Failure to Protect the Elderly from COVID-19
- Parents want their kids back in school, and the science supports them
- How do Minnesota’s Covid-19 numbers compare?
- Minnesota’s Covid-19 numbers look good, so why is Gov. Walz ramping up the rhetoric?
- Disruptions in the health care system have caused a spike in deaths caused by heart conditions and other medical issues
- Research shows children are only half as likely as adults to be infected by the coronavirus
- Pediatricians call for school reopenings this fall
- Minnesota’s Covid-19 model forecast 3,400 in ICU on June 29th: There were 140
- How Minnesota’s Covid-19 model has been a total failure
- Walz’s COVID “Science” Was Always a Smokescreen
- School is back in session around the world, but U.S. still contemplating reopening
- Minnesota Considers Three Scenarios for Back to School
- Data shows signs of COVID-19 plateauing in Minnesota
- A month on from its reopening, the dire predictions for Wisconsin are looking very wrong indeed
- As Minnesota expands re-opening, should people worry?
- Minnesota’s shortage of trained ICU nurses shows why we should join the national Nurse Licensure Compact
- Extended unemployment benefits found to significantly affect workers’ physical and mental health
- Minnesota’s Covid-19 model is a disaster
- Anti-body testing shows Covid-19 is less deadly than previously thought
- The state government’s handling of Minnesota’s care homes has been a disaster
- Poll: Coronavirus Restrictions Led to Widespread Delay of Medical Care
- CDC Guidelines for Reopening Schools Have Some Parents Concerned
- Minnesota’s long-term care homes are dangerous
- By imposing then lifting a ban on elective surgeries, Gov. Walz has created a ‘surge’ of non-Covid-19 ICU cases
- Kevin Dayaratna: Failures of an Influential COVID-19 Model Used to Justify Lockdowns
- We may be on the verge of a mental health crisis
- Inside our care homes, Minnesota is more dangerous than average. Outside, it is safer
- Minnesota Covid-19 deaths continue to be concentrated among the elderly and residents of long-term care facilities
- Georgia sees a decline in Covid-19 deaths weeks after reopening, contrary to models predicting a surge in deaths
- Patients Speak Out About Impact of Walz Postponing Elective Surgeries
- Minnesota’s use of its Covid-19 model has been a disaster
- Does Covid-19 mortality data justify extending the lockdown?
- In deciding Coronavirus policy, both politics and science have a role to play
- Walz’s Covid Coordinator: State Response to Long-Term Care Virus Deaths “Has Not Been Enough”
- Dunwoody 3D Printing Instructor Supports Medical Heroes by Designing Ear Savers
- Does MN have the Nation’s Highest Rate of Covid-Related Deaths in Long-Term Care Facilities?
- How more testing can – and can’t – help Minnesota reopen its economy
- MN schools will remain closed, but limited in-person testing will be allowed
- Gov. Walz signs order allowing healthcare workers licensed in other states to work in Minnesota
- What are models, how do we build them, and how do they work?
- Minnesota should join the national Nurse Licensure Compact
- Part 2: Recognizing MN manufacturers who are supporting our health care heroes
- Minnesotans can now receive mental healthcare from out-of-state providers
- Sunday Funnies from the Babylon Bee: New York To Raise Taxes On Coronavirus Causing It To Flee State
- To fight the Coronavirus, Gov. Walz should allow healthcare workers licensed in other states to work in Minnesota
- MN manufacturers produce face shields to support health care heroes
- Research shows there is no evidence suggesting Certificate of Need (CON) laws are helpful
- The Coronavirus crisis shows that Minnesota must lift its hospital moratorium
- America needs masks, but federal regulations are getting in the way
- Certificate of Need (CON) laws in healthcare do not make sense
- How federal regulations—and regulators—held up coronavirus testing
- Telemedicine to the rescue
- Hair dryers won’t stop the coronavirus
- The costs of the FDA
- Pandemic? In Minnesota, Not Yet
- Can private firms deliver social insurance?
- Price isn’t everything
- New research suggests that occupational licences for social services and nursing home staff do not increase the quality of service
- Elizabeth Warren’s labor proposal would reinstate pilfering from home health care workers
- How to Save BIG $$$ on Prescriptions
- In The Tank (ep188) – Terrible Earth Day Predictions, Socialism, and Free to Choose Medicine
- In The Tank Ep 182 Doubling Down on Failure, $60 Trillion Medicare for All, Doctor Shortages
- The privacy of your health records is at risk at legislature
- Reason: New Poll: Medicare for All Is Popular Until You Explain How It Works
- Doctor/State Lawmaker’s Rx for Health Care Riles Up Left
- Trump Administration Undermines Obamacare
- “Get the Feds Out of My Life! But Dang It, Hands Off My Medicare!”
- Rep. Erik Paulsen’s bid to end Obamacare Medical Device Tax is expected to be signed into law this year
- Conservative Healthcare Expert Avik Roy Argues for Universal Coverage at U of M
- Finally Cleaning House at the Vets Administration
- Kris Greene goes to Washington to Defend Medicaid Against Union Dues-Skimming: Crockett in NRO
- What if health care was more like the auto insurance market?
