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…
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…
After a holiday weekend in which the metro area experienced multiple shootings and at least one murder involving Somali gang members, Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher posted a video on…
Since it launched, as and when the data have become available, I have been tracking the performance of Minnesota’s Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) scheme against the forecasts on…
Minnesota’s budget has been on shaky ground since the end of the 2023 legislative session. The latest update from Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) confirms that lawmakers did little to…
When insurance premium increases are approved and finalized weeks before Election Day, voters will receive notices of these premium hikes in the mail around the time ballots begin arriving.
Yesterday, we wrote about a man who was convicted of repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl but has now been pardoned by a three-person panel including Governor Walz and Attorney General…