I spent all of today attending the first Feeding Our Future trial in Federal court in downtown Minneapolis. This trial involves seven (7) defendants associated with the now-closed Shakopee restaurant…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released its 2024 Summer Energy Market and Electric Reliability Assessment last week. U.S. electricity demand is “expected to increase 2.7% this summer” compared to…
Your correspondent ventured to downtown Minneapolis to visit the Federal courtroom and attend the morning session of the Feeding Our Future trial of seven (7) defendants associated with a now-closed…
Iowa recently joined the growing list of states offering its students and families the opportunity to participate in a school choice program called education savings accounts, or ESAs. A fiscal…
Local media continues to assess the 2024 legislative session. Reviewing “What labor bills passed and didn’t in Minnesota this year,” the Minnesota Reformer notes that “Minimum wage carve-outs will be eliminated:” Virtually…
The trial enters its fifth week at the Federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. The prosecution has rested its case, now the defense is putting on its witnesses. The “Feeding Our…
An excerpt from Bill Maher’s new book, What This Comedian Said Will Shock You shared by The Free Press caught my attention recently. In it, Maher references a study of…
This piece originally appeared in the New York Post on May 24, 2024. Saturday marks the fourth anniversary of the death of George Floyd on a Minneapolis street. The years in between…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a “watershed transmission planning” order [this month] that would force the costs of state renewable energy mandates onto consumers in other states. While…
Local media continues to pick over the bones of the 2024 legislative session. Reviewing “What labor bills passed and didn’t in Minnesota this year,” the Minnesota Reformer notes that “Prevailing…
As expected, four weeks in to the first trial in the Feeding Our Future case, the prosecution presented its last witness, an FBI accountant, and rested its case. In this…
A new report released today from Center of the American Experiment exposes how federal policies implemented during the pandemic kept millions of people enrolled in Medicaid even after they gained…
Economic development Minnesota Reformer: Lawmakers expected to fund infrastructure, economic development projects on Iron Range Labor market KEYC: Minnesota’s unemployment rate holds steady for 6th month in a row Willmar…
At long last the legislative session is over. Compared to 2023, things were much quieter in St. Paul. That is if you don’t count the chaos of the final legislative…
This month, the Biden administration took another coordinated step toward the demise of coal by closing off the U.S.’ largest coal supplier to new leases. The Powder River Basin, in…
The post office faces a tricky dilemma when it comes to fixing the breakdown in mail delivery. Both the public and public officials have little, if any, confidence in the…
More shocking revelations from the free-food trial in Federal Court in Minneapolis. In this fourth week of the first Feeding Our Future trial proper, seven (7) defendants associated with the…
Seven decades ago this May, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, ruling that racial segregation of children in public schools…
I revisit a site in Hopkins once bustling with free-food, and now given over to the ever-forthcoming Southwest light rail extension. The Southwest light rail transit project (officially known as…
The 2024 legislative session crashed to a conclusion late Sunday night amid scenes of chaos as the DFL rammed through a 2,800 page Omnibus Bill that nobody had read and…
That’s the extraordinary proposal made by the state’s largest electric utility, Xcel Energy, to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC). Last month, Xcel proposed a two-year pilot project to provide…
The left-wing energy agenda at the Minnesota legislature was, thankfully, much less ambitious than their 2023 program. Tucked into the 2,800-page last-second omnibus bill are a handful of wins for…
A report by the International Energy Forum found that manufacturing 100% electric vehicles by 2035 would require 55% more new mines than would have to open otherwise. To meet “business-as-usual,”…
Michael Brown would have turned 28 yesterday. But Brown died 10 years ago because he chose to rob a convenience store in Ferguson Missouri, assault the owner who tried to…