As test score results continue to be quiet reminders of the millions of students who fell behind or dropped out entirely during years of disrupted learning, new research out of…
For most of 2025, Democratic politicians, from former Vice-Presidential candidate and current Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to a variety of Democratic members of Congress to California Governor Gavin Newsom, have…
State lawmakers have a duty to taxpayers to set responsible budgets. The normalization of spending increases and tax hikes as the panacea for every societal concern that has characterized the…
Affordable housing and the tyranny of local government. The separation of powers between the federal and state governments not only serves as an important check to federal encroachment on individual…
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,…
Members of the House of Representatives will be able to wave to the adoring crowds from high above the state capitol grounds in St. Paul. A project so wasteful and…
Earlier this year, the Boston Celtics offered forward Grant Williams $48 million to continue playing for them for another four years. He turned them down. Why? Taxes. Massachusetts used to…
MN Reformer calls attention to this new Gallup poll (scroll down) about American opinions on crime in various cities. The Reformer‘s headline reads, Americans think Minneapolis is less safe than…
50 years after its TIME cover story, does Minnesota still work?
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that replacing salary scales based on experience and educational attainment with those based on evaluation scores resulted in…
In 2021, Minnesota’s population grew by just 225 people, losing 13,453 residents to other states. This was Minnesota’s biggest net loss of domestic migrants to other states in at least…
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that inflation rose by 6.9 percent in the year to November. This is the fastest annual rate of increase since June 1982. You’d…
A politicized press and an elite establishment perpetuate racism as America’s defining trait.
A few weeks ago I wrote about how the Coronavirus shutdown had not resulted in lower levels of particulate matter in the Twin Cities despite a dramatic downturn in daily…
Top Twins prospect Royce Lewis tells the Star Tribune why he moved from California to Texas. Taxes were a factor.
The story of Bonnie, Clyde, their victims, and the men who hunted them down, finally gets a proper telling.
I tried my hand at calling how the NFL season would play out before the season started. Turns out I should keep this day job because my picks were hot…
I recently wrote about a bill called “RESA” (Retirement Enhancement and Savings) quickly making its way through Congress; it would entice small employers with a tax break to offer retirement…
In the last two weeks, our ever-expanding Metropolitan Council announced that it intends to become the owner of a rail corridor in order to facilitate the construction and operation of…
In light of the most recent developments, legislators and others are asking, is the Met Council even qualified to safely operate both freight and passenger light rail trains adjacent to…
We wrote about Amazon’s plans for a massive second corporate headquarters, and the Twin Cities’ bid to be considered for its location, here, here, here and here. The last linked…
The Twin Cities are out of the race to attract Amazon's new HQ. When the company announces the winning bid and their reasoning later this year, it should give Minnesota's…
John Phelan wrote here about Amazon’s plan to develop a second corporate headquarters that will employ 50,000 people with average incomes of more than $100,000. Governor Dayton has vowed to…
Wilmoth began his career with a job that put him mere steps from the Oval Office