Update: The Minnesota Supreme Court blocked the ballot proposal from being placed on the ballot because the present city charter does not provide for submitting ordinances by a citizen petition.…
The Minnesota Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling today that declared a fee charged by the City of St. Paul to fund road maintenance was in fact a tax that…
This year there was strong bipartisan support for a special session to do two things: pass a bonding bill, and correct tax legislation that contained an error that, according to…
A walk in the park may be just that to most of us, but not the Met Council. It all depends on who’s taking a walk in the park. A…
A group of Personal Care Attendants (PCAs) in Minnesota announced last week that they want out of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) bargaining unit formed in 2014. They say…
The new Vikings stadium construction may be over now, but apparently there’s still a lot of work to do. Yet it’s no easy job explaining why it takes two well-connected…
You have to wonder what Brexit will be blamed for next. Even The Wall Street Journal on Monday reported on the front page, “Pensions Pressed Further by Brexit.” The front-page…
Why is our secretary of state hiding the 2020 voter lists?
You have to work at it to be cited for contempt of court in Minnesota. It’s a rare sanction for individuals and essentially, unheard of for government agencies—until now. A…
How many court orders does it take to compel state education officials to follow the law? A courtroom showdown over the serial intransigence of the Minnesota Board of Teaching has…
This is one of the silliest articles I have read in a long time. Who published it? The uber-left New York Times, naturally. The Times is promoting a theory by…
The prosecution of Bill Davis may have run its course with the DFL insider’s recent guilty plea to 16 counts of theft and fraud for bilking Community Action of Minneapolis…
Few issues motivate partisans on either side of the aisle more than the mere mention of the issue of voter fraud. The discussion often goes south, turning into a tit-for-tat over…
A new voter fraud case before the Minnesota Supreme Court claims 1,366 ineligible felons have cast at least 1,670 fraudulent votes in recent statewide elections, possibly tipping the outcome of…
Under the guidance of the Metropolitan Council, billions of dollars have been spent in recent years on public transit, most notably on a handful of light rail lines. The Met…
I often find myself at odds with the Metropolitan Council, but I confess to mixed feelings about this one. The Star Tribune reports that the Met Council is “push[ing] to…
Yesterday the St. Paul school board fired its superintendent of schools, Valeria Silva. Silva’s contract was bought out with a package estimated at $787,500. Silva’s firing follows an explosive series…
The Metropolitan Council never saw any human behavior it didn’t want to change. It wants to change the way we get from one place to another, where we live, and…
Brooklyn Center, Minn.—For the second time this year, a Twin Cities suburb has turned back a controversial proposal to curtail one of its residents’ fundamental property rights—a homeowner’s freedom to…
You don’t want to miss Mitch Pearlstein’s thought-provoking piece on affirmative action and quotas that was featured on the opinion pages in Sunday’s Star Tribune. It’s stirred up a great…
It’s no secret that President Obama makes the Nixon Administration look good when it comes to White House hostility to openness in government. There’s little reason to expect “hope and…
Last year President Obama called on cities and states to pass legislation to require employers to provide paid sick leave to employees. Minneapolis just became the latest liberal metropolis to…
Victoria officials expect taxpayers to foot the bill for up to $100,000 in anticipated attorneys’ fees for four city council members found liable in March for a combined 38 intentional…
Road construction season is in full swing and it feels like one of the worst ever. Any trip I make seems to be obstructed. Get off the freeway to avoid…