According to newly released US Census Bureau data, in 2024, 9.3 percent of Minnesotans were in poverty. This is the same rate as in 2023 and 2021. Among the 50…
I was in 5th grade when our country was attacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Fast forward to my first year of teaching 5th graders about that fateful Tuesday…
The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled in Mahmoud v. Taylor that parents have the right to opt their children out of reading lessons that violate their religious beliefs. While the…
Current state Sen. Omar Fateh (DFL-Minneapolis) appears to have won the Democratic-party endorsement for Mayor of Minneapolis last night at the city’s party convention for 2025. I say “appears” because…
A tale of two headlines. From Politico: Democrats retreat on climate: ‘It’s one of the more disappointing turnabouts’A changing political climate has California Democrats recalibrating on climate policies. From the…
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor last week found that a Maryland public school district violated the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause by refusing to let parents…
“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…
Last week, I wrote about how the growth rate of per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) can be broken down into the share that comes from growth in human capital,…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) published last month an article warning that planned retirements of coal-fired electric-generating capacity are expected to increase in 2025. The EIA reports that electricity…
That’s “billion, with a “b.” Minnesota has much experience with brand-new nonprofits getting multi-million-dollar grants from the state government. The Feds have managed to go over the top in this…
Merry Christmas! Those in good favor this year didn’t include a number of union bosses who found themselves caught up in illegal shenanigans. Perhaps their New Year’s resolutions will include…
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,…