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Parents should have alternatives to public education.

Minnesota’s spending is already historically high.

Mickey's Diner is one of the most recognizable places to get a bite to eat in Minnesota. But for how much longer? Now Mickey's has become perhaps the most high…

The Biden Administration’s selection of Tom Vilsak for Secretary of Agriculture and U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland (D) of New Mexico as Secretary of the Interior bode poorly for the proposed…

The evidence continues to mount on the detrimental impact of distance-learning online on Minnesota students, socially and academically. Yet on it goes.

The soaring incidences of carjackings, shootings, and violent crime in Minneapolis has received much-deserved media attention both locally and nationally. But St. Paul also faces an outbreak of violence and…

A group of educators calling themselves Teachers for Good Trouble organized a national teacher sick-out today (December 15) to "demand" that local officials cancel standardized testing this year.

Governor Tim Walz wants to mandate that Minnesotans accept California’s controversial car regulations.

We ask Minnesotans to sign the Craft Brewers Guild's petition and help this thriving industry through a second shutdown.

As the fate of BrewWorks shows, the time it will take for the Mayor and his bureaucrats to decide what to do is time breweries like Yoerg's don't have. 

If Minnesota closed its deficit by cutting welfare spending by $2.4 billion, the amount of welfare we spend per person in poverty would still rank us sixth highest in the…

The balance of empirical research on the effects of state tax rates on economic growth is clear: high tax rates and tax hikes slow economic growth and these negative effects…

The dollar amount of tax revenue seems far more likely to be a function of the size of the state’s economy than of its tax rates. If you want more…

Minnesota has the fifth highest top rate of state personal income tax in the United States, our state’s lowest personal income tax rate is higher than the highest rate in 25…

Today we release our new report which explains why spending cuts, not tax hikes, should close Minnesota's budget deficit.

Better give yourself extra time if you plan on going to grandmother’s house in Minneapolis for Thanksgiving this year. A new 20 mile per hour speed limit has taken effect…

You might think the recent surge in COVID-19 cases in Minnesota would have hurt the chances of the $6.9 million morgue winning our inaugural Golden Turkey Award for silly spending.…

Governor Walz's new restrictions are a sign of more bad news for an industry that is already struggling.

As school districts announce changes in their educational delivery models and shift to less in-person instruction, Minnesota has an opportunity to help families access alternative learning options that they are…

It’s hard to overstate the fiasco the St. Paul schools distance learning program has turned into for the city’s high school students this fall. There’s no sugarcoating the results in…

If the goal is helping the neediest during a global pandemic, raising taxes is the last thing Minnesota legislators should try when they convene in January.

The vandals and looters first unleashed by the Failure to Lead of Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter following the death of George…

For Theodore H. White, the process of a presidential election was a solemn wonder. That ordinary human beings, who for most of their history had had their rulers - emperors…

Politicians say we’re in a “new normal” with the continuing restrictions set in place by Gov. Tim Walz due to the pandemic. But there’s an even more concerning new normal…