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- What Would a Joe Biden Fracking Ban Look Like? Part Six: Impossibly Expensive Electricity
- What Would a Joe Biden Fracking Ban Look Like? Part Four: Holy $1,325 Heating Bill Increase, Batman!
- Banned Drive-Thrus Now Embraced by Minneapolis Mayor Frey in Coronavirus Crisis
- What Would a Joe Biden Fracking Ban Look Like? A Series
- 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
- 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
- Tune in at 1pm As Isaac Orr Testifies (Again) on Governor Walz’s California Car Mandates
- Why Is Governor Walz Trying to Mandate Cars That Nobody Wants?
- Why Did Minnesota Solar Jobs Fall by Six Percent in 2019?
- 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
- Suburb Poised to be First to Withdraw From Controversial GreenStep Program
- Clear Energy Alliance: Bernie’s Energy Plans Make AOC Look Sane
- Federal Data Show Walz’s Line 3 Delay Has Been an Anti-Science Charade
- Our Perspective: Xcel Quarterly Profits up 35 Percent, Buoyed by Rate Increases
- 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
- 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
- Center of the American Experiment Testifies on the Minnesota Senate’s Clean Energy First Bill in Rochester
- Clear Energy Alliance: Riot Fuel
- Minnesota Had More Wind and Solar in 2018 than Ever Before But CO2 Emissions Went Up
- Video: The Year 2019 on ElectricityMap [Europe]
- 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
- A Cold California
- Net Metering: How People With Solar Panels Are Picking Your Pocket
- This Year in Energy and Environment: 2019 Edition
- Grid Operator Study Shows Complexity of Integrating Renewables Increases Exponentially After 30 Percent
- 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
- 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
- Reactions to Proposed Rate Increases Shows Minnesota Citizen’s Utility Board Cares More about Renewables Than Ratepayers
- 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
- 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?
- MPUC Continues to Address Utility System Reliability: Gas System Shortcomings Addressed, Electric Generation Issues Receive Scant Attention
- Sunday Funnies: Bablyon Bee- Greta Thunberg Mural Equipped With Laser Eyes That Shoot At SUVs
- 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
- Forbes: California Utility Spent $44 Billion on Renewables, $1.5 Billion on Fire Prevention
- GreenStep Cities Program Rebuffed Again in Plymouth
- 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
- 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
- WindFail: Congestion on Transmission Lines Hinders New North Dakota Wind Farms
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Three Must-Know Facts About Governor Walz’s Plan to Impose California Car Mandates on Minnesota
- Is Tim Walz a Canute?
- 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
- Shellenberer: The Real Reason They Behave Hypocritically On Climate Change Is Because They Want To
- Lomborg: The Danger of Climate Doomsayers
- 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
- Argus Leader: Sioux Falls Landfill Tightens Rules After Minnesota Dumps Dozens of Wind Turbine Blades
- Elizabeth Warren Brings Her Campaign Against Reality to Minnesota
- Wind Power Is Collapsing In Germany, Does Lt. Governor Flanagan Know?
- 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
- Solar Roads Turned Out To Be A “Colossal Failure”
- In The Tank (EP204) – Climate “Contrarians” Blacklisted?
- 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?
- Rebuking Renewables: Le Sueur County Places Moratorium on Solar Gardens and Solar Farms
- Capitalism is Saving the Planet Part 2: In Soviet Russia, Air Pollutes 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
- 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
- My Trip To the White House
- Isaac Invited to the White House for Trump Speech on the Environment
- Grassroots Protests Help Bring Down Oregon Climate Tax
- Will Peggy Flanagan View German Energy Policy as As The Failure That It Is?
- Most Canadians Unwilling to Pay Much for Carbon Tax: Poll
- Rep. Gruenhagen Gets It on Energy and Minnesota’s Green New Deal
- 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
- Trump’s ACE Rule Can Help Minnesota Miners and Manufacturers, Will The Utilities Let It?
- Trump’s Affordable Clean Energy Rule Can Save Minnesota Billions
- 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
- 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
- St. Cloud VA to Scrap Dysfunctional $2.5 Million Wind Turbine
- Sam Rockwell is Incorrect on Cars, Climate
- 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
- Kenwood Resident Makes Impassioned Plea to Reroute Unsafe SWLRT and Save Urban Oasis
- A Climate-Change Drubbing in Australia
- Batteries Cannot Make Renewables Reliable
- Minneapolis Wants to Ban New Drive-Thru Windows
- Fresh Energy Is Still Intentionally Misleading Minnesotans on Energy Issues: Part Two – Electricity vs. Natural Gas Usage
- Stop Clear-Cutting of Trees for SWLRT: Residents Petition Gov. Walz
- Most Solar Jobs Are Construction Jobs and Most Jobs Are In Hennepin County
- Walz Administration Couldn’t Be More Wrong About Nuclear Power
- Refuting “Local View: Minnesota Must Aggressively Move to Less-Costly Renewables”
- 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
- Star Tribune: Technology, Cost Could Hamper Efforts for 100 Percent Carbon-Free Grid in Minnesota by 2050
- Earth Day 1970
- The Case for a Green ‘No Deal’
- Minnesota Should Keep Burning Clean, Beautiful Coal
- 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
- Foundation Pulls the Plug on City’s Chief Resilience Officer
- The Dirty Little Secret Behind Clean Energy Jobs
- 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
- Isaac Orr: Lower Electricity Costs From Going Carbon-Free? Wanna Bet, Gov. Walz?
- MN House Energy and Climate Finance Committee Modeling Should Include Future Wind Speeds
- Doubling Down On Failure Installment Three: Carbon Dioxide Emissions
- Trump Mocks Wind Power: ‘When the Wind Doesn’t Blow, Just Turn Off the Television’
- In The Tank Ep 182 Doubling Down on Failure, $60 Trillion Medicare for All, Doctor Shortages
- “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
- Controversy Over Wind Turbine Shutdown in Cold Hits North Dakota
- How Much Would One Day’s Worth of Battery Storage Cost Minnesota Households? $820 per Year, for 20 Years
- “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.”
- 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
- Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet
- Xcel Was Caught Short By Arctic Cold
- SF1372 Eliminating Size Limits on Hydropower is Smart Policy
- Helping the U of M Energy Transition Lab Understand Energy
- 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?
- In The Tank (ep177) – Green New Deal Insanity, Panera Cares Fail, Stadium Subsidies
- Nationally Renowned Climate Scientist Judith Curry Cites Our Analysis of the Polar Vortex in Testimony to U.S. House of Representatives
- Natural Gas, Not Wind or Solar, Is the Main Cause of Reduced CO2 Emissions
- Texas City Featured in Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Sequel’ Lost Millions in its Green Energy Gamble
- Court Backs Climate Change and Calls for More Protests
- Guess Who’s to Blame for the Rise in Catastrophic Wildfires?
- New Technologies, Not Paris Climate Agreement, Will Do the Job
- Assessing the Fourth “National Assessment” of Climate Change
- Tempering the Alarm About Sea Level Rise
- Resources Are Almost 5 Times as Abundant as They Were in 1980
- If we want carbon taxes without riots, reduce other taxes
- 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
- New York Times Climate Model Shows Minnesota Has Cooled
- Patrick J. Michaels Discusses Climate Change on FOX’s Life Liberty & Levin
- While CO2 emissions rise in Europe, the U.S. leads the world in cuts for the ninth time this century
- Will Global Warming Destroy Us All? Probably Not
- MN Judge Does A Disservice To All Minnesotans By Letting Pipeline Protesters Off the Hook
- Wind Farms May Actually Warm the US, Controversial Study Finds
- Are There Also Benefits to More Carbon Dioxide in the Air? Yes, There Are
- Star Tribune Fooled by Cherry-Picked Data: How the Left Demagogues on Climate Change
- Paris Climate Treaty Continues to Fall Apart
- Will Line 3 Become the Next Major Pipeline Protest?
- Minneapolis Becomes 65th U.S. City to Adopt 100% [Fraudulent] Renewables Goal
- Cheer Up, Bonnie. Things Are Getting Better
- State Solar Power Mandate Under Fire at Capitol
- A Little Clear Thinking and Perspective on the Houston Flood and Climate Change
- This time we are three years from climate disaster: Being an alarmist means never having to say you’re sorry.
- Dilbert on Climate “Science”
- Why Are 600 Demonstrators News?
- Camp Ripley Takes Aim at Global Warming
- Why Green Energy Subsidies Don’t Pay
- 2016 El Nino Warmth Not Statistically Warmer than 1998 El Nino Year
- Climate Change 12: Reasonable Balance is Needed. How Over-Regulation Kills People.
- Climate Change 11: Alarmists predict doom but a healthier world is reality
- Climate Change 10: Why we argue about it, unsettled science and the moral question.
- Climate Change 9: How Useful (or Accurate) is a Forecast 75 Years Out That Won’t Be Noticeable for 300 Years?
- Climate Change 8: “Pseudoscience,” Politicized Science, and the Consequences of Energy Poverty
- Climate Change 7: How Global Warming is Both a “Hoax” and a Legitimate Area of Study
- Climate Change 6: The Beginning of the U.S. Mess with Politicized Science
- VA Spends 300K to Study Defunct St. Cloud Wind Turbine
- Climate Change 5: The Basic Structural Problem with Climate Change Research
- Climate Change 4: Recent Research on Climate Sensitivity Favors Lukewarmers
- State Environmental Agency: Christmas Gifts Bad For Landfills
- MN Ethanol Plant Builder Gives 125k to Tribe Protesting Pipeline
- Climate Change 3: The Grand Narrative Availability Cascade is Making Us Stupid
- Climate Change 2: Clinging to models that don’t even come close
- Climate Change 101
- Why Won’t Xcel Come Clean on Cost of “Clean” Energy?
- Renewable Mandate Drives New Increase in Utility Bills
- How We Know That Human-Caused Global Warming Is a Joke
- Category: Conservatism
- Critics Couldn’t Beat Boris Johnson, So Now They’re Calling Him ‘Hard Right’
- What the American Experiment means to me
- The Thatcher Revolution at 40
- Why “Urban Conservatism” is Not a Contradiction in Terms
- Marco Rubio and How Ideas and Think Tanks Matter
- Tom Emmer Selected to Lead Republican House Campaign Arm
- It’s the government sector, not the public sector
- Loneliness, Polarization and Them: Why We Hate Each Other—and How to Heal
- Milton Friedman: Capitalism or socialism, which is more humane?
- Milton Friedman: Politics and Violence
- Saint Paul Public Library celebrates Pride with Drag Story Hour: All Ages Welcome?
- Frank Drebin was right, the monarchy is ‘silly’, but think before you get rid of it
- Don’t Be Fooled By the Minnesota “Conservative” Energy Forum
- Center Goes to CPAC
- Dennis Prager: I was Wrong, Trump is a Great President
- I Am Thankful for Many Things: Center Finishes HUGE Year!
- Hugh Hewitt’s spot on advice to the President: Be combative, but not cruel
- Why Can’t Young People Get Out of Their Parents’ Basements?
- Greater Minnesota Is Rejecting Liberalism
- Minnesota, Land of 10,000 Lakes and One Shrimp Farm?
- A city-country mice divide in Minnesota? We don’t see it that way
- The Truly Celestial Captain Kirk
- Basic Differences Between Left and Right
- I Am Thankful for Many Things: Center Finishes Best Year Yet!
- Will Trump treat liberals kinder than liberals have treated conservatives? Columnist dishes liberals a pretty good polemic.
- Steven Hayward’s Spot-On Analysis of the Challenges Ahead
- Nearly Twice As Many Work In Government As In Manufacturing
- Welcome, the Antonin Scalia Law School
- The Candidates Are Bad, So Let’s Give Them More Power!
- Category: Constitutional Law
- Category: Coronavirus
- Category: Courts
- Category: Crazy Liberalism
- Category: Crime
- Downtown Minneapolis loses another business
- St. Paul police study finds they need more than 100 additional officers and support staff to fulfill their duties
- Crime, budget, population numbers suggest public safety needs more attention in St. Paul
- Riders React to Rep. McCollum’s Views on Green Line Violence
- Seven lessons of Prohibition
- Video: Trump rally protesters turn violent
- Ex-Legislator to Minneapolis PD on Crime: “Please Help Us”
- The Lesson of Prohibition
- What’s More Telling in Minneapolis? High Crime or High Condos?
- 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
- Midnight in Minneapolis: “It’s the Wild, Wild West”
- 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?
- Senate GOP takes action on Child Care Fraud: Calls for DHS Inspector General Ham to Step Down
- A Note on Illegal Immigration and Crime
- Memo to Congress: Be the Wall, Stop the Invading “Caravan”
- Minneapolis FBI Agent Gets 4 Years in Prison for Media Leaks
- Weekend Shootings Last Straw for Minneapolis Craft Brewer
- On freedom, Minnesota ranks only 37th in America
- King Curtis, 1934-1971
- Legalized Marijuana is Putting a Generation of Kids at Risk. Will Minnesota Follow Colorado?
- Righteously Right on Crime
- Good News: Assaulted Para-Teacher Will Recover. Bad News: Schools are Really Dangerous for Teachers
- Welfare Fraud Supporting Extravagant Lifestyles and Terror Abroad: MN Senate Calls for Investigation
- Governor Dayton wants to give drivers licenses to illegal immigrants. But wait, wouldn’t he have to fix MNLARS first?
- Has the Star Tribune Made a Case for Government-Mandated Church Attendance?
- Former Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber Drawn Into Mueller’s Russia Probe
- Minneapolis Candidates Under Fire on Question About Cops [UPDATED]
- How About Putting Cops’ Good Deeds on Body Cams?
- 10k Reward for Eco-Vandals Behind Death of Thousands of MN Mink
- Virginia shooting reiterates need for self-defense
- Is Governor Dayton Bigoted Against Minnesotans?
- Officer Acquitted In Shooting That Gov. Dayton Prejudged
- A Theater District’s Bad Stretch of Bad Actors
- Star Tribune support for Republican “protest” bill a vital step forward
- Desperately Seeking Islamophobia
- Why Did St. Paul Kick Cops Off Review Board?
- Judge Davis Sentences Would-Be Terrorists
- We Should Expect More from MPR on St. Anthony Police Story Than Just Another Bias Narrative
- 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
- “Racist Cops” Claims Ignore the Facts
- The Essential Courage and Journalistic Precision of Heather Mac Donald
- Is the Star Tribune Deliberately Promoting Delusion on Policing and Race?
- Protesters Shut Down Highway 35W [Updated]
- Police Walk Out on Lynx Game In Protest
- 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: Culture
- 1776 Initiative Counters New York Times’ 1619 Project
- School choice gets the nod from Billie Eilish
- Labor union gets called out for #MeToo hypocrisy
- The Truth Exactly Backward
- Racially Right Mixes of Debaters?
- The transit system lesson we can learn from The Simpsons
- A Thanksgiving Prayer for America
- The Handmaid’s Tale was inspired by socialism
- Is that person or comment racist, or just tone-deaf?
- When a Minnesotan went to Israel
- A Burden Don Fraser Learned to Bear
- Obit Hits and Errors
- Legal Loophole in CCAP allows child care centers to bill for services they do not provide
- Candace Owens talks war on cops with police officer
- Popular Scooters Boot Out Bike Sharing in St. Paul
- Minnesota last state standing with 3.2 beer
- Inspector General at DHS Placed on Paid Leave Following Report of Welfare Fraud
- Unearthing Scholastic Seriousness with Back-Boned Courage in St. Paul?
- Alexis de Tocqueville on Sanders and Socialism
- Creedence Clearwater Revival: America’s greatest rock n’ roll band
- Minnesotans ask Google for break-up advice
- The Community Virtues of Voting in Person
- 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
- Look for the Winter Issue of Thinking Minnesota ft. Minnesota’s Beer Boom
- Becoming an American: how our Elite has Cheapened Citizenship
- Minnesota Faces Severe Firewood Shortage
- What’s Urban Conservatism and How Might It Help?
- Guthrie Theater Declares “Happening” and “Amber Sanctuary”
- What’s More Telling about America?
- The Trials of Harvard and Harvard’s Elizabeth Warren
- “My Abject Apology if This Unsafe Space Has Caused Anybody Fright”
- 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
- Counterpoint: No numbers, only words, in appraising single-parent households
- Who is Dr. Jordan B. Peterson & Why Does The Left Hate Him?
- Training Wheels for a Lifetime of Hard, Honest Work
- Study Confirms Millennial Men are Still Playing Video Games in Their Parents’ Basements
- Left-Wing Vandalism Ramping up in Minneapolis
- Going Tubbing with Barbara Carlson
- Drag Queens at the St. Paul Public Library. Too provocative for kids?
- Today’s Public Libraries: No to Little House on the Prairie but Yes Drag Queens?
- Sex and the single mind: The origins of #MeToo
- Why are public schools feeding students, who are not in school, during the summer?
- St Paul Schools hire principal with an interesting resume: Misused State Funds, Drunk Driving Arrests
- Another child care center raided for Medicaid fraud
- 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”
- CAE’s Adjunct Fellow Kevin Terrell: “Start Reading Now” in Minneapolis reaches 5,500 Children
- Memorial Day Promise by Immigrant Author Katharine Jirsa Reynolds
- Trump’s Quiet Virtues
- Bad behavior all around: 2015 Teacher of the Year using profanity, Fox News Commentator assaulted at restaurant
- What Makes Motherhood Worthwhile
- 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
- My productive visit to St. Cloud to talk about the refugee resettlement program
- Minnesota’s “Brave New World” of education
- The Latest Battle In the Statue Wars: Stephen Foster
- Minnesota Youth Symphonies offers free hands-on music experience for children ages 3 to 14
- Remembering Dr. King: What would he say about K-12 “restorative justice” discipline policies?
- MN High School Theater Program is 1 of 50 Nationwide to Receive $10K Grant
- Noteworthy Performances of All Kinds
- Is Our Culture Dead?
- If it bleeds, it leads but is that good?
- Learn Less, Earn Less
- The Thrill is Gone: Minnesota Students Are Being Deprived of Real Protest. Even in Chaska.
- Children Are Being Used to Call for Gun Control Wednesday: Keep Your Children Home (In Protest) #KeepYourKidHome
- Another Mass Shooting: the Left Uses Tragedy and Students to Ignore a Culture of Death
- Heart-Warming Valentine’s Day Headlines
- Bad News for Jihadists, Good News for Minnesota: Trump Administration Establishes National Vetting Center
- Two Nice Super Bowl Stories
- SKOL: Snow Days are Fun, Living in “The North”
- Educational Freedom & MLK’s Dream
- The Negro Is Your Brother: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’
- A Democratic Vision: Teachers ordered to segregate by race in Evanston, IL
- Created Equal
- Parental Choice is Working: Why are the teachers’ union and Hollywood attacking charter schools?