- Big Tax Cuts Likely for 80,000 Minnesotans Charged Obamacare Penalty
- Franken, Durenberger take partisan jabs in call for bipartisan health care bill
- Attorney General Swanson Sues to Force Trump Administration to Break the Law
- Trump signs executive order to begin replacing Obamacare with better health care choices
- Last-ditch effort to repeal Obamacare might just bring moderate and conservative Republicans together
- Minnesota’s reinsurance program helps calm health care rates
- Efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare still moving forward after Senate meets with Trump
- Insurance choices dwindling in counties across America
- Number of Insurers Offering Coverage through Obamacare Exchanges Drops in Half
- 7 Women, $7 Million: MN’s Latest Medicaid Fraud
- Reporters ignore counterpoints to Dayton’s claims about funding losses from GOP health care bills
- Give states more revenue options to fund insurance market stabilization programs
- Legislature’s Special Session Wrap-Up: Estate Tax, Healthcare & More
- CBO score of House GOP healthcare bill wrong on the impact of state waivers
- After addressing instability in the health insurance market, lawmakers try to finalize HHS omnibus bill
- $1 Trillion in Obamacare Taxes Eliminated by House Action
- Republicans take critical first step to protect health insurance coverage for millions
- House bill to repeal and replace Obamacare strengthens pre-existing condition protections
- The GOP’s Current Obamacare Bill, Coherently Explained
- MN Medicaid Fraud Case Worth $12 Million, Feds Seize $2 Million
- How to Thread the Repeal and Replace Needle
- Fraud Strikes Again: MN Medicaid Scam Worth $1 Million
- Trump Mentions Dayton’s Obamacare Comment (Again)
- A possible path to give states more control over health insurance markets
- Unattainable expectation to fully and immediately repeal Obamacare risks deflating conservatives
- How a Medicaid program for people who are disabled is funding politics
- Republicans do have a plan to replace Obamacare, but the repeal process is complicated
- Aetna’s arrival will enhance competition among health insurers, but what about providers?
- Minnesota GOP steps forward with first steps to address state health care crisis
- New federal law expands health plan options for small employers
- Liberals Try to Scare Minnesotans On Health Care
- Is MNsure on Life Support After Election?
- Sticker Shock! Why Many Young People Still Reject Obamacare
- When It Comes to Obamacare, Minnesota Is Not the Worst
- MNsure Triage as Website and Call Center Crash
- Could Be Worse! Minnesota Has Only 4th Highest Obamacare Rate Hike
- Star Tribune’s health care “realities” need their own dose of reality
- Higher Property Taxes? Blame Hidden MNsure Costs
- To Save or Not to Save METS: That’s the Real Question for Counties
- Minnesotans once again face steep increases in insurance premiums due to federal health care law
- Democrats’ health care law responsible for the turmoil besetting Minnesota’s individual insurance market
- More MNSure Fallout: 103,000 Minnesotans cannot keep that plan they liked after all
- MNsure errors in determining eligibility cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars
- 2014 Health Care Savings Date Back to when Republicans Controlled the Minnesota Legislature
- 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
- More insurers pressured to lower MNsure rates: Time to remove politics from rate-setting process
- 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?
- Category: Public Safety
- Violent crime in St. Paul was up 25% in 2020
- Mayor Carter Urged to Reconsider Technology to Curb St. Paul Gun Violence
- New Proposal to Defund Minneapolis Police Riles Up Residents
- Minnesotans Travel for Thanksgiving Despite Walz Warning
- More Suburbs Ban Protesters from Harassing Officials at Home
- Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender to Retire
- “Protestors” Vandalize Minneapolis Businesses and Shut Down I-94 Again
- Metro Businesses Brace for Riots and Violence on Election Day
- Motorists Face New 20 MPH Speed Limit in Minneapolis and St. Paul
- The rioters were mostly white, some #woke, attacking minority neighborhoods in the name of ‘justice’
- Popular Yard Sign in SE Minnesota Calls for Supporting Police
- State Senate report correctly blames state and city leadership for the summer’s riots
- Can Downtown Businesses Take Back Nicollet Mall?
- Authorities Keep the Pressure on Suspected Rioters and Looters from Floyd Protests
- Minneapolis city Councillors can row back from their ridiculous plan to defund the police. Its victims can’t.
- Permits to Carry and Gun Sales for Personal Protection Soar in Minnesota
- Recent cases suggest innocent people are paying the price for Minnesota’s soft courts
- The outlook for public order in the Twin Cities is grim
- Minneapolis City Council in June: Defund the police! Minneapolis City Council in September: Where are the police?
- Ramsey Co. Attorney Choi Belatedly Tries to Quit Trump Crime Commission
- U of M Crime Alerts Raise Questions as Unsolved Violent Cases Pile Up
- Research shows that more cops mean less crime
- Minneapolis city council abandons its push to defund the police
- The consequences of increased violence in Minneapolis
- Americans are buying more guns than ever
- Survey finds that a growing number of people feel ‘unsafe’ in downtown Minneapolis
- Viral Body Cam Footage Shows MN Cops at Their Best
- Duluth Cops Told to Stand Down on Thin Blue Line Flag Masks
- Homicides are spiking in Minneapolis and St. Paul
- How Much Equity Have Walz and Frey Erased?
