They call it the City of Brotherly Love, but Philadelphia is quickly growing a national reputation as the nation’s leading producer of fraud tourists. Last month, the U.S. Dept. of…
According to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in 2023, Minnesota spent $12,982 per average Medicaid enrollee. Only Pennsylvania and Washington exceeded this amount. For people…
Back in January, the Tax Foundation published its ranking of state corporate income taxes for 2026. As Figure 1 shows, with a corporate income tax rate of 9.8%, Minnesota ranked…
Back in February, I warned against the budgetary impact of passing a massive bonding bill. Governor Walz’s bonding budget proposal was then $907 million. But in the 2026 session, the…
Back in December, YouTuber Nick Shirley posted a video in which he visted ten Minnesota daycare centers — including the now infamous Quality Learing Center — and found no children…
A couple of weeks ago, the Minnesota Chamber released results of a statewide poll asking various economic questions. Few of the findings will come as a surprise to our readers, but…
In the very first Capitol Watch email of 2026, we wrote: “If you want to know what Democrats and Republicans believe will be their best issues for the November election,…
In February, gas prices in the Twin Cities hit their lowest level since May 2021. In April, as Figure 1 shows, they hit their highest level since September 2023. This…
“More than a year after passing the bill the first time, the Minnesota Senate has repassed the Office of Inspector General bill and is sending it to the governor’s desk…
From Fox News, Million-dollar SNAP food stamp fraud scheme in Walz’s backyard sparks outrage: ‘Cruel joke’ Fox News reports, Authorities in Minnesota have filed criminal charges against a man accused of…
Across the United States, people are fleeing “Blue States” with their high taxes, spending, and regulatory burdens, for “Red States” which offer greater economic freedom. Rather than heed this lesson, several…
With just seven days left in the 2026 session and no global agreement on budget targets, the House and Senate are stubbornly passing their own version of policy and spending…
You are not going to believe this one. Last Tuesday, March 5, the office of state Attorney General Keith Ellison put out a press release under the headline, Attorney General’s…
From a press release issued by the office of the state attorney general, Attorney General Ellison sues We Push for Peace and its two former leaders for misusing over $6.5…
Last week, I mentioned how, in his final State of the State speech, Gov. Walz touted as achievements a laundry list of spending increases which, in some cases, are blowing up…
Today at the Federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, two sentences are scheduled to be handed down in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal. Judge Nancy Brasel is set to preside…
Last month, the Star Tribune‘s mascot Stribby the Gray Duck was at the Capitol “lobbying in support of local news.” I have not seen Stribby on the register of lobbyists,…
Last year, the Tax Committee in the Minnesota Senate, where the DFL holds a one seat majority, passed a bill that would have imposed the first “social media tax” in…
Shireen Gandhi is still in charge of the state Dept. of Human Services (DHS). Ignore the cynical games being played with job titles, the situation is unchanged. MPR News reports,…
There are two weeks left in the 2026 state legislative session. It’s not too late to enact a robust anti-fraud agenda. U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D) launched her campaign for…
Like the famous Griggs-Midway building in St. Paul, Alpha News has found an address in Rochester with lots of interesting connections. They report, Under one Rochester roof: DFL office, mosque,…
This time, it was a Medicaid fraud, involving the personal care assistance (PCA) program and occurred in state court. But otherwise, the result is the same. From the Minnesota Star…
The City of Minneapolis announced yesterday the awarding of $1 million in grants for “recovery of local businesses” after Operation Metro Surge. Of course, none of the money went to…
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…