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Category: Metropolitan Council
- Has Southwest Light Rail Hit a Speed Bump—or The Wall?
- Will Met Council’s Secretive Deal Keep SWLRT Alive?
- Fighting for the American Dream in D.C.
- Met Council Holds Workshop on Climate-Caused Racism
- It’s Time To End the Twin Cities’ Congestion Crisis
- Traffic ‘Armageddon’ Ramps Up Focus on Center’s Congestion Report
- Met Council Chair Abruptly Quits Amid Light Rail Standoff
- I’d be dancing, too (if I lived in a luxury loft subsidized by taxpayers).
- Traffic Congestion Report Stirs Up Controversy
- Road Congestion: It’s All About Politics
- Cutting traffic congestion will boost Minnesota’s economy
- Freeway Billboards Drive Traffic Congestion Campaign
- Report Shows Twin Cities Traffic Congestion is No Accident
- No Go! Southwest Light Rail Stiffed in President’s Budget
- Federal and Local Funding Still in Doubt for Southwest Light Rail
- Don’t Put Light Rail on Next Generation’s Credit Card
- Congressman Jason Lewis Files Bill to Contain the Met Council
- Lawmakers Aim to Make the Met Council Accountable
- Obama Rule Expands Met Council Boundaries
- City Debates Turning Down Grant in Latest Met Council Flap [updated]
- Met Council Spins Controversial Race-Based Parks Plan
- Met Council Wants Legacy Funds for Race-Based Park Plan
- Met Council to Spend $25 Million to Monitor Race-Based Use of Parks
- New Report on Twin Cities Congestion Doesn’t Tell Half the Story
Category: Minnesota Budget
- Minnesota Revenues Falling Below Forecast
- The DFL’s “Young Learners” Marching to Pre-School This Fall
- Met Council Poker Game: buying train cars and condemning land for SWLRT
- The New Normal? DHS Partners with Extremist SEIU to Administer Medicaid Program for the Disabled
- Met Council votes to increase transit fares by 25 cents. Why now?
- Hear Denisha Merriweather’s Story: Why school choice is still the best answer to Minnesota’s achievement gap
- Do State Employees Have 6 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave? Or Not?
- Governor Dayton’s Attempt to De-Fund the GOP Legislature: Troubling Tactics, Apocalyptic Prose and Fake Federalism
- Will Governor Dayton Sign or Veto Omnibus Bills Today?
- Legislature’s Special Session Wrap-Up: Estate Tax, Healthcare & More
- Legislature Ends Special Session: News on Transportation, Met Council & Education
- K-12 Education Omnibus & Educator Licensing Bills: VETOED
- Transportation Omnibus Bill: VETOED
- Pension Omnibus Bill: Show Me the Money
- Disastrous Winter for Taxpayer-Subsidized Spirit Mountain Skiing in Duluth
- A response to Hopkins real estate developer: Southwest LRT is a sweetheart deal for developers, terrible deal for taxpayers
- Why 4-Year-Olds Should Beat Governor Dayton Back with an Olive Branch
- Tweet This: Police Pensions Ought to Be Fully Funded
- Crockett and Actuary Testify at the Pension Commission: Keeping the Pension Promise
- Dayton Threatens to Shut Down Minnesota’s Government
Category: Minnesota Economy
- To insulate Minneapolis from the effects of bad policy, $15 activists need to hobble neighboring areas too
- August employment report: Minnesota’s job growth is concentrated in lower productivity sectors
- A Statistically Sound Star Tribune Article on Income Disparities
- Minnesota is Among the Least Economically Free States
- Rift Over Mining Splits Duluth DFL
- Wage mandates drive investment toward machines, away from labor
- There is no ‘race to the bottom’ in states reducing their capital taxes
- A growing population does not guarantee a growing economy
- Do the Twin Cities Have a Realistic Shot at Amazon’s Headquarters?
- Gov. Dayton looks to make Amazon an offer they can’t refuse. What might that be?
- Investment and innovation can soften the blow of the ‘labor shortage’
- How do economies grow?
- How have the Twin Cities been doing economically?
- Fewer mining jobs means big-time economic problems for Minnesota
- In today’s economy, education must be a lifelong thing
- Keith Ellison demands a $15 minimum wage but doesn’t pay his interns
- Why robots support a higher minimum wage
- More workers will help us prosper, if they’re the right kind of workers
- Government letting companies and people keep more of their money is not a ‘handout’
- Subsidizing business is a bad idea whoever does it
- Can increased immigration boost per capita incomes?
- The evidence shows that raising minimum wages hurts the poor
- Immigration crisis? What immigration crisis?
- Minnesota’s reinsurance program helps calm health care rates
- Opposition to logging and mining undermine northern Minnesota’s economy and global environment
- Data from metropolitan areas shows Minnesota slipping relative to its neighbors
- Why Wasn’t Minnesota In the Running for Foxconn’s Project?
- Emails reveal that Seattle council sabotaged its own minimum wage study
- What drives Minnesota’s business cycle?
- Revolutionary new tool helps employers find skilled workers
- Tapani Sisters of Wyoming Machine show the way on closing the skills gap
- Tax something, you get less of it. Policymakers have always known that
- June employment report: Good news from Minnesota’s labor market
- Businesses seeking older skilled workers to fill gap
- Employment data upends liberal narrative on the border battle between Minnesota and Wisconsin
- Pro-Mining Unions and Businesses Rip Forest Service “Charade”
- Kathy Kersten’s Better Bloggerville Welcome
- Seattle Council pulls the plug on its minimum wage study because it doesn’t like the results
- Good at business? Not so much
- Cutting tax rates can increase tax revenues
- ‘Trickle down economics’ isn’t even a thing
- Postsecondary education for non-dummies
- 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
- Don’t vote for $15, work for it
- Kersten gets message out that terrific careers don’t require a costly four-year degree: Op-ed reaches 28 community newspapers
- Why Do Twin Cities Have Lowest Rate of Black Home Ownership In the Country?
