Characterizing auto theft as a simple property crime in 2023 ignores the significant public safety threat the offense has become, and the challenges our peace officers face in responding to…
In the last session, Minnesota’s legislature voted to raise taxes on Minnesotans by more than $9 billion over the next four years. But the legislators at the capitol aren’t the…
One year ago, David Zimmer and I visited the infamous north Minneapolis intersection of West Broadway and North Lyndale Avenues. The corner is home to outlets of local chains Merwin…
Average reading and math scores for the nation’s 13 year olds have declined again, with the math decline the largest ever recorded on the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ (NAEP)…
Tom Hauser of KSTP reports on Twitter that Thompson has been charged in the case. According to records on file with the state court system, Derrick John Thompson has been…
Great River Energy (GRE), which provides electricity to many of Minnesota’s Rural Electric Co-ops, is attempting to upgrade its 170 megawatt (MW) natural gas peaking plant in Cambridge, Minnesota, so…
Not all the indicted figures in the Feeding Our Future case stuck around to face justice. According to media reports, at least three of the sixty defendants have left the…
As students leave the classroom for the summer, families are considering leaving their children’s previous learning environment altogether. Almost half of parents (45.9 percent) nationwide have reported that at least…
Xcel Energy is reconsidering its future “clean energy” investments after the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved a much smaller electricity rate increase than the utility company wanted, placing doubt…
“Investment” is an almost totally devalued term nowadays, at least in political discourse. For politicians, every single penny of spending is an “investment” because saying you “invested” several million or…
A nearly packed room of engaged parents and residents respectfully voiced their concerns over explicit content in books at the Forestview Middle School library at the latest meeting of the…
This is the third in a series of four reports intended to document violent weekend activity in Minneapolis — coinciding with efforts by city leaders to draw more people back…
On Friday evening, five young college women were in Minneapolis shopping in preparation for a wedding the following day. As they drove on Lake Street, a vehicle that had just passed…
Today is Juneteenth, which commemorates the emancipation of the last remaining enslaved African Americans in the Confederacy. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas and declared the…
DFL legislators have been on the warpath for years. So the newly passed ban on using Native American names and mascots in public schools undoubtedly ranked as one of the…
Last year, I wrote about how Minneapolis and St. Paul lost residents in 2021. Census Bureau data show that Minneapolis lost 6,049 residents from 2020 to 2021 and St. Paul…
The first post I did (Nov. 2021) in my latest stint with the Center cataloged the $3,000 plus in unpaid court fines racked up by then-state Rep. John D. Thompson…
Connecting more dots between Feeding Our Future defendants and political figures in Minnesota. Back in March, the U.S. Attorney announced the latest batch of Feeding Our Future indictments. The batch…
Yesterday, the Star Tribune ran a story about Xcel Energy’s plan to relicense both of its nuclear power plants in Minnesota (Monticello, and Prairie Island) to run for a total…
A strong majority (74 percent) of Minnesotans favor a school choice policy where parents can use tax dollars to send their child to a public or private school that best…
Pending a lawsuit against a recent provision that bars certain religious institutions from participating in Minnesota’s Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program, the state recently issued an injunction that prevents “state…
Despite recent headlines, “teacher misery is not uniform across school sectors in America,” writes Mike McShane for Forbes. A new national poll by Morning Consult and Ed Choice reveals that…
Kite and Key Media released an excellent video describing how the United States is weakening its electric grid by shutting down reliable power plants and replacing them with unreliable wind…
Downtown Fargo has a problem. It’s gotten so rowdy and noisy on the streets on many nights that city hall has been deluged with complaints. Last summer the controversy got…