- President Trump Updates Executive Order on Refugees: Could Help MN Track Costs
- Pop Culture is Finding its Way into Presidential Portraiture
- SKOL! It’s Columbus Day in Minnesota.
- Deer Herd is Up, Along With Your Odds of a Collision
- “Good Thing We’ve Gotten Past All That P.C. Nonsense”
- The NFL would find it easier to tell politicians to mind their own business if they weren’t taking cash from them
- A Statistically Sound Star Tribune Article on Income Disparities
- Sunday Mornings at Church? Or Sunday Mornings at Starbucks?
- Romeo and Juliet at the Guthrie
- Leftists Want to Replace Christopher Columbus With…Prince?
- Transgender Toolkit for MN Schools [UPDATE]
- Veterans Restore Lost Grave of MN Civil War Soldier
- Senator Franken Cancels Appearance with Second Liberal Comedian
- MN Senator Franken Stands By Kathy Griffin Despite Gory Photo of Beheaded Trump
- Is Truth the First Casualty of Art?
- Transgender Toolkit for MN Schools Based on Controversial Obama Rule
- MPS Board Backed Into a Corner by Protesters
- Female Genital Mutilation Comes to Minnesota
- Refugee data: That’s not Minnesota Nice
- Why Should Artists Want Government Support?
- With Thanks to Michael Novak
- Is Boycott a Factor in Slumping Target Sales?
- Sushi? Hey, It Might Be Carp!
- Proudly Detailing Sexual Assaults
- DFL: Expanding Government Unions and Our Dependency on the State
- Painting of 1862 Dakota War Removed From State Capitol
- The Transgender Tragedy
- Category: Data Privacy
- Category: Econ 101
- Category: Economics
- Minnesota’s below average economic growth is not because of ‘convergence’
- Matt Murphy, the man who married his buddy to avoid inheritance tax
- Minnesota’s economy has below average growth
- The State of Minnesota’s Economy: 2019
- How does Minnesota’s economy really compare to its neighbors?
- What drives state economies?
- Berlin’s rent controls have slowed house building
- The 1619 Project gets it wrong about the American economy
- Research shows that most of America’s rich earned their wealth
- “Uber for Everything” Is Revolutionizing Africa’s Economy
- Paul Krugman: From Anakin to Darth
- Price isn’t everything
- Immigration can increase GDP, but can it increase GDP per person?
- How productivity drives wages – The theory and evidence
- Migration out of Minnesota is on the rise
- 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
- 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
- Capitalism is the greatest anti-poverty scheme ever discovered
- Minnesotans are fleeing to avoid estate tax, so repeal it
- Minnesota’s GDP growth lags the national rate for the fourth consecutive quarter
- Did the Vikings lose because of Minnesota’s high taxes?
- France tried to ‘soak the rich’ – They said ‘Au revoir’
- 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.
- New study suggests that eliminating the federal minimum wage would minimize suicide deaths
- Unaffordable housing is the price policymakers ask us to pay for high taxes, fees, and regulations
- Hiking the minimum wage won’t boost the economy
- Bernie Sanders’ hypocrisy on Amazon
- Why Employment Matters
- Was that the best decade ever?
- Can policy do anything about Minnesota’s below average population growth?
- Norway’s government hiked sugar taxes, Norwegians went shopping in Sweden
- We live in the luckiest era in history, and here’s why
- New research shows that Minnesota’s state government increased smoking by taxing e-cigarettes
- Legalized marijuana = Lower sales of beer, higher sales of chips
- Why is government so wasteful with your money?
- What is the impact on workers when minimum wage hikes put them out of work?
- New research suggests that occupational licences for social services and nursing home staff do not increase the quality of service
- 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
- What should Minnesota’s government do with its forecast surplus?
- Congress passed a luxury tax to ‘tax the rich’, but it brought in no revenue because ‘the rich’ changed their behavior
- 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
- New research suggests that the average net social value of occupational licensing is negative
- Property taxes illustrate the problems with ‘wealth taxes’
- Entitlement Liabilities Are a Graver Threat to the Next Generation of Americans Than Climate Change
- College athletes create the value so they should get the money, shouldn’t they?
- Minnesota’s liquor laws are throttling its distilleries
- California hiked taxes on the rich, they left, and revenues were only half those forecast
- 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
- Research shows that Minnesota’s estate tax is a net revenue loser for the state government
- Mining or the environment is a false choice; we can have both
- Minneapolis council’s war on small businesses
- Minneapolis council is going to waste money studying discredited policy or ‘rent control’
- When Hubert met Nikita
- Replacing Fossil Fuel Electricity Generation with Solar Boosts Costs and Income Inequality
- Portland voters put a 1% tax on large retailers, complain when retailers pass it on to them
- What is wrong with ‘scalping’?
- Target announced higher hourly wages then cut hours
- Keith Ellison is wrong: There is no ‘Pink Tax’
- The winners of the 2019 Nobel prize in economics
- Make the Twin Cities Great Again!
- With manufacturing slowing, Minnesota’s uncharacteristically low taxes on manufacturers are more important than ever
- 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?
- High-tax Minnesota lagging in economic growth
- 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
- Public broadcasting = Government broadcasting
- Is Minnesota less vulnerable to a recession?
- New research finds that people move in response to taxes
- Evidence from San Francisco shows that rent control makes income inequality worse
- New research shows that lower state taxes can increase entrepreneurship
- Productivity and pay are linked – A rising tide still lifts all boats
- Counterpoint: Article on CEO pay lacked balance, perspective
- Should we worry about a ‘labor shortage’ or rising unemployment in Minnesota?
- Why Keynes Believed Efforts to Fight Income Inequality Hinder Economic Growth
- Minnesota has the fourth most expensive childcare in the country. Is this lowering female employment?
- Elizabeth Warren wants to tax guns so people buy less of them. Now apply that logic across the board
- Occupational licensing and expensive housing are stopping Americans moving around. That is a problem.
- How bad is Minnesota for occupational licensing?
- The Righteous Losers
- Minnesota’s state agencies and local governments submit $5.3 billion in capital spending requests
- Minnesota’s above average Corporate Taxes drive our below average entrepreneurship
- 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
- Bernie Sanders’ actions, not his empty words, show the real effects of minimum wage hikes
- 4 Ways Employers Respond to Minimum Wage Laws (Besides Laying Off Workers)
- Economist’s View Column: Growler regs aren’t about protecting consumers
- 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
- The unintended consequences of price ceilings and price floors
- Journalists, too, should judge policies by their results rather than their intentions
- Excessive regulations and fees make Twin Cities housing expensive. Rent control won’t solve that
- ’80s Fears of a Japanese “Economic Pearl Harbor” Look Silly Today—But They’re Instructive
- Is the US Women’s Soccer Team Really Underpaid?
- Twin Cities housing isn’t expensive because developers and landlords are ‘greedy’
- Rent controls aren’t the solution to the affordable housing shortage
- Mining jobs pay more than hospitality jobs because they are more productive. Why is that?
- Czary Knights for American Manufacturing?
- In northern Minnesota, tourism jobs pay less than mining jobs
- Paul Krugman’s Predictions about “Austerity” Aren’t Aging Well
- The ‘labor shortage’ is good for workers
- Walmart’s CEO tells Congress to hike the minimum wage – Well he would say that, wouldn’t he?
- Energy industry there to produce energy, not jobs
- 2019 Legislative Recap
- 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)
- How to Save BIG $$$ on Prescriptions
- Corporations don’t actually pay corporate tax
- Sense and nonsense about Minnesota’s taxes
- California Politicians Hiked Gas Tax, Now Demand Investigation Into State’s $4 Per Gallon Gas Prices
- The economy is a positive sum game – We can all get better off
- Income and wealth are not fixed ‘pies’
- City Pages declares its ignorance on economics
- Below average growth since 2010 has cost $1,418 for every Minnesotan
- Without Subsidies, Wind and Solar Are Still the Most Expensive Energy Sources In Minnesota
- Minnesota had the 22nd fastest growing state economy in 2018
- Republicans are wrong to push preemption: we should abolish the state minimum wage instead
- Has Mobility in the United States Really Declined?
- Modern Monetary Theory: Debunking the Latest Incarnation of Government’s Magic Money Tree
- Save for Senator Lee, Republicans are Pretty Much Silent, Too
- Bernie Is a Capitalist, Whether He Likes It or Not
- Intervention > Unintended consequences > Intervention…
- Should policy be judged on its intentions or its outcomes?
- The point of the energy industry is to produce energy, not jobs
- Minnesota’s craft brewers are left high and dry by the Omnibus Liquor Bill
- 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
- Why does socialism always end up in oppression and poverty?
- What is going on in Minnesota’s labor market?
- (Partial) Book Review: Unprofitable Schooling
- 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
- How a 50% renewable energy mandate will hurt the state’s economy
- Sen. Warren’s wealth tax revenue estimates assume that ‘the rich’ will not change their behavior. That is unrealistic.
- The same people who want ‘the rich’ to pay for everything also want to tax them out of existence. How will that work?
- Why Affordable Housing Is So Hard to Find in America’s Big Cities
- How the U.S. can avoid its looming debt crisis
- U.S. is (still) heading toward a debt crisis
- Minnesota has high business taxes which research shows hurt our economy. Will Gov. Walz raise them?
- Beer Boom
- Review: None of My Business by P. J. O’Rourke
- Research shows that higher state business and personal tax rates mean fewer businesses, less employment, and reduced capital investment
- Despite evidence, Minnesota Democrats want to hike the minimum wage by 74% for small businesses
- Higher tax rates on the rich won’t mean more tax revenues for the nation
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez falls for the ‘fixed pie fallacy’
- Making Sense of the Stock Market’s Wild Gyrations
- When comparing economic policies, border counties are a good place to look
- Empirical evidence shows that minimum wage hikes are bad public policy
- If you pay them, they will come – Bad arguments for minimum wage hikes
- 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 has lagged the nation on Research & Development spending since 2012
- Canada hiked taxes on top earners and top earners paid less tax
- Higher tax rates doesn’t necessarily mean higher tax revenues
- Government is raising prices to help people with the cost of living – Happy new year!
- Kirk Cousins shows that a pay off to an investment is not guaranteed
- Why does government get ripped off so easily?
- Why cigarette taxes don’t work
- Greedy Innkeeper or Generous Capitalist? by Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein
- High taxes sap Minnesota’s productivity, economic growth
- 72% of US based economists oppose a federal minimum wage of $15.00 per hour
- 81% of economists agree that rent controls are bad policy
- Harvard Study: Gender Pay Gap Explained Entirely by Work Choices of Men and Women
- The Pioneer Press gets confused between GDP per capita and GDP per worker
- Minnesota’s economic performance continues to be unimpressive. And there are signs for concern about the future
- The Importance of Economic Liberty
- Free Markets Incentivize Service
- Profit and Loss Guide Discovery
- The Problems with Price Controls
- Prices Communicate Dispersed Knowledge
- Supply and Demand Together
- Supply
- Demand
- Comparative Advantage, Division of Labor
- Thinking at the Margin
- Scarcity and Opportunity Cost
- Subjective Value and Trade
- Being pro-free enterprise is not the same as being pro-big business
- What CNN Gets Wrong in Its Coverage of Seattle’s New Minimum Wage Law
- Whats going on in the Minnesota labor market?
- As the US economy booms, Minnesotans are feeling the benefits
- The details of minimum wage laws show why they are so harmful
- Policy uncertainty is holding back business investment and slowing economic growth
- Facing a ‘labor shortage’, Minnesota’s employers are raising pay and benefits
- (Not) workin’ at the car wash
- Milton Friedman: Good wealth, bad wealth
- The U.S. is world’s most competitive economy for first time in a decade
- As St. Paul’s politicians prepare to hobble the city’s labor market with a $15 minimum wage without tip credit, D.C.’s are getting rid of it
- Venezuela hikes its minimum wage and trashes employment. What are the lessons for Minnesota?
- Since 2010, per capita GDP has grown faster in Wisconsin than in Minnesota
- A history of American economic policy in six books
- Why did Amazon raise its minimum wage to $15?
- In 2017 American workers were more willing and able to quit their jobs for better pay. This bodes well for future pay increases
- In her Star Tribune piece, Kshama Sawant did not tell the truth about Saint Paul’s proposed $15 minimum wage
- Milton Friedman: Judge public policies by their results, not their intentions
- Is Minnesota’s ‘labor shortage’ nudging wages higher?
- A tip credit will go some way towards mitigating the harm that St. Paul’s leaders want to do to the city’s labor market
- Minnesota’s ‘labor shortage’ offers the opportunity for higher wages
- Minnesota is losing the economic border battle, let’s hope we do better in the football one
- No support for minimum wage increase
- With another dubious assumption, Harvard study authors tilt the scales against mining
- On Labor Day, be thankful that we don’t have to do as much laboring as our ancestors did
- Data from Michigan suggests that mining doesn’t destroy leisure and hospitality jobs
- On the minimum wage, wishful thinking must not take the place of economic analysis
- ‘High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty’ – What is going on in the labor market?
- Employers Shed College Requirements As Economy Booms
- How free markets promote the ‘common good’
- Kudos to Crow Wing Power For Their Truth in Billing
- Can immigration boost per capita GDP growth?
- Evidence shows that high corporate tax rates lower entrepreneurial activity
- Cartoon of the Day
- Evidence suggests that moving away from seniority pay improves teacher quality
- Marriage, Military Service, Black Churches, and More Mundane Founts
- Milton Friedman explains who wins and who loses when government mandates higher labor costs
- Cigarette taxes are regressive and don’t reduce smoking very much
- David Cooper of the Economic Policy Institute replies to our reply and gets it all wrong
- Wisconsin-Minnesota comparison was flawed
- Advocates of minimum wage hikes are living in a fantasy world
- Prevailing wage laws freeze less skilled workers out of labor markets, just like minimum wage laws
- Wages need to rise in real terms, not just nominal terms
- Mayor Carter should stop squandering political capital on his harmful minimum wage policy, and get serious about tackling crime in St. Paul
- Milton Friedman on free trade
- Happy 34th birthday to Ghostbusters, the greatest pro-free market movie ever made
- Meet robot Ronald McDonald
- Hoyt Lakes Mayor: “PolyMet is Our Superbowl”
- Evidence shows that higher minimum wages reduce other elements of worker compensation
- Milton Friedman on the minimum wage
- Henry Hazlitt: Do Deficits Make Jobs?
- Minnesota should reduce its individual income tax rates
- Minnesota’s wage growth ranks 45th in the United States
- Public policy must take into account what is not seen as well as what is seen
- Renewable energy costs more jobs than it creates
- Who earns the minimum wage?
- Are more solar jobs a good thing?
- Minnesota job growth lags; tax reform seen as one solution
- Georgia and Idaho cut taxes following federal tax reform
- It wasn’t luck that made Ireland’s Celtic Tiger roar
- Economics argues against $15
- BNSF Steps Up Investment: $810 Million To Get Minnesota’s Products to World Markets
- Skilled immigrants needed to boost Minnesota’s economy
- Want to raise pay? Don’t wave a placard, invest in capital and skills
- Minimum wage: Nonprofits and small businesses struggle when it’s raised
- Don’t use tariffs to close the trade deficit
- Trade is not about ‘winners’ and ‘losers’
- Tight labor markets and rising wages aren’t just a feature of Minnesota’s economy
- Minimum wages are bad public policy
- Do You Understand Your Local Economy?
- Stephen Moore on Trumponomics
- Why These Restaurant Workers Want Less Than the Minimum Wage
- Citizens League report shows that Saint Paul should tread carefully over the minimum wage
- 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
- China’s communists recognize that taxes are disincentives
- After enacting the disastrous $15 minimum wage in Minneapolis, activists now have Saint Paul’s labor market in their sights
- As Americans move to freer states Minnesota loses out
- 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
- Capitalism is the greatest anti-poverty program the world has ever known
- Does California’s government have a clue what it is doing?
- A ‘shortage’ of workers in Minnesota is driving wages up
- Market forces, not political decrees, create sustainable wage increases
- Research shows that state income taxes increase inequality by growing government
- Minimum wage’s unintended consequences
- How to Stay Free
- Youth Unemployment Worldwide: The Canary in the Coal Mine of Excessive Regulation
- Electricity utilities are less likely to invest under ‘liberal’ regulators
- Housing costs and occupational licensing requirements are stopping Americans from moving
- How to Cure Inflation
- Milton Friedman demolishes the federal jobs guarantee
- Minnesota’s economic performance has room for improvement
- Why do central bankers never learn?
- The economics of Christmas lights
- Who Protects the Consumer?
- Minnesota ranks 40th in the US for economic freedom
- The government doesn’t need to regulate your six pack of Coors Light
- Minnesota needs productive workers but it is losing those it already has
- More workers will help us prosper, if they’re the right kind of workers
- A more productive Minnesotan workforce can offset a declining share of workers
- Minnesota’s shrinking share of workers will slow the state’s future economic growth
- Henry Hazlitt: What’s Wrong with Our Labor Policy
- Back in the USSR: What life was like in the Soviet Union
- Minnesota’s new jobs are increasingly found in lower productivity sectors
- From Cradle to Grave
- Henry Hazlitt: How to Taper Off Rent Control
- Minneapolis’ minimum wage hikes shut down Whiskey Junction
- Minneapolis’s High Minimum Wage Claims More Victims
- Minnesota’s households have high incomes, but only because each one contains more workers
- Back to the Future at Dayton’s?
- If Minnesota’s workers were as productive as the US average, we would each be $3,500 better off
- Anatomy of a Crisis
- Milton Friedman: Giving Thanks for Free Enterprise
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/24/17
- Market forces got the Mall of America’s workers Thanksgiving off and O/T on Black Friday
- Minnesota’s economy grew more slowly than 43 other states in the second quarter of 2017
- Minnesota’s hard working labor force masks below average worker productivity
- The Tyranny of Control
- Henry Hazlitt: The Consequences of Decontrol
- Venezeula’s economic and social collapse shows that Bernie Sanders is another “useful idiot”
- Personal Income growth in Minnesota is driven by increases in transfer payments and shows our state’s poor performance on productivity
- Minnesota’s workers are less productive than the national average
- Minnesota’s economic growth is lagging
- The Power of the Market
- Last Ditch Lawsuit Filed to Save Minneapolis Jobs
- A new report from the Center finds that Minnesota’s economic performance continues to be lackluster
- The Soviet Experiment, 100 Years On
- More St. Paul mayoral candidates on the minimum wage
- Henry Hazlitt: Squeezing the Price Balloon
- A tale of two stadiums
- Minnesota’s economy hinges on the new mining jobs
- Don’t let pipeline protesters silence Minnesotans
- Henry Hazlitt: Meat and the Speed of Decontrol
- Gov. Dayton is beginning to see the light on mining
- Henry Hazlitt: Price-Fixing Brings Bottlenecks
- Where do St Paul’s mayoral candidates stand on the minimum wage?
