I’ve struck a pessimistic note about Minnesota’s economy this week. I’ve noted that Minnesota’s economy — even in per capita terms — has grown more slowly than the United States’ economy generally in…
My great-aunt smoked a pack of cigarettes a day and died in her mid-80s. Does this prove that smoking isn’t harmful? Of course not. Longevity is affected by many things.…
Once, when I was a kid back in Britain, I was watching Superman II on TV. At the end, with General Zod vanquished, the music swells and the Man of…
Center of the American Experiment has modeled the impacts of the Biden administration’s new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules regulating carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and determined that these…
The Iowa company backing what’s billed as the world’s biggest carbon capture pipeline just hit a roadblock, if not a dead end, in the state where the controversial project would…
Labor market Fergus Now: Job Growth Continues Across Minnesota Detroit Lakes Tribune: More Minnesotans have joined the workforce Star Tribune: New group will advise Gov. Tim Walz on what to…
The 2023 legislative session was a study of pushing through an ideological agenda.
The website Heatmap recently published an interesting interview with Mark Christie, a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC. The title of the article is a bit clickbaity…
The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce has produced its 2023 state of business retention and expansion in Minnesota report. Described as “an initial attempt to collect data andinsights on Minnesota’s business…
A lesson for state and local policymakers.
Minnesota families are ditching public schools, and finding homeschooling is a challenging but fulfilling alternative.
In December, I wrote that: From mid-2021 to mid-2022, 19,400 Minnesota residents left for other states, by far the highest number in at least three decades. This does not mean…
Despite a $19 billion budget surplus, House Democrats are pushing a transportation bill that raises sales taxes in the metro area and adds a new fee for home deliveries from…
Last week I wrote about new data that showed that businesses are fleeing downtown Minneapolis. Twin Cities Business reported: With over 21.2 million square feet of vacant office space in the…
Last week the Biden Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new rules on mercury that could jeopardize electric grid reliability in Minnesota and the rest of the 15-state Midcontinent Independent…
Several Southern States experienced rolling blackouts during the week of Christmas as Winter Storm Elliot caused electricity demand in some areas, such as the Tennesee Valley Authority (TVA), to surge…
There is a tradition in the Minnesota legislature that bills dealing with election law achieve bi-partisan support. Governors Tim Pawlenty and Mark Dayton each abided by this tradition and refused…
When he announced his $65.2 billion two-year “One Minnesota” budget, a 26% increase from the current two-year budget, Gov. Walz claimed that it will “lower costs, cut taxes, and improve…
If the federal government decides to pursue anti-agriculture policies in the name of fighting climate change (like those of the Netherlands), it is...
Sentencing Practices – 2021 On 12/15/22, the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission received a briefing on 2021 sentencing practices. The trends in criminal sentencing continue to be troubling. In 2021, Minnesota…
State and local taxes and spending Pine and Lakes Echo Journal: Nisswa taxpayers likely to see 12% hike in city taxes Rochester Post Bulletin: Letter: Tax increases in a time…
Walker Orenstein of MinnPost wrote an article detailing the energy and climate agenda of key Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota now that the DFL has total control of the House of…
Nearly half of teachers feel their school is political, according to a recent EdChoice national poll collected by Morning Consult, “which is significantly greater than the one-third of school parents…
The Star Tribune reported last week that Mankato “has the lowest unemployment rate forany metro in U.S.” So it does, as Bureau of Labor Statistics data show. The Star Tribune…