The American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation, which puts on the Birkie ski and trail events in northwestern Wisconsin, recently announced it is severing its sponsorship relationship with Enbridge Energy after members…
According to the Fraser Institute, Minnesota has consistently ranked among the least free states in the US. Minnesota's burdensome taxes are a big contributing factors to this trend.
It has been 45 years since the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a storm on November 10, 1975 in Lake Superior. The disaster claimed the lives of the 29 crewmen…
A new campaign launched by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) helps connect Minnesota job seekers with Minnesota businesses that are hiring right now for quality jobs.
Wind and solar are not the energy future.
The following article originally appeared in Forbes. It was written by Michael Shellenberger. Fires have burned 1.3 million acres of California’s forests over the last month. That’s one million acres more than…
The 1850s produced a string of flashpoints that pushed slavery to the forefront of politics even in Minnesota' and its journey to statehood would be intertwined with the issue.
Minnesota’s implacable opposition to slavery.
Last week, filmmaker Michael Moore released his latest film entitled Planet of the Humans. The film brings several inconvenient truths about renewable energy to light, namely that wind turbines and solar panels…
Iron mining facilities idled and lay offs in northeastern Minnesota show that the damage from the Coronavirus shutdown is spreading across the state's economy.
Montana regulators have approved a new copper mine, known as the Black Butte Copper Project, in Central Montana. The mine is owned by Sandfire Resources America Inc., and the company…
Minnesota drivers might have noticed falling prices at the pump over the weekend, and prices are about to fall below a dollar per gallon of gasoline, at least that’s my…
A newly launched study by the Center for the Study of Economic Liberty at Arizona State University has ranked Minneapolis 40th among 115 cities in North America on the overall…
With all the talk about banning plastic straws in the name of saving the oceans, very little of the discussion focuses on where the bulk of ocean plastic actually comes…
There’s something you need to know about the doom and gloom surrounding the environment: most of it has no basis in reality. In fact, it seems like people who pretend…
On Monday the Minnesota Court of Appeals stated an environmental review of Enbridge’s controversial Line 3 oil pipeline was “inadequate” because it did not consider the effects of an oil…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Earth Day is the perfect day to inform our readers that new data show the benefits of non-ferrous mining could be even bigger than our report indicated last summer, if…
The following article originally appeared in the Financial Times: Does it make any sense to build nuclear plants in Britain? Not obviously, unless you are an atomic evangelist. In recent…
“ESPN’s Outside The Lines published an exhaustive report on food safety at every major North American sports venue. None of the four Twin Cities sports venues on the list fared…
Very often, the people who argue that carbon taxes need to be higher are the same people who argue that all the other taxes should be higher as well. Do…
Copper, nickel, and cobalt mining is a controversial topic in Minnesota, but is it more controversial than child labor? Like it or not, we all use these metals for nearly…
Moderate Republican candidates seem to think they can use energy and environmental issues as a bargaining chip to placate the electorate into giving them their vote, whether that is supporting…
Considering the likely origin of the cobalt in your phone, will you drop it in the bin? Or will you support environmentally sustainable mining in northern Minnesota? That is the…