MPR ran a piece about the efforts of Citizens Utility Board (CUB) of Minnesota to educate people on how to lower their utility bills. Among the brilliant, energy-saving insights provided…
Remember the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission Chair who was so torn over the burdens of exercising her authority over the Enbridge 3 pipeline replacement project last summer that she sobbed…
MPR recently ran a piece describing the issue of mining may have on the upcoming elections. The story cites our research, and then goes on to describe the positions politicians…
Connexus Energy has become the first electric co-op in the country to bilk its 130,000 owner-members by forcing them to pay $31 million in additional costs for unneeded solar plus…
This morning, I appeared on Kerri Miller's show on MPR and was asked how long businesses could get away with citing uncertainty as a reason for their lack of investment.…
Elections have consequences, and this axiom is true in primary elections, as well the general election to be held in November. Now that the dust has settled, it's a good…
Tensions over bike lanes have boiled over in Rochester, Minnesota where bikes and bike lanes have become a contentious issue in the City Council Elections. According to an MPR article,…
"If that project makes it through the extensive and rigorous environmental review process that is run by the state, and it passes through that with strong financial assurances and strong…
The Twin Cities face a chronic shortage of affordable housing. But not the kind activists like to talk up. There’s nowhere near enough affordable new starter homes for middle class buyers on…
Despite a few factual errors, the MPR podcast "Rivers of Oil," is pretty good.
Did you know protesters from across the country are expected in Minnesota this month to protest the Line 3 oil pipeline?
Kim Crockett will join Kerri Miller on MPR tomorrow, Tuesday June 19th for an hour at 9:00 AM (91.1 FM) to discuss the public employee union fee case, Janus v…
Yesterday, Governor Mark Dayton doubled down on committing Minnesota to the expensive and ineffective Paris Climate Accord. Don't you wish Governor Dayton would stop cheerleading irresponsible energy policies that increase…
What do these incidents have in common? Trump Derangement Syndrome, or people on the left who feel entitled to act in an uncivilized, unhinged manner because they hate Donald Trump.…
Candace Owens visited Minnesota for only a day, but the ripple effect of her dynamic speech at American Experiment’s May 8 forum continues to reverberate over a week later. Minnesota…
Knowing of American Experiment’s project, “Great Jobs Without a Four-Year Degree,” a producer at Minnesota Public Radio recently sent us the printed version of a very good story written by…
If Dayton succeeds, he shifts the culture even closer to the socialist ideal of shaping little hearts and minds with the state’s approved education, re-orients our family schedules and budgets…
Lawmakers are frustrated. They cannot get enough funding for roads. Why? MnDOT has been captured by the “multi-model” approach to mobility championed by the Metropolitan Council, our mega regional planning…
On the way into work today, or maybe on the way home last night, I was listening to the radio. The news broke in with a story about many people,…
Democrats are desperate to deflect responsibility for the monumental meltdown of the MNLARS vehicle registration system under the Dayton administration’s bungling bureaucracy. Legislative leaders are working on a measure to…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota
Minnesotans’ power bills keep heading in the wrong direction. As American Experiment’s report, Minnesota Energy Policy: The High Cost of Failure, recently revealed, it’s no secret why. At least $15…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota
The argument over the sustainability of northern Minnesota’s wolf population ended long ago, at least among the folks who live there. The latest proof of proliferation comes from an extraordinary…