On November 17, 2022, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) issued its 2022-2023 Winter Reliability Assessment, a document that identifies risks to the electric grid for all of North…
The recent elections gave Minnesota Democrats total control of the state government for at least the next two years. According to an article in The Sahan Journal, they are wasting…
Did you know Minnesota has the highest industrial electricity prices in the Midwest? Data from the U.S. Energy Information show that only twelve states in the entire country charge their…
Likely voters in battleground states have more confidence in Republicans on education than Democrats, according to a poll commissioned by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Thirty-nine percent of respondents…
While the national teachers’ unions cite Republicans’ and parents’ “politicization” of the classroom as the reason for educators wanting to leave the field, Tony Kinnett with the Chalkboard Review discovered…
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American Experiment policy fellow Isaac Orr joins Robert Bryce on the Power Hungry Podcast. In his second appearance on the podcast (his first was on August 10, 2021), Orr talks…
Yesterday, Dr. Scott Jensen, the Republican candidate for Governor, released his plan to “Unleash Minnesota Energy,” and there is a lot to like among the policies listed in this proposal.…
We check back in on the grid this Monday afternoon and the wind ain’t blowing. Temperatures in Minneapolis are a comfortable 81 degrees, but the wind is blowing at a…
America’s utility regulators are expecting power blackouts, if not this summer than next, for much of the nation. Here in the Midwest, the entity tasked with keeping the lights on…
The article below was written by Mark Kolbinger in the Patriot News. Sizzling temperatures have one again forced area residents inside to the comfort of their air conditioners, while questions…
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal and Linnea Lueken are joined by Isaac Orr from the Center of the American Experiment and Jason Hayes from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy…
We tour the growing ruins of this once great Midwestern city. Yesterday, my colleague David Zimmer and I took our third trip this month to see the sights in the…
The following article originally appeared in Newsweek. It was written by Robert Bryce. Last June, the Biden administration was so concerned about China’s use of Uyghur Muslim slave labor to…
Writing about the April inflation figures last month, I noted that “gas prices have been ticking up again recently… and this will be reflected in next month’s CPI numbers.” That…
Documenting the decline and fall of a once great Midwestern city. Your correspondent drove through George Floyd Square this morning, my first trip to the site since the unfortunate events…
Saturday, May 14, 2022, was likely the first time many Minnesotans were told that our electric grid could suffer from rolling blackouts in the near future. Our readers have known…
The Star Tribune has finally said the “b-word:” blackouts. Several of our readers reached out to me over the weekend to share this article from the Star Tribune, entitled “Midwest,…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released figures for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in April today. The good news was that the CPI increased by 0.3 percent in April,…
The average cost of electricity in Minnesota surpassed Wisconsin in 2021, marking the first time since the Energy Information Administration (EIA) started recording data that Minnesota electricity prices have exceeded…
The rate of year-over-year inflation in the United States hit a 40-year high of 7.9 percent in February. In the Midwest, the rate was a touch higher at 8.0 percent, driven in…
The rate of year-over-year inflation in the United States hit a 40 year high in February. The rate of increase was higher in the Midwest than it was for the…
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that inflation was 0.8 percent in February and 7.9 percent over the year (for the Midwest, the figures were 0.9 percent and 8.0 percent, respectively). This…
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that inflation was 0.6 percent in January and 7.5 percent over the year (the increase was 7.9 percent in the Midwest). This is the fastest…