Northstar Commuter Rail has never come close to meeting the rosy ridership projections touted at the $320 million line’s kick-off 15 years ago this month. Not before the pandemic, certainly…
The Star Tribune reported last week that the City of Minneapolis is planning to buy the site of the abandoned Speedway gas station at George Floyd Square with the intention…
You can rightfully label wind energy as the most unreliable energy source during the Texas energy crisis. While it may not have been the primary cause of the power outages,…
Joe Juranitch, aka Ragnar, was the Vikings number one booster on the sidelines for years. But these days he cheers on the way the Trump business tax cuts have played…
Covid-19 precautions have been added to the playbook, but the Vikings have kicked off their season. The Big Ten just cleared the Gophers and other teams’ return to the playing…
Top Twins prospect Royce Lewis tells the Star Tribune why he moved from California to Texas. Taxes were a factor.
Snappy ad campaigns like “the North,” designed to get Minnesotans to embrace our inner Nordic and attract people from other states, no matter how successful, are no match for the…
Wages are driven by worker productivity. Minimum wages don't boost productivity so they don't boost wages, all they do is outlaw low productivity jobs.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota
Economics is not the study of money but of human behavior. Specifically, it is about how people increase a sort of mental sense of well-being which economists call 'utility'. Money…
Advocates of bigger government will tell you that it will act in 'the public interest' unlike us selfish individuals. But the people who staff this bigger government are drawn from…
Gov. Mark Dayton hit the panic button this week. He expressed “serious concerns” and apologized for MnDOT’s untimely closure of 35W into downtown Minneapolis this weekend on game days. The…
One might think that Minnesota would be one of the last places to pull down statues. The state joined the union just in time for the Civil War, in which…
'Public goods' are a staple of taxation theory. But some public goods aren't so public after all
Here’s a piece of good educational news; a welcomed byproduct of less-encouraging educational news. There would seem to be a growing appreciation across the nation for the kind of education…