Labor market KDHL: Job Growth in Minnesota: 5,400 New Positions Added in May Rochester Post Bulletin: Rochester’s unemployment rate still better than state average KAAL TV: Southeast Minnesota jobless rates…
For 10 months, the Minneapolis Public Schools district quietly shorted its own employees’ health care trust by hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. Thanks to an unredacted report on…
Here’s why you should consider serving on your school board. Let’s start with the obvious: District governance matters. School boards control far more than most people think they do. They…
This is my third post, of hopefully many to come, as a regular weekly resource for our readers: The top ten stories, for the week ending on July 10, 2026,…
The case of Tou Lou Vang has made headlines over recent weeks after Minnesota’s Board of Pardons (Governor Walz, Attorney General Ellison, and Supreme Court Chief Justice Hudson) unanimously voted…
“Landmark June 2026 study found DCs modestly reduced US electricity prices between 2015 and 2024.” – Love ’em or hate ’em; data centers are not the source of electricity inflation…
Fahima Mahamud, age 50, defendant No. 79 in the free-food fraud scandal, pled guilty to two fraud counts this morning at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Your correspondent was…
It’s that time of year again when CNBC pulls out of who-knows-where some ranking which purports to show Minnesota’s economy going gangbusters. The release of CNBC’s ‘Top States for Business’…
On Wednesday July 8th at 5:00 PM, at the State Capitol, Minnesotans joined groups around the country to read the Declaration of Independence to mark the exact time 250 years…
Mustafa Jama, Feeding Our Future defendant No. 42 (out of 80), became just the 19th defendant sentenced in the free food-fraud scandal this afternoon at the federal courthouse in downtown…
Amidst mounting frustration with the state and national teachers’ union, a small group of teachers in Becker, Minnesota decided to try something different. They successfully petitioned the state to call…
Starting fall 2026, public schools across the state will be required to implement new K-12 academic standards and benchmarks in social studies. Since there is no external approval process on…
The last few years will go down in history as a time when fraudsters brazenly stole billions of dollars from Minnesota and federal taxpayers while state regulators looked the other…
Gov. Tim Walz delivered his final State of the State address last Tuesday evening, using the speech to tout false education “successes,” claim he lowered taxes for Minnesotans, and take…