- Minneapolis starts to feel the economic cost of the recent riots
- Walz Mobilizes Guard Troops He Called “19-Year-Olds who are Cooks” in New Riots
- A riot isn’t always the language of the unheard
- Victims of the rioters speak out
- Defund the police but no reduction in cops – Just what do Minneapolis’ residents want?
- Finally! State Patrol Cracks Down on Freeway Protesters
- Mayor Carter wants fewer cops, more political advisors
- In North Minneapolis, people have issues with Police conduct, but they also distrust efforts to defund the police
- Anti-Police Vandals Deface Cop, Firefighter and Soldier Statues in Eagan
- YouTube censors CAE talk on policing ft. Heather Mac Donald
- Calm after the storm
- Chicago Mayor snubs Frey by abruptly withdrawing from forum
- Minneapolis Dodges Police Ban on the Ballot for Now
- As murder rates rise in cities across America, Minneapolis leads the pack
- Anti-Police Thugs Deface American Experiment Billboards, US Bank Stadium and Government Buildings
- SURRENDER: How Minneapolis voluntarily relinquished its streets to a mob of vandals, thieves, and arsonists
- Here is why the new policing bill may not provide the much needed reform in policing
- MN National Guard General Who Ended Twin Cities Riots Gets a Big Promotion
- Research shows that police officers benefit from additional years of schooling
- St. Paul Asks Public’s Help in Identifying Looters 6 Weeks After Riot
- In Minneapolis, less policing is bringing more crime
- As violence surges, does Minneapolis need more police rather than fewer?
- The ‘#woke’ left is putting Black lives at risk
- Under Walz Minnesota State Patrol Effectively Allows Unlawful Protests
- Majority of Minnesotans Have ‘A Great Deal of Confidence’ in Police, Strongly Oppose Defunding Minneapolis Police Department
- Research shows that requiring officers to live in a community does nothing to improve their performance or community relations
- Minneapolis city council: Safety for me – but not for thee
- Research suggests that Minneapolis is in for a rise in violence
- The state of Colorado has passed a law against qualified immunity
- Police Reform Part 4: People support police system reform
- Police Reform part 3: Police Unions are a big hindrance to accountability
- Police reform Part 2: Why it is hard to charge and convict police officers of misconduct
- Rioters No Match for St. Cloud Police Chief
- Police Reform Part 1: A lot of Factors contribute to police brutality
- Americans don’t want to defund the police
- The riots: When the police don’t protect people, they protect themselves
- The riots: We need to reform the police. Should we abolish them?
- The Riots: Who were the victims?
- The Riots: Who were the rioters? Part 2
- The Riots: Officials should stop spreading disinformation
- Governor Noem’s Swift Activation of National Guard Preempts Sioux Falls Riot
- The Riots: Who were the rioters?
- Map of Snapchat Riot Videos
- Roseau Becomes First MN County Designated as Second Amendment Sanctuary
- Sherburne County Could Become First MN Second Amendment Sanctuary
- St. Paul police study finds they need more than 100 additional officers and support staff to fulfill their duties
- Ex-Legislator to Minneapolis PD on Crime: “Please Help Us”
- Minneapolis Cop Blames Crime Wave on Anti-Police City Council
- Why is crime rising in Minneapolis?
- With crime rising in Minneapolis, residents want more police on the streets
- A liberal on law and order in the Twin Cities
- Mayor Carter says Saint Paul cannot afford 5 police officers but can spend $1.125 million on green vehicles
- With 19 homicides in St. Paul so far this year, Mayor Carter wants to cut 5 police officers
- Labor union racketeering: It’s a problem
- Elizabeth Warren wants to tax guns so people buy less of them. Now apply that logic across the board
- McCollum Takes Aim at St. Paul PD’s Grant Request on Gun Violence
- How Do You Feel Strolling on Hennepin Avenue? Dining on Nicollet Mall?
- ICE Wants More Detention Cells in Minnesota
- A Note on Illegal Immigration and Crime
- Lack of Donations For GoFundMe Shows People Don’t Really Want the Wall
- Big Year for Duluth Fighter Squadron Deployed in ISIS Fight
- Dayton Administration Data Breach Exposes Minnesota’s Most Vulnerable to Identity Theft
- Minneapolis FBI Agent Gets 4 Years in Prison for Media Leaks
- Weekend Shootings Last Straw for Minneapolis Craft Brewer
- Pointless Virtue Signaling In St. Louis Park
- Child Care Welfare Fraud: It’s Not Just Minnesota
- St Paul Schools hire principal with an interesting resume: Misused State Funds, Drunk Driving Arrests
- Another child care center raided for Medicaid fraud
- Righteously Right on Crime
- Welfare Fraud Supporting Extravagant Lifestyles and Terror Abroad: MN Senate Calls for Investigation
- Is This The Worst Scandal In Minnesota History?
