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How deregulation and tax cuts enable craft brewers to thrive.

Minnesota’s Supreme Court greenlights a lawsuit that would sort students by skin color.

This article originally appeared in The Duluth News Tribune. In late September, Gov. Tim Walz announced he would circumvent the Legislature by using the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s bureaucratic rulemaking…

A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.

Twin Metals made waves earlier this year when the company announced they would be using the dry stack tailings storing method, which is considered to be one of the safest…

In late September, Governor Walz announced that he would seek to impose California’s mandates for zero emission vehicles and low emission vehicles on Minnesota. Rather than passing this proposal through…

The maintenance of law and order is one of the core functions of government. How do you think Saint Paul’s government is doing?

“Why should we have to now jump through all these hoops and pay thousands of dollars to be able to do what we were already doing over here?” Good question.

After yesterday’s announcement that taxpayers are on the hook for another $23 million due to the Department of Human Service’s continued mismanagement of public funds, Center of the American Experiment…

Even if your house price has risen by 6%, there is nothing to say your income has too, and it is that cash which you pay property taxes with.

To be sure Democratic Rep. Betty McCollum recognizes “every transit rider deserves a positive experience.” Still she insists “we must address the social issues that contribute to challenges,” according to…

It should not come as a surprise that a local St. Paul institution is citing the $15 minimum wage law as one of its reasons for going out of business.…

You know it’s bad when a former New Yorker says the property taxes on his restaurant in Rochester, Minnesota make his tax bill from the empire state look good. But…

The purpose of tax is to raise money to pay for government functions. On this score, Minnesota's estate tax is a loser and it should be repealed. 

There is good news on the Minnesota mining front, as the Minnesota Court of Appeals has rejected a challenge by anti-mining groups seeking to invalidate Minnesota’s rules for non-ferrous mining.…

Nathaniel Elifson is the welding student at Minneapolis Community and Technical College we met last chapter, and Matthew Nickolay is his friend and a HVAC student at Dunwoody College who…

Halloween is just around the corner, and so is the deadline for teachers to request a refund of the forced political action committee (PAC) contribution the union deducts from teachers’…

Has St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter overplayed his hand? That’s the unspoken question behind Pioneer Press columnist Joe Soucheray’s breakdown of Carter’s manipulation of residents facing a referendum on the…

A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.

If teachers want to protect their right to not fund Education Minnesota's PAC, they must request a refund of the forced contribution before October 31. Let the union know its…

The Walz administration’s attempt to get Minnesota taxpayers to subsidize a proposed $550 million passenger train to Grand Casino Hinckley and Duluth-Superior came up empty with the failure to pass…

For how long have Americans tried to get education right?  From before Horace Mann was a sparkle in his proud parents’ eyes, more than 200 years ago.  At the heart…

Why aren't any of the state's dozens of environmental groups upset this 40 acre solar facility isn't complying with MPCA stormwater standards?

What would it take for St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter to come down on the side of average constituents in his city? Apparently more than an act of God. A…