ENREnomics is the Economics 101 of Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment. ENRE can be pronounced “aan·ree” like the last name of the CBS soccer commentator, and Arsenal football club legend, Thierry Henry. My ENREnomics 101 is based on the wonderful...
Several Minnesota private colleges have fiscal issues
Higher education is changing, and Minnesota colleges and universities will have to change with it in order to survive. Declining American birth rates have created a smaller pool of potential applicants, forcing colleges to compete at higher rates for students....
five reasons Minnesota became “the state of fraud”
Governors want to be ranked number one in the nation for all kinds of reasons. Fraud is not one of them. Minnesota now leads the nation in fraud, and that stone-cold truth ended the political career of a governor who just two short years ago was looked to as a...
Omar Jamal illegally donated to Democrat’s campaign
The Minnesota Star Tribune reported yesterday, Ramsey County sheriff probing employee’s deals with convicted fraudsters. Earlier in the week, the Star Tribune published a lengthy expose on how Omar Jamal was shaking down fraudsters from the infamous nonprofit...
Sentencing departure in 2025; attempted murder in 2026
D’Marco Buckney, Jr. (20) Photo courtesy of the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office Minnesota’s court system has bought into the rhetoric that “the system” is causing racial disparities. Of course, “the system” hasn’t created disparities – rather the disproportion in...
Shots fired in Edina, again
KSTP-5 reports, Edina police investigating shots fired near Our Lady of Grace church. We live in the most-surveilled society in the history of the world, but nobody saw nuttin’. Gunshots were fired near an Edina church on Tuesday night and police are asking...
Has Keith Ellison done something right for a change? AG challenges PUC on energy affordability
Minnesota’s 30th attorney general doesn’t get a lot of love on this website, nor should he. However, Keith Ellison might have done something right for a change last month. According to the Minnesota Reformer on August 24, 2026: Minnesota Attorney General [AG]...
Vance task force flags 760,000 for removal from Obamacare subsidies
You could be a Learing Center and not even know it Vice President JD Vance’s fraud task force is removing about 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act exchange coverage, according to the Wall Street Journal. Just for reference, the entire population of our...
Ellison, trailing in race, ‘declines’ to face challenger, Schutz, in person
This morning, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Star Tribune‘s North Star Summit in Minneapolis on our recent report, “Supplying Hope and Demanding (Real) Affordability: An agenda for Minnesota’s future.” It was a lot of fun, but I suspect my remarks on...
The company you keep
From Alpha News, EXCLUSIVE: Former therapist slams ‘fraudulent autism centers’ in Minnesota, including one run by Flanagan’s ‘friend’ Peggy Flanagan said she’s been “friends for almost 25 years” with Nimco Ahmed. Now, DHS confirms an autism...