- Conceal and Carry: The World Would Be A Safer Place If Responsible Adults Could Carry Concealed Firearms
- What is America’s biggest national security threat on the horizon?
- Bad News for Jihadists, Good News for Minnesota: Trump Administration Establishes National Vetting Center
- We’re No. 1! But Not In a Good Way
- Has the Star Tribune Made a Case for Government-Mandated Church Attendance?
- Feds’ Focus on Controversial Diversity Visa Lottery Shifts to Minnesota
- Attorney General’s Office Argues DFL Legislature Purposely Made It Harder for PCAs to Decertify the SEIU
- Minneapolis Candidates Under Fire on Question About Cops [UPDATED]
- Hurricane Harvey – How the private sector can help
- How About Putting Cops’ Good Deeds on Body Cams?
- Virginia shooting reiterates need for self-defense
- Officer Acquitted In Shooting That Gov. Dayton Prejudged
- VP Candidate Kaine’s Son Charged in St. Paul Anti-Trump Protest
- 15% of Terror Investigations Are Refugees
- Trapshooting Team Banned From School Yearbook [Updated]
- Off-Duty Cop Who Stopped St. Cloud Jihadist Named Officer of Year
- Abdi Warsame’s False Claim on Extremist Violence
- Star Tribune support for Republican “protest” bill a vital step forward
- Protesters’ Latest Road Shutdown Demonstrates Need for New Law
- Protesters’ Stadium Stunt Raises Super Bowl Security Concerns
- Heather Mac Donald’s Research on the Law and Order Crisis
- Judge Davis Sentences Would-Be Terrorists
- Zeller response to Minneapolis City Council member Blong Yang on lurking law and crime
- Star Tribune Counterpoint: There ought be a law to prevent that … Oh, wait!
- More Minneapolis Shootings Thanks to Lurking Law Repeal
- How Dangerous Is Minneapolis?
- Separating Narrative from Fact in the Crime and Policing Crisis
- St. Cloud Mall Attack Raises More Questions About Gun-Free Zones
- “Racist Cops” Claims Ignore the Facts
- Protesters Shut Down Highway 35W [Updated]
- Police Group Criticizes Dayton’s Hasty Reaction to Shooting
- Governor Mark Dayton Embarrasses Himself and Minnesota
- Did Gun Rights Activist Flag Problem with St. Anthony Police?
- Violent Crime Jumps In Minnesota
- Category: Transportation
- Minneapolis to Reduce Traffic Lanes and Parking on Hennepin Ave. in Uptown
- Lawmakers Stiff Second Chicago to Twin Cities Amtrak Train in Bonding Bill
- Electric Busses Failing Duluth Test Drive
- Northstar Commuter Train Ridership Plummets 95 Percent
- Northstar train extension likely derailed by COVID budget woes
- Department of Vehicles Services in Hot Water Again for Late License Tabs
- Confirmed: The Met Council’s dangerous “transit-oriented development” crusade
- Metro Transit to Limit Bus Ridership During COVID-19 Outbreak
- Why Gas Engines Are Far From Dead- Biggest EV Problems
- Isaac Orr Testifies on Walz’s California Car Mandates Before the Minnesota Senate
- Light Rail Is a Crime-Ridden Disaster
- The Dangers of Riding Light Rail
- State government spending per Minnesotan is up 20% in real terms since 2010, but they need more money for the roads. Where has it all gone?
- Rent-a-Scooters More Popular Than Free Bikes in Rochester Trial Run
- Riders React to Rep. McCollum’s Views on Green Line Violence
- MnDOT Commissioner Pushes Big Gas Tax Increase
- Third light rail accident in two weeks highlights Twin Cities Light Rail as the least safe in the country
- $200 Million More for Roads and Bridges Without Raising Gas Tax
- Commuters Upset Over Loss of Extra Lane on Freeway
- 2018 Traffic Congestion Worst on Record Under Failed MnDOT Plan
- Stop Clear-Cutting of Trees for SWLRT: Residents Petition Gov. Walz
- Rural Reporter Derails Star Tribune on New Amtrak Train to Duluth
- Push for Return of Failed Duluth Passenger Train Reaches State Capitol
- Derailed High Speed Rail Line Provides Preview of Green New Deal
- Amtrak Launches New Effort to Revive Failed Passenger Line to Duluth
- For $2 billion, the West 7th streetcar will serve fewer people and run 1 minute slower than the bus
- Cold Snap Exposes Green Cars’ Power Problems
- I love my personal transportation vehicle
- Why is the Met Council going to waste up to $2 billion on a pointless streetcar?
- MN City Battles Feds and State to Close Small Airport
- Bigger Boondoggle, MNLARS or Kirk Cousins?
- Public Safety Does It Again with Long Delays for Driver’s Licenses
- Do Minnesotans See Public Transit as a Benefit or Boondoggle?