- There are lots of jobs in wind energy…just not much energy
- Do sports stars deserve multi-million dollar salaries? Well, yes, some of them do
- The State of Minnesota’s Economy – What does our state’s economist think?
- The federal government should help rebuild Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. It should not bail it out of its longstanding fiscal crisis
- Congratulations to the Minnesota Lynx. Now get out and support them
- Cut or abolish the corporate income tax to help workers
- As Target shows, market forces can drive wages up
- How can public sector employers afford a $15 minimum wage?
- Hurricane Bloomberg Hits Minnesota Pension Funds: TRA at 50% Funding or Worse
- To insulate Minneapolis from the effects of bad policy, $15 activists need to hobble neighboring areas too
- When you measure it properly, worker’s compensation is driven by productivity
- Wage mandates drive investment toward machines, away from labor
- A fair day’s wage for a fair day’s production
- There is no ‘race to the bottom’ in states reducing their capital taxes
- A growing population does not guarantee a growing economy
- Gov. Dayton looks to make Amazon an offer they can’t refuse. What might that be?
- Investment and innovation can soften the blow of the ‘labor shortage’
- Hurricane Harvey will not be an economic boon for Texas
- Now how about a capital day?
- Hurricane Harvey – How the private sector can help
- How do economies grow?
- Category: Minimum wages
- Category: Employment
- Category: Education
- National teachers’ union AFT endorses Biden
- St. Paul teachers’ union settles for district’s proposed wage increases
- St. Paul teachers strike ends with ‘tentative’ agreement
- Before a school strike, let’s be clear about some numbers
- School choice program benefits public school students
- St. Olaf College states student teachers “must” join union’s pre-professional organization
- Teacher merit pay has positive effect on student test scores
- Teachers’ union proposed salary increases are misleading
- A changing gold standard: The overlooked value of associate degrees and certificates
- 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
- Are Minnesotans getting good government for their high taxes?
- 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
- Liberalism Causes Achievement Gaps
- Celebrating National School Choice Week
- Teachers’ union Legislative Report Card confirms its political agenda
- 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
- What Education Minnesota’s resolutions reveal about its 2020 priorities
- 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
- Teachers’ union encourages members to politicize Christmas
- Charter schools are not the villain
- Teacher-hero Rebecca Friedrichs goes to Washington
- Education reform pioneer shares her fight for school choice in latest memoir
- Oregon public school employees stand up for their rights by taking on teachers’ union
- 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?
- The Indiana teachers’ union rally: ‘Circus, but no bread’
- 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
- MN High School Girls Compete to Persuade at State Capitol
- 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)
- What can we do to help young people become independent and analytical thinkers?
- The truth about rights outside of union membership
- Iowa increases tax-credit scholarship cap, helps more students access their school of choice
- MN Educators: Make your choice about union membership today
- Teacher Opt-Out Window Ends Monday, Know Where the Dues Go
- 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+
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Teachers’ Unions Oppose Charters Schools; Use the Power to Strike to Stop Competition from Charter Schools
- 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
- 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’ Union Wish List? $4 Billion More from “the Rich.”
- Teachers report increase in student behavioral issues
- 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
- Augsburg Faces Backlash After Professor’s Suspension Over “N-Word” Controversy
- What is the average teacher pension in Minnesota?
- Duluth Teachers File Complaint Over “Huck Finn” and “Mockingbird” Ban
- Busing Redux?
- “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
- Poverty, Culture & Marriage
- 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
- Teachers’ Union Makes PAC Refund Process Tricky. But Don’t Get Spooked, Request it Today.
- 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
- 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’
- Non-Union Teacher Associations Offer Educators Double Protection
- Pensions are under pressure, but unions misplace the blame
- Taxpayers to Get Squeezed After Minneapolis School District Mismanages Their Budget, Again…
- 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!
- Anti-Janus Outrage: Allegations of Racism, Authoritarianism Alleged by Desperate Unions
- Lawsuit Charges U of M Bias Against Conservative Ben Shapiro
- Teachers’ Union is Meeting on the 4th of July Instead of Celebrating American Independence
- 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
- 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
- Teachers’ Union pressures teachers to sign renewal agreement: should you sign?
- 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
- 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
- Teacher Union Advisory to Teachers: Walk the Fine Line to Support School Protests (e.g. Disrupt School)
- Professor invited to speak at U of MN will lecture on “decentering whiteness”
- Did Tim Klobuchar Lie to a Senate Committee?
- 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
- Conceal and Carry: The World Would Be A Safer Place If Responsible Adults Could Carry Concealed Firearms
- 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 Dumbs Down Its Curriculum
- Survey Says: Local District School is Not Parents’ First Choice
- Parents and Students Confront Edina School Board on Political Indoctrination
- Sixth Straight Year of Decline in Students for MN State Schools
- Katherine Kersten Adds Explosive Follow-up to Her Investigation of Edina’s Public Schools
- 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
- US Civil Rights Commission Turns to American Experiment on School Discipline Issue
- Workplace Democracy for Minnesota’s Teachers is a Myth: Time to Update the Law
- 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?
- 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”
- Do teachers oppose or support forced union dues?
- 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
- WSJ Reader reacts to Education Minnesota: It’s all about the money (and the power)
- 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
- School Choice in Action: Minneapolis & St. Paul Families Leave Neighborhood Schools
- Teacher Absenteeism a Big Problem in MN Public Schools
- Is Minnesota Nice? Not If You Are a Conservative
- Higher Education and Careers: Schumpeter’s Creative Construction
- 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
- 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
- Is there a link between school spending & student achievement?
- How Many Truly Need a Four-Year College Degree?
- The Educational Value of Beautiful and Physically Demanding Things
- Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities
- 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
- 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
- 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”
- 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?
- 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
- 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: Elections
- Category: Employee Freedom
- Florida bill proposes changes that better protect public employees
- Public sector unions have pattern of committing forgery against their own members
- California state law meant to protect gig economy workers is crushing them
- ‘Sensible Labor Reform: The Gift that Keeps on Giving’
- 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
- Center of the American Experiment wins awards for research and advocacy with nationwide impact
- Minnesota doesn’t inform public employees
- You Can Quit But You Can’t Leave
- Elizabeth Warren’s labor proposal would reinstate pilfering from home health care workers
- 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.
- Time to celebrate National Employee Freedom Week!
- American Experiment signs coalition letter supporting union transparency
- Supreme Court’s Janus ruling should apply to union members, too
- Schadenfreude on Monday Morning: SEIU employees threaten to strike against union
- The Janus Effect on Teachers’ Union: Too Soon to Know
- American Experiment event celebrating free speech protected by police while police union protested outside
- Instant Pay Raise: How to Leave Your Public Employee Union
- Litigation following the Janus Employee Freedom Victory: Could you be a Plaintiff?
- Firing-up Liberty Genes
- Mrs. Greene Goes to Washington: Trump Administration to Roll Back the Dayton-Smith-DFL Union Dues Skimming Scheme
- Moody’s Warns Minnesota: 2018 Pension Bill Not Good Enough
- Star Tribune Calls on Government Unions to Reform
- Janus Wins: Supreme Court Restores First Amendment Rights of Public Employees. Now What?
- The Problem with Public Sector Unions
- Billboards School Thousands of NEA Members Coming to Twin Cities
- Let’s Talk Janus on MPR Tuesday with Kerri Miller: Public Employee Union Case
- Decertification Election Bill for PCAs Advances in the Legislature
- Crockett speech on Janus blown away by nor’easter in Philadelphia: Communing with the Framers, Meeting Prof. Amy Wax
- 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
- 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]
- 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
- Union Dues: Spent on Political Advocacy Without Permission
- If we care about employee freedom, we should care about Janus
- Here’s an issue we can all agree on: End ridiculous, anti-competitive occupational licensing
- 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
- U.S. Unfunded Pension Liabilities Exceed $6 Trillion: Minnesota’s Share is at least $118.7 Billion
- Part-Time Profs at St. Kate’s Reject Union
- Attorney General’s Office Argues DFL Legislature Purposely Made It Harder for PCAs to Decertify the SEIU
- 10,000 Cards Delivered to Gov. Dayton Demanding New PCA Election
- Meet the people who are running the teachers’ pension fund (into the ground)
- 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
- 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
- Eliot Seide’s Foolish Take on High Minnesota Taxes
- A Different Kind of Election Fraud in Minnesota?
- Union Decertification Drive Leads to Hearing on SEIU Election
- MN Caregivers Want Fake Union Dues Back
- Update on Personal Care Attendants’ Union Decertification Drive
- How a Medicaid program for people who are disabled is funding politics
- Should David Roe, Minnesota labor leader, be lionized?
- MN Grandmother Takes on SEIU
- The SEIU Hopes to Plunder the Families of Disabled People
- American Experiment Files Complaint: Star Tribune “Reporter” Chris Serres
- SEIU and State Ordered to Halt Early Contract Talks in Boost for PCA Decertification Drive
- Uber Drivers: A Preferred Way to Get Around When I Travel and a Great Income and Flexible Job for Many
- PCAs ask Governor Dayton for a new election today
- Court Blocks Controversial O.T. Regs Imposed by Executive Order
- Tina Smith is running for governor by spending taxpayer funds with giveaway to her core constituency: government unions
- 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?
- Trump releases Child Care Plan. Doesn’t the president, even Congress, have more important things to do?
- 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
- Your Medicaid dollars at Work: SEIU asks Personal Care Attendants for political donations
- Union Skims Off 3% of Medicaid Benefits as Political Slush Fund
- Meet Kris Greene, Minnesota’s Quiet Mama Bear
- Brexit, Uncertainty and Pension Losses: there is a lot of that going around
- 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: Energy
- What Would a Joe Biden Fracking Ban Look Like? Part Five: A Fracking Ban Would “Make America Dependent Upon Russia and OPEC, Again!”
- 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
- What Would a Joe Biden Fracking Ban Look Like? Part One: What is Fracking?
- Four Takeaways from The Capx2050 Transmission Planning Report
- Xcel Energy Provides Strong Testimony Against the Community Solar Program
- Federal Data Confirms Minnesota Solar Panels Don’t Work Well in Winter
- 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’
- In The Tank (Ep230) – Fracking Facts, and the Stratifying Democratic Presidential Field
- California shows how environmental mandates in building codes make housing unaffordable
- American Experiment Policy Fellow Isaac Orr Applies for Governor’s Advisory Council on Climate Change
- 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
- Hey Minnesota Liberals! Stop Complaining About Low-Wage Service Jobs Unless You Support More Mining
- 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
- Mitchell South Dakota: Home of The Corn Palace and Wind Turbine Blade Landfill Exhibit?
- American Experiment Submits 27 Pages of Comments Opposing the California Car Mandates
- Are Liberal Minnesota Energy Policies Making Pollution Worse?
- I’ll See You in Kiester Tonight!
- Wisconsin Utilities Rake in Increased Profits as Wind and Solar, Transmission Spending Increases
- Governor Walz’s California Car Mandates Will Have No Meaningful Impact on Pollution
- MIT Pumps the Brakes on Electric Vehicle Cost Decline Estimates
- Help Us Stop Governor Walz From Imposing California’s Car Rules on Minnesota!
- 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
- Let Them Use Solar: California Power Outages Highlight Economic Disparity
- Don’t Believe the Wind Industry’s Steel Tariff Talk, They Always Wanted More Subsidies
- In The Tank (Ep212) – NBA Kowtows to China, California Blackouts
- Sunday Funnies: Wind Powered Electric Chair?
- If Governor Walz Had “Followed The Science,” We Would Have Started Building Line 3 Already
- Clear Energy Alliance: Battery Fantasy
- Retiring Worn-Out Wind Turbines Could Cost Billions that Nobody Has
- Sunday Funnies: Bernie vs. The Speed Bag
- Why the Green “Real” Deal, Is Just as Dumb as the Green New Deal
- Bloomberg: Lack of Wind Causes Texas Electricity Prices to Skyrocket 40,000%
- Alliant Energy to Close Iowa Nuclear Plant for More Wind. Bad for Ratepayers, Bad for the Environment
- WindFail: Minnesota Wind Facilities Could Produce Less Electricity in 2019 Than In 2018
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Indiana Utility Regulators Deny New Natural Gas Facility To Replace Coal: The Reason Why May Surprise You
- Tesla’s Solar Roof Costs $85,000, Much Higher Than Previously Advertised
- The Electric Vehicle Tax Credit For The Wealthy Is Up For Extension
- 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
- 4 Reasons Why The ACE Rule Is Good For Minnesota
- New Study Finds Wind and Solar Are Still More Expensive Than Existing, Even Brand New, Fuel-Based Generators
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Fears Over Nuclear Energy Are Overblown
- 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
- How Well Do Electric Vehicles Perform in Our Extreme Weather?
- Fresh Energy Is Still Intentionally Misleading Minnesotans on Energy Issues: Part Six – How Decoupling Will Make Things Worse For Ratepayers
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- The King Banaian Show: 4/27/19 HR 2: Isaac Orr and the Cost of Renewable Energy Mandate
- Minnesota Madness! New Video Sums Up Our New Study
- Minnesota and Wisconsin Are About the Worst States To Put Solar Panels, Research Shows
- 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
- 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
- MN Green New Deal, or Green Leap Forward? HF 2836 is the Latest in Minnesota’s Green New Deal Saga
- Minnesota Citizen’s Utility Board Harms Ratepayers By Advocating For Bad Policy
- MN Commerce Department Commissioner Kelly Tips His Hand: “Carbon Free” Still Means No New Nuclear
- No State Imports More Electricity Than California
- House DFL Wants To Give People $2,500 Rebates for Electric Car Purchases
- 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
- 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
- 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
- American Experiment Releases Groundbreaking New Study on the High Cost of Renewable Energy Mandates in Minnesota
- Star Tribune calls out Walz for irresponsible Enbridge pipeline delay
- EIA Expects Wind Installations To Plummet After Federal Subsidies Expire
- Xcel Blames Snow Cover for Poor Performance of Solar Panels During Polar Vortex
- In The Tank (ep180) – $100+ Trillion Green New Deal, Solar Panel Waste, Medicare for All, Min Wage
- 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
- American Experiment Testifies on the High Cost of Community Solar at the MN Senate
- A Valentine’s Day Ode to Fracking: Column
- The Trouble With Solar
- Closing Argument with Walter Hudson: Isaac Orr Talks Energy
- American Experiment Testifies on Bill to Increase Renewable Energy Mandate
- Farms Use Boatloads of Energy
- Isaac Orr Talks Energy on King Banaian Show
- Last Week’s Cold, This Week’s Trespassers, Shows We Need a Pipeline Protection Bill
- Nuclear Is Less Costly Than You Think
- 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
- 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
- Should Minnesota Require Rooftop Wind?
- Only Two Electric Cars Premiered At Detroit Auto Show
- China: No Wind Or Solar If It Can’t Beat Coal On Price
- Video: My Friend Justin Haskins Talks The Green New Deal On Tucker Carlson Tonight
- Peter Foster: Another Report Reluctantly Admits that ‘Green’ Energy is a Disastrous Flop
- Want “Carbon Free” Electricity? Promote Hydroelectric Power
- If Pelosi is so Concerned About Climate Change, Why Does She Oppose Yucca Mountain?
- Xcel Energy Property Taxes Soar 131.6 Percent Since Minnesota Began Mandating Renewable Energy – Ratepayers are Stuck with the Bill
- Ringing in the New Year with The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly for Energy and Environmental Policy for 2019
- Could You Power Your Home With A Bike? Not Even Close
- Our Take: Complicated Economics of Community Solar Gardens Subject of Debate
- Happy Festivus, Everyone!
- German Co2 Emissions Remain Stubbornly High
- No, Xcel’s Pledge to be Carbon-Free by 2050 Does Not Make Good Business Sense
- Higher Than Expected Natural Gas Prices Highlight Importance of Coal-Fired Power Plants
- If Efficiency Is No Longer Cost Effective, We Shouldn’t Subsidize It
- Macron Blinks in Fuel-Tax Dispute With Yellow Vests
- Xcel Energy Commits to 100 Percent Increase in Electricity Rates (And Then Some)
- Utility Dive Names Xcel Energy “Utility of the Year.” We’re Less Impressed
- American Frackers Are Dismembering OPEC
- Revenge of the Diesel Class: Yellow Vest Protests Continue to Rage in France Over Climate Taxes
- Japan is Restarting Their Nuclear Power Plants: When Will Minnesota Legalize New Nuclear Power Plants?
- In Case You Ever Question Our Renewable Energy Arguments – Here’s Xcel Agreeing with Us
- Another One Bites the Dust: Wisconsin Wind Farm Decommissioned After Just 20 Years
- Anti-Pipeline Protesters Ruin Theater of Public Policy Performance for Everyone
- 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?
- If Wind Energy Saves Ratepayers Money, Why Does Xcel Brag About How Wind Investments Increase Profits for Shareholders?
- Dayton Considers Iron Range Solar Plant A Highlight of His Economic Development Legacy: What Do You Think?
- BREAKING NEWS: DNR Issues Permit to Mine for PolyMet Project!
- Connexus Energy Becomes Nation’s First Electric Co-Op to Bilk Its Members With Solar Plus Storage, Hooray!
- Xcel Tries To Trick Customers Into Thinking They’re Being Treated
- An Energy Injustice: Low Income Households Will Subsidize Wealthy Ones Under New Handouts for Community Solar
- Renewable Groups Predictably Scrutinize Great River Energy’s Continued Use of Coal
- 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
- 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
- Fossil Fuels and Hydro, Not Wind or Solar, Power Sub-Saharan Africa
- Why Wind Energy Cannot Fully Displace Traditional Energy Sources
- Dayton’s Department of Commerce Threatens Clean Water By Opposing Line 3
- City Is Far Better Off Seeking Energy Efficiency, Not Renewable Energy Goals
- Gusher! North Dakota Has Four Times More Oil Than Estimated
- Minnesota Regulators Approve Controversial Wind Farm Despite Local Opposition
- Clear Energy Alliance: The Cause
- EIA: One in Three U.S. Households Faces a Challenge in Meeting Energy Needs
- Local Media Glosses Over High Cost of Stoneray Wind Farm
- The United States is Now the Largest Global Crude Oil Producer
- 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
- Oh Snap: New England Energy Markets Undermined By Renewables Subsidies. Will Minnesota Learn From the Looming Disaster?
- Confessions of a Former Xcel Energy Employee- Can Minnesota Avoid Wreckage Seen in Colorado?
- Two Dozen Anti-Pipeline Protesters Arrested in Bemidji: They Aren’t The Heroes They Think They Are
- Bemidji Police Break Up Pipeline Protest
- Company Proposes Building 71 Wind Turbines in Dodge County at a Whopping $4.3 Million A Pop
- Future of Wind “Uncertain” After Federal Subsidies Expire
- Trump Administration Releases Revised Clean Power Plan
- City of Minneapolis Opposes Clean, Emission-Free Hydroelectric Power In Their Backyard
- Gov Primary Recap: What Do Tuesday’s Results Mean for Energy and Environmental Policy?
