The crime stories from Minnesota get more bizarre by the day. The latest one involves a single-car accident on Interstate 90 near Rochester and is like something out of a…
A massive Minnesota free-food nonprofit listed a curious job description recently. In late May, Brooklyn Park-based Second Harvest Heartland posted an opening for a “voter engagement coordinator,” a temporary position…
Professors at two North Dakota institutions of higher education dodged a bullet last year when lawmakers fell just short of passing legislation to reduce protections for tenured faculty. At the…
More news not fit to print. A reader alerted me to a bizarre incident that occurred in suburban St. Louis Park late Friday afternoon (5:14 p.m.) involving two women, two…
Adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) has dropped to its lowest level since August 2021, according to the J.D. Power EV index. The index showed that while consumer interest in EVs…
State and local taxes and spending The Globe: Jackson County plans referendum seeking 1% local sales tax KRFO: Rochester School Board Approves Hundreds of Millions in Spending Labor market Federal…
By popular demand, we’ve added a new feature to our coverage, tracking the status of each of the 70 defendants charged so far in the free-food scandal. So far, 23…
Recent data on unemployment insurance claims released by the U.S. Department of Labor show Minnesota’s increases are driven by layoffs in education. In the week ending June 1, the largest…
In what will be an ongoing effort to track the ever-growing list of frauds perpetrated against state and local governments in Minnesota, I’ve started a spreadsheet tracker, A few notes…
The drastic cuts in degree programs and faculty members recently finalized by St. Cloud State University officials put the school in a class of its own when it comes to…
In many circles, chronic absenteeism has emerged as one of the biggest problems facing schools right now. As I wrote here, Minnesota’s chronic absenteeism rate has more than doubled since…
Hometown Heroes Outdoors, a non-profit supporting our first responders and military members has organized an event at the Minnesota State Capitol to show support for our heroes on Saturday, June…
There’s still a lot of summer left to go, but Rochester police report fewer homeless camps in the first few months since a ban on encampments in parks and other…
Influential music mogul Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) supports Pennsylvania breaking the financial chains that are keeping students stuck in low-performing schools, much to the dismay of the teachers' union.
Only 35 percent of Minnesotans believe things in K-12 education are going in the right direction, according to a survey by Morning Consult that is updated monthly. Optimism about the…
More than one in four Minnesotans voting in the 2022 election cast an absentee ballot. The genie’s out of the bottle post pandemic, setting the stage for the number of…
Regulation Guardian: Uber and Lyft made a deal to raise drivers’ wages. It was another victory for big tech Minnesota Reformer: Minnesota Reformer: Minnesota’s new Uber and Lyft law just…
In a moment of reflection, Legislative Auditor Judy Randall hit the nail on head when it comes to fraud and mismanagement in the Walz administration. After releasing two scathing audits…
The state’s Legislative Audit office released the report this morning on the state Department of Education’s (MDE) mishandling of the Feeding Our Future scandal. A 120-page PDF of the report…
Summer is here. For a lot of Minnesotans, that means lively barbecues, evenings by the lake, and ice-cold beer. Unfortunately, however, even those simple pleasures comes at a high cost…
Back in 2022, the state Legislature established the “frontline worker pay program.” To be eligible, workers must have worked one or more “frontline” jobs — those requiring in-person attendance, like…
A day after Minneapolis Police Officer Jamal Mitchell, who was ambushed and murdered by a gunman, was laid to rest, officers from the city’s 3rd precinct had to use deadly…
It is summer break for Minnesota students, marking the conclusion of another school year. At an average of 174 days per year, Minnesota public school students spend less time in…
On June 10, 2024, the FBI released its Quarterly Uniformed Crime Report (UCR) covering January through March 2024. The report compared the 1st quarter of 2024 to the 1st quarter…