From a Bloomberg opinion column, Minnesota Is Becoming the Land of 10,000 Frauds. I would update the headline with “has become.” The column was written by Patricia Lopez, formerly of…
Prioritizing reliability and affordability over arbitrary climate mandates. In March 2025, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright addressed CERAWeek, an annual energy conference: Wind and solar, the darlings of the…
Since President Trump began his second term back in January, the state’s Attorney General seems obsessed with stopping his agenda, and little else. Since the start of Trump’s new term…
For a few months now, a common theme in the local media is that the inflation rate in the Twin Cities is lower than in comparable metropolitan areas. In October,…
State and local taxes and spending The Center Square: How Much Minnesota Taxes Its Residents Compared to Other States Bloomberg Tax: Minnesota House Sheds Modesty With Bold Tax Overhaul Plan…
Bloomberg reports that an increase in electric heating in Southern states over the last ten years was a key factor in why power companies could not keep up with electricity…
My friend Emmet Penney runs an excellent daily energy newsletter called Grid Brief. I highly encourage to you subscribe to it by clicking here. The piece below is from the…
Bloomberg writes that pro-Chinese agents posed as concerned local residents on social media to try and spark protests over the opening of rare earth mines in the US and Canada,…
Manufacturers in Europe can’t keep up with the rising costs of electricity and natural gas. Energy prices are skyrocketing now, and are projected to remain high for the next few…
The Wall Street Journal reports that President Joe Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia next month to discuss energy and international relations as the national average price of gasoline has…
Transitioning to wind and solar energy just became a lot more expensive. Due to significant competition and supply-chain constraints throughout the world, the cost for many of the raw materials…
Advocates of wind and solar power often tell us that these energy sources will result in lower energy prices, but the facts on the ground do not support this claim.…
The following article was written by Michael Shellenberger at Substack: Between 2017 and 2021, Environmental Progress and I researched and published dozens of articles, testified before Congress, and authored a book, Apocalypse Never, arguing that weather-dependent renewables were making…
Coal supplies at American power plants have reached a 24-year low, according to a report from Bloomberg. Coal is in short supply for many reasons, but much of the blame…
The Fight for 15 Wages were up last month, but owing to inflation, they’ll buy less. In real terms, people are worse off. Last week, Noah Smith wrote for Bloomberg:…
It is generally agreed, even by the greenest among us, that efforts to fight ‘climate change’ by ending the use of fossil fuels in the West will be a fair…
Labor market Bloomberg Tax: Minnesota’s Hourly Minimum Wages Expected to Rise in 2022 Star Tribune: Minnesota State Fair and its vendors scramble to find workers Star Tribune: Red Wing Shoes,…
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is fighting to prevent the public from seeing documents detailing his behind-closed-doors strategizing on climate litigation with a network of state attorneys general with embedded…
Hypocrisy, thy name is Keith Ellison. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and other prominent Democrats have made a career out of criticizing the influence of ALEC — the American Legislative…
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote that Berlin’s rent controls had slowed house building in the city. To recap, the German capital’s population is growing rapidly which means that the…
On Tuesday, July 28, 2020, Micheal Shellenberger, a man who has spent thirty years of his life as an environmental activist, testified in front of the House Select Committee on…
Figuring out what school learning will look like this fall has stirred up quite the debate nationwide. And all the uncertainty over schools reopening and what it would take for…
Keith Ellison’s latest lawsuit against American energy produces seems to have run aground due to concerns that the Attorney General’s office is using two attorneys, privately financed by a group…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.