- The Fading Relevance of Mass Transit: Must-Listen Podcast
- MnDOT Demands Another Amtrak Train Despite Big Ridership Decline
- Pigs can’t fly, but miniature horses can: Southwest Airlines updates service animals policy
- Backlash Over Bikes In Rochester
- Minnesota Unveils New, Federally-Compliant Driver’s Licenses
- Driver Frustration Mounts Over I-35 in Minneapolis
- Why is the Ramsey County board going to waste up to $2 billion on a pointless streetcar?
- Radio Traffic Reporter Agrees: We Need More Lanes
- Road Construction Ramps Up Fury Over Minneapolis Bike Lanes
- Check Out Our New Radio Ads on Traffic Congestion
- Change of Guard? Peter McLaughlin does not get endorsed for Hennepin County
- Protesters Shut Down Blue Line After Dayton Veto of Tougher Law
- Center’s New Traffic Congestion Campaign Revs Up Media Interest
- American Experiment Kicks Off Its 2018 Traffic Congestion Campaign
- Southwest Journal: Risk of “Fatal Delay” Rises for Met Council’s SWLRT Project
- The Star Tribune mischaracterizes Met Council compliance bill advancing in the U.S. House
- The Met Council: The Least Safe Operator of Its Peers
- Minneapolis Kicks Out Disabled Parking for Bike Lanes
- Amendment Stops Pols From Diverting Road and Bridge Funding
- Another “Multi-Model” Fatality for Met Council’s LRT Line on Crowded City Streets
- City Official Rips New Minneapolis Transportation Plan
- I Challenge Anyone at the Met Council to Watch this Video on the Coming Future of Energy and Transportation and Then Explain Why It’s Smart to ‘Invest’ $2 Billion in SW Light Rail
- The Met Council: The least safe light rail operator of its peers. Do we really want LRT to co-locate with freight?
- BNSF Steps Up Investment: $810 Million To Get Minnesota’s Products to World Markets
- It could be worse
- Soucheray’s Close Call a Reminder of Light Rail Danger on Days Like This
- Twin Cities Light Rail Projects May Be Dead
- Detroit News: If we build mass transit, they won’t necessarily come
- Reading the Federal Tea Leaves: No Funds for Light Rail Expansion?
- Light Rail Expansion Comes to Screeching Halt: BNSF Says No To Met Council
- Just Say No: Increase in Gas Tax Would Fuel More Congestion, Reward Bad Policy
- Bike Lane Backlash Spreads to Businesses in Duluth
- MN Legislators Pull the Plug on “High Speed” Rail Study
- Minnetonka Residents Fight City Hall Over Bike Trail
- A Horrible Way to Be Proven Right
- Do We Really Want Amtrak Running Trains in MN? (Part 2)
- Traffic Congestion From Bike Lanes Could Be An Emergency
- MnDOT’s Energy-Saver Lights Snarl Traffic in Storm
- Bike Lanes Aren’t Cutting Edge, They Are a Failed Policy
- Listen to Kevin Terrell on KTLK: the latest on SWLRT and chances for Met Council Reform
- Will Transit Ridership Decline Mean End of Light Rail Boondoggles?
- Free Bridge Up For Grabs From MnDOT
- Study Derails Edina Commuter Rail Line
- Met Council Attempts to Explain Away OLA Audit Findings: Will the FTA Care?
- Twin Cities Traffic Congestion Is Worse Than Ever
- Backlash? Apparent Protest Planned Over Minneapolis Bike Lanes
- Twin Cities Traffic Armageddon
- 35W Meltdown: Why Didn’t Dayton Steer Fans to His Bike Lanes and Trains This Weekend?
- Read it and Grin: Minneapolis officials call for Environmental Review of SWLRT Crash Wall
- Do the Governor or Met Council Chair Ride Bikes to Work? Well, I do not either.
- Reader Rage Over Confusing Minneapolis Bike Lanes
- Fighting for the American Dream in D.C.
- Honk For Highways!
- Met Council Poker Game: buying train cars and condemning land for SWLRT
- Surly Gets Surly About Traffic Congestion
- Met Council votes to increase transit fares by 25 cents. Why now?
- Hennepin County Commissioner Vows “Pitched Battle” With American Experiment, Threatens to “Punch” Us and “Bowl Us Over”
- It’s Time To End the Twin Cities’ Congestion Crisis
- Building more roads will not cause more congestion
- Traffic ‘Armageddon’ Ramps Up Focus on Center’s Congestion Report
- Met Council Chair Abruptly Quits Amid Light Rail Standoff
- The Star Tribune’s ‘fake news’ on transit
- Driving is safer than light rail
- Moving people from road to rail will not help the Twin Cities environment
- Roads, not telecommuting, will relieve Twin Cities congestion
- Traffic Congestion Report Stirs Up Controversy
- City Pages is wrong; Minnesotans can’t all cycle everywhere
- Road Congestion: It’s All About Politics
- Minnesota’s state government should take the lead on infrastructure
- The Twin Cities need solutions to their traffic problems, not those of other cities
- Cutting traffic congestion will boost Minnesota’s economy
- Freeway Billboards Drive Traffic Congestion Campaign
- Caveat: Hennepin County Taxpayers Will Pay More to Fund Met Council Vision for Trains
- Paying to drive will reduce the cost of driving
- KSTP-TV: Is Congestion Really Inevitable?
