Center of the American Experiment has been sounding the alarm about St. Paul’s economy and fiscal prospects for some time. Now, a group of “fiscal watchdogs” have added their weight…
We wrote last week about Hennepin County ignoring the list of election judges submitted by the political parties in the creation of their ballot board. Today, the Minnesota Supreme Court…
Each year, Education Minnesota charges member teachers and education support professionals (ESPs) $25 to fund its political action committee, or PAC. PAC money is spent on supporting political parties, candidates,…
A new fall survey of educators has found that the majority of public school teachers support education savings accounts (ESAs), a school choice policy that allows parent-directed dollars to be…
State and local taxes and spending USA Today: Opinion: ‘Knucklehead’ Tim Walz stinks at grammar. He also gets an ‘F’ in state governance Minn Post: Why is most of the…
A report issued by the consulting firm Bain & Company earlier this month contained this eye-catching finding regarding data center growth: US energy demand could outstrip supply within the next…
Minnesota Power, based in Duluth, got approval for a 4.9 percent rate hike to residential customers’ electricity rates compared to 2023 rates. Minnesota Power estimates the average residential customer will…
On Tuesday, I wrote that: The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Establishment survey, which is part of its Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey, shows an increase of 6,300 in the Total Nonfarm jobs from…
In a recent community survey, 60 percent of participating Oronoco residents responded negatively to the question of whether the city government is trustworthy and transparent. Hardly a resounding vote of…
Minneapolis man’s violent crime spree leaves one dead and another injured in outstate Minnesota. On Tuesday, a 25-year-old Minneapolis man named Ameer Matariyeh assaulted his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend…
In an ongoing dispute over the composition of ballot boards, Hennepin County claimed they “exhausted” the list of election judges put forward by the Republican Party because they forwarded the…
Gov. Walz is fond of touting rankings that show Minnesota being a top state for business. The trouble is that, once you look at data rather than the rankings, businesses…
American Experiment has well documented why the particular brand of ethnic studies coming to all Minnesota K-12 public school classrooms is concerning. Far from the more commonly understood meaning of…
Last week I wrote about new Census Bureau data which show that Minnesota lost 8,700 residents net in 2023. To put that in context, as Figure 1 shows, Minnesota’s net…
Last week, Minnesota’s media reported: KEYC: DEED: Minnesota adds 6300 jobs in September KNSI: Minnesota Sees Job Gains, Strong Wage Growth in September Star Tribune: Minnesota hoping to reverse manufacturing job losses after…
Attempting to address the lack of affordable childcare, an issue vexing the rest of Minnesota, Stevens County did something creative. According to the Star Tribune, last year: The county took…
That’s not likely to happen; the real problem with the trans refuge law centers on how it assists and encourages interstate parental kidnapping, which will exact enormous harm on the…
Xcel may have tried to do the right thing by planning to construct a few new natural gas plants while it adds grid-destabilizing wind and solar. Unfortunately, its final Upper…
State and local taxes and spending Minn Post: Goldilocks report? Minnesota tax collections show economy not too cold, not too hot Star Tribune: Minneapolis to look at new taxes as…
Under Gov. Tim Walz, Minnesota does not appear among the 20 state governments suing to stop the Biden administration from implementing over-the-top new staffing requirements for nursing homes that industry…
UPDATE: Moorhead Area Schools sent an email to parents today disavowing any connection to the political direct mailer that was sent under their name. They also placed a pop-up message…
A majority of Minnesotans favor a school choice policy where parents can use state funding (tax dollars) for tuition and transportation at a private or parochial school, according to an…
To less fanfare than usual, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of State-to-State Migration Flows for 2023. They show that, overall, Minnesota gained 100,277 residents from other parts of…
Average English, math, reading, science, and composite American College Test (ACT) scores among Minnesota’s high school graduating class of 2024 have dropped again. The average composite score for the state…