- AchieveMpls helps students find great jobs that don’t require a four-year degree
- Rising fees, not low minimum wages, are hitting college students
- Great Jobs and a Perfectly Fitting Story
- With wage hike, Minneapolis ignores economic laws
- A ‘liberal’ economist on minimum wages
- New data shows that Minnesotans cannot be complacent about their economy
- $15 minimum wage: Bad news from Seattle should give Minneapolis pause
- Second time lucky for Seattle Council’s minimum wage research
- Major new study jolts liberals out of Fantasyland on $15 minimum wage
- Increasing productivity, not the minimum wage, is the way to increase worker’s pay
- 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
- Educational and Career Advice and a Barely Changing Score
- Minneapolis’ small businesses will pay the cost of a $15 minimum wage
- Good News about Apprenticeships
- MN Wineries Sue Over Law Against Out-of-State Grapes
- Jobs in Minnesota without a four year degree
- May employment report: Minnesota needs more productive jobs
- What’s CTE? And It Increased High School Graduation Rates by HOW Much?
- An Economist’s View: Dayton’s rich-vs.-the-rest economic view is simply wrong
- The Educational Value of Beautiful and Physically Demanding Things
- My Quick Conservative Take on the Minneapolis Mayoral Candidates Debate
- Minnesota needs more productive jobs
- Economic inequality does not cause poverty
- Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities
- An Impressive “Hand’s On, In-the-Seat” Program in Staples
- Great Jobs and Inclusive Growth
- Taxpayer money is not the solution for North Minneapolis’ vacant lots
- Titanium Breakthrough Could Be Bigger Than Taconite for Iron Range
- Minnesota’s decline: Why Minnesota may lose a congressional seat in 2020
- Tax the rich? Done. Chase them from the State? Done.
- How Much Weight Does MN’s “Best State” Ranking Hold?
- Liberal Policies Are Devastating America’s Young
- Center Launches Major New Education Program
- Eliot Seide’s Foolish Take on High Minnesota Taxes
- 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
- A city-country mice divide in Minnesota? We don’t see it that way
- 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?
- What Kinds of Jobs Are We Talking About?
- Government, Not Wall Street, Caused Financial Crisis
- The Many Virtues and Similarities of Transatlantic Plumbing
- New report pinpoints several aspects of state tax code that challenge Minnesota’s competitiveness
- Unions and Companies Confront Duluth City Council on Pipeline
- Minnesota’s New Year’s Resolution
- Will General Mills be the next Minnesota Fortune 500 company lost to a takeover?
- Court Blocks Controversial O.T. Regs Imposed by Executive Order
- Business friendly policies spur stronger growth in counties across Minnesota’s border
- Dodd-Frank forced my neighborhood community bank to sell
- Is MNsure on Life Support After Election?
- Buyers’ Remorse Over $500 Million Public Investment in Vikings Stadium?
- The Joy of Knowing “I Built That”
- Could Be Worse! Minnesota Has Only 4th Highest Obamacare Rate Hike
- More of the Same: “Nothing Spectacular” in State Jobs Report
- Higher Property Taxes? Blame Hidden MNsure Costs
- Cuban Cigars and Rum. What’s a Fan of the Constitution to do?
- Minneapolis buys political cover to raise the minimum wage from the U of MN Humphrey School
- White House “Fact Sheet” on Minnesota income growth fails to report income declines in Mankato, St. Cloud, and Rochester
- A Minimum Wage Fable by Mark Perry
- Affordable Housing? Not For Twin Cities Families
- Once Again, Star Tribune Cheers Mediocre Performance
- Mark Perry’s remarks at American Experiment’s minimum wage forum
- What’s Happened to Minnesota’s Entrepreneurial Spirit?
- Not Even One Minnesota Business Makes Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies List
- Duluth City Council Rejects Anti-Mining Measure
- Blue State Exodus: It Isn’t Just Minnesota
- Minnesota’s high-tech industry can do much better
- Are Voters Catching On to the Minimum Wage?
- Minnesota Supreme Court should find state law preempts Minneapolis minimum wage proposal
- Minnesota’s Economy: No Beacon of Prosperity!
- Minnesota’s Economy Faces a Turning Point
- Download American Experiment’s Blockbuster Report on Minnesota’s Economy
- Is Minnesota A Good Place to Retire?
- When It Comes to the Economy, Minnesota Must Do Better
- The Left’s First Response to our Paper on Minnesota’s Economy
- Watch This Space for Blockbuster Report on Monday
- Are Blue States Better?
- Regulatory delay in approving pipeline puts tax revenue and jobs at risk in northern Minnesota
- Top 8 Reasons to Hit the “Pause” Button on Light Rail and Fund Proven Steps to Reduce Congestion
- Fergus Falls educators, manufacturers take on the skills gap
- Growth in Minnesota’s Median Household Income Doesn’t Lead the Nation
- High Cost of Doing Business in Minnesota No Deal Breaker for CNBC
- Is Minnesota Good For Small Business?
- Minnesota Can Do Better
- $15 Minimum Wage Gains Momentum as Minneapolis Sits on Legal Sidelines
- Being Blue Is Giving Minnesotans the Blues
- Court Loss Over North Dakota Coal Stokes Long-Shot Appeal by Dayton
- Do Rental Limits on Homeowners Harm the Poor, Middle Class and Minorities?
