Tell Minneapolis not to cancel Uber and Lyft! In an effort to boost driver pay, the Minneapolis City Council passed an ordinance that disrupts the business model of rideshare companies…
The more the Met Council attempts to change the narrative on the Southwest Light Rail Transit boondoggle, the more it remains the same. The latest embarrassing case in point was…
State senate Democrats fired their top staff person, yet you the taxpayer are on the hook for $203,000. It may all sound like a tempest-in-a-teapot, and the $ amount may…
The Minneapolis school district’s budget woes have received attention lately after school leadership announced plans for $115 million in cuts for the next school year. This budget gap doesn’t account…
MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, made headlines yesterday for giving away a small part of her massive fortune to a handful of Minnesota nonprofits. The Minneapolis Star…
Apparently, one of the perks of writing about Minneapolis communists is getting on their email distribution lists. A press release arrived in the office email this week from an outfit…
Last week, Uber and Lyft, true to their word, announced that they would stop operating in Minneapolis after the City Council passed an ordinance hiking driver pay. Now, WCCO reports: Minnesota House…
State and local taxes and spending Bloomberg: Minnesota Persists in Drive for Full Value From Corporate Taxes KROC: The 10 Minnesota Counties With The Highest Property Taxes in 2024 Star…
State and local taxes and spending Star Tribune: Proposal would tax Minnesota farmers to help pay for cleanup of nitrate pollution Duluth News Tribune: Our View: New tax credit can…
Earlier today, the Senate Housing and Homeless Prevention Committee held a hearing on two important housing reform bills — SF 3980 and SF 3964. SF 3964 is yet the most comprehensive…
Minnesota socialists are flexing their muscles, both at the ballot box and in the streets. Yesterday was Super Tuesday, primary election day for Minnesota and more than a dozen other…
DFL vs Ridesharing On Monday, I — along with thousands of others, I imagine — received an email from Lyft reading: John, the Minneapolis City Council is considering an ordinance…
Back in 2018, I asked “Why is the Ramsey County board going to waste up to $2 billion on a pointless streetcar?” This was in reference to the proposal “to…
A growing number of articles have detailed how soaring energy prices are crippling heavy industry in Germany and several other European countries. The nascent deindustrialization of Europe stems from decades of bad energy policies mandating…
As new markets open up, entrepreneurs rush in to fill the demand. An alert reader sent me this picture taken Friday, March 1, of a bus parked at a south…
From eye-popping spending proposals and possible welfare expansion to a $20 minimum wage and numerous proposed regulations, the 2024 session seems to be a continuation of last year’s expansion of…
It’s taking longer than North Dakota residents would prefer for the U.S. Postal Service to provide answers on the problems plaguing mail delivery in much of the state. Not least…
Two weeks ago I wrote about a proposal from some DFL legislators in St. Paul to hike Minnesota’s state sales tax, with the revenue dedicated to housing programs. Now, the…
A proposed 235-megawatt solar panel installation that would go online in 2027 has generated opposition from residents and elected officials in southwestern Minnesota. Members of the Lyon County Board of…
Thinking Minnesota magazine conducted our very first poll back in August 2018, asking national polling firm Meeting Street Insights to survey 500 Minnesotans with 25 questions about education, crime, and the…
I previously warned about celebrating the “historic” education funding the DFL-controlled legislature passed in 2023 given the overwhelming new mandates they attached to the new money. Turns out, despite spending…
Last year, Minnesota’s legislature blew through an $18 billion budget surplus and hiked taxes and fees by another $10 billion for good measure. You might think that would sate the…
Thinking Minnesota magazine conducted our very first poll back in August 2018, asking national polling firm Meeting Street Insights to survey 500 Minnesotans with 25 questions about education, crime, and…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a new study which found that working from home is here to stay. I concluded by noting that: If this holds for…