A newly released study from the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) has found that mining supported 11,600 jobs throughout the state of Minnesota in 2019. These jobs come from direct…
Last evening, I was informed that I was not selected to serve on the Governor's Advisory Council on Climate Change. You can read the email informing me of the Governor's…
Imagine the following, Uri is a retired 83-year-old Michigan engineer, and in 2014 he accidentally underpaid, by $8.41, the property taxes on a home he rented out. But instead of…
Last weekend, the DFL State Central Committee officially adopted a resolution calling for a moratorium banning copper-nickel mining projects in Minnesota, according to the DFL Environmental Caucus’s Facebook page. The…
Last weekend the Minneapolis Star Tribune ran an article entitled Xcel Looks At New Nuclear Options As it Moves to Carbon-Free Power Goals. The article explains that nuclear energy is critical to…
The 1850s produced a string of flashpoints that pushed slavery to the forefront of politics even in Minnesota' and its journey to statehood would be intertwined with the issue.
When Wisconsin's Supreme Court struck down Gov. Tony Evers’ “Safer at Home” order on May 13th, we in Minnesota were told that Sconnies would suffer. In fact, since then, Minnesota…
Using a preposterously flawed scientific model, Gov. Tim Walz waged a campaign of fear to shut down Minnesota’s economy.
Minnesota’s implacable opposition to slavery.
Using a preposterously flawed scientific model, Gov. Tim Walz waged a campaign of fear to shut down Minnesota’s economy.
Minnesota has had more Covid-19 deaths in its care homes - 1,172 - than 30 states have had in total. If we strip out care home deaths, our state is…
Since the passage of Act 10 in Wisconsin, teachers' unions such as Education Minnesota have "warned" educators of becoming like Wisconsin if similar union reform is passed. But Act 10…
Another MPCA maneuver; another Line 3 delay.
Minnesota's economy weathered the first three months of 2020 better than the US as a whole, but worse than its neighbors to the south and west.
Property rights advocates in Iowa are furious about a proposal by the Iowa Utilities Board, the Iowa version of Minnesota’s Public Utilities Commission, to allow utility companies to use eminent…
With the Minnesota Legislature’s special session set to adjourn tomorrow, Friday, efforts to make meaningful progress on reform proposals continue. But one proposal—Equity and Opportunity Scholarships—aimed at addressing and eliminating…
Gov. Walz tells us that he needs to keep his emergency powers to protect us from Covid-19. How, then, is he managing to produce outcomes so much worse than in…
A lot of states have opened and they have not made it worse for themselves. Even some of the surge that was seen two weeks after reopening in some states…
While Minnesota’s bar and restaurant restrictions continue, Wisconsin has been open for weeks. Minnesotans have had enough and are crossing the border to get a taste of pre-COVID-19 life.…
A month ago, I wrote about how Minnesota was experiencing the worst of both worlds when it comes to COVID-19, with the state having both the highest death rate per…
Should layoffs have to occur, the Madison School District administration is recommending that qualifications, and not seniority, decide who gets let go. Guess who is not happy about this proposal?
Governor Walz loves to pretend that scientific evidence is the primary driver for the decisions he makes in St. Paul, but his actions show otherwise. In reality, Walz's mantra of…
So far any establishment that cannot physically seat people outside has not been able to open and operate legally. Furthermore, restaurants have been forced to plan their business around the…
The Department of Driver and Vehicle Services long ago became the symbol for what’s wrong with government delivery of services. DVS had probably already eclipsed the post office as the…