- How Strong Is Minnesota’s Economy, Really?
- Northeast states start addressing the consequences of high taxes, making Minnesota more of an outlier
- Debate rages over whether Minnesota loses taxpayers to lower tax states
- Clear Cut Trees Reveal Solar Power’s Environmental Downside
- Don’t Miss CAE Forum on How Dodd-Frank Hurts Small Business with Top Expert Peter Wallison
- A response to various objections to American Experiment’s report, “Minnesotans on the Move to Lower Tax States 2016”
- MNsure errors in determining eligibility cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars
- Perception please meet the reality of Minnesota’s jobs climate
- Minnesota job growth still falls behind U.S.
- 2014 Health Care Savings Date Back to when Republicans Controlled the Minnesota Legislature
- Minnesota Economy No Victory for Dayton
Category: Media
- Thomas Friedman agrees with the Trump agenda
- Media Wants It Both Ways in U of M Coverage
- Star Tribune: As Biased As Ever?
- Fake News From St. Olaf to AP’s Nazi Photos
- Trump Threatens Press Freedom? Ridiculous
- Why Are 600 Demonstrators News?
- Lenin’s Vanguard at Wellesley College: Get Thee To Hillsdale
- Media Outrage Over White House “Block” is a Double Standard
- First Time Activist? Not Exactly
- The Liberal Media: Biased, Yes, But Also Incompetent
- America’s Young Betrayed
- Star Tribune common sense and the Gorsuch nomination
- I Am Thankful for Many Things: Center Finishes Best Year Yet!
- American Experiment Is “Ramping Up,” “Surging”
- Top 10 Things American Experiment is Thankful For
- Star Tribune’s Minnesota Poll Is At It Again
- Star Tribune Editorial Urges Bipartisan Focus on Center’s Economy Report
- Why Does the Star Tribune Block Comments on Select Issues?
Category: Liberalism
- Is Minnesota Nice? Not If You Are a Conservative
- Leftists Want to Replace Christopher Columbus With…Prince?
- Minneapolis Eliminates Parking Spots to Deter Driving
- Trump Brings Back Work Requirement for Welfare
- Cops Let Enviros “Do Their Thing” and Shut Down New Pipeline
- Minneapolis on the Brink From Leftward Lurch
- The Rebellion Against Left-Wing Politics in the Schools Continues, and It Isn’t Only Edina [Updated]
- Edina Parents and Students Rebel Against Politics in Classroom
- Edina Teachers Take Sides In Partisan Politics
- Minnesota’s “Antifascists” Are Fascists
- Senator Franken Cancels Appearance with Second Liberal Comedian
- MN Senator Franken Stands By Kathy Griffin Despite Gory Photo of Beheaded Trump
Category: History
- Why No Erasing of Blaine’s Name Too?
- Is Truth the First Casualty of Art?
- UOM Names Journalism School After Hubbard TV and Radio Pioneers
- Painting of 1862 Dakota War Removed From State Capitol
- King Banaian: Let Cigars and Rum Lead the Way to Freedom for Cuba
- America Salutes Minnesota Gen. John Vessey, a ‘Soldier’s Soldier’
- Liberals Rely On Punctuation to Subvert the Declaration of Independence
Category: Housing
- Minnesota’s housing crisis is government made
Category: Illegal Immigration
- Is Roseville Effectively the Twin Cities First Sanctuary Suburb?
- DACA: Should the children of illegal immigrants be deported?
- A Special Session Over Driver’s Licenses for Illegal Immigrants?
- Illegal Border Crossings into Canada Nearly Triple
- Illegal Border Crossings into Canada: Self-Deportation?
- Dayton Wants Driver’s Licenses For Illegal Immigrants
- A Day Without Immigrants?
Category: Race
- Is Governor Dayton Bigoted Against Minnesotans?
- Officer Acquitted In Shooting That Gov. Dayton Prejudged
- St. Paul Teacher Seeks to Hold District, and Students, Accountable for Assault
- Unacceptable Racism and Sexism From House Minority Leader
- Charles Murray and High-End Collegiate Know-Nothings
- How Much Does Black Lives Matter Matter?
- Heather Mac Donald’s Research on the Law and Order Crisis
- 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!
- Shelby Steele Now (Part 6): How Political Correctness Imposes an Empty, Tyrannical Conformity on Society
- Shelby Steele Now (Part 5): Throwing Fuzzy and Unattainable Idealisms at Profound Problems
- Shelby Steele Now (Part 4): The Great Divide between Liberal and Conservative America
- Shelby Steele Now (Part 3): How Liberalism Offers Absolution from America’s Past Sins
- Shelby Steele Now (Part 2): Promoting racism as the greatest barrier to black advancement is liberalism’s greatest source of power.
- Shelby Steele Now: His Important Message for Our Polarized Society (Part 1)
- Quotas on the Menu at General Mills
Category: Refugees
- Flow of Refugees Slows, But Costs Are Still Unknown
- Refugee data: That’s not Minnesota Nice
Category: Unions
- Teachers Union Urges Resistance to DeVos & “Cruel” Education Budget
Category: Voter Fraud
- Minnesota’s Secretary of State Refuses to Cooperate With Voter Fraud Investigation [Updated]
- Election Judges May Still Monitor Ineligible Voters Despite Court Loss
- Pre-Election Hearing Ordered for MN Election Judges Concerned Over Voter Fraud
- MN Secretary of State Sued for Instructing Election Judges to Let Felons and Others Known to be Ineligible to Vote
Category: Welfare
- Victory: PCA Access to Union List Upheld by Court
- Is “Affordable Housing Crisis” Driving Somalis Out of Eden Prairie?
