Last week, my friends Brent Bennett and Jason Isaac at the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) released a new study investigating the true cost of electric vehicles. According to the…
At a time when reliability concerns are plaguing most regional power grids in America, it helps to remember one of the largest blackouts in the country’s history — the 2003…
Too often, critics of educational freedom will say that school choice programs are a detriment to public schools. But the case for school choice is overwhelming, and as I have…
It’s National School Choice Week, but not a peep from Gov. Tim Walz or DFL legislators (that I’ve seen) acknowledging the annual nonpartisan celebration of effective K-12 education options available…
State bans on government-owned devices using the short-form video platform controlled by the Chinese Communist Party are gaining momentum, as my colleague Tom Steward has recently written about here and…
The following article was written by Chuck Devore, and it appeared in The Federalist: California’s electric grid operator declared a “Flex Alert” Friday morning, showing all that mandated solar and…
California is reeling from decades of bad energy policy, and it is now expecting residents living in saner states to pay for their mistakes. On Friday, July 9, 2021, and…
What Minnesotans can learn from rolling blackouts and government favoritism for wind and solar.
We continue to learn new things about why Texas suffered a catastrophic series of blackouts due to the Polar Vortex. Dr. Brent Bennet has been at the forefront of examining…
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr and Brent Bennett in episode 282 of the In The Tank Podcast. Brent Bennett, a policy director…
Texas is often held up as an example by wind advocates of the free market choosing wind. These talking points may appear to be persuasive, but there are three main…
Last month, I participated in an event with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy to discuss energy issues in a post COVID world. You can read more about the event…
Heartland’s Jim Lakely takes over as host this week for Episode 216 of the In The Tank Podcast and interviews Ben Boychuk, managing editor of the conservative journal American Greatness…
Hello all! I’m excited to announce that I have been asked to be a co-host of the In the Tank Podcast, which examines the work of Think Tanks throughout the…
Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller wrote a great article, which is a victory lap of sorts, about how the town of Georgetown, Texas, which was featured in former Vice President…
Minnesota Congressman Jason Lewis recently voted in favor of a bill which (in the words of the press release issued by his office) “aims to lower our prison systems’ recidivism…