Council member Jeremiah Ellison is accused. Yesterday, the challenger for the Democratic endorsement in Ward 10 for the Minneapolis city council, Nasri Warsame, held a press conference to tell his…
Yesterday I attended the Midwest Reliability Organization’s Hybrid Reliability meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota. One of the presenters was from Form Energy, a battery startup focused on building low-cost, iron-air…
Late last night details began emerging of the budget deal struck between House and Senate negotiators. If you were wondering where that forecast $18 billion budget surplus is going to…
We are coming up on the third anniversary of George Floyd’s death. This morning, my colleague David Zimmer and I returned to Floyd’s namesake square in south Minneapolis. We last…
High energy prices are more than an inconvenience. They are deadly. A recent article from The Economist suggests that high energy prices in Europe were responsible for 68,000 premature deaths…
Minnesota public school enrollment has dropped for three consecutive years now, as thousands of students turned to other learning environments for their education during school closures. And are staying there.…
One week after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) warned that shutting down the nation’s coal-fired power plants would increase the risk of rolling blackouts in the United States, the…
If something is connected to the internet, it is simply a question of when, not if, it will be hacked. This is the unfortunate reality that Minnesotans must accept if…
The Saturday melee at the Minneapolis Ward 10 Democratic convention has received worldwide attention. I’m not going to get into the middle of who did what and who was to…
“The Officer Down Memorial Podcast is dedicated to the memory of our fallen heroes in law enforcement, to the agencies they served with, and to the families they left behind. “ …
As soon as June 1, the U.S. government could run out of money to pay its bills. This means that without further borrowing, the U.S. government would not be able…
Yesterday I wrote about net domestic migration into and out of Minnesota in response to an article in the Minnesota Reformer titled ‘Are Minnesotans really fleeing to low-tax states?’ State…
Over the last two years, several Minnesota cities, including Minneapolis, St. Paul, Edina, Northfield, and many others, have promoted an initiative called “No Mow May,” where residents do not mow…
On May 5, Gov. Walz signed the “Democracy for the People Act” into law, which implements automatic voter registration, allows 16- and 17-year-olds to pre-register to vote, creates a permanent…
When entertainers, advertisers or politicians want to know if an idea will be well-received by mainstream America, they ask the question, “Will it play in Peoria?”
Last week, Christopher Ingraham of the Minnesota Reformer emailed me to say that he was working on an article on net domestic migration into and out of Minnesota and asked…
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…