- Sorry, Citypages. Free Enterprise Has Nothing To Do With Renewable Energy Growth
- “Clean” Energy Jobs Report Shows Solar Is a Make-Work Program
- Solar Company Accused of Defrauding More Than 80 Minnesota Customers
- Connexus Squanders $31 Million on Solar Plus 2 Hours of Battery Storage
- Stunning Lack of Intellectual Diversity on Energy Board Explains Poor Decisions in Minneapolis
- Minneapolis 100 Percent Renewable Target: More Expensive Virtue Signalling
- State Doles Out Even More Money For Solar Power
- This Cartoon Perfectly Encapsulates the Limited Usefulness of Wind and Solar
- Minnesota Electric Bills Have Increased 58% Due to Expensive Wind Energy Investments
- Wisconsin Consumer Protection Group Say Focus on Electric Bills Instead of Rates Obscures High Cost of Electricity: What Can Minnesota Learn?
- New Great Plains Institute Study Hides the High Cost of Reducing CO2 Emissions
- Ontario, Canada, to Scrap 758 Renewable Energy Contracts to Protect Ratepayers
- Power Outages in Texas: What Minnesota Can Learn
- American Wind Energy Association Whiffs in Their Attack on Our Report
- Media Warns Pipeline Chaos Could be Coming to MN
- Minnesota’s Goal for 80% Carbon Reductions by 2050 will be Expensive – and Xcel Agrees
- EPA Submits Clean Power Plan Replacement to White House: How This Helps Minnesota
- Today is Going to Be a Scorcher. What Energy Source Will Power Your Air Conditioner? (Hint, It Isn’t Wind)
- Minnesota Plans to Retire 1,829 MW of Coal and Replace it with 7,200 MW of Wind, Solar, and Gas
- Norman Rogers: “Wind and Solar Are Dumb Electricity”
- Rising Electricity Prices Threaten Mining Jobs, the Iron Range
- Enjoy Your Fossil-Fueled 4th of July!
- Drama Surrounding Line 3 Approval Shows Dayton’s PUC Has Lost Touch With Reality
- Fantastic Strib Editorial: Copper Mining Worries Many. Many Also Use Copper.
- Analysis Of Line 3 By Commerce Department Was Unbelievably Shortsighted
- MPR Podcast: Rivers of Oil Good, Despite Some Factual Errors
- Limited Lifespans of Wind Turbines Result in Higher Costs of Energy
- Oil Spill From Train Cars Shows We Still Need Pipelines
- Citypages Graciously Posts Our Reply to Their Article About Our Wind Billboards
- Xcel Energy Seeks Eagle Kill Permit for Wind Farm
- Enviros Panic Over Judge’s Rejection of Wind Farm
- Dayton Reaffirms Minnesota’s Commitment to Foolish Paris Climate Accord Pledges
- Minnesota Adds More Expensive and Unnecessary Solar as Electricity Prices Continue to Soar
- Tesla Cuts 3,600 Jobs As the Company Hemorrhages Cash
- North Dakota Pipeline Paves Way for Enbridge 3
- Supporters Turn Up Heat on Dayton to Approve Pipeline
- Germany to Cut 6,000 jobs in Wind Sector in Coming Years
- Democrats’ Attempt to Blame Trump Administration for High Gas Prices is Pinnacle of Hypocrisy
- Indiana Utility Wants to Raise Electricity Bills as the Company Accommodates More Solar, Wind, and Natural Gas
- Happy Twin Cities Bike to Work Day! Your Bike Ride is Environmentally Meaningless
- Love Water and Oil, New Line 3 Will Help Us Do Both
- Are Wind Companies Rushing Projects to Scoop Up Subsidies?
- Has Wind Reduced Dependence on Fossil Fuels? Not in Europe, New Study Shows
- Are the Batteries Coming?
- Counties Warn Pipeline Protests Could Cost Taxpayers
- Despite Billions in Subsidies, Solar is Far Less Efficient than Burning Trash
- 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
- MN House Jobs and Energy Omnibus Includes A Giveaway to Wind Developers
- Former Wind Developer Now Regrets His Involvement in Wind Energy
- Your Taxes, My Friend, Are Blowing in the Wind
- American Experiment Responds to Critical Energy Post
- Three Reasons Gas Prices Will Be Higher this Summer, and One Reason They Won’t Be as High as They Could Be
- Minnesota Falls in State Mining Rankings, Again…
- Fracking: 101 – A Video
- U.S. About to Shatter Oil Production Records
- Electricity Sales Fall the Most Since the Great Recession
- Minnesota Mines Sand, Too
- Don’t Be Fooled By Solar4Schools Programs
- Article: Twenty-One Bad Things About Wind Energy- and Three Reasons Why
- How Installing Wind Energy Increases Electricity Prices
- American Experiment’s Wind Energy Campaign Comes to Freeborn County
- American Experiment Testifies in Front of MN House of Representatives Committee on Job Growth and Energy Affordability Policy on Wind Energy
- Solar Power Strikes Out in Carver County
- “Free” Solar Subsidy Comes Back to Bite Maplewood
- Will Minnesota Learn From Germany’s Green Energy Failures?
- Proposal Would End Electricity Sales Tax as GOP Tackles Soaring Utility Bills
- Dakota Access Pipeline Already a Huge Success, Close to Capacity
- Does Oklahoma’s Backlash Against Big Wind Point Way for MN?
- Residents’ Revolt Against MN Wind Farm Makes National News
- Minnesotans Should Save $200 Million on Gas and Electric Bills Thanks to Federal Tax Cut
- Blaine Homeowners Reject Nation’s “First Certified Green Neighborhood”
- Center’s Radio Ad & Policy Report Focus on Failure of Wind Energy
- Power Prices Go Negative! But…Is This a Good Thing?
- Early Christmas Present as Township Kills Western MN Wind-Solar Project
- The High Cost of Our Failing Wind Policies: Why Minnesota’s electricity costs are above the U.S. average and emissions are rising
- Minnesotans’ Electric Rates: Gone With the Wind
- Pipeline Remains On Hold But Not Protesters
- MN City Reconsiders and Rejects Solar as Too Risky
- Xcel Reveals Solar Garden Power Costs Double Other Sources
- In Minnesota, “Green” Energy Fails Every Test
- MN Unions and Businesses Throw Clout Behind $2 Billion Pipeline
- Pipeline Protesters Camp Out in Northern MN
- Busted! Cops Crack Down on Enbridge Pipeline Extremists
- Cops Let Enviros “Do Their Thing” and Shut Down New Pipeline
- Minnesota raises the price of energy, relying on economic theory once more
- Solar “Gardens” Labeled Solar “Scam” by Economist
- American Energy Will Restore Prosperity, If We Let It
- After being sued for defamation, Greenpeace admits its claims are hyperbole and not factual
- Renewable Energy Standard Could Be a Blowout
- Star Tribune common sense and the Gorsuch nomination
- Key points about the Dakota pipeline you probably never heard
- Cops Clamp Down on Bemidji Pipeline Protesters
- After election, MN regulators must revisit closure of coal plants in Becker community
- MN Utility Files for Huge Rate Increase to Pay for Wind and Solar
- Paper by Former American Experiment Intern Reveals the Hidden Cost of Wind to Electricity Consumers
- Cronies vs. Eagles? No Contest!
- Category: Environment
- 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
- 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.
- House To Hear McCollum’s Minnesota Mining Ban Bill Tomorrow in D.C.
- Sunday Funnies: Rep. Omar Says PolyMet Setback Is a Victory Against Fossil Fuel Executives
- Great News! Twin Metals Submits Its Mine Plan to State and Federal Agencies for Review
- It’s National Miners Day- Thank A Miner
- Rural County OKs Minneapolis Developer’s Solar Project Over Constituents’ Concerns
- More Minnesota Mining! Talon Metals Seeks More Exploration on the Tamarack Deposit
- Does Popularity of Mountain Biking in Duluth Come at Expense of Environment?
- Why Are Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith Sponsoring Minnesota Anti-Mining Legislation?
- Another One Bites the Dust: Federal Judge Rejects Challenges to PolyMet Land Swap
- Tiny Houses Turn Out to be No Big Deal in Minnesota
- While Liberal Environmental Groups Delay Mining in MN, Canada Approves Another Mine
- Great News: MN Supreme Court Deals Blow to Anti-Mining Groups’ Hopes of Delaying PolyMet
- Burning Wood Pollutes More than Coal-Fired Power Plants and Factories in Minnesota, Should We Ban Campfires?
- Secretary of Agriculture Perdue Defends Decision to Renew Mineral Leases
- Capitalism is Saving the Planet Part Six: Minnesota Forests Are Flourishing
- 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
- 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
- Capitalism is Saving the Planet Part 3: Would You Rather Mine in Venezuela? I Didn’t Think So
- Plymouth Steps Back From Controversial GreenStep City Program
- IAEA Discusses The Potential Of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)
- Only Fed Hearing on Removing Wolf from Endangered Species List Held in Brainerd
- Will The U.S. Choose Dependence, or Independence, For Critical Minerals?
- State Pollution Agency Throws Cold Water on Summer Fun
- Isaac Orr on WCCO: Minnesota Miners Helped Win D-Day
- This D-Day Anniversary, Remember the Soldiers, and Remember Minnesota’s Iron Miners
- While Liberal Environmental Groups Delay MN Mining, Canada Approves Another Mine
- Duluth News Tribune: In Response: Judging Twin Metals Now is Premature, Purely Speculative
- Great News! PolyMet Wins First Round of Court Challenges!
- What did the legislative session mean for Minnesota’s economy?
- Exclusive: Tesla Expects Global Shortage of Electric Vehicle Battery Minerals – Sources
- Minnesota Now Fifth-Largest Mining State, It Could Have Been Number Two
- Presidential Orders Seek to Kickstart Mining Industry Revival
- In The Tank (ep188) – Terrible Earth Day Predictions, Socialism, and Free to Choose Medicine
- Army Corps of Engineers Grants Final Permit for PolyMet Mine
- Politicians’ environmental regulations drive the high housing costs they complain about
- Cold Snap Exposes Green Cars’ Power Problems
- State Agency: Your Clothes Are Polluting the Planet
- With Rise of Electric Vehicles, a New Foreign Energy Dependence Looms
- In The Tank: Episode 173
- Business North: Nolan Was Frustrated by DFLers Who Opposed Mining
- Eye On Mining: Gov. Walz Talks Copper-Nickel Mining
- Listen Up: The Great Minnesota Mining Debate Featuring Isaac Orr and Kevin Lee of Minnesota Center of Environmental Advocacy
- Twin Metals Keeps On Winning, Despite Best Efforts of Urban DFL
- “Sportsman’s View: Clean Water More Valuable Than Copper” Recycles Discredited Anti-Mining Talking Points
- In Boost to Ag Groups, Peterson Praises Wolf Delisting Letter
- When Will Fair Trade Coffee Drinkers Embrace Fair Trade Cobalt?
- ACSH: Sea Salt: Possibly The World’s Dumbest Product
- American Experiment Congratulates PolyMet on DNR Permit to Mine
- View Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources Polymet Press Conference Here
- Biased Much? Why Is the Star-Tribune Using a Misleading Photo of The Proposed PolyMet Mine?
- Orr “Mines” the Theater of Public Policy for Laughs
- Anti-Mining PAC Endorses Walz, Ellison, and a Slew of Other DFL Candidates
- Duluth News Tribune Story Paints Inaccurate Picture of American Experiment’s Duluth Mining Rally
- One Step Closer: MN Environmental Agencies Send Proposed Polymet Permit Changes to EPA For Approval
- St. Paul Residents Resist Mandated Garbage Collection
- Is Minneapolis Park Board’s Toxic Image Hurting Superintendent Search?
- Copper, Nickel, and Titanium Mining Would Nearly Offset Estimated Population Decline in Northern Minnesota
- Wall Street Journal: Mining Cobalt in the Congo is Still Dirty and Dangerous
- “See You Next Summer!” Said the Tourism Jobs
- Star Tribune: Check the Methodology in Analyzing Arguments in Mining Debate
- New Park Board Commissioners’ Proposed Pay Raise Comes Under Fire
- Minnesota’s Massive Manganese Deposits- More Wealth Under Our Feet
- UN Says Capitalism Must End to Save the Planet- Another Yawn
- Duluth News Tribune: Statewide View: The more they learn, the more Minnesotans support copper mining
- Duluth News Tribune: DNR Denies Petition for Additional Polymet Environmental Review
- Center Report Ramps Up Debate Over Benefits of Environmentally Responsible Mining
- Upper Michigan’s Population Dwindles Despite “Sustainable” Tourism Economy
- Michigan Could Have Four Non-Ferrous Mines Within Four Years. Will Minnesota Have Any?
- For New Park Board Members Change Starts With Big Pay Raise
- “Visitors can get you only so far,” Upper Michigan Hungry For More Mining
- Environmentally Responsible Mining Will Boost MN’s Economy $3.7 Billion a Year and Create 8,500 Jobs
- Media Ignores Vast Improvement in Nation’s Air Quality
- PolyMet Amendment Dropped From NDAA
- Painter’s Stance on Mining is a Dumpster Fire
- Good Governance: Dayton Reinstates Former Essar Steel Mineral Rights Leases
- Strib Article: The trouble with recycling: It’s a plastic paradox
- The Inside Story: American Experiment Attends Trump’s Mining and Trade Policy Roundtable in Duluth
- Senator Tina Smith Proposes Amendment to Help PolyMet as the Project Gains Steam
- Pipeline Proponents Go On Offense
- Bipartisan Effort to Scrap Outdated Environmental Regulation Faces Dayton Veto
- Good News! Interior Department Reinstates Leases for Twin Metals Minnesota Mine Project
- Taking Back Earth Day
- State Pollution Agency’s Power Grab on Northern Lakes Slapped Down–Again
- So You Want Wind Turbines But Don’t Want Copper Mines?
- American Experiment Refutes Mondale’s Misleading Claims on Mining
- A Gold(en) Mining Opportunity for Minnesota
- Recycling Won’t Cut It- We’ll Need New Mines
- MN Wind Turbines Shut Down Over Safety Concerns From Ice [UPDATED]
- Just Say No: Increase in Gas Tax Would Fuel More Congestion, Reward Bad Policy
- Is MN Ag Department Playing Politics With Farmers’ Water Tests?
- Controversial State Water Regulation Slapped Down
- MN Sheriff Uses Obscure State Law to Take Over Wolf Kill Investigations
- Strib’s Sustainable Food Series Panned by Ag Experts
- Minneapolis Adds $2 Million Climate Surcharge to Utilities
- Feds Reverse Controversial Ban on Northern MN Mining
- Key Legislators Make the Bipartisan Case for met Council Reform, Again
- Taxpayer and Ratepayer Subsidies Squandered as Suburb Dismantles Solar Project
- EPA Cleans House After Obama-Era Advisers Pocket $77 Million in Grants
- Dayton Must Not Allow Militant Enviros to Suppress Pipeline Debate
- Here’s What Would Happen Without Deer Hunting & What Does Happen With It
- MN Taxpayers Fund Controversial Anti-Pipeline Video Game
- State Agency Bows to Militant Activists Canceling Pipeline Hearings
- Bipartisan Support for State Wolf Management Angers Enviro Hardliners
- Video: Police Let Militants Shout and Shut Down State Pipeline Hearing
- Dakota Access Pipeline Sues Greenpeace Protesters
- Opposition to logging and mining undermine northern Minnesota’s economy and global environment
- Iron Range to Trump: We Need More Mining
- Pro-Mining Unions and Businesses Rip Forest Service “Charade”
- Pollution Agency Advises Against High Carbon Vacations
- Minnesota Joins States Fighting Plastic Bag Ban
- As Minneapolis plastic bag ban nears, state agency says environmental benefits of paper over plastic is a myth
- Minneapolis City Council Considering Rubber Mulch Ban
- Category: Families
- Category: Federal Taxes and Spending
- Category: Firearms
- Category: Fraud
- Category: Freedom of Speech
- Category: Gender
- Category: Governance
- Commissioner No-Shows Force Minneapolis Park Board to Cancel Meetings
- St. Cloud City Council Finally Ditches Speech Restrictions
- Taxpayer Costs Soar as Play Declines at Rochester City Golf Courses
- Will St. Cloud Rescind Controversial Gag Rule on City Councilors?
- The City of Corcoran planned to use building permit fees to finance its city hall renovation
- Check Out American Experiment’s New Scandal Tracker
- Fraud and Mismanagement Should Be Red Flag for City Funding of Credit Union
- Minneapolis council decides that spending money on events doesn’t generate offsetting economic benefits after all
- Did St. Cloud City Council Violate State Law?
- The Ellison-Bloomberg Connection
- Paper Rips Walz on Lack of Transparency Over State Agency Meltdown
- Lawsuit Claims St. Paul Failed to Implement Own Sick Pay Policy
- St. Louis Co. Commissioner Cracks Down on Amazon Orders
- End government shutdown threat for good with bipartisan legislation
- City Changes Drive Half of Trash Haulers Out of St. Paul [UPDATED]
- Out of Control Minneapolis City Council Meetings Raise Concerns
- Federal Agencies Scrutinize Met Council Compliance
- State “IT” Services: Legislative Auditor Releases Report Detailing Serious Mismanagement, Disregard for Legal Requirements
- Is Downtown Minneapolis Doing Better than the City Council’s Makeup Might Suggest?
- Why do regional planners ignore the future of transportation?
- Carter Not Fazed by Turmoil in IT Department
- Thank you Star Tribune for urging Gov. Dayton to ‘keep the greater good in mind’ and sign the ‘protest’ bill
- Dayton wants $138 million in “emergency” funding to cover school district budget deficits
- Press Freedom and Bridges to Bucharest
- Dayton’s MnDOT testifies that it cannot prioritize mobility or reduce congestion in Metro area
- Can Congress Over-Ride FTA Recommendation Against Funding Light Rail and Bus Rapid Transit? Maybe.
- Betty McCollum Embarrasses Herself
- Met Council: If it is such a great regional model, why is it the only one after 50 years?
- Sen. Franken’s Last Hurrah
- MN Supreme Court Upholds Dayton Defunding of Legislature
- Nearly 1 in 4 MN Cities Lose Money on Muni Liquor Stores
- Report concludes Minnesota’s budget is prepared for the next moderate recession, but tax collections are among the most volatile
- City Councilor’s Blog Encourages More Citizen Watchdogs
- Attorney General Swanson Sues to Force Trump Administration to Break the Law
- Met Council Attempts to Explain Away OLA Audit Findings: Will the FTA Care?