- It’s tax day: Minnesota, a land of progressivity
- Welfare Fraud Can Be ~~Profitable~~ Lucrative! [Updated]
- Minnesota Hands Out Welfare to Ineligible Recipients
Category: Transportation
- Do the Governor or Met Council Chair Ride Bikes to Work? Well, I do not either.
- Reader Rage Over Confusing Minneapolis Bike Lanes
- Honk For Highways!
- Surly Gets Surly About Traffic Congestion
- Hennepin County Commissioner Vows “Pitched Battle” With American Experiment, Threatens to “Punch” Us and “Bowl Us Over”
- Building more roads will not cause more congestion
- The Star Tribune’s ‘fake news’ on transit
- Driving is safer than light rail
- Moving people from road to rail will not help the Twin Cities environment
- Roads, not telecommuting, will relieve Twin Cities congestion
- City Pages is wrong; Minnesotans can’t all cycle everywhere
- Minnesota’s state government should take the lead on infrastructure
- The Twin Cities need solutions to their traffic problems, not those of other cities
- Caveat: Hennepin County Taxpayers Will Pay More to Fund Met Council Vision for Trains
- Paying to drive will reduce the cost of driving
- KSTP-TV: Is Congestion Really Inevitable?
- All the reasons the Met Council screwed up $BIG TIME by forcing light rail
- $800 million bonding bill rejected by House as too small
- Dayton Veto of Transportation Bill Threatens Duluth Airport
- Backlash Against Bike Lanes Erupts in Minneapolis
- Quick update on transit and transportation issues at the Capitol
- Is Southwest LRT going to derail the transportation bill again?
- Has SWLRT received federal funding? Met Council says yes. Not so fast.
- US Transportation Officials: No Federal Funds for Troubled Southwest Light Rail
- Legislators Go Their Own Way on Roads
- Do We Really Want Amtrak Running Trains in MN?
- Will Governor Dayton Veto Money for Roads?
- Is Southwest Light Rail Transit Line on the Ropes?
- The Runaway Amtrak Train to Duluth
- Light Rail Transit is a Foolish Investment
- Switch Light Rail Funding to Highways? Great Idea!
- Proposed Law Would Treat Bicyclists More Like Drivers
- Twin Cities Have 4 of Worst Traffic Bottlenecks in U.S.
- A Conservative Infrastructure Agenda
- The Train Line That Won’t Go Away
- Southwest Light Rail: An Expensive Mistake
- Governor’s Intransigence Blocks Special Session
Category: Terrorism
- 15% of Terror Investigations Are Refugees
- Off-Duty Cop Who Stopped St. Cloud Jihadist Named Officer of Year
- Refugee Resettlement: A Federal Policy Funded by Minnesotans
- Judge Davis Sentences Would-Be Terrorists
Category: Regulation
- Who should Trump appoint to the Fed?
- Why Do Apple, Facebook and Twitter Oppose Internet Deregulation?
- Dayton Accused of Secret Deal with Tribes on Mille Lacs Walleye Limits
- Rural Broadband Providers Back Trump’s Move to Scrap Net Neutrality
- Got a spare two months? Read Minnesota’s regulations
- Out-of-Control State Agency to Pay Nearly $1 Million in Botched “Investigation”
- Last Call As Twin Cities Suburb Privatizes Liquor Sales
- Iron Range to Trump: We Need More Mining
- Minnesota raises the price of energy, relying on economic theory once more
- Protesters Blockade and Drive Dayton Off Lake Mille Lacs
- Northern Minnesotans Urge Boycott of Feds’ Hearing on Mining Ban
- Property Rights Activists Slam Supreme Court Decision on St. Croix River
- Key Members of Congress Support Overturning Obama MN Mining Ban
- Dodd-Frank: Wrong diagnosis, wrong prescription
- Will He or Won’t He? Plastic Bag Ban Now Up to Governor
- Government Red Tape Could Hold Up Duluth Ski Project for Years
- As Minneapolis plastic bag ban nears, state agency says environmental benefits of paper over plastic is a myth
- State Regulators Holding Up Another Critical Oil Pipeline
- Is the Minnesota Commerce Department Out of Control?
- The Unintended Consequences of MN’s High Cigarette Taxes
- Residents Furious as City Levels Hundreds of Trees to Sell Wetland Credits
- Pollution Agency Tells Minnesotans to Stop Buying Stuff
- Coming Soon: Sunday Liquor Sales?
- St. Paul Residents Trash New Recycling Program Problems
- St. Louis County Turns to Trump to Overturn Obama Mining Ban
- Don’t Fear Real ID
- Cigarette Smuggling Soars in Minnesota After Big Tax Hike
- Twin Cities Couple Fights Mandatory City Property Inspections
- Sagging Liquor Profits Force Edina Munis to Compete
- Contractors Pressed to Shop Subcontractor Bids as MnDOT Misses Minority Goal Again
- Why Can’t Young People Afford Houses?
Category: Sports
- Are Politics Preventing Vikings From Signing Controversial Kaepernick?
- Legislative Auditor Investigating Stadium Perks for Political Insiders
- A Star Is Born?
Category: Taxes
- Where do Minnesota’s legislators stand on federal tax reform?
- St. Paul Mayor Proposes More Transparent Budget After City Loses Landmark Case
- Who should pay for Big Bird?
- Who should pay for that lighthouse?
- Even left wingers embrace the Laffer Curve now
- Report shows Minnesota’s estate tax burden is among the highest in the country
- Vetoed tax bill would focus tax relief on seniors, families, and small businesses
- Dayton is vetoing good education legislation. We need your help.
