A St. Paul foundry fought the environmental bureaucracy — and won. For more than a century, Northern Iron & Machine foundry has been a fixture in St. Paul’s traditionally blue-collar…
Merry Christmas! Those in good favor this year didn’t include a number of union bosses who found themselves caught up in illegal shenanigans. Perhaps their New Year’s resolutions will include…
National news outlets such as The Wall Street Journal detail recent concerns about soaring energy prices crippling heavy industry in Germany and several other European countries. The nascent deindustrialization of…
A growing number of articles have detailed how soaring energy prices are crippling heavy industry in Germany and several other European countries. The nascent deindustrialization of Europe stems from decades of bad energy policies mandating…
After a years long battle with medical workers weary of union representation, the United Steelworkers has quietly pulled out of Mayo Clinic Health System in Austin with hardly a whimper,…
There's a trend cropping up among nurses under union representation in the Mayo Clinic Health System. Nurses at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Austin just became the fourth collective…
A recent story in Politco entitled “Minnesota on the edge: ‘I’ve voted Democrat my whole life. It’s getting tougher,” details how the political leanings of Minnesotans on the Iron Range,…
Iron Range mining, union and community leaders have their backs against the wall again, thanks to environmental activists and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. They say an unenforceable proposed MPCA…
Northern Minnesotans sent a message to the Trump administration this week in the Iron Range city of Virginia. Hundreds of residents spilled into the streets to make sure Washington understands…
What if the U.S. Forest Service held a public hearing on the Obama administration’s last-minute moratorium on mining in northern Minnesota and nobody came? Nobody, that is, except for Twin…