- OLA Jim Nobles Releases Critical Met Council Transit Audit: Legislative Leaders React
- Public Safety Becoming Key Issue in Minneapolis Mayoral Race
- Has Southwest Light Rail Hit a Speed Bump—or The Wall?
- Contrary to Star Tribune headline, constitutionality of Dayton’s veto is far from resolved
- DACA: Should the children of illegal immigrants be deported?
- Will Judge Order Hodges to Let Minneapolis Taxpayers See Budget?
- St. Paul Mayor Proposes More Transparent Budget After City Loses Landmark Case
- Fighting for the American Dream in D.C.
- Governor Dayton’s Retaliation Against Legislature Violated the Minnesota Constitution
- US Bank Stadium Suites Scandal Leads to Reforms
- Minneapolis Focuses on Threat to Environment Over Public Safety
- Shrimp Farm Comes to MN Despite Dropped Subsidy
- Salary Boost for Ramsey Commissioners, Tax Hike for Ramsey County
- Governor Dayton’s Attempt to De-Fund the GOP Legislature: Troubling Tactics, Apocalyptic Prose and Fake Federalism
- All the reasons the Met Council screwed up $BIG TIME by forcing light rail
- Politically-Connected Davis Sentenced in Corruption Case
- 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?
- A response to Hopkins real estate developer: Southwest LRT is a sweetheart deal for developers, terrible deal for taxpayers
- MN House Passes Bill to Crackdown on Freeway Protesters
- Residents Oppose Paying Officials’ $43,000 in Legal Bills
- Klobuchar & Franken Grill Gorsuch, End Up Getting Burned
- “Concern” Over New Chick-fil-A in St. Louis Park
- Win-Win: How Rural and Urban Minnesotans Both Benefit
- Millions in State Subsidies for MN Shrimp Industry?
- Minneapolis: the DFL’s Bad Apple
- Too Much Secrecy, Not Enough Accountability
- More Political Spring Cleaning After US Bank Stadium Scandal
- Congressman Jason Lewis Files Bill to Contain the Met Council
- Obama Rule Expands Met Council Boundaries
- Kelm-Helgen Out In Backlash Over US Bank Stadium Suites [Updated]
- Federal Funding in Doubt, MPR Turns to MN Taxpayers
- I told you so? Crockett update on Public Pensions.
- 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
- Newly Elected Outsiders Take Charge in Cities and Counties
- Who Gets Free U.S. Bank Tickets? DFL Activists
- No More Freebie Tickets for Political Insiders at U.S. Bank Stadium
- Legislative Auditor Investigating Stadium Perks for Political Insiders
- Is St. Paul Still a Sanctuary City?
- Dodd-Frank forced my neighborhood community bank to sell
- Citizen Watchdog Ousts Mayor With Open Meeting Law Violations
- Buyers’ Remorse Over $500 Million Public Investment in Vikings Stadium?
- Road Work Ahead as Cities Move Away From Street “Fees”
- 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
- Star Tribune’s health care “realities” need their own dose of reality
- 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
- Cuban Cigars and Rum. What’s a Fan of the Constitution to do?
- State Agency Tells Minnesotans to Go Green with Cosmetics
- 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
- Two Dayton Cronies to Keep High Paying Stadium Jobs
- Fed-Up Judge Finds State Agency in Contempt
- Case Not Completely Closed on Minneapolis Corruption
- Rampant Voter Fraud in Minnesota?
- Is Public Transit a Relic of the Past?
- More MNSure Fallout: 103,000 Minnesotans cannot keep that plan they liked after all
- Race Quotas For Parks: Seriously?
- Supreme Court Justices and Religion, College Admissions and Race
- Sometimes It Takes a Village to Raise the Issue of Government Transparency
- Nearly 75 percent of workers who would qualify for Minneapolis paid sick leave live outside the city
- New lane miles do reduce congestion
- Is it fair to ask whether Governor Dayton is a man of his word?
- Residents Petition to Reclaim Freedom of Trash
- 2016 Session Update: Met Council’s Southwest LRT and Failed Model for Regionalism Jams up Transportation for Minnesota
- Why Does Minnesota’s A.G. Want to Silence Critics?
- Minnesota Supreme Court hears arguments in case that could limit use of fees to raise revenue
- Pension Funds Just Realized Minnesotans Are Healthy
- Pricey Senate Office Building Also Comes at the High Cost of Never Settling a Serious Constitutional Challenge
- Who is Rebecca Friedrichs and Why Do Public Unions Fear Her?
- Here’s Why Union Bosses Hate California Teacher Rebecca Friedrichs
- The Obama Administration Clears the Way for States to Require Retirement Plans for Private Sector Employees
- The Hidden Costs of a Mandatory Public Pension Plan
- ‘Mother of open meeting law cases’ heads to court
- Bloomington residents sue city over garbage rights
- Police Authority and Arrested Resistance
- How Governor Dayton and the DFL Re-Defined Who is a “Public Employee” to Benefit Their Political Party
- The States Wade into Retirement Security for Private Sector Employees
- Pension Quick Facts
- 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?
- Pension reform advocate wins in deep-blue Rhode Island
- Category: Government
- Category: Government Unions
- Category: Government Waste
- Category: Greater Minnesota
- Category: Great Jobs
- Category: Health Care
- Pandemic? In Minnesota, Not Yet
- 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!”
- Conservative Healthcare Expert Avik Roy Argues for Universal Coverage at U of M
- Finally Cleaning House at the Vets Administration
- 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
- 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
- Strong growth in physicians licensed in Minnesota
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Category: History
- Category: Housing
- Category: Illegal Immigration
- Category: Liberalism
- Category: Media
- Category: Metropolitan Council
- Category: Mining
- Category: Minnesota Budget
- Category: Minnesota Economy
- Bill Kills Controversial Licensing Requirement for Independent Makeup and Hair Stylists
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/21/20
- High-tax Minnesota suffers when losing residents to other states
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/14/20
- Where are Minnesotans going to and coming from?
- Should we ignore facts because they are politically inconvenient?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/7/20
- More on Minnesota’s out-migration
- Are numbers racist?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/31/20
- Minnesota’s Three-Tier System can take no credit for the craft beer boom
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/24/20
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/17/20
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/3/20
- On net, 65 people moved to Minnesota from other states last year
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/27/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/20/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/13/19
- Minnesota`s exports fall in second and third quarter
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/6/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/29/19
- Minnesota Still one of 10 Worst States for Business Taxation.
- It isn’t Minnesota’s high taxes that make it a great place to live or get educated
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/22/19
- Why is state law stopping Minnesota’s beauticians doing weddings?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/15/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/8/19
- Minnesota is the 5th most tax unfriendly state for retirees
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/1/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/25/19
- Minnesota ranks 45th on the Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/18/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/11/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/4/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/27/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/20/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/13/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/6/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/30/19
- To grow Minnesota’s economy, we need tax cuts from state rather than federal government
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/23/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/16/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/9/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/2/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/26/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/19/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/12/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/5/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/28/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/21/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/14/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/7/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/31/19
- Despite the trade war, Minnesota’s exports rise again
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/24/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/17/19
- Minnesota might rank 3rd overall, but on economic policy it ‘could do better’
- No, high taxes aren’t why Minnesota ranks highly
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/10/19
- Minneapolis-Based Brewery, Indeed, Expands Business in The Good Land (Milwaukee)
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/3/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/19/19
- Who’s going to pay for all this? The ‘rich’? Think again
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/12/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/5/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/29/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/22/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/15/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/8/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/1/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/22/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/15/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/8/19
- Data shows that states with lower taxes have higher quality of life
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/1/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/25/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/18/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/11/19
- Shrimp Plant Picks South Dakota Due to MN Red Tape
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/4/19
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/28/18
- Is Minnesota really the fourth best governed state in the union?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/21/18
- City Pages: State with lowest tax burden is “crushing” its neighbors
- Income tax hikes didn’t close Minnesota’s budget deficit
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/14/18
- New data shows which Minnesota counties saw economic growth…or not
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/7/18
- Minnesota’s government is forecast to take $1.5 billion more from the state’s taxpayers than it says it needs. What should it do with that money?
- New Report: Minnesota’s Economy Continues to Lag in Key Areas
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/9/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/2/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/26/18
- It isn’t Minnesota’s high taxes that make the state great
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/19/18
- For our economic health, Minnesota must cut tax burdens
- Minnesota Ranked As Least Tax-Friendly State In US
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/12/18
- The Fading Relevance of Mass Transit: Must-Listen Podcast
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 10/5/18
- The Tax Foundation lays out Minnesota’s high taxes and their consequences
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/28/18
- Minnesota ranks 43rd in the country for business taxes
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/21/18
- Teamsters Logo Perfectly Illustrates How Antiquated, Inflexible Unions Have Become
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/14/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/7/18
- Watch American Experiment’s Testimony on the Impact of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Minnesota’s Economy
- The impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on the Minnesota economy
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/31/18
- Economist’s View: Actually, economic growth in Walker’s Wisconsin outpaced Dayton’s Minnesota
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/24/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/17/18
- Comparing the economic records of Minnesota and Wisconsin governors
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/10/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/3/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/27/18
- Governor Dayton Will Regret Vetoing Tax Cuts After Seeing U.S. Growth Numbers
- In the late 1990s, Minnesota cut its top rate of income tax. What happened to income tax revenues?
- In the first quarter of 2018, Minnesota’s economic growth lagged that of the nation
- In the 1980s, Minnesota cut its top rate of income tax by 8 percentage points. What happened to income tax revenues?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/20/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/13/18
- On CNBC’s ranking of America’s Top States for Business, Minnesota’s economy tumbles 12 places
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 7/6/18
- What trade means for Minnesotans
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/29/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 22/8/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 15/8/18
- ‘It’s going to be a mess’ come tax season – CPAs speak out on Gov. Dayton’s parting gift to Minnesotans
- See how the federal tax cut impacted you. Then remember that Gov. Dayton’s veto likely means your taxes going up anyway
- Minnesota ranks 4th nationally for per capita excise tax collections
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/8/18
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 6/1/17
- Minnesota ranks 6th nationally for per capita state and local income taxes
- Why Enbridge 3 Pipeline Matters to Minnesota
- We can’t know the true benefit of the Super Bowl unless we know its cost
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/25/17
- Gov. Dayton’s veto will needlessly hurt ordinary Minnesotans
- Mosaic’s Departure Should Be a Wake-Up Call
- Gov. Dayton is wrong, the tax bill is not a giveaway for corporations
- Wisconsin under Scott Walker beat Minnesota by many economic measures
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/18/17
- Since Governors Dayton and Walker took office, average hourly earnings growth has been higher in Wisconsin than in Minnesota
- Missed opportunities for real tax reform
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 5/11/17
- 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
- The Senate GOP’s tax bill is another small step in the right direction
- Minnesota’s House tax bill is a step in the right direction, but a small one
- Taxes have unintended consequences – States with the highest cigarette taxes have the highest rates of smuggling
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/27/17
- Happy Tax Freedom Day Minnesota!
- New report shows that Minnesota’s economic performance has been lackluster and raises doubts about future performance
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/20/17
- Sour tax climate bad for business
- Happy Tax Freedom Day! But not you, Minnesota…
- Governor Dayton’s tax bill will raise taxes on all Minnesotans, and on the poorest most
- Estate tax is an incentive to leave Minnesota
- Some Timely Common Sense and Perspective from Brian Wesbury on U.S. Trade
- Trump’s tariffs could spark trade war that will cost many Americans
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/13/17
- Minnesota ranks 11th nationally for increases in occupational licensing requirements
- What should lawmakers consider when rewriting tax policy? Five experts give their perspectives
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 4/6/17
- Governor Dayton is wrong on the estate tax
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/30/17
- Minnesota should lower its corporate tax rate
- Personal Income growth in Minnesota is driven by increases in transfer payments
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/23/17
- The Tax Foundation on Governor Dayton’s budget proposal: Some pro-growth provisions, but misses the mark on others
- Gov. Dayton overstates his economic achievements
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/16/17
- Minnesota should ditch its alternative minimum tax for corporations
- Minnesota should abolish its estate tax
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/9/17
- January employment report: Minnesota’s job growth is concentrated in lower productivity sectors
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 3/2/17
- Minnesota’s Senate Democrats said that November’s budget deficits were the result of tax cuts. Will they say the same about the surplus projected now?
- Spam! Tax Cuts Lead to Pay Hike and Stock Options for Hormel Employees
- Compared to other states, Minnesota’s economic policies don’t rank too well
- Center of the American Experiment presents to the Minnesota House Ways and Means Committee on the state’s economy
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/23/17
- Tax Refugees Flee to States with Lower Taxes
- Put Minnesota tax code revisions on ‘to do’ list
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/16/17
- What will Minnesota’s fiscal forecast say?
- The Minnesota Myth
- On Business Taxes, Minnesota Is Near the Bottom
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/9/17
- Minnesota’s economy hinges on the new mining jobs
- Hundreds of Supporters Back Copper Mining at Public Hearing
- First MN Copper Mine on the Verge of Approval
- The Super Bowl party is over, who picks up the tab?
- Thousands of Minnesotans Get Bonuses and Pay Hikes Thanks to Tax Cuts [UPDATED]
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 2/2/17
- Another Obama Era Obstacle to MN Mining Bites the Dust
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/26/17
- 3M Joins Long List of Companies Benefiting From Tax Reform
- Thousands of Minnesotans Get Bonuses and Pay Hikes Thanks to Tax Cuts [UPDATED]
- Why Did Amazon “Snub” the Twin Cities?
- State’s economy is lagging
- Those Crazy Californians! Oops…No, Wait
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/19/17
- For Minnesotans, “It’s the economy, stupid”
- Twin Cities cut from Amazon’s HQ list
- Thousands of Minnesotans Get Bonuses and Pay Hikes Thanks to Tax Cuts [UPDATED]
- When It Comes to Tech Jobs, Minnesota Is Out In the Cold
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/12/17
- Thousands of Minnesotans Get Bonuses and Pay Hikes Thanks to Tax Cuts [UPDATED]
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 1/5/17
- Florida Is Recruiting Minnesota’s Citizens
- High-tax states should abandon misguided schemes and focus on lowering taxes
- Minnesota’s economy: we can do better
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/29/17
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/22/17
- Minnesota is at serious risk of losing a seat in Congress
- What will the federal tax bill mean for Minnesota?
- Is Minnesota really the best governed state in the union?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/15/17
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/8/17
- Tax cuts did not cause Minnesota’s projected deficit
- Minnesota Management and Budget forecasts red ink
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/1/17
- More Mining Companies Exploring Possibilities in Northern MN
- The State of Minnesota’s Economy: Performance Continues to be Lackluster
- Eliminating deductions will hit high-tax Minnesota
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/17/17
- What does the Senate’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act mean for Minnesota?
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/10/17
- Minnesota’s employers get creative to beat the labor ‘shortage’
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 11/03/17
- September employment data shows how Minnesota’s urban areas compare with neighboring states
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 27/10/17
- Enbridge 3 would have a major economic impact in Minnesota and aggressive thugs should not be allowed to stifle debate
- September employment report: Jobs gains in high productivity sectors should boost Minnesota’s economy
- Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 20/10/17
- Minnesota ranks 46th out of 50 states for business taxation
- Minnesota’s consumers, not its politicians, should be picking winners and losers
- Minnesota agency reports lower than forecast revenue and lower economic growth in 2018
- Minnesota Ranked Second Least Tax-Friendly State in U.S.
- By fighting the removal of the state and local tax deduction, Minnesota Democrats show that tax rates do matter
- Will MN Business Climate Deter Amazon?
- Data shows Minnesota’s metropolitan areas slipping relative to its neighbors
- Time for Minnesota to update 1970s-era pipeline permitting process
- Minnesota’s second quarter personal income growth figures show lackluster performance
- Reducing the rates of teenage and black unemployment can help tackle Minnesota’s supposed labor shortage
- Economic growth in Minnesota’s urban areas is lagging our peers
- August employment report: Minnesota’s job growth is concentrated in lower productivity sectors
- Minnesota is Among the Least Economically Free States
- Rift Over Mining Splits Duluth DFL
- Who should Trump appoint to the Fed?
- Do the Twin Cities Have a Realistic Shot at Amazon’s Headquarters?
- How have the Twin Cities been doing economically?
- Where do Minnesota’s legislators stand on federal tax reform?
- Fewer mining jobs means big-time economic problems for Minnesota
- Got a spare two months? Read Minnesota’s regulations
- Keith Ellison demands a $15 minimum wage but doesn’t pay his interns
- Why robots support a higher minimum wage
- More workers will help us prosper, if they’re the right kind of workers
- Government letting companies and people keep more of their money is not a ‘handout’
- Subsidizing business is a bad idea whoever does it
- Can increased immigration boost per capita incomes?
- The evidence shows that raising minimum wages hurts the poor
- Immigration crisis? What immigration crisis?
- Data from metropolitan areas shows Minnesota slipping relative to its neighbors
- Who should pay for Big Bird?
- Why Wasn’t Minnesota In the Running for Foxconn’s Project?
- Who should pay for that lighthouse?
- Emails reveal that Seattle council sabotaged its own minimum wage study
- Even left wingers embrace the Laffer Curve now
- What drives Minnesota’s business cycle?
- Report shows Minnesota’s estate tax burden is among the highest in the country
- Tax something, you get less of it. Policymakers have always known that
- June employment report: Good news from Minnesota’s labor market
- Employment data upends liberal narrative on the border battle between Minnesota and Wisconsin
- Seattle Council pulls the plug on its minimum wage study because it doesn’t like the results
- Good at business? Not so much
- Cutting tax rates can increase tax revenues
- ‘Trickle down economics’ isn’t even a thing
- How to really raise wages
- CNBC’s Top States for Business rankings are a slap in the face for Minnesota’s economic policymakers
- Minnesota’s revenue shortfall offers a sign for concern and a lesson in economics
- Why Do Twin Cities Have Lowest Rate of Black Home Ownership In the Country?
- With wage hike, Minneapolis ignores economic laws
- New data shows that Minnesotans cannot be complacent about their economy
- $15 minimum wage: Bad news from Seattle should give Minneapolis pause
- Second time lucky for Seattle Council’s minimum wage research
- Major new study jolts liberals out of Fantasyland on $15 minimum wage
- Increasing productivity, not the minimum wage, is the way to increase worker’s pay
- Skepticism about state’s economy isn’t ‘naysaying’
- Don’t like jobs paying $9.50? Don’t get one
- Raising the minimum wage will not boost Minneapolis’ economy
- Minneapolis’ small businesses will pay the cost of a $15 minimum wage
- MN Wineries Sue Over Law Against Out-of-State Grapes
- May employment report: Minnesota needs more productive jobs
- An Economist’s View: Dayton’s rich-vs.-the-rest economic view is simply wrong
- Minnesota needs more productive jobs
- Titanium Breakthrough Could Be Bigger Than Taconite for Iron Range
- Tax the rich? Done. Chase them from the State? Done.