- Connecticut’s Experience: Taxing the Rich Doesn’t Work
- 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?
- Many Minnesotans to Pay Just Shy of the Highest 2016 Income Tax Rate in the Nation
- Road Work Ahead as Cities Move Away From Street “Fees”
- Tax Foundation report finds business taxes in Minnesota are among the least competitive
- Minnesota Supreme Court ruling on St. Paul fees already having statewide impact
Category: Center Events
- Center’s Annual Dinner Is a Smash Hit!
- Howard Root Wows Lunch Forum Crowd
- Why Liberal Policies Are Bad For Young People
- Millennials Voted On the Economy
- Don’t Miss CAE Fall Briefing featuring Jonah Goldberg Oct. 24 at Guthrie Theater
- Greetings From Nashville
- Why the Minimum Wage Is a Bad Idea
- Don’t Miss Our BIG Minimum Wage DEBATE This Tuesday (Sept. 20)
- American Experiment at the Fair
- Up North & The State Fair
- 870 Attend American Experiment’s Annual Dinner
Category: Greater Minnesota
- Too Risky: Co-op Turns Down $4.9 Million State Broadband Grant
- Are Polls Accurate or Misleading? Dayton’s Approval Rating is 62 Percent
- Congress Set to Rein in Met Council With Help From American Experiment
- Greater Minnesota Is Rejecting Liberalism
Category: Economics
- When you measure it properly, worker’s compensation is driven by productivity
- A fair day’s wage for a fair day’s production
- Hurricane Harvey will not be an economic boon for Texas
- Now how about a capital day?
- Hurricane Harvey – How the private sector can help
Category: Elections
- Prominent DFL Donor, Key Figure in Corruption Scandal Commits Suicide in L.A.
- Hodges Blames Late Budget on Public Safety Tragedies
- Hugh Hewitt’s spot on advice to the President: Be combative, but not cruel
- Hodges’ Mayoral Re-election Campaign Focuses on Trump: Why?
- VP Candidate Kaine’s Son Busted at Anti-Trump Rally in St. Paul
- Voter Fraud in Central Minnesota
- Bill proposes provisional ballots to help guarantee certain voters are truly eligible to vote
- The State of Government Union Leaders? Overreaching and Overpaid.
- Minnesota Elector Refuses to Vote for Clinton
- The Real Story is not “Fake News” or the Russians. It’s Labor Union Spending.
- Might Trump Carry Minnesota?
Category: Great Jobs
- Minnesota leads nation in good jobs that don’t need a four-year degree
- Higher Education and Careers: Schumpeter’s Creative Construction
- Minnesota foundations lead way in training needy citizens for in-demand jobs
- When the Welders Came to Capitol Hill
- Does “Great Jobs Without a Four-Year Degree” Hint at Tracking? Not in the Smallest Way
- The Importance of Listening Closely to Students and Recent Graduates in Technical Fields
- West Virginia leads the way in transforming high school CTE to boost the state’s economy
- Technical education can save parents from drowning in college debt
- CMMA is model for state’s manufacturers
- Great Work by an Intern on Her Summer Vacation
- “I Come to Mostly Praise Higher Education, Not Bury It”
- Who Needs a Four-Year Degree?
- Where Does the Idea Everyone Should Go to College Come From?
- Innovative Dunwoody program helping women and minorities find great jobs
- Lifting the stigma on vocational education and technical training
- BMW’s Success with Germany’s Apprenticeship Model
Category: Culture
- Sunday Mornings at Church? Or Sunday Mornings at Starbucks?
- Romeo and Juliet at the Guthrie
- The Abnormal Danger of Waxing about Norms
- Transgender Toolkit for MN Schools [UPDATE]
- Veterans Restore Lost Grave of MN Civil War Soldier
- Virginia shooting reiterates need for self-defense
- Controversial Diversity Signs in Delano Schools Raise Concern
- Target Doubles Down on LGBT Agenda—Lesson Not Learned?
- MPS Board Backed Into a Corner by Protesters
- Female Genital Mutilation Comes to Minnesota
- Why Should Artists Want Government Support?
- With Thanks to Michael Novak
- Is Boycott a Factor in Slumping Target Sales?
- Sushi? Hey, It Might Be Carp!
- Proudly Detailing Sexual Assaults
- DFL: Expanding Government Unions and Our Dependency on the State
Category: Crime
- How About Putting Cops’ Good Deeds on Body Cams?
- 10k Reward for Eco-Vandals Behind Death of Thousands of MN Mink
- 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?
- We Should Expect More from MPR on St. Anthony Police Story Than Just Another Bias Narrative
- 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: Courts
- Mr. Dayton, you can’t always get what you want
- Franken and Klobuchar Use Obscure Senate Ploy to Block MN Judge
- A Step Toward Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform
Category: Climate
- A Little Clear Thinking and Perspective on the Houston Flood and Climate Change
- This time we are three years from climate disaster: Being an alarmist means never having to say you’re sorry.
- Dilbert on Climate “Science”
- Camp Ripley Takes Aim at Global Warming
- Why Green Energy Subsidies Don’t Pay
- State Environmental Agency: Christmas Gifts Bad For Landfills
- Join Us For Climate Hustle!
- Renewable Mandate Drives New Increase in Utility Bills
- How We Know That Human-Caused Global Warming Is a Joke
Category: Crazy Liberalism
- Busted! Cops Crack Down on Enbridge Pipeline Extremists
- Minneapolis Focuses on Threat to Environment Over Public Safety
- City Councilor Posts Veiled Facebook Threat to MN Congressman
- Trapshooting Team Banned From School Yearbook [Updated]
- National Review Highlights SEIU Fraud in PCA Election
- Is Gustavus College’s “Fake News” Guide Reliable or Biased?
