Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison wasted no time last week politicizing the Dobbs decision to rile up their liberal base of supporters. Walz quickly tweeted his initial…
On Thursday, June 22, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) announced that Minnesota’s unemployment was at yet another historic low. According to DEED, Minnesota’s unemployment rate dropped…
There has been a lot of focus on Minnesota’s historically low unemployment rate. As of April 2022, the BLS reported that Minnesota’s unemployment rate stood at 2.2 percent. Certainly, this…
State and local taxes and spending Rochester Post Bulletin: It was the largest proposed tax cut in Minnesota’s history. And it didn’t get done Bemidji Now: Coalition of greater Minnesota…
In 2021 Minnesota’s population grew by just 225 people, losing 13,453 residents to other states. This was Minnesota’s biggest net loss of domestic migrants to other states in at least 30…
Corporations are prohibited from donating money directly to a political candidate. An exception to the rule involves the candidate-adjacent inaugural committees. We are just eight months away from the next…
The truth behind Minnesota’s role in the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 is more complex than revisionists want us to believe.
Gov. Walz gave his state of the state address Sunday night and in it, noted that, Nationally, we have the fifth lowest unemployment rate among states, the third highest job…
The average cost of electricity in Minnesota surpassed Wisconsin in 2021, marking the first time since the Energy Information Administration (EIA) started recording data that Minnesota electricity prices have exceeded…
Minnesota Nice appears to have caught up with 340 individuals who didn’t realize they were looking for love in all the wrong places until their bank accounts told them so.…
Are people greedier here? Recently, I had an op-ed in the Star Tribune arguing that the high housing costs we face in Minnesota are not a problem, but rather a…
Census Bureau data show that, in 2021, Minnesota lost 13,453 residents to other states, its biggest net loss of domestic migrants to other states in at least 30 years. Data…
Recent news headlines from Iowa confirm another Minnesota neighbor is prioritizing students over systems by expanding the types of school choice available to K-12 students and their families. Notice I…
The rate of year-over-year inflation in the United States hit a 40 year high in February. The rate of increase was higher in the Midwest than it was for the…
Nebraska, again, lowers its own record for America’s lowest unemployment rate. Minnesota’s rate returns to pre-pandemic level, but lags neighboring states. In data released for December, Nebraska again recorded the…
Progressives write racial discrimination into the law of the land.
Minnesota’s rate returns to pre-pandemic level, but lags neighboring states. In data released for November, Nebraska again recorded the nation’s lowest unemployment rate since record-keeping began in 1976, at 1.8…
Last week, Minnesota Management & Budget announced a forecast surplus of $7.746 billion for Fiscal Year 2022-23. The DFL was quick to take the credit: But the argument that wise state…
In data released for October, Nebraska records the nation’s lowest unemployment rate, at 1.9 percent. Last week, unemployment figures also were released for the state of Minnesota, showing an unemployment…
The September jobs report was disappointing. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the nation only added 194,000 jobs. Not only that but the Labor force participation rate has…
One of the biggest impacts that have come from COVID-19 restrictions has been a huge spike in deaths of despair. Minnesota and other states have seen an increase in deaths…
Millions of students across 18 states became eligible for access to new and expanded educational choice options during 2021. Unfortunately, Minnesota students were denied a similar opportunity when the DFL-controlled…
Minnesota’s Walter Mondale famously failed to resurrect Hubert Humphrey’s liberal coalition, but also took the first, faltering steps toward a new progressive politics that appealed to younger, educated, middle-class voters.
Tobacco taxes hurt low-income Minnesotans, small businesses.