A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the Minnesota Department of Education’s release of 2023 graduation data. The department reported a slight decline compared to the 2022 graduation rate — from 83.6 percent to 83.3 percent, or a 0.3 percentage point decrease —...
Ray of hope on 2024 session spending
Give Gov. Tim Walz credit for consistency. Each November when the budget forecast is announced, he preaches fiscal restraint. And each May when the legislative session ends, he signs budget bills that spend all of the available money. There’s hope this year...
North Carolina think tank will promote our legislative idea to prevent utilities from cashing in on unreliable assets
Mitch and I have been promoting the idea that utility customers should only pay for the reliable portion of an asset for years. Now, the John Locke Foundation (JLF) in North Carolina is promoting this idea as a way to prevent electricity prices in the Tar Heel...
North Dakota helps quash Biden emissions mandate in courts and Congress
Legal and legislative action backed by North Dakota elected officials has resulted in blocking a rogue Biden administration climate change rule on states in both the federal courts and Congress. In December North Dakota joined 20 states in challenging the...
Prominent nonprofit linked to Feeding Our Future case
Although neither the organization nor any of its staff have been charged with or accused of any wrongdoing, the nonprofit Somali Community Resettlement Services appears in a recently-filed Feeding Our Future trial document some 43 times. The document is the...
Star Tribune article shows again how American Experiment leads the conversation on Minnesota’s economy
Last week, the Star Tribune carried an article by Evan Ramstad which provided a decent tour d’horizon of the economic debate in Minnesota. It showed, once again, how American Experiment leads the conversation on Minnesota’s economy. Net migration: It isn’t just...
Blackout Costs Colorado Business $1,458 per hour
We recently wrote about hundreds of thousands of Xcel Energy customers in Colorado who lost power as high winds damaged power lines, and Xcel preemptively shut off the power to 55,000 customers to mitigate the risk of wildfires. Among the customers who lost...
John Phelan on the Jon Justice show
Last week, my colleague, Martha Njolomole, wrote that Minnesota’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in 2023 ranked 43rd in the country. This relatively poor performance wasn’t an anomaly. Indeed, as… April 1, 2024 by John Phelan Source...
Former DFL candidate for state House linked to Feeding Our Future case
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 appear eight (8) times on a list of trial exhibits submitted by the U.S. Attorney’s office in...
Department of Energy study finds replacing coal with nuclear would increase high-paying jobs
A new study from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has found that replacing retiring coal plants with the same amount of nuclear capacity would increase the number of high-paying jobs in local communities. The study and information guide found that...