- Report Shows Twin Cities Traffic Congestion is No Accident
- No Go! Southwest Light Rail Stiffed in President’s Budget
- Transportation Omnibus Bill: VETOED
- Flawed survey used to support adding a second Amtrak train between St. Paul and Chicago
- Dayton Veto of Transportation Bill Threatens Duluth Airport
- Backlash Against Bike Lanes Erupts in Minneapolis
- Quick update on transit and transportation issues at the Capitol
- Is Southwest LRT going to derail the transportation bill again?
- Federal and Local Funding Still in Doubt for Southwest Light Rail
- Has SWLRT received federal funding? Met Council says yes. Not so fast.
- Don’t Put Light Rail on Next Generation’s Credit Card
- US Transportation Officials: No Federal Funds for Troubled Southwest Light Rail
- Legislators Go Their Own Way on Roads
- Do We Really Want Amtrak Running Trains in MN?
- Will Governor Dayton Veto Money for Roads?
- Is Southwest Light Rail Transit Line on the Ropes?
- The Runaway Amtrak Train to Duluth
- Light Rail Transit is a Foolish Investment
- Switch Light Rail Funding to Highways? Great Idea!
- Proposed Law Would Treat Bicyclists More Like Drivers
- Twin Cities Have 4 of Worst Traffic Bottlenecks in U.S.
- A Conservative Infrastructure Agenda
- Met Council signs $118 million contract to design 27 SWLRT trains despite ongoing uncertainty over funding
- The Train Line That Won’t Go Away
- Southwest Light Rail: An Expensive Mistake
- Top 8 Reasons to Hit the “Pause” Button on Light Rail and Fund Proven Steps to Reduce Congestion
- New Report on Twin Cities Congestion Doesn’t Tell Half the Story
- Category: Unions
- As schools work on reopening, teachers’ unions push back
- Parents less likely to say teachers’ unions have ‘positive impact’ on education
- A former teachers’ union president as the next Secretary of Education?
- Teacher group ‘demands freedom from standardized testing’
- U.S. Department of Labor considers proposed rule to increase union transparency
- Teachers’ union tweets ‘push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny’—then deletes
- Here’s what the national teachers’ union will push for under Biden
- No surprise: Biden’s education transition team includes several teachers’ union staff
- Teachers’ union forces members to fund PAC, request your refund today
- MEA framed as distance learning-focused, but was it?
- Teachers’ union opposes popular micro-schools as they threaten union’s control
- Class is canceled for teachers’ union annual ‘professional development’ conference
- MN teachers’ union inaccurately claims educators in neighboring states don’t have ‘freedom’ to join union
- Teachers’ union raises dues: Will the dollars go toward teachers’ professional needs or politics?
- School reopenings closely linked to teachers’ union power—not safety concerns
- Teachers’ union PAC one of top spenders for the DFL
- Teacher Truths: You will not lose your pension if you opt-out of the union
- Teacher Truths: You are not selfish for exercising your rights
- Teachers’ Union Hides Past Support of Officers
- Teacher Truths: You do not have to meet with your local union rep to resign membership
- Private School Enrollment Booms as Teachers Union Fights Return to Classroom
- Teacher Truths: Leaving the union will not affect salary or benefits
- Research shows Occupational licensing increases inequality and deters economic mobility
- Teacher Truths: Quality liability coverage is available outside of union membership
- National teachers’ union political agenda is so far left even the Democratic Party won’t endorse it
- Teachers’ unions push for SRO removal from schools despite educators’ support of officers
- Teachers’ union message to its conservative members: Your views don’t matter
- Teachers’ unions and the Democratic Socialists of America make school re-opening ‘demands’
- Making the punishment stick
- Wisconsin teachers earn more than Minnesota teachers
- Gen Zers not as concerned with PTO as employers think
- More employers looking less at credentials, more at skills
- About half of fired police officers get their jobs back through arbitration in Minnesota
- New TV series celebrates everyday Americans who “get their hands dirty”
- MN teachers’ union announces endorsements of only DFL candidates
- On this 2-Year Janus Anniversary: American Experiment continues to fight for workplace freedom
- How will teachers’ union respond to school districts cutting ties with the school resource officers the union represents?