- How Much Weight Does MN’s “Best State” Ranking Hold?
- Liberal Policies Are Devastating America’s Young
- Minnesota May Lose a Congressional Seat. But Why?
- Minnesota vs. Wisconsin
- The Twin Cities Are Falling Behind, and It Isn’t Just Population
- MN Loses Population to Other States in 2016 But Some Counties Buck Trend
- Why ‘Yuge’ Meeting on Obama MN Mining Ban May Not Matter
- Understanding the New Tax Plan America Needs
- Will Legislators Bag Minneapolis Plastic Bag Ban?
- Business Calls for More Immigrants: At What Cost to Taxpayers?
- Government, Not Wall Street, Caused Financial Crisis
- New report pinpoints several aspects of state tax code that challenge Minnesota’s competitiveness
- Unions and Companies Confront Duluth City Council on Pipeline
- Minnesota’s New Year’s Resolution
- Many Minnesotans to Pay Just Shy of the Highest 2016 Income Tax Rate in the Nation
- Will General Mills be the next Minnesota Fortune 500 company lost to a takeover?
- Business friendly policies spur stronger growth in counties across Minnesota’s border
- The Joy of Knowing “I Built That”
- More of the Same: “Nothing Spectacular” in State Jobs Report
- Minneapolis buys political cover to raise the minimum wage from the U of MN Humphrey School
- White House “Fact Sheet” on Minnesota income growth fails to report income declines in Mankato, St. Cloud, and Rochester
- Tax Foundation report finds business taxes in Minnesota are among the least competitive
- A Minimum Wage Fable by Mark Perry
- Once Again, Star Tribune Cheers Mediocre Performance
- Mark Perry’s remarks at American Experiment’s minimum wage forum
- What’s Happened to Minnesota’s Entrepreneurial Spirit?
- Not Even One Minnesota Business Makes Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies List
- Southwest Light Rail: An Expensive Mistake
- Blue State Exodus: It Isn’t Just Minnesota
- Quotas on the Menu at General Mills
- Minnesota’s high-tech industry can do much better
- Are Voters Catching On to the Minimum Wage?
- Minnesota’s Economy: No Beacon of Prosperity!
- Minnesota’s Economy Faces a Turning Point
- Download American Experiment’s Blockbuster Report on Minnesota’s Economy
- Is Minnesota A Good Place to Retire?
- When It Comes to the Economy, Minnesota Must Do Better
- The Left’s First Response to our Paper on Minnesota’s Economy
- Watch This Space for Blockbuster Report on Monday
- Are Blue States Better?
- Regulatory delay in approving pipeline puts tax revenue and jobs at risk in northern Minnesota
- Top 8 Reasons to Hit the “Pause” Button on Light Rail and Fund Proven Steps to Reduce Congestion
- Fergus Falls educators, manufacturers take on the skills gap
- Growth in Minnesota’s Median Household Income Doesn’t Lead the Nation
- High Cost of Doing Business in Minnesota No Deal Breaker for CNBC
- Is Minnesota Good For Small Business?
- Minnesota Can Do Better
- $15 Minimum Wage Gains Momentum as Minneapolis Sits on Legal Sidelines
- Being Blue Is Giving Minnesotans the Blues
- Court Loss Over North Dakota Coal Stokes Long-Shot Appeal by Dayton
- Do Rental Limits on Homeowners Harm the Poor, Middle Class and Minorities?
- How Strong Is Minnesota’s Economy, Really?
- Northeast states start addressing the consequences of high taxes, making Minnesota more of an outlier
- Debate rages over whether Minnesota loses taxpayers to lower tax states
- Clear Cut Trees Reveal Solar Power’s Environmental Downside
- Don’t Miss CAE Forum on How Dodd-Frank Hurts Small Business with Top Expert Peter Wallison
- A response to various objections to American Experiment’s report, “Minnesotans on the Move to Lower Tax States 2016”
- MNsure errors in determining eligibility cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars
- Perception please meet the reality of Minnesota’s jobs climate
- Minnesota job growth still falls behind U.S.
- 2014 Health Care Savings Date Back to when Republicans Controlled the Minnesota Legislature
- Minnesota Economy No Victory for Dayton
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- Cut estate tax to increase state revenue
- In 2017 Half of Taxpayers Paid 97% of all Federal Income Taxes
- Marriott Seeks $2.5 Million in Tax Breaks for Mankato Hotel
- Would Minnesotans support a new payroll tax to cover paid family and medical leave?
- 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?
- Rochester’s High Property Taxes Threaten Small Businesses
- Understanding Minnesota’s Taxable Candy
- Two cheers for Minnesota’s budget deal
- How much of your money do our politicians think they are entitled to?
- The already weak case for hiking taxes on Minnesotans just got weaker
- Lawmakers draw battle lines over 70% gas tax increase
- Handy chart shows exactly how much Gov. Walz wants to increase taxes for your income level
- We’re all ‘the rich’ when politicians look to tax the wealthy
- 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
- Research shows that, in most cases, ‘the rich’ worked for their money
- Is Minnesota’s government really so broke it needs to hike your taxes?
- “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
- Gov. Dayton’s veto is to blame for tax filing complexity, not federal tax cuts
- No, it isn’t Minnesota’s high taxes that make our state great
- Minnesota should repeal its estate tax
- Socially Conscious Car Sharing Service Lobbies for Tax Loophole
- Minnesota doesn’t need Gov. Walz’s gas tax hike
- On Taxes, Schafer Gets It Half Right
- A smaller refund does not mean that you didn’t get a tax cut
- People want more government spending – As long as someone else pays
- Tax cuts are not ‘giveaways’, they are ‘take-less-aways’
- Minnesota doesn’t need higher gas taxes
- Tax Conformity: That Ship Has Sailed
- Report scores Gov. Dayton a ‘D’ on fiscal policy
- Taxes are incentives – even for divorce
- Minneapolis Property Taxes Skyrocket. This is Why We Can’t Have Grumpy Things
- Britain cut corporate tax rates and corporate tax revenues went up
- If billionaires want the government to have more of their money, why not just give it to them?
- Minnesota Beer Taxes are the 10th Highest in the Country
- Higher tax rates do not bring more revenue
- Minnesota ranks 8th nationally for its reliance on income taxes
- What does the Supreme Court’s Wayfair decision mean?
- Property taxes show that taxing wealth is easier said than done
- Minneapolis Property Owners Winning War With Tax Assessor
- Milton Friedman on corporate taxes
- Tax beer more and you get less drinking. Why don’t policymakers apply this logic to work?
- Duluth Businesses Clash With Tax Assessor
- Henry Hazlitt: For True Tax Reform
- Minnesota uses taxes on cigarettes to stop people smoking. What does it think taxes on labor do?
- The state and local tax deduction allows high tax states to pass some of the burden on to others. It should be ended.
- Vetoed tax bill would focus tax relief on seniors, families, and small businesses
- Connecticut’s Experience: Taxing the Rich Doesn’t Work
- It’s tax day: Minnesota, a land of progressivity
- A Competition For “Tax Fairness”? That’s Delusional
- Ho, Ho, Ho: $300,000 in Taxpayer Funds for Jolly Green Giant Museum
- Tax Credits For Student Loan Payments? A Terrible Idea
- Minnesota Ranks In the Top Five!
- Why Are Minnesotans So Overtaxed?
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- The Onion: Vindictive Amy Klobuchar Elected Mayor Of South Bend, Indiana
- Sunday Funnies: Rom Rebuked at Ely Mining Meeting
- childcare service shortage is bad not just for parents, but also for the economy.
- In The Tank (Ep232) – Bernie Sanders’ Spending Proposals are INSANE!
- Increasing regulation driving childcare providers out of business in Washington
- Come Out to Moorhead Tomorrow For The Morning In Minnesota Breakfast Series!
- Sunday Funnies: Tesla- Pretend to Save the Environment While Looking Rich
- 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
- In the Tank (Ep 227) Doomsday Clock Set to 100 Seconds, Trump Talks Climate Change at Davos
- In The Tank (Ep226) – Shrinking States vs. Growing States, Sanders Warren Feud
- Even champagne excise taxes are high in Minnesota
- In The Tank (Ep225) – One Child Nation, Overpopulation and Climate Alarmism
- In The Tank (Ep224) – 2020: Is Life Getting Easier or Harder? Future of EVs
- In The Tank (Ep222) – Looking Back at 2019 and Star Wars Review
- 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
- In The Tank (Ep221) – COP25 was a Joke and Talking MMT with Bob Murphy
- Sunday Funnies: Escalators Can Never Break, Unless It’s the MN State Government.
- On Brexit, why are Americans so against democracy for Britain?
- In The Tank (Ep220) Mostly Baby Yoda And Some Other Mildly Interesting Stuff, Too
- Sunday Funnies: Germany is Building New Coal Plants
- I’m Thankful for Your Generosity
- In The Tank (Ep218) – Reaction to Capitalism vs. Socialism Soho Forum Debate
- 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
- Sunday Funnies: Bernie Feels the Bern
- Watch: Trump rally draws huge crowds in Minneapolis
- Trump/Frey Spat Suggests DFL Stands for “Different standards For Liberals”
- VIDEO: Isaac Orr visits Willmar, MN for a discussion on energy policy
- “Hey, Pals, This is Reading Kind of Ripe”
- The most important election of 2019
- Join our team!
- Isaac Orr: Minnesota’s High Electric Bills Will Continue to Rise Higher
- In the Tank (EP200) – Socialism and Modern Monetary Theory
- Renewables Will Make Minnesota Less Energy Independent, Not More
- Republicans State Senators in Oregon Flee the State to Prevent A Devastating Carbon Tax
- From Colorado: Xcel Energy Put Shareholder Profits Before Pueblo Families and Kids’ Education
- Response to Comments In New York Times Article
- In the Tank (EP195) – “Luxury Communism.” News in The Digital Age, Deepfakes
- Even Magic Can’t Make Green Energy Work
- In The Tank (ep194) – 2020 Dem Presidential Candidates, Medicare 4 All, Climate Change
- In the Tank Ep 193, ICCC13, Automation, and THE FUTURE
- In The Tank (ep192) – “Debanking” Conservatives, Socialism, Sanders “Berns” Charter Schools
- 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 Five – The High Cost of Wind Energy
- In The Tank (ep188) – Facebook Censors Haskins, Warren’s College Debt Scam, and Booster Seats
- In The Tank (ep187) – American Experiment’s John Phelan on Modern Monetary Theory, Return Free Filing, Game of Thrones
- In The Tank (EP185)- Jonathan Williams and the Pension Crisis; Green Real Deal; and the Electoral College
- Doubling Down on Failure Installment Four: Renewable Energy Fails Cost/Benefit Analysis Using Minnesota Public Utilities Commission Social Cost of Carbon
- Would You Like Some Child Labor with That Electric Car?
- Trump’s Energy Policies Bode Poorly for Putin
- The World Is Getting Better, Declares Op-Eds in Leading Newspapers
- Yes, It’s True, You Are Turning Into Your Parents
- American Experiment Seeks Full-Time Communications Director
- New ‘Miracle Foods’ Arrive; But What About The Old Ones?
- St. Paul Library Goes Fine Free But It Could Cost You
- ASCH: The Scientifically Ignorant Drive GMO Debate
- More Birds Are Getting Drunk This Year, MN Town Advises Residents
- Minnesota Keeps Shutting Down Inexpensive Power Plants: Why Not Expensive Renewable Energy Centers?
- Did you know September 17 is Constitution Day? Celebrate by Meeting Mark Janus and Rebecca Friedrichs
- The Onion Nails It, Publishes Its Own Anonymous OP-ED
- “Get Ready for Sticker Shock on California’s Last-Minute Clean Energy Proposals” – Even California Reconsiders Costly Energy Mandates
- Rest In Peace, Aretha Franklin
- Video: 99 Percent of Plastic in Oceans Comes from Other Countries
- Supreme Court Rules Public Employees Are Not Required to Fund Unions in Big Win for First Amendment Rights
- Electric Cars are Mostly for Wealthy People, and You’re Subsidizing Their Purchase
- Summer Movie Night: The Fight of Our Lives. Defeating the Ideological War Against the West.
- Federal Energy Subsidies Declined Since 2013, Solar and Wind Still the Big Winners
- The Perfect Meme Debunking Renewable Energy
- Star Tribune Expose Omits Late Minnesotan’s DFL Connections
- Thinking Minnesota Is Now On Sale at Barnes & Noble
- Flawed survey used to support adding a second Amtrak train between St. Paul and Chicago
- Help Wanted!
- Met Council signs $118 million contract to design 27 SWLRT trains despite ongoing uncertainty over funding
- What It Means To Be Minnesota’s Think Tank
- St. Cloud Mall Attack Raises More Questions About Gun-Free Zones
- Even Where It’s Good, Minnesota’s Economy Isn’t Great
- Send Us a Photo In an American Experiment T-Shirt or Hat and Win Free Admission
- Join Us On Labor Day at the Minnesota State Fair!
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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.)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss why tax cuts did not cause Minnesota's projected deficit (12.4.17, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss how most MN teachers have never even voted to support their union (12.4.17, 3 min.)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss how Minnesota's productivity lags the national average (11.27.17, 3 min.)
- John Phelan & Rookies discuss how MN productivity, not GDP, is what matters (11.20.17)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss Minnesota's lackluster economy (11.13.17)
- Star Parker: How Improving Our Communities Will Cure Racial Polarization (11.7.17, 60 min.)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss new Center report on Minnesota's mediocre economy (11.6.17)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss importance of Enbridge 3 pipeline to Minnesota (10.30.17)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss teacher's union tactics (10-23-17, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss wind power and MN losing it's energy price advantage (10.16.17, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss some of the left-wing indoctrination going on in Edina schools (10.9.17, 3 min.)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss Minnesota's success in manufacturing (10.2.17, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Fall Briefing with Mark Steyn (9.25.17, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss union auto-renewal agreements (9.18.17, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss Gov. Dayton's veto of the Legislature (9.11.17, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss upcoming Center reports (8.28.17, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Center state fair handout on congestion (8.14.17, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss legislative funding court case (8.7.17, 3 min.)
- Kathy Kersten & Rookie discuss Minnesota's new "Transgender Toolkit" (7.17.17, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss release of summer Thinking MN on traffic congestion (7.10.17, 3 min.)
- John Phelan & Rookie discuss Seattle's minimum wage fiasco (7.5.17, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss Gov. Dayton's veto of the Legislature (6.26.17, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Center traffic and bumper stickers (6.19.17, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Met Council and traffic congestion (6.5.17, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss legislative session, Nelson gives it a 'C' (5.30.17, 3 min.)
- Crockett & Rookie discuss Pre-K and Gov. Dayton's opposition to Opportunity Scholarships (5.22.17, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss Gov. Dayton using early ed to build up unions (5.15.17, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss collapse of Obamacare (5.8.17, 3 min.)
- Catrin Thorman & Rookie discuss Gov. Dayton using early ed to expand unions (5.1.17, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss housing crisis of Somalis being "forced out" of Eden Prairie (4.24.17, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss the Minnesota legislative session so far (4.10.17, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss SW light rail and transit funding (4.3.17, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss bill to subsidize the shrimp industry in MN (3.27.17, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Gov. Dayton's threatened shutdown over 5% spending cut (3.20.17, 3 min.)
- Center Calls on Dayton to Cut Spending, Not Shut Down Government
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss new legislation to protect Minnesota from voter fraud (3.6.17, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Gov. Dayton's co-ed bathrooms position (2.27.17, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss CAE Forum on why liberal policies are bad for young people (2.20.17, 3 min.)
- How Washington is Betraying America's Young with Diana Furchtgott-Roth (2.22.17, 1 hr.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss why liberal policies are bad for young people (2.13.17, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss refugees impact on MN budget (2.6.17, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss school choice and Betsy DeVos (1.23.17, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss immigrants and refugees (1.30.17, 3 min.)
- George Parker, fmr. DC teachers union president, discusses school choice at DeLaSalle HS (1.26.17, 67 min.)
- Kim Crockett discusses Betsey DeVos & 2017 Session on AM-1130 (1.19.17, 15 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss how to fix health care in MN (1.16.17, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss big issues in new legislative session (1.9.17, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss how Minnesota can make economy more competitive (3 min., 12.26.16)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss the huge union spending in the election (12.19.16, 3 min.)
- Key Clip from Heather Mac Donald War on Cops Forum (12.12.16, 3 min.)
- The War on Cops with Heather Mac Donald (12.8.17, 60 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss how Minnesota is losing the jobs border battle (11.28.16, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss War on Cops Forum Dec. 8 (11.21.16, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss Voter Fraud in Minnesota (11.7.16, 3 min.)
- John Hinderaker & Rookie discuss CAE's Magazine "Thinking Minnesota" (10.31.16, 3 min.)
- Tom Steward & Rookie discuss MNsure's hidden costs (10.24.16, 3 min.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie Obamacare's Unaffordability in Minnesota (10.17.16, 3 min.)
- CAE Personal Care Attendant ad (10.16, 30 sec.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Minnesota tax competitiveness (10.10.16, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss gun-free zones in Minnesota (9.26.16, 3 min.)
- BIG Minimum Wage Debate w John Marty, Dan McElroy & Mark Perry (9.20.16, 1 hr.)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss big fee court case win (9.19.16, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss the minimum wage (9.12.16, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss CAE's comprehensive report on the Minnesota economy (8.29.16, 3 min.)
- Crockett & Rookie discuss special session (8.22.16, 3 min.)
- Kersten & Rookie discuss Black Lives Matter and Crime (8.15.16, 3 min.)
- Press Conf.: Minnesota's Mediocre Economy Threatens States Future (8.15.16, 30 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss Minnesota's Mediocre Economy (8.8.16, 3 min.)