- Where have all the Liberals Gone? I found one!
- A Voice of Reason But is Anyone on the Left Listening?
- Out of touch? Franken and Klobuchar oppose Gorsuch while even the Star Tribune recommends confirmation
- Students at Gustavus: White Lab Rats?
- St. Olaf Hate Threatens Conservative Students: At Least Two Leave School
- Taxpayer-Funded Library Networks Promote Anti-Trump “Resistance”
- Abdi Warsame’s False Claim on Extremist Violence
- Mayor Hodges: No Comment on Campaign Dirty Trick
- Protesters’ Latest Road Shutdown Demonstrates Need for New Law
- DHS says all-day Kindergarten has reduced pre-school options for parents
- Protesters’ Stadium Stunt Raises Super Bowl Security Concerns
- Minneapolis: Not Liberal Enough?!
- Inappropriate Poem Raises Question: Why Public Art?
- Urban Insanity In Minneapolis
Category: Conservatism
- Why Can’t Young People Get Out of Their Parents’ Basements?
- Minnesota, Land of 10,000 Lakes and One Shrimp Farm?
- The Truly Celestial Captain Kirk
- Basic Differences Between Left and Right
- 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: Energy
- Solar “Gardens” Labeled Solar “Scam” by Economist
- American Energy Will Restore Prosperity, If We Let It
- Renewable Energy Standard Could Be a Blowout
- Key points about the Dakota pipeline you probably never heard
- 2016 El Nino Warmth Not Statistically Warmer than 1998 El Nino Year
- Climate Change 12: Reasonable Balance is Needed. How Over-Regulation Kills People.
- Climate Change 11: Alarmists predict doom but a healthier world is reality
- Climate Change 10: Why we argue about it, unsettled science and the moral question.
- Climate Change 9: How Useful (or Accurate) is a Forecast 75 Years Out That Won’t Be Noticeable for 300 Years?
- Cops Clamp Down on Bemidji Pipeline Protesters
- Climate Change 8: “Pseudoscience,” Politicized Science, and the Consequences of Energy Poverty
- Climate Change 7: How Global Warming is Both a “Hoax” and a Legitimate Area of Study
- Climate Change 6: The Beginning of the U.S. Mess with Politicized Science
- VA Spends 300K to Study Defunct St. Cloud Wind Turbine
- Climate Change 5: The Basic Structural Problem with Climate Change Research
- Climate Change 4: Recent Research on Climate Sensitivity Favors Lukewarmers
- After election, MN regulators must revisit closure of coal plants in Becker community
- MN Ethanol Plant Builder Gives 125k to Tribe Protesting Pipeline
- Climate Change 3: The Grand Narrative Availability Cascade is Making Us Stupid
- Climate Change 2: Clinging to models that don’t even come close
- Climate Change 101
- MN Utility Files for Huge Rate Increase to Pay for Wind and Solar
- Why Won’t Xcel Come Clean on Cost of “Clean” Energy?
- Paper by Former American Experiment Intern Reveals the Hidden Cost of Wind to Electricity Consumers
- Cronies vs. Eagles? No Contest!
Category: Fraud
- 7 Women, $7 Million: MN’s Latest Medicaid Fraud
Category: Freedom of Speech
- Dairy Queen “Politically Incorrect” Sign Stirs Up a Blizzard
- Minneapolis Launches Controversial “Hate Crime” Hotline
- VP Candidate Kaine’s Son Charged in St. Paul Anti-Trump Protest
- Is the U of MN “Bias Response Team” Chilling Free Speech?
- MNPCA Update: Who is Chris Serres? Reporter or Union Activist?
- Why Were Cops Called to League of Women Voters Forum in Red Wing?
- SEIU Gets Credit for State Benefits, While Collecting Millions in Scarce Medicaid Funds
- Liberals Try to Censor Movie Critical of Hillary Clinton
Category: Gender
- Are Three Percent of Minnesota Youths Transgender? Of Course Not
- MN Dept. of Education Approves Controversial Transgender Toolkit
- Transgender Toolkit for MN Schools Based on Controversial Obama Rule
- A Day Without a Woman?
- Dayton Outraged Because Federal Government No Longer Regulates Bathrooms
- The Transgender Tragedy
Category: Environment
- Dakota Access Pipeline Sues Greenpeace Protesters
- Pollution Agency Advises Against High Carbon Vacations
- Minnesota Joins States Fighting Plastic Bag Ban
- After being sued for defamation, Greenpeace admits its claims are hyperbole and not factual
- Minneapolis City Council Considering Rubber Mulch Ban
Category: Firearms
Category: Health Care
- Last-ditch effort to repeal Obamacare might just bring moderate and conservative Republicans together
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Star Tribune’s health care “realities” need their own dose of reality
- Dayton Misfires in Misleading Attack on MNsure Critics
- To Save or Not to Save METS: That’s the Real Question for Counties
- Minnesotans once again face steep increases in insurance premiums due to federal health care law
- Democrats’ health care law responsible for the turmoil besetting Minnesota’s individual insurance market
- More MNSure Fallout: 103,000 Minnesotans cannot keep that plan they liked after all
- Document Reveals Commerce Pressured PreferredOne to Make Unreasonable Assumptions to Justify Low Rates
- Brookings study reveals Minnesota’s individual insurance market is not faring well under ACA
- More insurers pressured to lower MNsure rates: Time to remove politics from rate-setting process
- Supreme Court renames Obamacare SCOTUScare: Court offers to write all future legislation for Congress to save time and face
- Where does the King v. Burwell ruling leave us today?
