Metro politicians push an urban agenda that has real costs for Greater Minnesota
Minnesota Personal Care Attendants (PCAs) celebrated today’s announcement that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has overturned an Obama-era rule allowing Medicaid payments to be diverted to government…
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2019 Issue of Thinking Minnesota, now the second largest magazine in Minnesota. To receive a free trial issue send your name and address to [email protected]. On July…
After filing an amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of a St. Cloud University faculty member, Kathy Uradnik, the Center filed an amicus brief in support of…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
At some point, the irresistible force of insufficient government revenues is going to meet the immovable object of entitlement commitments.
Minnesota’s most vulnerable population has been exposed to a data breach at the state agency that is supposed to guard their privacy and well-being. According to a letter mailed to…
Why ‘affirmative consent’ will be the new Freedom battleground to end forced unionism.
An activist court ruling. Metrowide racial balancing of schools. An end to local control. Sum total? This Sunday Cover Op-ed appeared in the Star Tribune on October 7, 2018. On…
$100 million in cash was allegedly carried to the Mideast via MSP airport in 2017 alone.
To be clear, if the Obama rule is fixed, the unions that have been certified would unfortunately continue until they are decertified—that is why MNPCA is not giving up in…
Fox 9 News and other media reported a raid on the Baraka Child Care Center in Minneapolis yesterday. State and federal agents participated, including the Secret Service, and while we…
Last Thursday, Avik Roy, activist and co-founder of Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, came to the University of Minnesota to discuss the state of healthcare in the United States.…
This investigation, focused primarily on welfare payments for child care, is just getting started. A former DHS investigator says the PCA Medicaid program fraud is much worse. The allegation is…
Last year, the HHS law contained a very odd provision; it empowered the governor to not only negotiate a new contract with the SEIU but it pre-ratified that contract with…
The Congressional Budget Office's forecasts for federal finances make for grim reading and it is out of control entitlement spending which is to blame.
The Congressional Budget Office's new Budget and Economic Outlook forecasts federal debt reaching nearly 100% of GDP by 2028. As Brian Riedl explains in an excellent commentary for the Manhattan Institute,…
Between 2000 and 2017, increased transfer payments accounted for 48% of the increase in Minnesota's per capita personal income. This trend-also seen at the national level-is unsustainable.
Congratulations! It has been two years since child care providers around the state did something truly remarkable: they defeated a prolonged and well-financed attempt to convert their homes and businesses…
Kris and I indulged by splitting a HUGE apple fritter. Believe me, we walked it off. We wish all our PCAs from Minnesota could have been there. We will keep…
We do. Sunday’s Pioneer Press had a long article about refugees in Minnesota that featured an admirable family: the Sivasundarams, who have come to Minnesota from Sri Lanka, by way…
The AG’s office argued in Ramsey County Court today that the 2013 Legislature wanted to be sure that, once the PCAs had been unionized as "state employees", it would be…
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis hosted its first Regional Economic Conditions Conference and state economist Laura Kalambokidis gave her view of Minnesota's economy.
The release Monday of our Fall issue of Thinking Minnesota, with its cover story exposing how test results have dropped in Edina as left-wing ideology has taken over their schools,…