- Teachers’ unions call for police reform to identify bad apples
- Texas Attorney General Issues Opinion to Protect First Amendment Rights of Public Employees
- Relationship between states’ political leanings and public-sector union membership numbers
- MN public employees sue two government unions over collection of union fees
- The Coronavirus crisis is highlighting a problem that existed well before the pandemic: Promised pensions states can’t afford
- MN building materials employees win settlement over illegal firing
- Teachers’ union uses coronavirus to push agenda
- Pelosi’s Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Demands Union Giveaways that Would Hurt Private Employers
- St. Paul teachers’ union settles for district’s proposed wage increases
- National teachers’ union endorses Biden
- St. Paul teachers strike ends with ‘tentative’ agreement
- Before a school strike, let’s be clear about some numbers
- Closing the skills gap is a more effective way to increase people’s income than raising the minimum wage
- Teachers’ union opposition to increased transparency proposal falls flat
- Teachers’ union proposed salary increases are misleading
- Department of Labor Proposal Would Improve Union Transparency
- Resurfaced: Bloomberg’s past comments compare civil liberties, teachers’ union to NRA
- Florida bill proposes changes that better protect public employees
- Public sector unions have pattern of committing forgery against their own members
- Teachers’ union Legislative Report Card confirms its political agenda
- U.S. union membership rates continue to decline
- What Education Minnesota’s resolutions reveal about its 2020 priorities
- The final criminal acts of union bosses in 2019
- Teachers’ union encourages members to politicize Christmas
- California state law meant to protect gig economy workers is crushing them
- ‘Sensible Labor Reform: The Gift that Keeps on Giving’
- Teacher-hero Rebecca Friedrichs goes to Washington
- Oregon public school employees stand up for their rights by taking on teachers’ union
- Alaska governor working quickly to defend public employees’ First Amendment rights
- Proposed Worker’s Choice Act would expand worker freedom
- It’s time for unions to collect their own dues
- Minnesota doesn’t inform public employees
- You Can Quit But You Can’t Leave
- Heartless union holds MN public employee captive as she fights cancer
- Teachers’ union forces members to fund PAC, refund request process is tricky
- Union leaders learned the wrong lessons, continue to crack down on public employees’ rights
- Gov. Walz must restore Minnesota public employees’ First Amendment rights
- MN AFSCME Union Leader Resigns
- The Center signs on to letter urging Congress to defend American workers from union coercion
- 8-Year Analysis: Labor unions spend more than $1.6 billion in dues on liberal politics
- Union members, where do your dues go?
- Happy Labor Day! Let’s celebrate employee freedom.
- MN AFSCME Union Executive Suspended
- Time to celebrate National Employee Freedom Week!
- Minnesota Ranks #36 for How Well Public Pension Plans are Funded, Wisconsin #1
- Is Al Franken Scripting a Comeback?
- Senate GOP Thwarts Permanent Bailout of Municipal Pensions
- American Experiment signs coalition letter supporting union transparency
- Supreme Court’s Janus ruling should apply to union members, too
- Pension Omnibus Bill Increases General Fund Contributions to City of Minneapolis; Makes Bailout to Local Government Fund Permanent
- AFSCME union boasts about new membership numbers, but that’s only half the story
- Schadenfreude on Monday Morning: SEIU employees threaten to strike against union
- Janus Decision Restored Freedom of Choice, But Public-Sector Employees Still Limited on How They Can Exercise It
- The Janus Effect on Teachers’ Union: Too Soon to Know
- Teachers’ Union Wish List? $4 Billion More from “the Rich.”
- Litigation Continues Following the Janus Employee Freedom Victory: Could You be a Plaintiff?
- The Janus Effect: Public Sector Unionization Rate is Slightly Down
- Center of the American Experiment Calls on U.S. Supreme Court to Protect First Amendment Rights of Personal Care Attendants (PCAs)
- Center of the American Experiment Files Amicus Brief with U.S. Supreme Court Challenging Forced Exclusive Representation by Unions
- American Experiment event celebrating free speech protected by police while police union protested outside
- Teamsters Logo Perfectly Illustrates How Antiquated, Inflexible Unions Have Become
- Instant Pay Raise: How to Leave Your Public Employee Union
- Did you know September 17 is Constitution Day? Celebrate by Meeting Mark Janus and Rebecca Friedrichs
- Education Minnesota president calls Center ‘clueless’ for blackboard billboards, NEA president uses similar blackboard theme
- Celebrate Labor Day by Telling Your Friends About Employee Freedom Janus-Style. And Join Us on Constitution Day (Sept. 17)
- Big news: New Mexico acts to protect first amendment rights of state employees following Janus
- Pensions are under pressure, but unions misplace the blame
- Uff-Da: What teachers must do to get a $30 refund from Education Minnesota for PAC, etc.
- Litigation following the Janus Employee Freedom Victory: Could you be a Plaintiff?
- Moody’s Warns Minnesota: 2018 Pension Bill Not Good Enough
- Are public employers in Minnesota complying with the Janus ruling? Employers should immediately stop deducting “fair share” fees.
- Star Tribune Calls on Government Unions to Reform
- Janus Wins: Supreme Court Restores First Amendment Rights of Public Employees. Now What?
- Happy Birthday to Rebecca Friedrichs! Janus, what a gift.
- The Problem with Public Sector Unions
- Supreme Court Rules Public Employees Are Not Required to Fund Unions in Big Win for First Amendment Rights
- Billboards School Thousands of NEA Members Coming to Twin Cities
- Chicago Tribune: How AFSCME’s demands invited the Janus case
- Will the High Court Stop Forced Union Fees for Public Employees?