Category: Families
- Dayton sacrifices children on the altar of government unions, again
- Yesterday’s Love Stories: The Gray Divorce Phenomenon
- What Wasn’t Said about Mobility in this Year’s Elections?
- Is the Dayton administration trying to prevent PCAs from winning a new union election?
- Decertification Effort Against SEIU on FOX News and Star Tribune
- Trump releases Child Care Plan. Doesn’t the president, even Congress, have more important things to do?
- Little League baseball: Youth sports’ lessons are lasting
- The Mamaw of All Elegies
- When Public Officials Read Troubled Situations Less Well than Troubled Kids Actually Read
- Meet Kris Greene, Minnesota’s Quiet Mama Bear
- Families and the Fourth
- Going Forth on the Fourth
- An Extra-Modest Word about Fathers on Their Day
- Neglecting What Matters in Neglect Deaths
- Choosing Your Partners Carefully
- 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?
- Jason Riley Rocks Minneapolis
Category: Governance
- Contrary to Star Tribune headline, constitutionality of Dayton’s veto is far from resolved
- Will Judge Order Hodges to Let Minneapolis Taxpayers See Budget?
- Governor Dayton’s Retaliation Against Legislature Violated the Minnesota Constitution
- US Bank Stadium Suites Scandal Leads to Reforms
- Shrimp Farm Comes to MN Despite Dropped Subsidy
- Salary Boost for Ramsey Commissioners, Tax Hike for Ramsey County
- Politically-Connected Davis Sentenced in Corruption Case
- Minneapolis School Board “Forced” Into Decision-Making
- Government on Government Lobbying Cost MN Taxpayers Millions in 2016
- Is Betsy Hodges One of America’s Worst Mayors?
- MN House Passes Bill to Crackdown on Freeway Protesters
- Residents Oppose Paying Officials’ $43,000 in Legal Bills
- Klobuchar & Franken Grill Gorsuch, End Up Getting Burned
- “Concern” Over New Chick-fil-A in St. Louis Park
- Win-Win: How Rural and Urban Minnesotans Both Benefit
- Millions in State Subsidies for MN Shrimp Industry?
- Minneapolis: the DFL’s Bad Apple
- Too Much Secrecy, Not Enough Accountability
- More Political Spring Cleaning After US Bank Stadium Scandal
- Should David Roe, Minnesota labor leader, be lionized?
- Kelm-Helgen Out In Backlash Over US Bank Stadium Suites [Updated]
- Federal Funding in Doubt, MPR Turns to MN Taxpayers
- I told you so? Crockett update on Public Pensions.
- Thousands More Threaten to Leave–Not the U.S. But the Bureaucracy
- Newly Elected Outsiders Take Charge in Cities and Counties
- Who Gets Free U.S. Bank Tickets? DFL Activists
- No More Freebie Tickets for Political Insiders at U.S. Bank Stadium
- SEIU and State Ordered to Halt Early Contract Talks in Boost for PCA Decertification Drive
- Is St. Paul Still a Sanctuary City?
- Tina Smith is running for governor by spending taxpayer funds with giveaway to her core constituency: government unions
- Citizen Watchdog Ousts Mayor With Open Meeting Law Violations
- Dayton Administration Approved Sending MN Law Enforcement to ND Protest
- Residents Still Fighting City’s Trash Takeover
- U.N. Controversy Taints Mayor Hodges’ Wonder Woman Day
- Kim Crockett: Freedom will be short-lived without the Constitution
- State Agency Tells Minnesotans to Go Green with Cosmetics
- Why Is Minnesota’s Legislature So Polarized?
- Another Minnesota City Restricts Right to Rent Out One’s Home
- Minnesota Supreme Court Protects Citizens from Unfair Taxes Disguised as Fees
- Your Medicaid dollars at Work: SEIU asks Personal Care Attendants for political donations
- Two Dayton Cronies to Keep High Paying Stadium Jobs
- Brexit, Uncertainty and Pension Losses: there is a lot of that going around
- Fed-Up Judge Finds State Agency in Contempt
- Case Not Completely Closed on Minneapolis Corruption
- Rampant Voter Fraud in Minnesota?
- Is Public Transit a Relic of the Past?
- Met Council Seeks to Promote Trailer Parks In Suburbs
- St. Paul Superintendent Let Go In Wake of Controversy Over School Violence
- Race Quotas For Parks: Seriously?
- Supreme Court Justices and Religion, College Admissions and Race
- Sometimes It Takes a Village to Raise the Issue of Government Transparency
- Nearly 75 percent of workers who would qualify for Minneapolis paid sick leave live outside the city
- New lane miles do reduce congestion
- Is it fair to ask whether Governor Dayton is a man of his word?
- Residents Petition to Reclaim Freedom of Trash
- 2016 Session Update: Met Council’s Southwest LRT and Failed Model for Regionalism Jams up Transportation for Minnesota
- Why Does Minnesota’s A.G. Want to Silence Critics?
- Minnesota Supreme Court hears arguments in case that could limit use of fees to raise revenue
- Pension Funds Just Realized Minnesotans Are Healthy
- Pricey Senate Office Building Also Comes at the High Cost of Never Settling a Serious Constitutional Challenge
- Who is Rebecca Friedrichs and Why Do Public Unions Fear Her?