- Rebecca Friedrichs & Rookie discuss teacher unions (8.1.16, 3 min.)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie discuss PCA union decertification effort (7.25.16, 3 min.)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss shootings and how Dayton embarrassed MN (7.18.16)
- Hinderaker Hosts Joe Soucheray Garage Logic Show (7.15.16, Hr. 2)
- Hinderaker Hosts Joe Soucheray Garage Logic Show (7.15.16, Hr. 1)
- Mitch discusses families on AM980 with Paul Ridgeway (7.12.16)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss trailer parks in the suburbs (7.5.16)
- Hinderaker & Rookie discuss racial equity in park use (6.27.16)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss Mpls. paid sick leave policy (6.20.16)
- Kim Crockett & The Rookie discuss Minnesota pension insolvency (6.13.16)
- Peter Nelson & Rookie discuss fixing Minnesota's congested roads (6.6.16)
- Kim Crockett & Rookie review the legislative session (5.30.16)
- How Dodd-Frank Damaged Comm. Banks & Hurt Small Businesses
- Katherine Kersten discusses St. Paul school violence with assaulted teacher Aaron Benner
- Kersten & St. Paul teacher Aaron Benner discuss school violence & racial equity (5.2.16)
- Tom Steward & Anthony Sanders of the Institute for Justice discuss home rental restrictions
- Crockett & Kersten Discuss Reforming the Met Council on AM1130
- Peter Nelson & Dale Kurschner discuss Minnesota's Great Wealth Migration
- Met Council's Obscene Housing Subsidies on CAE Weekly Radio Show
- Kathy Kersten discusses St. Paul school violence on AM1130's Jack Tomczak Show
- Excepts from Jason Riley Lunch on Center's weekly radio show
- Employee Freedom on CAE Radio Show (3 min., 2.22.16)
- Peter Nelson Discusses MNsure Premiums on Jack & Ben
- Peter Nelson Discusses MNsure Premiums on King Banaian Radio Show
- Hugh Hewitt interviews Mitch Pearlstein
- From Family Collapse to America's Decline Interview with Mitch Pearlstein
- Safeguarding and Rebuilding America's Physical Infrastructure: The Indispensable Role of Markets
- The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future
- Free Speech and Free Elections
- How Virtual Learning Can Truly Transform Schools
- The Revolution in Parenthood: The Global Clash Between Adult Rights and Children's Needs
- What We've Learned About Cutting Budgets
- The Age of Reagan
- Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage
- Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education
- The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom
- Mobility First: A New Vision for Transportation in a Globally Competitive Twenty-First Century
- If I Were Writing John McCain's Acceptance Speech Thursday Night ... Or Rewriting Barack Obama's Last Week
- Lincoln's Political Faith: Does It Still Have a Place in Presidential Leadership?
- Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: What Are the Real Economic Costs?
- Can Politicians Hold to Principle without Brutalizing Each Other?
- Iran: What Should the United States Do?
- Protecting the Constitutional Right to Earn an Honest Living
- Educational Entrepreneurship: Why is There so Little?
- A Kitchen Table Conversation About Minneapolis and Its Future
- Searching for Climate Change: A More Temperate Take on Global Warming
- Who Really Cares: America's Charity Divide; Who Gives, Who Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- Achievement Gaps: What Will it Take to Close Them?
- Sprawl: A Compact History
- What Ought Conservatives Push for this Legislative Session? (Especially Now that DFLers Control Almost Everything)
- Is America an Experiment? Vitalizing Conservatism in Minnesota and the Nation
- Why Do They Act That Way? The Media's Enlightening—and Shady—Influences on Children
- Consumer-Directed Health Care: What Does it Mean? Where are We Headed?
- Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Know About Our Schools and Why it Isn't So
- Early Childhood Education: Do Enthusiast Exaggerate What It Can Do?
Articles
- Why are we in such a hurry for our little kids to grow up?
- Approaching college in a spirit of craftsmanship
- Don’t put another train on the kids’ credit card
- Was Trump and Clinton's Campaign Silence Regarding Family Fragmentation Golden?
- How a Medicaid program for people who are disabled is funding politics
- No Thug Left Behind
- Oxfam is wrong about ‘obscene’ wealth
- How much is 'Green Bling' costing your town or city?
- The facts prove police bias is a phantom issue
- Bettering black lives: President Obama's missed opportunity
- After an ugly election season, can we celebrate what unites us?
- Many caregivers want out of union's iron grip
- Transgender Conformity at Nova Classical Academy
- It's time to vote again on the personal care attendant union
- St. Paul should stop using ‘fees’ to fund street maintenance
- Counterpoint: Gov. Dayton's attack on Republican leader's truthfulness is absurd
- Michael Saltsman: Painless? Study on $15 Minneapolis wage doesn't add up
- Editorial counterpoint: There ought be a law to prevent that ... Oh, wait!
- PCA union takes choice as well as voice from Minnesota families
- Americans of all sorts get along better than sour clichés have it
- Editorial counterpoint: Absenteeism issue missed a big point – the kids
- Statewide view: Minnesota losing economic ground to other states
- Minnesota’s economy can do better
- General Mills' ad agency quotas leave a sour taste
- State's economy heading in wrong direction
- Star Tribune Editorial: Pay heed to Minnesota's worker productivity problem
- Editorial counterpoint: As far as transit goes, Minneapolis is acting like a brat
- Economy: Minnesota can do better. And needs to.
- Ford Foundation will fund Black Lives Matter Big Time
- Editorial counterpoint: Why fight over light rail when there's bus rapid transit?
- Minnesota, where the economy is not even average
- Minnesota's Economy: Mediocre Performance Threatens the State's Future
- "Cops Are Racist" Story Line Ignores a Great Many Facts
- SEIU Raids Minnesota Medicaid by Matt Patterson
- Establishing Paternity and Responsible Fatherhood
- Prime Minister Cameron’s Prime Remarks
- Minnesota needs a Brexit from the Met Council and regionalism: Dakota County makes a move
- Specifically, What Must We Do to Repair Our Culture of Massive Family Fragmentation?
- The Unacknowledged Worlds of Unmarried Fathers
- The perfect defeats the good as Dayton vetoes pension bill
- Diversity, quotas and the riddles of affirmative action: Food for thought
- Transportation policy : Enough with the Minneapolis-centric goals.
- Why Minneapolis sick leave is on shaky legal ground
- Minn. tax plan jeopardizes its health
- Why Does Minnesota's A.G. Want to Silence Critics?
- Debate rages over whether Minnesota loses taxpayers to lower tax states
- Clear Cut Trees Reveal Solar Power's Environmental Downside
- Minnesota is, in fact, losing the ultrarich
- "Where the Boys Are"
- Taxpayers Press for Referendum Re-Do in Bid to Halt School Construction
- Why the Met Council Needs Reforming Now
- Legislative Session is Looking like an 'All or Nothing' Proposition
- Counterpoint: The Met Council Needs a Lot More Than Tweaks
- Minnesotans Vote with Their Feet in Move to Lower-Tax States
- Minnesota Supreme Court hears arguments in case that could limit use of fees to raise revenue
- The Dangerous Listing of American Education
- The Twin Cities Met Council: A Comparative Assessment
- Minnesotans on the Move to Lower Tax States 2016
- Mayhem in the Classroom
- Don't Miss CAE Forum on How Dodd-Frank Hurts Small Business with Top Expert Peter Wallison
- The Metropolitan Council’s Disparities Report: The Limitations of Racial Explanations
- Is the Customer Always Right? Or Do Businesses Have the Right to Refuse Service?
- Jamar Clark, Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown: Thick Common Threads
- Kim Crockett Testimony on Employee Freedom before Gov't Ops. Comm. (HF 3585)
- Our Greatest Thinkers Knew It Long Ago: There's a Better Approach to Teaching than 'Culturally Relevant Pedagogy'
- A response to various objections to American Experiment’s report, “Minnesotans on the Move to Lower Tax States 2016”
- The School Safety Debate: Mollycoddle No More
- Regarding Minnesota's Budget: New Data Demonstrate the Problem with Tax Hikes
- Is There a Connection between Education Spending and Student Achievement?
- Kim Crocket Letter to Star Tribune Re: Unionizing Child-Care Providers
- Testimony: Utility Franchise Fees Imposed by Cities are Often Taxes in Disguise
- Political Correctness and the Sociology of Ignorance
- Oh, Boys
- A Union-Organizing Campaign that Doesn’t Add Up
- Child Care Providers Hope to Vote Against Union Like Vermont
- Medicaid Estate Claims: Not the Debt but the Surprise that’s the Problem
- Jason Riley Rocks Minneapolis
- A Week of Education News
- People enrolled in Medicaid through MNsure discover their assets are subject to estate claims
- Pension Funds Just Realized Minnesotans Are Healthy
- Are Low-Income Students the Reason Why the U.S. Does Poorly on International Tests? No.
- Childcare Election Postcard
- MNsure errors in determining eligibility cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars
- Counterpoint: Poll on What to Do with State Surplus (Conveniently) Fails
- Perception please meet the reality of Minnesota's jobs climate
- Fixing Minnesota's Healthcare Starts with Giving Insurers Flexibility
- Minnesota job growth still falls behind U.S.
- Pricey Senate Office Building Also Comes at the High Cost of Never Settling a Serious Constitutional Challenge
- 2014 Health Care Savings Date Back to when Republicans Controlled the Minnesota Legislature
- Who is Rebecca Friedrichs and Why Do Public Unions Fear Her?
- Here’s Why Union Bosses Hate California Teacher Rebecca Friedrichs
- How States Can Revive Defined Contribution Health Plans
- School Vouchers for low-Income Parents Would Further State's Goal of Equal Opportunity
- Working Paper: State Strategies to Revive Defined Contribution Health Plan Options in Response to New Federal Obstacles
- Pre-emptive Groveling May Not Prevent College Turmoil
- Excising Woodrow Wilson
- The Obama Administration Clears the Way for States to Require Retirement Plans for Private Sector Employees
- The Hidden Costs of a Mandatory Public Pension Plan
- Racism in Schools is Overstated
- ‘Mother of open meeting law cases’ heads to court
- Document Reveals Commerce Pressured PreferredOne to Make Unreasonable Assumptions to Justify Low Rates
- Brookings study reveals Minnesota’s individual insurance market is not faring well under ACA
- Bloomington residents sue city over garbage rights
- Police Authority and Arrested Resistance
- More insurers pressured to lower MNsure rates: Time to remove politics from rate-setting process
- How Governor Dayton and the DFL Re-Defined Who is a “Public Employee” to Benefit Their Political Party
- The States Wade into Retirement Security for Private Sector Employees
- Renaming Lake Calhoun
- Pension Quick Facts
- PENSIONS: Keeping the Promise
- Minnesotans may pay for soccer stadium after all (John Oliver says it’s a bad idea)
- Supreme Court renames Obamacare SCOTUScare: Court offers to write all future legislation for Congress to save time and face
- Where does the King v. Burwell ruling leave us today?
- 2015 Fall Briefing
- The Myth of Big Returns for Public Investment
- Pension reform advocate wins in deep-blue Rhode Island
- State Solutions in an Era of Federal Control
- Whatever the Number Now, Minnesotans Face Big Unfunded Liability
- State Pension System Needs Serious Reforms
- Busing Is Not the Answer
- ABA Report on "Gender Gap"
- School Choice and Rhetorical Excess
- Homeschooling Adventure
- Vouchers, Flat Tax and Emotional Language
- Back-to-Basics Approach Best
- State Should Fight NAACP Suit
- Tolerance
- Welfare Reform
- Trinity School and Standards
- Environmental Education
- SHOULD MINNESOTA OPT OUT OF SOCIAL SECURITY
- Let's Examine These Exams
- RADICAL THEORIES UNDERLIE PROPOSED DIVERSITY RULES
- To Live Fully and Joyfully
- A Lesson Better Untaught
- What the Headlines Don't Reveal
- The Conservative Movement
- Children Deserve Far Better
- Protect Students From Internet Porn
- Intolerance on the Left
- Textbook Pushes Needs of 'Self' Over Marriage
- Paternalism and the State of Welfare
- Hate Crimes
- Tobacco
- Political Cups of Coffee
- When Smart People Do Dumb Things
- St. Thomas Stoops Far Too Low In Its Next 'Common Text'
- The Right Way to Love the Planet
- Wisconsin's approach differs from Minnesota's; it works
- Natural Leadership
- Orphanage idea gets better reception
- Center of American Experiment is conservative but nonpartisan
- Free speech, so long as we agree
- Recent immigration gains currency as economy baseline
- Society has been welcoming to adopted biracial child
- Ideology burdens 'multicultural' bandwagon
- Court-ordered 'elimination of bias' seminars threaten freedom of thought
- Goldberg's revelations about media bias should come as no surprise
- U.N. is hardly voice of morality on matter of Iraq
- Liberty vs. Security?
- Childhood Obesity
- Education or Indoctrination?
- Voluntary personal accounts were proposed long ago
- Individual Rights vs. Group Rights
- Fourth Generation Warfare
- The Die Harder States
- Sen. Durbin Letter to CAE
- Conceal and Carry
- CIVIL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL COOPERATION
- S.F. 2255 would implement important consumer protections in the event an Exchange is established in Minnesota
- Cain's Pain: A Three-Minute History of Neoconservatism
- What Is "Education for Democracy"?
- Thinking Minnesota: Summer 2010
- Thinking Minnesota: Spring 2011
- People should need a photo ID to vote
- The good life (for unions especially)
- Who, exactly, aspires to soak the rich?
- 50 years after farewell speech, Eisenhower is seen in newly appreciative light
- Always room in the budget for white guilt
- Health Care Solutions Still Depend on State Efforts
- Preparing for an Even More Demanding Future
- University of Minnesota Proposes Far-Reaching Conflict-of-Interest Policy
- America is well served by Mayo Clinic's thoughtful health-reform critique
- Single-Payer Advocates Release Another Medical Bankruptcy Study
- Terminal Patients (and Their Families) Benefit From Straight Answers
- Medical Home Policy Recommendations
- What to Expect from Uniform Pricing of Health Care Services
- Are 4 in 10 Americans Really Underinsured?
- New Budget Tools for a Balanced Minnesota
- Culture, Compassion, and Conservatism
- State taxes and nonprofit contributions: connecting the dots
- The Executive Branch, How Much Power to the States?
- Maybe Fewer People Should go to College
- Federal Help Has Strings Attached
- Red Fords, Tea Partiers, Ann Richards, and Minnesota Populism
- Who to blame for a school's sad demise?
- Good work on election reform, legislators. Now, let's turn to photo ID
- Give legislators credit for increasing election integrity
- Another Interpretation of the Unallotment Statute
- Southern Comfort
- 'Unallotment' case offers a welcome argument about separation of powers
- Instead of judicial races, retention elections
- Look to the GOP's Patients' Choice Act and Dr. Emanuel for mechanisms to contain health-care costs
- 'Up north' isn't there just for your pleasure
- "Developmental" Writing Classes
- Save GAMC -- by raising it above lesser priorities
- Profoundly tone deaf and wrong
- Conservatives and Charity
- Absentee voters deserve more time
- No Consensus on Health Insurance Exchanges: Congress Should Rely on States and Consider Health Insurance Premium Accounts
- Editorial: Election repairs - the debate advances
- The Mayo Clinic: High quality yes, but low cost?
- Taxpayers should view reform's spending projections with a healthy distrust
- A note on health care projections
- A Kennedyesque Note on Sonia Sotomayor & Connecticut Firefighters
- Unallotment? Entitlements!
- Where battle line is drawn on health care
- Minnesota Senate begins to recognize the need for affordable energy
- Testimony on Behalf of The Healthy Minnesota Plan
- Nobel laureates and Minnesota taxes
- Hennepin Avenue and Braying Bloggers
- Hennepin Avenue: One mean street
- A message -- perhaps a hard one to hear -- about education funding
- Dwelling on Institutional Racism Will Not Close the Achievement Gap
- Let's give it up for hard times
- Assessing the Politics of Future CO2 Regulations
- It's Time to Take the Losses
- Why employers won't cut and run when individuals own health insurance
- Government Must Not Prolong the Market-Cleansing Process
- Free Marketers Must Remain Vigilant
- Confidence, Credit and Growth
- “Regime Uncertainty”
- Five Questions
- WHAT'S A FREE MARKETEER TO THINK? Volume 8
- Transparency, Government-Sponsored Enterprises and Financial Derivatives
- The Inevitable Apocalyptic Crash
- Jefferson, Jackson and Van Buren Would Have Understood
- WHAT'S A FREE MARKETEER TO THINK? Volume 7
- The 2000s in Retrospect
- Let Entrepreneurs Fix the Problem Government Made
- Marx was Right (Groucho, that is)
- WHAT'S A FREE MARKETEER TO THINK? Volume 6
- Myths and Realities of the Credit Crisis
- Sordid Tales of a Mobile Loan Closer
- WHAT'S A FREE MARKETEER TO THINK? Volume 5
- Failure to Act will Cost Much More in Dollars and Pain
- "As in a Bomb Going Off"
- Goodbye to All That
- Using Assets Subject to the Inheritance Tax
- WHAT'S A FREE MARKETEER TO THINK? Volume 4
- Government Actions Encouraged: Wall Street's Risky Business
- "Much Like the War Bonds of the 1940s"
- No Returning to Capitalism as We Have Known It
- Hayek was Right
- Same Fix as with Failed Savings & Loans
- Don't Give into a Protection Racket
- Distorting the Very Idea of Free Markets
- Not So Fast!
- Gold. Solid as a Rock
- No Democracy will Allow its Economy to Implode
- WHAT'S A FREE MARKETEER TO THINK? Volume 2
- WHAT'S A FREE MARKETEER TO THINK? Volume 1
- Losses are Part of the Market Process
- The Elephant in the Room
- Emperor Paulson?
- A Bailout that Sacrifices Freedom for Dependency
- AARP Peddles Medical Bankruptcy Myth to New Extreme
- Notes from the conventions: Cops, ‘Country First’ ... and a candidate in a league of her own
- Housing assets should help finance long-term care
- Evangelical New Urbanism
- Climate-Change Policies Come With a Price Tag
- In tooth and claw
- Omnibus health bills fall short
- Single-payer complexities
- HSAs need more flexibility to serve those with chronic illnesses
- Keep the Constitution Out of Conservation Funding
- In tipping, it's time to think two-dollar bill
- Should Medicare be Means-Tested?
- Health Insurance Exchange would put people back in control of their healthcare
- If only Clinton had spent time behind the counter
- What the Headlines Missed in Governor Pawlenty’s Health Policy Speech
- What is a Liberal Education?
- Study generates ideas to make good legislature better
- Apologies
- Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Education Summits
- Policy Brief on S.F. 639
- Tobacco
- Minnesota creating ever new classes of certified victims
- Court-ordered 'elimination of bias' seminars threaten freedom of thought
- Trinity School and Standards
- To Live Fully and Joyfully
- Girls in School
- An Act Not of Censorship but of Stewardship
- "Values" Have Replaced "Virtues"
- Ideologically driven gifted assessment hurts students, too
- Ideology burdens 'multicultural' bandwagon
- Slavery
- St. Olaf's Academic Freedom Fight
- At universities, a troubling imbalance
- Teen Challenge Operates on Faith but then Pays for it
- How a Poor Family Was Rich
- Critics Would Teach About an Oppressive America
- Ortega's Defeat Victory For Freedom
- Educational Diversity Rules
- Hate Crimes
- Wellstone tribute turned tragedy into a campaign prop
- In the face of fear, Brits stood firm
- Women's Vote
- Rediscovering Value of the Melting Pot
- State School Board's Dubious Diversity Rules
- Bring back Caesar's tongue
- What Is A Liberal Education?
