American AI needs affordable, reliable energy, not wishful thinking The U.S. Energy Information Administration warned last month that U.S. commercial electricity consumption will reach record highs in the next two…
Local media are digging into the newest Feeding Our Future scandal, the nonprofit New Vision Foundation of St. Paul. What went on behind the blue door? Keep in mind that…
Photo: Christopher Oquendo for DailyMail.com In the Summer 2020 edition of our magazine Thinking Minnesota, my colleague Tom Steward and I wrote an article outlining how state and city leaders — particularly Governor…
Abdulahi Osman has NOT been charged with any crime. Nor does his name appear in any indictment or search warrant in the Feeding Our Future list. However, his name does…
When U.S. Bank Stadium was constructed between 2013 and 2016, it cost Minnesota taxpayers $348 million, and the city of Minneapolis $150 million. And according to the Star Tribune, Minnesota…
A tale of two Starbucks Downtown Minneapolis has been a strange place to go for more than a year now. First, COVID-19 hit in March last year. Businesses were closed…
How Minneapolis voluntarily relinquished its streets to a mob of vandals, thieves and arsonists
The video of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis on Memorial Day is sickening. There is no way that arresting a man for an alleged minor infraction should involve a police…
More than 300,000 Minnesotans have applied for the state unemployment insurance program since March 16th, but there are still some people out there looking to hire.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
When people claim that minimum wage hikes "put the needs of working people above the profit margins of big business" it shows that they are living in fantasyland.
There’s no law against grandstanding in court, but that doesn’t make it right. Take the case of John Schulte, a Duluth judicial referee who saw the trial of three climate…
Minnesota’s workforce reality requires increased talent recruitment and retention to tackle a worker shortage expected to explode the number of unfilled technical positions from the current 60,000 to 239,000 by…
"The only restaurants that are going to be able to survive this (minimum wage hike without a tip credit) are big corporate chains. Small restaurants just can’t afford it" says…
Minimum wage advocates often argue that the money to cover these higher wages will just come out of the pockets of 'the rich'. The recent Citizens League report suggests that,…
The City of Minneapolis’s far-left city council is thinking about starting a bank. Seriously. Is there a shortage of banks in the Twin Cities? No. Does anyone in city government…
General Mills, one of Minnesota’s premiere Fortune 500 companies, made the news this week with renewed speculation that the company is ripe for a takeover. According to the Star Tribune,…
No one blinks anymore when activist city councils pass kooky or feel-good resolutions on the politically correct issue du jour. Potholes, garbage collection and other consequential, but mundane issues should hardly…