Kim Crockett

Duluth News Tribune The governor’s office and the statewide teachers’ union Education Minnesota have made it clear that, once again, one of the top DFL priorities is universal pre-kindergarten classes.…

Congressman Jason Lewis’s bill reining in the Met Council has already passed the U.S. Senate and is up in the House this week. We are expecting to hear that the…

A personal-care attendant in Otter Tail County said she never voted for the union or agreed to join and have dues deducted. In the fall of 2015, however, she noticed…

Minnesotans pay the second highest amount among the state, $14,624 per capita, in federal taxes after Delaware. And it is not just because the women are strong and the men…

An unsigned excerpt from an editorial in a college newspaper, the Wellesley News, was featured in The Wall Street Journal. It demonstrates that these college students have learned all too…

Hopkins real estate developer Kelly Doran wrote an enraged commentary in the Star Tribune when he heard that 84 state legislators had asked the FTA and Congress to kill Southwest…

Here is Doug Berdie, a Minneapolis semi-retired marketing executive and researcher, in a common-sense plea to liberals in the Strib to liberals: “Think about the pre-election push for transgender bathroom…

The Governor’s office, DFL leaders and the teachers union, Education Minnesota, have made it clear that once again, one of their top priorities remains “Universal Pre-K” in Minnesota. Unless Senators…

The House and Senate have both passed transportation bills that follow the general outline recommended in the Center’s Minnesota Policy Blueprint for Transportation: road, roads, and more roads funded with…

There is an old saying: don’t kill the messenger: I was invited to testify at the Pension Commission this week. In response, a few tweets went out from the Teamsters…

Kim called for all pensions to be fully funded, and testified that, “We have made promises without paying for them, shifting the costs on to young employees and our children.”…

Governor Dayton’s team has projected a $1.87 billion-dollar surplus. Before anyone pats themselves on the back, recall that there is the not so small matter of a pension deficit. When…

We cannot tell you with any certainty what the refugee resettlement program costs but what we can tell you is that the benefit side of that cost-benefit analysis is in…

Did you know it is International Women’s Day? I confess, I did not get the memo. I apologize to women everywhere. I should have worn RED and taken the day…

We have been telling you about a new rule the Feds promulgated the day before President Trump took office. The rule could officially expand the boundaries of the Met Council…

A closer look at U.S. refugee resettlement policies and the impact on Minnesota

Why there is no budget surplus this biennium—or this century

Minnesota is the Leading U.S. Destination for Refugees

Congressman Jason Lewis would contain the council from DC.

We are hearing the call for more immigration every day in Minnesota as employers struggle to find good employees around the state. And it’s more like an alarm since the…