Minnesota Report GPS Technology is the tool Uber and Lyft use to determine their costs for a pick-up for ride shares. Door Dash uses the same for deliveries and UPS makes all of its delivery routes as right turn only to determine the fewest stops for drivers. Instead...
Minnesota Report Today, the Department of Employment and Economic Development released the Unemployment Rate and Labor Force Participation Rate report for March 2023. Unemployment Rate Down; Labor Force Participation Rate Remains the Same Minnesota lost 5,700 jobs in...
National & Tennessee Report Upon learning about the brewing controversy over the three Tennessee Democratic Assembly members, who voiced their collective opposition to the lack of responsible gun laws, in the aftermath of the March 27, 2023, Covenant School...
National, Minnesota, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida Report The US Supreme Court may be facilitating the failure of our nation and the demise of our democratic experiment, by its divisive decisions on issues of importance to the entirety of our population and not just...
National Report On Friday, in Northern Texas, 5th US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s decision to suspend the Food and Drug Administration approval of the drug mifepristone, over twenty years after its first approval, 9th US District Judge Thomas Rice in the...
Minnesota Report In the 1980s, the Fridley plant President Joe Biden (D) will visit was called Cummings Diesel, but now it is called Cummings Power Generation Facility. Soon after Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, Cummings announced it would commence...
Minnesota Report The question about Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is not a settled public policy matter. Despite the DFL now holding the governorship and both branches of the legislature, this issue does not have universal acceptance, especially with Republicans and...
Minnesota Report As Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is challenged as a viable voting system, this does not mean there is a lack of need for electoral reform. If claims of voting integrity can be voiced, and proven, then they should be addressed. Minnesota has a solid...
Minnesota Report In 2006, Xcel Energy sought and received an extension of its lease on the Monticello Nuclear Power Plant from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which was set to expire in 2010, allowing it to continue operation until 2030. This federal decision...
National & Minnesota Report When Governor Tim Walz (DFL-MN) announced his 2024-25 he declared his goal for Minnesota to be the best place to raise a kid. As time has moved forward, he has elevated his profile in the national media by criticizing Florida Governor...