St. Paul city council is poised to make some changes to its rent control ordinance. According to new reports, the City Council has approved, among others, some of the following…
As a Minneapolis kid who served 33 years in and around the city as a Sheriff’s deputy, I am not just troubled by the level of violence in my hometown,…
The Biden Administration is undermining the reliability of the grid again. This time, he has sought to delay the construction of a new natural gas plant in Superior, Wisconsin, that…
With the election less than two months away, lefty money groups continue to register in Minnesota, in case they are needed to prop up the ruling Democrats. Late last week,…
Did you know that solar facilities are subsidized to the tune of almost $50,000 per acre? Here is how the math works. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, a…
In November 2021, Minneapolis voters soundly rejected a proposal put forth by the City Council to replace the police department with a new Department of Public Safety. This came after…
When Elizabeth Windsor came to the throne in 1952, Harry Truman was President and Winston Churchill would be Prime Minister for another three years. She ruled Britain over seven decades…
The Met Council continues to plug away on the construction of the troubled Southwest Line Rail Transit line as though there’s no tomorrow. And at some point there may not…
September is the annual opportunity for Minnesota educators who are union members to assess their relationship with Education Minnesota, the state’s teachers’ union. Many teachers are concerned about how their…
The pandemic may be largely behind us now, but many Minnesota public schools still have a case of long COVID in the form of enrollment declines that hit many districts…
If not, they should be, according to a hitherto unknown website. Local media love any list where Minneapolis scores well. A real-estate website called “Commercial Cafe” published a list of…
In the year to June, the Consumer Price Index increased by 9.1%, “the largest 12-month increase since the period ending November 1981.” Back then, the rate was declining from its…
On August 25, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted to ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel-powered engines for passenger vehicles by 2035. Two weeks later, on…
Rolling blackouts were implemented in some areas of the Golden State last night, as California set a new record for electricity demand. The state’s power grid operator, the California ISO,…
As we have noted repeatedly, Minnesota’s crime rate (Part 1 crimes) has surpassed the national average for the first time in our history in 2020. Minnesota is a high crime…
The Minnesota National Guard already stands to lose hundreds of members being terminated over the military’s increasingly irrelevant mandatory covid-19 vaccination policy. Now comes word of another self-inflicted wound affecting…
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…