Jose Israel Tenesaca-Mejia, 21, of East Haven, CT, is our Connecticut Man of the Day for December 5. Tenesaca appeared in federal court in downtown St. Paul this afternoon. He was…
The economics of housing affordability The big buzzword in politics right now is “affordability.” Things aren’t affordable, the argument goes, or are becoming less so, and voters will reward the…
“Legalize it,” Peter Tosh sang in 1976, “And don’t criticize it.” He also promised to “advertise it,” but he said nothing about taxing it. But then, he probably hadn’t been to…
In my previous role at Alaska Policy Forum, I spoke and wrote about the costs of the Jones Act, a 1920 law that limits trade between U.S. ports to U.S.-flagged…
A recent U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) map gives Minnesota a dubious distinction: It was the state with the largest increase in gasoline taxes since July 2024. State taxes and…
Fourteen states have committed to cutting their chronic absenteeism rates in half in five years, accepting the challenge to do so from a group of education advocates. Attendance Works, EdTrust,…
Kamala Harris made big news last week for visiting a St. Paul abortion clinic. The Associated Press (AP) reports: Vice President Kamala Harris visited a Planned Parenthood clinic on Thursday, marking what…
Six blue-state Governors on the East Coast want you to pay for their offshore wind turbines. On September 13, 2023, Governors from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and…
What happened in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas for the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. As word of the North Dakota tribes’ $115 million venture into…
Yesterday I wrote about how CNBC’s much heralded rankings of “America’s Top States for Business” actually told you very little that was useful about which American states really are top…
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) shows Mississippi beats Minnesota on post-COVID test score recovery. This adds to a trend of the Magnolia state…
A recent study by the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL), which was published in the academic journal Energy Policy, has concluded that large solar facilities in Minnesota reduce the resale…
Teachers’ unions and other school choice opponents use every excuse they can to limit empowering families with greater education choice, including that such programs don’t benefit rural areas because options…
We have long noted Minnesota’s relatively poor record in nurturing new businesses. Our last report on the state of Minnesota’s economy found that: …in 2020, New and Young Businesses —…
Only a few things are as expensive for Minnesota parents as child care. According to data from Child Care Aware, the average family in Minnesota spent over $16,000 to send…
Earlier this month, a group of senators primarily representing Northeastern states called on Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to halt permits for new liquified natural gas (LNG) export facilities based on concerns that…
Minnesota students in school districts that switched to distance learning over the course of the 2020-21 school year had greater declines in math compared to their peers in school districts…
The article below was written by Francis Menton at the Manhattan Contrarian: As noted in my post this past Sunday, no amount of fake happy talk in the so-called “Glasgow…
The September jobs report was disappointing. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the nation only added 194,000 jobs. Not only that but the Labor force participation rate has…
Over the weekend, environmental activist Michael Shellenberger cited American Experiment’s new study on the high cost of the Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP) in Arizona in his most recent piece.…
Yesterday, Gov. Tim Walz visited Phillips and Temro Industries — manufacturers of electric vehicle chargers — to sell his ‘clean car’ rules, which take effect in 2024 for the 2025…
The following article was originally written by Sonal Patel, and appeared in Power Magazine: The North American Electric Corp. (NERC) is warning that large swathes of the North American bulk…
A politicized press and an elite establishment perpetuate racism as America’s defining trait.
According to the Annual National Migration Study, in 2020, Americans migrated to states that had, among other things, more favorable tax environments. Minnesota, on the net, lost residents to other…