- New Iraqi inspections are almost certain to fail
- Turning the Boy Scouts into Pariahs
- Now the Language of Good and Evil is Returning to America
- The Death of Princess Diana
- Reducing opportunities in the name of gender balance
- NAACP Lawsuit Could Force Proven Failure on Schools
- Sexual Ballet Has Become A Slamdance
- 'State of Our Unions' Spots Troubling Trends
- Tank Tops Are Not Worthy of Girls
- Is DARE Doing Kids More Harm?
- What Welfare Should Be
- Real Story on "Women's Vote"
- Our schools can do a far better job of teaching patriotism
- ADA Regulatory Overkill Is Disabling Business
- State program aims to inject cultural correctness into day care
- 'Skeptical Environmentalist' dissects myths
- Heroes Noble Sacrifice
- What Is "Education For Democracy"?
- Classical Education Opens Young Minds
- Dutcher's audit of Brooklyn Park looks like grandstanding
- Presidents' Private and Public Lives
- The damage Title IX does in pursuit of statistical parity
- History begs to differ on Democratic view of parties tolerance
- Patronized in paradise: a political fable of Hawaii's history
- Promise Keepers
- When schools got rid of Washington
- Movies Teach Our Children What To Admire
- Religions Help Economies Thrive
- Gospel of Inclusion?
- Recycling May Be Worst Choice
- Society should try to save kids from effects of divorce
- Many are Hurt by the Laissez-faire Family
- What's Next For Conservatism?
- Truman's Teachers Offered Enduring Lessons
- A Community of Strangers
- Reforming Adoption: Putting Children First
- The risks of cohabitation
- Sen. Wellstone's Poverty Tour
- Respect for law was common ground in Revolution
- Talking About Out-of-Wedlock Births and Single Parenthood
- What Better Time to Review U.S. History
- MinnesotaCare: A Law That Lost Its Way
- Abiding Love in North Dakota
- Let the Forest Service do its job
- Restructuring Minnesota's Electric Industry
- A Lesson in Expecting More from Young Men
- State Should Fight NAACP Suit
- Civil Rights and Social Cooperation
- Challenge doomsayers to 'show me the science'
- Protect Students From Internet Porn
- Affirmative Action Not the Answer
- Haste or Hardiness?
- Academy teaches history with integrated approach
- Footing the Bill
- Life Without Boundaries
- Divided Science and Unfounded Policy
- Back-to-Basics Approach Best
- His 'real man' is one who bullies
- Cosmopolitan's Philosophy of Unfettered Freedom
- Bean Counting for a Better Minnesota
- Students Who Know So Little
- Knowledge of history, and of self
- Reforming Welfare
- Welfare Should Instill Tough Virtues
- Jerusalem
- Why All Schools Should Compete, and Not Just in Sports
- To Level Playing Field, Schools Must Help Boys
- School Choice
- Renewing American Compassion
- The Conservative Momentum
- A welcome renaissance in geography
- Now girls have the advantage in school
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Beware the lie behind sexual 'liberation'
- Americans Can Learn from Gophers Wrestlers' Quest for Excellence
- "Expert Knowledge" vs. Wisdom
- Students Who Know So Little
- Core Knowledge Curriculum Delivers Vision and Results
- St. Thomas Stoops Far Too Low In Its Next 'Common Text'
- Novels and True Diversity
- Environmental Education
- Blame multicultural education for drop in reading skills
- Study of classics can illuminate executives
- Old Books Continue to Wield Peculiar Power
- First Minnesota Volunteers
- Today's pacifist church leaders could learn from Niebuhr
- Peer Pressure
- For Story On Love, Check Out C.S. Lewis Instead Of Modern Bride
- When tawdriness is 'America's best'
- Why Learn Western History?
- Celibacy of the priesthood is a church strength, not a liability
- What it Means to be a Libertarian
- Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century
- Orphanages: Did They Throttle the Children in Their Care?
- Who Won the Industrial Policy Debate?
- Virtuous Markets? The Market as School of the Virtues
- The Constitutional Case for Universal School Choice in Minnesota
- 1994-1996: A Conservative Realignment?
- Why Liberals and Conservatives Should Agree on Adoption
- Restoring American Leadership Abroad
- Radical Theories Underlie Proposed Diversity Rules
- Lani Guinier Reconsidered
- Wisconsin's approach differs from Minnesota's; it works
- Political Correctness and Academic Freedom at the University of Minnesota
- Reclaiming Dangerous Neighborhoods
- Rethinking Divorce
- What To Do About the Schools
- Mayhem in the Middle
- Ten Not-So-Tentative Truths
- Feminism and the First Lady: The Politics Of Virtue And Vice
- Should Minnesota Opt Out of Social Security?
- The Tyranny of the Urgent: Where Do Children Fit on Our Priority List?
- How Government Turns the Learning Curve from Green to Brown
- The Legal Case -- and the Fairness Case -- for Vouchers
- Gulf that separates Europe from America is philosophical
- Disruptive Protesters
- Hold off on the Profile
- Why Blame Third World Poverty on First World Greed?
- How not to address claims of 'racial profiling'
- Tom Reed's Integrity in Politics
- If FBI missed chances, blame the liberal establishment
- George Washington's Character
- Goldberg's revelations about media bias should come as no surprise
- 'Profile of Learning' for High Schools Is Severly Flawed
- Crackdown on little offenses can help prevent the big ones
- Many texts offer students only sugar-coated view of Islam
- Facts Needed in Environmental Education
- St. Olaf's Nobel Peacenik Prize
- When We Play, We Experience Joy that Seems to Transcend Time
- 'Peace movement' often backs policies that would stifle justice
- Profile Sacrifices Kids
- Council of Churches is too cozy with Castro
- Proof that the classics speak to everyone
- Profile requires surgery, but don't hold your breath
- ...Gross Moral Turpitude.
- Tabloid exploits don't stop today's politicians
- Demise of dating on campus bodes ill
- Goosebumps is Shock Fiction
- Mixed-sex wrestling is a step back from equality and
- No amount of tweaking can repair the Profile of Learning
- The ideas and events of 1776 came together to reshape the world
- Diversity Training's False Premise
- Virtue of hope illuminates 'Lord of the Rings'
- Finding Moral Courage Beyond 2004 Headlines
- Kids, Schools, and Politics: Protecting the Integrity of Taxpayer Resources
- Sexual Ballet Has Become A Slamdance
- Abstinence Sex Ed Class
- Pornography is Anything But a 'Victimless Crime'
- A case of NEA whines won't help to improve the schools
- Performance-Based Pact Can Help Schools
- Attacked for their looks
- Meet the needs of all kids
- If only Minnesota had passed a sex offender bill sooner
- Little House Saga Offers Lessons and Revelations
- Education or Indoctrination?
- 'A republic, if you can keep it' ... or remember what that means
- Childhood Obesity: It's the Taxpayers' Fault
- Individual Rights vs. Group Rights: The Erosion of a Founding Principle
- Advice and Consent: The Role of the Senate in Political Appointments
- Let's Not Play Games with Safety
- After Adopting a Biracial Child
- School Choice: Changing the Terms of the Debate
- School Daze
- The Bell Curve
- Happy New Year
- Newtonian Reactions
- Assume Nothing
- Optimism
- America's Image
- Voluntary personal accounts were proposed long ago
- Society has been welcoming to adopted biracial child
- Wrestling With Government Interference
- Welfare Reform
- Political Poetry
- Liberty vs. Security?
- A Primer on the K-12 Compromise
- The Real New Deal
- Intolerance on the Left
- A Good Thing About Politicians
- Tolerance
- Passing Grades
- Allergies Raise a Stink for DFL
- "Art" and Cultural Pollution
- Politics is Good
- Center of American Experiment is conservative but nonpartisan
- Let's Examine These Exams
- FROM MOYNIHAN TO "MY GOODNESS"
- School Desegregation
- Recent immigration gains currency as economy baseline
- Conceal and Carry
- Children Deserve Far Better
- Tobacco
- When Smart People Do Dumb Things
- The Conservative Movement
- Choice Matters
- The Right Way to Love the Planet
- Apologies
- Discussion on Race
- Failing Grade
- Orphanage idea gets better reception
- Bill Clinton/Bill Galston
- A Note on the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
- Sobering Suggestions
- Tattoos
- Vouchers, Flat Tax and Emotional Language
- Natural Leadership
- What the Headlines Don't Reveal
- A Widening Income Gap? Hardly
- Crime
- It Takes a Village
- A Lesson Better Untaught
- Academic Auditors
- Whatever Happened to "Thank You"?
- Macy's Window
- Don't Dwell on Differences
- Perception vs. Reality
- Dot-Common Sense
- School Choice and Rhetorical Excess
- Political Cups of Coffee
- A " Sensitive" Issue
- Down With Divorce
- Lasting Influence
- To save world, set a deadline. Easy!
- Wow, someone's cranky this Christmas
- Moral Case For War in Iraq: Preemptive Action Helped End a Great Horror
- Dayton's plan on Medicaid? Several flaws
- Schools talk: Ugly windup, fine delivery
- How do we do it? How will we?
- Faith Transcends Life's Worst Travails
- Thinking Minnesota: Fall 2010
- Hubert Humphrey and Ronald Reagan: Together Again
- Who's a hero? Get prepared for a peculiar response
- Pearlstein Testifies on Alternative Teacher Certification
- Save Money and Improve Election Integrity
- Minnesota and mining are a good mix
- 2011 Annual Dinner with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
- 2010 Annual Dinner with Brit Hume
- American Experiment Audio Archives
- WHAT WE'VE LEARNED ABOUT CUTTING BUDGETS
- The Age of Reagan
- Thinking Minnesota - Fall 2009
- MicroGrants
- Little Pink House
- 2009 Fall Briefing with Steve Forbes
- Liberating Learning
- Krauthammer Response
- The Dirty Dozen
- Medal of Honor Recipient Col. Leo K. Thorsness
- 2009 Annual Dinner with Charles Krauthammer
- Mobility First
- WHAT'S A FREE MARKETEER TO THINK? Volume 3
- Riding into the Sunrise
- Convention Acceptance Speeches
- 2008 Fall Briefing with David Brooks
- Lincoln's Political Faith
- 2008 Annual Dinner with John Bolton
- Troublemaker
- Reducing Greenhouse Gass Emissions
- Can Politicians Hold to Principle Without Brutalizing Each Other?
- Is America an Experiment?
- IRAN
- Protecting the Constitutional Right to Earn an Honest Living
- 2007 Fall Briefing with William Kristol
- Civitas Forum on Charitable Choice
- EDUCATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- Safeguarding and Rebuilding America's Physical Infrastructure
- WHO KILLED HEALTHCARE?
- Kitchen Table Conversation About Minneapolis and Its Future
- SEARCHING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
- Restoring Federalist Principles
- Who Really Cares
- Achievement Gaps
- Sprawl
- What Should Conservatives Push for this Legislative Session?
- Why Do They Act That Way?
- 2006 Fall Briefing
- Consumer-Directed Health Care
- Education Myths
- The Revolution in Parenthood
- Early Childhood Education
- Charles Murray Luncheon Forum
- General Tommy Franks to Keynote Annual Dinner
- Do As I Say
- Benefactor's Holiday Reception
- Center of the American Experiment -- Steven Hayward on Greatness
- Middle East Forum
- Keep Winning the War of Ideas
- Dinner with Newt Gingrich
- Race to Conclusions: What the activists don't tell you about racial profiling.
- Political Poetry
- Tobacco and the Nanny State
- Decline of Religion
- 1994 MINNESOTA Primary Elections
- Good Reason to be Concerned About Crime
Magazines
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 18, Winter 2020
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 17, Fall 2019
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 16, Summer 2019
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 15, Spring 2019
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 14, Winter 2019
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 13, Fall 2018
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 12, Summer 2018
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 11, Spring 2018
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 10, Winter 2018
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 9, Fall 2017
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 8, Summer 2017
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 7, Spring 2017
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 6, Winter 2017
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 5, Fall 2016
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 4, Spring 2016
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 3, Winter 2016
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 2, October 2015
- Thinking Minnesota: Issue 1, June 2015
News Alerts
- COVID-19’s Economic Impact in Minnesota
- Minnesota Senate takes a stand against Walz’s proposed California car mandates
- Minnesota House energy committee passes Green New Deal-inspired legislation
- Clean Energy First Act will increase electricity costs for Minnesotans
- Don’t be fooled: PRO Act is Anti-Worker
- DFL leader’s threat against Beltrami County illustrates urban/rural divide
- Tax cuts drove economic growth, leading to state budget surplus
- Report finds looming weakness in Minnesota's workforce
- Center of the American Experiment releases Minnesota state government scandal tracker
- Center of the American Experiment adds second economist with new hire Martha Njolomole
- Gov. Walz must restore Minnesota public employees’ First Amendment rights
- Isaac Orr challenges Rep. Jamie Long to debate impact of renewable energy mandates
- Unethical arrangement allowed anonymous donor to launder left-wing agenda through public university
- Minnesota’s economic growth lags national average for the third consecutive quarter
- DHS leadership dysfunction is a feature, not a bug, of the agency
- Twin Metals Minnesota Announces Most Environmentally Friendly Mine in Minnesota History
- Minnesotans deserve to know what, if anything, DHS has done to stop “pervasive” child care fraud
- President Trump's speech on America's environmental leadership under the current administration
- Trump’s new Affordable Clean Energy Rule a common-sense replacement for Clean Power Plan stayed by Supreme Court
- Charter schools’ inclusion in lawsuit could be a disaster for minority students
- MN Schools Spent Nearly $1.5 Million of Taxpayer Funds Lobbying State
- Minnesota’s miners played an often-forgotten role in D-Day history
- Line 3 is key to North American energy independence
- Minnesotans ‘dodge a bullet’ as carbon-free energy mandates don’t make the cut in final budget bill
- Minnesotans narrowly escape gas tax increase, avoid yet another nation-leading high tax rate
- Xcel Energy's decision to shut down coal-fired power plants means higher energy costs for Minnesotans
- Are Minnesota Taxpayers Being Taken for a Ride by Amtrak?
- Renewal of Twin Metals leases will likely lead to 8,500 new Minnesota jobs and $3.7 billion in economic growth
- Highway billboards encourage drivers to voice opposition to Gov. Walz’s proposed gas tax increase
- Family caretakers optimistic federal rule changes will free them from unwanted union representation
- Taxpayers on the Hook for City's $195,000 Rebranding Campaign
- Democrats refuse to legalize new nuclear and hydro, the most efficient sources of carbon-free energy
- Center of the American Experiment launches Employee Freedom awareness campaign as school district employee files lawsuit to challenge union membership
- Child care assistance fraud erodes Minnesotans’ trust in state government
- Clean energy job creation numbers artificially inflated
- Statement: House DFL tax increases hit every Minnesotan
- Explosive OLA report on Welfare Fraud: DHS investigators report widespread child care assistance fraud, lack of internal controls and breakdown in relationship with DHS Inspector General
- Walz follows AOC’s lead, proposing radical, energy-illiterate Green New Deal in Minnesota
- State continues to collect near record-high tax revenues, weakening argument for massive tax hikes
- Gov. Walz proposal to increase state debt by 10% in one year “irresponsible”
- Report reveals how Minnesota teachers in the classroom today have not voted in an election for exclusive representation by a union
- Report reveals how Minnesota teachers are trapped by arbitrary union terms, forcing them to fund Education Minnesota’s partisan political spending
- Brainerd City Clerk First in the Nation to Successfully Challenge “Window Period” and Leave Public Union
- Center of the American Experiment Files Amicus Brief with U.S. Supreme Court Challenging Forced Exclusive Representation by Unions: 17 Groups Sign on to CAE’s Petition
- MN City Battles Feds and State to Close Small Airport
- Cities Forced to Raise Property Taxes to Subsidize Fiber Optic Network
- Federal Agencies Scrutinize Met Council Compliance: Nation’s only regional government without local elected representatives comes under fire
- Environmentally Responsible Mining Will Boost Minnesota’s Economy $3.7 Billion a Year and Create 8,500 Jobs
- Supreme Court Rules Public Employees Are Not Required to Fund Unions in Big Win for First Amendment Rights
- Educated Teachers Project Launches Statewide Information Campaign
- 1st Amendment Challenge to Mandatory Union Fees Could Free All Public Employees From Forced Union Fees
- FTA Recommends No Funding for Southwest and Bottineau LRT, Orange and Gold Line BRT
- Blaine Homeowners Reject Nation’s “First Certified Green Neighborhood”
- “Resist Trump” Racial Equity Program Pockets More Than 275k From MN Taxpayers
- Taxpayer and Ratepayer Subsidies Squandered as Suburb Dismantles Solar Project
- OLA Jim Nobles Releases Critical Met Council Transit Audit
- A Curriculum of Political Indoctrination in Edina's Public Schools
- 10,000 Cards Delivered to Gov. Dayton Demanding New PCA Election
- Prominent DFL Donor, Key Figure in Corruption Scandal Commits Suicide in L.A.
- Big Cuts Coming at MAPE State Public Employee Union
- Education MN Braces for Loss of Thousands of Members and Millions of Dollars
- American Experiment Files Brief in Dayton Line Item Veto Case
- Right to Union Contact Lists Upheld by Minnesota Court of Appeals
- MN Education Dept. to Approve Radical Transgender School Guidelines
- American Experiment urges High Court to Hear Mandatory Union Fees Challenge
- Report Shows Twin Cities Traffic Congestion Crisis is No Accident
- No Go! Southwest Light Rail Stiffed in Trump Budget
- Transgender Toolkit for MN Schools Based on Controversial Obama Rule
- Lawmakers Spar Over Controversial Home Care Worker Contract
- Federal and Local Funding Still in Doubt for Southwest Light Rail
- US Transportation Officials: No Federal Funds for Troubled Southwest Light Rail
- Is Southwest Light Rail Transit Line on the Ropes?
- Is the Minnesota Commerce Department Out of Control?
- Lawmakers Aim to Make the Met Council Accountable
- City Debates Turning Down Grant in Latest Met Council Flap
- Cigarette Smuggling Soars in Minnesota After Big Tax Hike
- Contractors Pressed to Shop Subcontractor Bids as MnDOT Misses Minority Goal Again
- SEIU and State Ordered to Halt Early Contract Talks in Boost for Decertification Drive
- VA Spends 300k to Study Defunct St. Cloud Wind Turbine
- State Ordered to Turn Over List to Personal Care Attendants Fighting Union
- MN Secretary of State Sued for Instructing Election Judges to Let Felons and Others Known to be Ineligible to Vote
- News Alert: To Save or Not to Save METS: That’s the Real Question for Counties
- Minnesota Supreme Court Protects Citizens from Unfair Taxes Disguised as Fees
- Met Council to Spend $25 Million to Monitor Race-Based Use of Parks
- Homecare Workers Mount Statewide Drive to Drop Union
- Rogue State Teaching Board Fined and Cited for Contempt of Court
- Widespread Voter Fraud Documented in New Minnesota Supreme Court Case
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