- Here’s Why Union Bosses Hate California Teacher Rebecca Friedrichs
- The Obama Administration Clears the Way for States to Require Retirement Plans for Private Sector Employees
- The Hidden Costs of a Mandatory Public Pension Plan
- ‘Mother of open meeting law cases’ heads to court
- Bloomington residents sue city over garbage rights
- Police Authority and Arrested Resistance
- How Governor Dayton and the DFL Re-Defined Who is a “Public Employee” to Benefit Their Political Party
- The States Wade into Retirement Security for Private Sector Employees
- Pension Quick Facts
- Pension reform advocate wins in deep-blue Rhode Island
Category: Education
- Perpetual Omissions in Stories about Minnesota’s Achievement Gaps
- MN Public Schools Miss the Mark: Test Results Stagnant, Achievement Gap Persists
- What Do We Do When School Reform Fails? Redux.
- Another Year of Mediocrity for Minnesota’s Public Schools
- What If Rudy Perpich Were Still Fighting for School Choice?
- Teachers’ Union President Says School Choice is Racism
- K-12 Gender Toolkit Puts Kids at Risk
- Brainerd Teacher Faces Suspension Over Trump Yearbook Controversy
- Kersten: Put children’s safety ahead of ideology
- MN Education Dept. to Approve Radical Transgender School Guidelines
- Is there a link between school spending & student achievement?
- How Many Truly Need a Four-Year College Degree?
- Great Jobs for Grads Without a Four-Year Degree
- MN High School Yearbook on Trump: “I would like to behead him” [Updated]
- MN Teacher Licensing Bill Passed by House & Senate, Headed to Dayton
- Lesson Learned! School Board Stands Up to Near-Mob of Protesters
- Dayton Vetoes Education Bill, Continues Push for Universal Pre-K
- Calling All Graduates! Great Jobs Without A Four-Year Degree
- St. Paul Schools Blame Teacher for Getting Beaten Up and Disabled
- “Even if You Do Go to College, Learn a Trade in the Summers”
- How to Rein in State Pre-K Program While Helping At-Risk Kids
- Gov. Dayton should take olive branch offered on pre-K
- School Choice Scholarships Expand Opportunity for All Students
- College Student Fees Targeted By Youngest MN Lawmaker
- “White Privilege” Checklist on Display in U of MN Residence Hall
- A Teachable Moment for State Teaching Board
- Former MN Teacher of the Year Gets the Boot Under Last In, First Out System
- Political Correctness and “Alternative Bureaucracies”
- Should Teacher Layoffs Be Based on Seniority or Effectiveness?
- Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and the Updated Soulcraft of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Minnesota Court of Appeals Dismisses Case Seeking Far-Reaching Busing Order
- Why Do Colleges Get Away with Price Gouging and Predatory Lending Practices?
- Guess Who’s to Blame for the Skyrocketing Cost of Higher Ed
- Chile’s School Choice Success Story
- Blocking the School House Door
- Mayhem In the Schools
- Secretary Betsy DeVos: The First Cabinet Pick Ever Saved by the Vice President
- Critics of school choice bear the burden of proof now
- Kim Crockett on the Betsy DeVos Nomination as Secretary of Education
- Chicago Tribune Defends Betsy DeVos and School Choice
- U.S. Senator recalls Minnesota’s historical contribution to School Choice at Betsy Devos Hearings
- Betsy DeVos and Over-the-Top Fears of Privatizing Public Schools to Their Last Stub of Chalk
- What if the University of Minnesota was less politically correct?
- Driving Occasionally on the Right
- Increasing Educational Alternatives is the Opposite of Tracking
- Why are Scooby Doo and Michael Scott on MN Sanctuary Campus Petition?
- Universities Face Loss of Funding Over Sanctuary Campuses
- Chicago Tribune: Betsy DeVos’s Education Department Could Create Incentives for States to Expand Vouchers
- Reading on the One Hand, Writing on the Disjointed Other
- Students Need to Take Responsibility, Too
- An Invitation to More Violence in the St. Paul Public Schools
- Will chaos reign in St. Paul’s high school hallways?
- New lawsuit aims to bring race-based busing back to Minnesota
- Arrests Provide Teachable Moment on Teacher Union Politics
- Parents’ Lawsuit Threatens Education Minnesota’s Grip on Schools
- Defending the Rights of Schools that Teach Self-Sacrifice
- Apprenticeships (No, Not His Kind)
- How Did Education Fare Legislatively? Less than Fair.
- Taxpayers Press for Referendum Re-Do in Bid to Halt School Construction
- The Dangerous Listing of American Education
- Is There a Connection between Education Spending and Student Achievement?
- Political Correctness and the Sociology of Ignorance
- Oh, Boys
- A Week of Education News
- Are Low-Income Students the Reason Why the U.S. Does Poorly on International Tests? No.
Category: Employee Freedom
- Big Cuts Coming at MAPE State Public Employee Union
- Education MN Braces for Loss of Thousands of Members and Millions of Dollars
- 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
- 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
- MN Grandmother Takes on SEIU
- The SEIU Hopes to Plunder the Families of Disabled People
- American Experiment Files Complaint: Star Tribune “Reporter” Chris Serres
- 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
- 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
- Personal Care Attendants File Lawsuit and Move to Decertify SEIU
- Center’s SEIU Decertification Project in U.S. News & World Report
- Lakeville Mom Takes on Big Labor
- Union Skims Off 3% of Medicaid Benefits as Political Slush Fund
- 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: Pensions
- Dose of Reality for Underfunded MN Public Pensions
- Minnesota’s public-pension system is in crisis, new data shows
- Pension director says, “It’s a crisis” – Minnesota’s government pensions shortfall soars to $6,000 for every Minnesotan
- Why there is no budget surplus now– or in the foreseeable future
- Despite risky behavior, pension funds are coming up short
- Crockett’s Quick Pension Update 2016: Minnesota’s Slow and Quiet Bailout
Category: Uncategorized
- 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!
- Weiner!

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