Minnesota’s businesses are struggling to find workers. Some are cutting back their hours. Some are offering higher wages. But, of these latter, who is going to cover the higher wages?…
University of Minnesota President Joan Gabel has taken the institution’s tagline “Driven to Discover” to heart in a whole new way. A year after precipitously reducing ties with the Minneapolis…
Crime is surging in Minneapolis; that is not new. As a new article by the Star Tribune reveals, According to the most recent police statistics, the number of people shot…
Majority now question Walz’s leadership, believe the state is on the wrong track and believe crime has gotten worse over the past year According to the latest Thinking Minnesota poll,…
Last week, the regional electric grid operator, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO) declared an emergency, warning that the hot weather, unexpected power plant outages, and high demand was resulting…
Violent crime is exploding in Minneapolis. Figure 1 shows the number of homicides in Minneapolis for the period from January 1 to June 8 in the current year and each…
The minimum wage in Minneapolis is set to increase beginning July 1st.
For much of the past year, a good number of office workers have been working from home as a measure to fight COVID-19. As the threat recedes, will people go…
Hundreds of people trespassed onto the site of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline replacement project yesterday, chaining themselves to bulldozers, excavators, and other construction equipment, reports MPR News. Media reports…
The last shutdown of state government was in 2011 with Republicans controlling both the House and Senate and Mark Dayton in the governor’s office. The major sticking point was whether…
A six year old girl named Aniya died today after being shot in the head in Minneapolis on Monday evening. WCCO reports: She was riding in her family’s car as…
“If you build it, they will come.” This might be sound advice when it comes to supernatural baseball fields, but it is bad advice for government transit. Fox 9 reports:…
A devastating guest column in the Star Tribune exposes the dirty little secret behind who benefits from the city of Minneapolis’ plan to eliminate parking and further reduce vehicle lanes…
In a recent interview with S&P Global, Bob Frenzel, Xcel Energy’s President and COO outlined the company’s vision for the next nine years and it is clear that the government-approved…
This op-ed appeared in the Star Tribune on April 28th, 2021 As Minnesota’s economy slowly begins to recover from COVID-19 and the measures taken by state government to fight it,…
On April 14, 2021, the Minnesota State Senate debated legalizing new nuclear power plants in the state, something that has been illegal since 1994. Senate Republicans had included a bill…
Ban on elective surgeries and procedures reduced hospital and clinic volumes, costing the health care industry jobs as well as revenue.
This op ed appeared in the Duluth News Tribune on April 19th, 2021 Hopes are high among some that the $2 trillion President Joe Biden intends to spend with his…
On April 13, the St. Paul City Council approved a plan to “funnel” $46.9 million in property taxes to affordable housing projects on the former Ford Plant Site. The city…
Last week, KPVI ran a report titled: ‘Some Minnesota businesses report hiring problems, citing enhanced unemployment benefits‘: With more relaxed restrictions and the promise of warmer months ahead, businesses are…
Earlier this week, the Minnesota State Senate moved forward to legalize the construction of new nuclear power plants in the state by including it in an omnibus bill for further…
Following this week’s killing of Daunte Wright by a Brooklyn Center police officer, protesters exercised their First Amendment right to “peaceably” assemble. It must be rather galling for these protesters…
The global pandemic brought about many changes in life, some temporary and some permanent. One of the permanent changes appears to be how and where we work. Many businesses were…
The latter is apparently much deadlier, according to one liberal's scientific model.