- Let’s Talk Janus on MPR Tuesday with Kerri Miller: Public Employee Union Case
- Union Dues Used to Finance Political Advocacy Without Permission
- National Teachers’ Union Will Meet in Minneapolis this Summer & Propose Change to Who Counts as a Member
- Decertification Election Bill for PCAs Advances in the Legislature
- Teachers’ Union pressures teachers to sign renewal agreement: should you sign?
- Crockett speech on Janus blown away by nor’easter in Philadelphia: Communing with the Framers, Meeting Prof. Amy Wax
- Keeping the Promise: Kim Crockett Testifies on Minnesota Teacher Pensions
- Teacher Union Advisory to Teachers: Walk the Fine Line to Support School Protests (e.g. Disrupt School)
- Union Loophole is Challenged in Massachusetts: Could Minnesota be Next?
- 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
- Union Organizer Warns of Chaos if Big Labor Loses Janus Case
- 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
- Confused SEIU Supporter
- A Day at the U.S. Supreme Court: All Public-Sector Collective Bargaining is Political [Updated With Videos]
- Challenge to Mandatory Union Fees Could Free All Public Employees From Forced Union Fees
- Statement for Media on Janus Rally At State Capitol
- American Experiment Heads to DC: First Amendment Challenge Could Free All Public Employees from Forced Unionism
- 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
- Public Employee Unions Brace for Loss of Members and Money
- Workplace Democracy for Minnesota’s Teachers is a Myth: Time to Update the Law
- Center of the American Experiment Joins Amicus Brief in Forced Union Fees Case Before U.S. Supreme Court, Unions Push Back
- Part-Time Profs at St. Kate’s Reject Union
- Do teachers oppose or support forced union dues?
- Will Minnesota be a right to work state by next June?
- MN Lawmakers Flex Political Muscle and Reject Union Contracts
- WSJ Reader reacts to Education Minnesota: It’s all about the money (and the power)
- Employee Freedom Update: Who are Mark Janus and Rebecca Friedrichs?
- Supreme Court agrees to hear First Amendment Case: A Victory would end Public Employee Unions’ Monopoly Power
- 10,000 Cards Delivered to Gov. Dayton Demanding New PCA Election
- Meet the people who are running the teachers’ pension fund (into the ground)
- Hurricane Bloomberg Hits Minnesota Pension Funds: TRA at 50% Funding or Worse
- Dose of Reality for Underfunded MN Public Pensions
- Minnesota’s public-pension system is in crisis, new data shows
- Big Cuts Coming at MAPE State Public Employee Union
- Education MN Braces for Loss of Thousands of Members and Millions of Dollars
- The New Normal? DHS Partners with Extremist SEIU to Administer Medicaid Program for the Disabled
- Victory: PCA Access to Union List Upheld by Court
- MN Court Workers File Fed Lawsuit Against Forced Union Dues
- Pension Omnibus Bill: Show Me the Money
- Joint Committee schedules another hearing on PCA/SEIU “Contract”
- Lawmakers Spar Over Controversial Home Care Worker Contract
- Lawmakers to Focus on Fraud Allegations in Home Care Union Election
- National Review Highlights SEIU Fraud in PCA Election
- Union Decertification Drive Leads to Hearing on SEIU Election
- Tweet This: Police Pensions Ought to Be Fully Funded
- MN Caregivers Want Fake Union Dues Back
- Update on Personal Care Attendants’ Union Decertification Drive
- MN Grandmother Takes on SEIU
- Unions and Companies Confront Duluth City Council on Pipeline
- The State of Government Union Leaders? Overreaching and Overpaid.
- The SEIU Hopes to Plunder the Families of Disabled People
- The Real Story is not “Fake News” or the Russians. It’s Labor Union Spending.
- PCAs ask Governor Dayton for a new election today
- Is the Dayton administration trying to prevent PCAs from winning a new union election?
- State Ordered to Turn Over List to Personal Care Attendants Fighting Union
- State Admits to Judge that it does not have list of PCA “Bargaining Unit” Union Members
- Decertification Effort Against SEIU on FOX News and Star Tribune
- Personal Care Attendants File Lawsuit and Move to Decertify SEIU
- MNPCA Update: Who is Chris Serres? Reporter or Union Activist?
- Center’s SEIU Decertification Project in U.S. News & World Report
- SEIU Gets Credit for State Benefits, While Collecting Millions in Scarce Medicaid Funds
- Lakeville Mom Takes on Big Labor
- Union Skims Off 3% of Medicaid Benefits as Political Slush Fund
- Meet Kris Greene, Minnesota’s Quiet Mama Bear
- Public Union Chief defends Gov. Dayton’s veto of Pension Bill; Calls Wall Street “Crockett’s Hungry Fox”
- Kim Crockett Testimony on Employee Freedom before Gov’t Ops. Comm. (HF 3585)
- Kim Crocket Letter to Star Tribune Re: Unionizing Child-Care Providers
- Category: Uncategorized
Books
Events
Videos
Audio
- Heather Mac Donald: The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture (4.24.19, 1 hr.)
- 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.)