Apparently U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) foresees a demand for considerably more jail cells to house undocumented immigrants taken into custody in Minnesota. ICE relies on a network of…
Minnesota's exporters are doing well despite the trade war. Imagine how much better they could be doing without it.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
The good news is that the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that you’re rich.
Washington County, on one end of the I-94 bridge over the St. Croix, is pretty similar to St. Croix County on the other end. The big difference is that one…
People love their food fads. I remember Snackwell cookies, which were touted as being better for people because they were low fat. Turns out, they were still packed with calories…
Fred Barnes has written a smart, welcome piece in the Weekly Standard that gives President Trump an “easy” path to win re-election in 2020, if only he can do three…
Renewable energy has very little value as a power producer—it’s not as reliable as other forms of energy, it’s more intermittent and difficult to predict, and the imposed costs it…
The biggest battle in American history began 100 years ago today. Yet, today, it seems to be largely forgotten.
Many of the anti-copper mining activists in Minnesota also believe the state should use more renewable energy sources. An excellent Star Tribune Editorial explains why these two conflicting ideologies simply cannot coexist…
Minnesota has a long history of mining iron ore, which continues to this day. In fact, nearly 75 percent of the iron ore produced in the United States is mined…
No region has suffered more from historical neglect than the Midwest.
The pace of technological change is such that the skills you have at 20 are likely to be obsolete halfway through your working life. To keep pace, education must become…
Considering climate alarmists history of alarmingly false predictions, it’s curious that their forecasts continue to be accepted as credible by so many. Here’s what Princeton University professor Michael Oppenheimer wrote…
The Indispensability of Competition and Choice in Minnesota K-12 Education | K-12 education in Minnesota faces many problems...
In 1989, a group of military officers, led by historian William Lind, developed a theory called “Generational Warfare.” Published in the Marine Corps Gazette, this article hypothesized that the history…