Public criticism and concern continues to mount over the dangers of riding the Twin Cities’ light rail system and lax enforcement by local authorities. Serious crime has shot up by…
IRS stats show that Minnesota has a net inflow of lower income residents. We reported these publicly available numbers. Bob Collins, formerly of MPR, said that was racist.
The Star Tribune published a bombshell story last Thursday entitled “Xcel Quarterly Profits up 35 Percent, Buoyed by Rate Increases,” which reported Xcel Energy’s quarterly profits for the last quarter…
And it's not just the rich and elderly moving to lower-tax states.
The New York Times’ reframing of American history—launched as “The 1619 Project”—will now be taught in K-12 schools around the country.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
This report by Chris Stewart of Brightbeam is a blockbuster. It is titled: “The Secret Shame: How America’s Most Progressive Cities Betray Their Commitment to Educational Opportunity For All.” Stewart…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
It makes everyone richer.
‘The state of our students is promising.’
The state’s ineptitude grows.
Property taxes illustrate the problem with ‘wealth taxes.’
Brexit exemplifies what happens when electorates vote in ways the elite don’t like.
Taxpayers would spend $17 million a year to subsidize Duluth train.
The 2019 figures for total state spending - $42.6 billion - and per capita state spending - $7,548 - are the highest in Minnesota's history. Before state government takes more of…
In recent weeks more than 400 counties and cities in some 20 states have passed resolutions declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries. The movement stems from the trend toward proposal and…
When your big question is 'How do we limit the amount of rich people?', you reach for socialism. When your big question is 'How do we limit the amount of…
Minneapolis is too important to leave in the hands of its own elected officials.
Businesses are being squeezed out by minimum wage hikes and rising crime.
I was pleased to read a Star Tribune counterpoint written by a parent who pushed back against the claims by Steve Marchese, a St. Paul school board member, that school…
I respect that the conversation on how to solve the gap is at least started by this proposal, but I don't believe it will result in the lasting change our…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
It’s become a holiday tradition of sorts for the Star Tribune to highlight its most widely read and, arguably most influential, opinion pieces published in the paper each year. From…
In material terms, the 2010s were probably the best decade ever, 2019 was probably the best year ever, and we are the luckiest generation ever to have lived. Let us…