The DFL’s left and right go to war. On July 7, 1977, state DFL Rep. Phyllis Kahn from Minneapolis addressed a meeting at the Capitol’s State Office Building in St.…
In 1964, Lyndon Johnson was elected president with 61.1% of the popular vote, the highest share for any candidate since 1824. With this mandate, he enacted his Great Society program,…
President-elect Donald Trump may have only made one campaign stop in the state this year, but that’s all it took to get the attention of supporters of overturning the Biden…
While the media focused on Pres. Joe Biden’s disastrous CNN debate performance on June 27, it ignored the administration’s glaring contradictions in its climate policy. The day after the debate,…
The proposed sale of 80,000 acres of state-owned school trust land in the BWCA for an as of yet still undisclosed sum to the federal government has largely proceeded below…
The outlook was bleak for the Republicans arriving at St. Cloud State University in November 1975 for their state party convention. The DFL governor, Wendell Anderson, had been elected five…
State and local taxes and spending Duluth News Tribune: Statewide View: Is the DFL trying to chase people out of Minnesota? Duluth News Tribune: Our View: Minnesota taxpayers, brace yourselves…
Last week, Minnesota Democrats won the Governor’s mansion, the House of Representatives, and the State Senate, giving them unified control of the legislature for at least the next two years.…
Mine permitting on federal lands has slowed under President Biden, according to a report from E&E News. The report highlights some of the inconsistencies between President Biden’s supposed desire to…
State and local taxes and spending The Center Square: Big problems, little time for Minnesota lawmakers cobbling budget MPR News: Scant time left for lawmakers as they grasp for session…
Did you know there is already a non-ferrous mine operating in the same watershed as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on the Canadian side of the border? The mine,…
Anti-mining groups in Minnesota like to pretend that our state’s deposits of copper, nickel, cobalt, platinum, and palladium are globally insignificant, so they can argue that we don’t need to…
NBC News reports that rising demand for the nickel used in the batteries of electric vehicles (EVs) is prompting the expansion of a nickel mine located in a rainforest in…
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has been ordered by a court to review the state’s rules governing copper-nickel, and other non-iron mining. The agency is accepting public comment through…
Candidate Biden hasn't told Minnesotans if he'll allow copper-nickel mining in Minnesota, but Betty McCollum's staff suggests he won't.
Last weekend, the DFL State Central Committee officially adopted a resolution calling for a moratorium banning copper-nickel mining projects in Minnesota, according to the DFL Environmental Caucus’s Facebook page. The…
In November of 2019, the Minneapolis Star Tribune ran an opinion piece by the Strib Editorial Board “Not This Mine, Not This Location.” The piece sought to lay out why…
Congresswoman Betty McCollum, who represents St. Paul, has once again taken aim at Minnesota’s mining industry by inserting language into a federal spending bill that would prevent federal agencies from…
We’re delighted to report that Senator Jason Rarick (R) cited American Experiment’s research on copper nickel mining in Minnesota in his piece to the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Journal…
Yesterday, Minnesota took another step toward unearthing prosperity when Twin Metals Minnesota formally submitted its mine plan to state and federal agencies for review. According to the Twin Metals press…
Mainstream news outlets in Minnesota rarely tell the tale of how the Obama Administration incorrectly broke decades of protocol by cancelling mineral leases of Twin Metals Minnesota and sought a…
Yesterday, Twin Metals Minnesota announced that they were going to be storing their mine waste using a dry stack storage method, which is often hailed by environmentalists as the best…
The future of mining in Minnesota looks even brighter today as Twin Metals Minnesota announced they will protect Minnesota’s water resources at their planned copper-nickel mine in northern Minnesota by…
Last weekend the Duluth News Tribune ran an editorial from Dean DeBeltz of Twin Metals which argued that anti-mining groups who say Twin Metals cannot operate responsibly are basing these…