The 2022 U.S. midterm elections are 17 days away (Nov. 8). Voting is often identified as a right and privilege of citizenship and a civic duty. The first time I…
A Minneapolis city council member proposes to halt the clearing of homeless encampments through April 30, 2023. KSTP-TV reports that Aisha Chughtai will propose a “temporary” halt that would last…
In our new report ‘The Cost of Lockdowns and Shutdowns: Part I: Counting the economic costs of government policy responses to COVID-19‘, my colleague Martha Njolomole and I write: In…
A new parents’ advocacy organization aims to take back Minnesota’s schools.
Digging deeper into the Feeding Our Future scandal.
Sizing up the issues before Minnesotans head to the polls
Should Minnesotans believe politicians, or their own eyes?
The latest fallout stemming from the proposed Chinese ag plant in Grand Forks involves the strategic air force base at the center of the national security review underway of the…
It’s one thing for the proponents of cancel culture to get their way in erasing the names of urban historical landmarks like Lake Calhoun in the Twin Cities. But the…
One of the features of the Feeding Our Future scandal from the beginning has been the connections between the alleged fraudsters and well-placed politicians.
To celebrate Columbus Day, I decided to check in on Minnesota’s statue of Christopher Columbus. The statue has been in cold storage at an undisclosed government location since being violently…
David Zimmer and I visited a Minneapolis encampment back in early June and shot this video: Fox 9 reports that the city cleared the encampment today, located on city-owned property.…
Everything appeared to be business as usual as the West Fargo City Commission prepared to approve the 2023 city budget that had been months in the making. But when the…
Much like St. Paul and Minneapolis, Rochester is also struggling with a housing affordability issue. However, unlike the two cities, Rochester is going in a different direction. Instead of imposing…
The short answer is “all of it.” The Democrats are losing the blame game. The editorial board of the Mankato Free Press pleads, Food program fraud prosecution more important than…
Last week, the St. Paul City Council voted to amend the city’s strict rent control ordinance. While the law still caps rent hikes at 3 percent, it will exempt new…
Dozens of GOP members of Congress have urged the Biden administration to scrutinize the potential national and food security threat posed by a proposed Chinese-owned agriculture plant in the works…
The nearer we get to Election Day, the more campaign signs sprout up seemingly everywhere. But there’s something of a crackdown underway on political signs in the southwestern Minnesota city…
After months of turmoil, the controversial Chinese-owned ag plant proposed in Grand Forks has ground to a halt, pending a national security review. What started as a local economic development…
Should it? As images emerge of the Martha’s Vineyard immigrants leaving on buses for the mainland, observers wonder, what will be the next destination for border crossers? It’s estimated that…
It turns out North Dakota voters will get the chance this November to be the first state in more than two decades to impose term limits on state elected officials…
Last month, Fox 9 reported: A new survey from the personal finance website WalletHub ranks Minnesota as the ninth-best state to live in for 2022. The survey awards a total…
Last week, President Biden gave a speech outside Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, where he said “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very…
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…