According to the Star Tribune, eighteen liberal Democratic lawmakers from the Metro area are calling for Governor Tim Walz to suspend all state permits for PolyMet’s proposed copper-nickel mine in…

New data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) today shows that, in the first quarter of 2019, Minnesota had the 36th fastest growing economy out of the 50 states…

The Star Tribune recently ran a piece announcing that Xcel Energy CEO Ben Fowke was the third-highest paid CEO in Minnesota in 2018 with a total pay of $26.2 million…

On second thought, maybe it’s not such a great idea to force St. Cloud property owners to spend thousands of dollars on a regulatory program with a catchy title but…

American Experiment leaves an imprint in St. Paul.

Amtrak prepares to soak Minnesota taxpayers.

Minnesota’s conservatives did quite well in the 2019 legislative session (read detailed report here). The legislature increased spending by six percent—too much, but less than it went up last year…

Want to predict the future political pulse of American voters? Look at Canada.

There is a pervasive fiction that solar is somehow lower cost than other sources of electricity and that this form of energy is competing on a level playing field with…

If you drive the Twin Cities freeways, you don’t need to read MnDOT’s annual report to know traffic congestion gets worse every year. But for the record, 2018 ranks as…