The Northstar commuter rail line never has lived up to ridership expectations. It’s always been a huge loser for taxpayers, who have heavily subsidized every ride taken on the train,…
Government-approved monopolies like Xcel Energy operate under a perverse incentive structure in Minnesota. The more these companies spend on new wind turbines, solar panels, and natural gas plants, the higher…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Rep. Little celebrates his skill - election season is no time for modesty - in taking money from you and your kids and giving it back to you with his…
In what should have been a headline in The Onion or the Babylon Bee, and not the Star Tribune, the City of Minneapolis delayed the rebuilding of businesses destroyed by…
Walz says Frey was to blame, Frey says Walz was to blame. The Senate report says they were both right.
We cannot expect the economy to return to normal while restrictions remain.
When Arik Forsman was elected to the Duluth city council he took upon himself a challenge; he was going to solve the childcare crisis. To do this, he sponsored an…
It’s no secret downtown Minneapolis was in decline due to violent crime and disorder before Covid-19 turned the business district into a ghost town. Riots and looting following George Floyd’s…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Wind and solar energy are closer to going away entirely than they are to being the future of energy. Here in the Midwest, hundreds of wind and solar installations, representing…
The Councillors can walk away from all this, whether they feel any shame about it or not. But, if activists like Al Flowers, Alicia Smith, and Lisa Clemons are correct…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
As with the positivity rate, it isn't clear that the ratio of community spread cases makes a very useful benchmark for whether Minnesota is in a state of emergency or…
The data has consistently failed to support the state government's dire warnings. Rather than ditching the dire warnings, the state government is ditching the data.
As long as testing is not truly 'random', the positivity rate is an unreliable benchmark.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
The violent crime wave underway in Minneapolis includes numerous holdups and assaults involving guns and other weapons in the vicinity of the University of Minnesota campus. Over the weekend there…
'Defunding' the police is a bad idea. If more cops means less crime, what does fewer cops mean? Faced with rising violence in the Twin Cities, we need more cops,…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
There may be a fire sale getting underway in Duluth as officials prepare to unload one city-owned property in the throes of the financial fallout due to the pandemic. The…
Minneapolitans might have won a reprieve from the city council's lunatic ideas, but they will need to remain their guard.
Urban school districts continue to kowtow to the left’s marching orders urging the expulsion of School Resource Officers—cops—from the hallways. Meantime, my colleague Catrin Wigfall has exposed the national teacher…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.