Being in downtown Minneapolis these days is like being in downtown Los Angeles at the start of that old Charlton Heston movie The Omega Man: there are few people around…
When I was teaching, I was given an annual classroom budget of $200 for classroom supplies. Like many teachers then — and still today — I had to spend my…
Week three of the 2023 legislative session is over, and the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are taking full advantage of their new power.
Today I will be testifying on Senate File 4, which will require Minnesota to get 100 percent of its electricity from carbon-free sources by 2040. The hearing will begin at…
Today the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee will hold a hearing on a bill to impose price controls on drug manufacturers. The bill — House File 17 —…
State and local taxes and spending Kare 11: Tax conformity bill delivers tax cuts Kare 11: New MN tax bill and its impact KIMT 3: Some Minnesota DFL lawmakers express…
Governor Walz really wants to help Minnesota’s economy. He wants to make Minnesota a better state for workers and businesses as well. To that, he has unveiled another part of…
The DFL and Gov. Walz are pushing for what they call the “simple legalization of recreational marijuana.” How truthful is that description? Not very.
The scandal has grown to 18 schools in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. A new front in the academic war on merit. The scandal involves National Merit “Commendations,” a lower-tier of…
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that Minnesota lost 5,200 jobs in December. And as always, that's still not the full story.
It was a post-9/11 reform. How soon we forget. The current prohibition on issuing Minnesota driver’s licenses to undocumented migrants dates from 2003. A number of media outlets note that…
Met Council Chairman Charlie Zelle has yet to acknowledge the brutal, not to mention embarrassing, fact he oversees the most dangerous light rail system in the country. As American Experiment…
Teachers’ unions and other school choice opponents use every excuse they can to limit empowering families with greater education choice, including that such programs don’t benefit rural areas because options…
One of the main problems with the paid family and medical leave scheme being pushed by the DFL in St. Paul is the extent to which it will force businesses…
Last November, talking about how to spend what was then an estimated $9.3 billion surplus, Gov. Tim Walz said he wanted to focus heavily on one-time spending, citing the grim…
It was a close call, a 4 to 3 vote, but the Rochester Public Schools Board approved the hiring of another school resource officer — a cop — to begin…
Can St. Paul be far behind? San Francisco’s official African American Reparations Advisory Committee issued a report last month detailing recommendations for local residents, victims of the City’s past discrimination.…
Today is the day the Minnesota House of Representatives will hear House File 7, which would require 100 percent of the electricity generated in Minnesota to be “carbon-free” by 2040.…
As Gov. Tim Walz rolled out his education budget for 2023, Center of the American Experiment reminded Minnesotans that there is no correlation between Walz’s favorite solution, more money, and…
Tomorrow at 3 p.m., the Minnesota House Climate and Energy Finance and Policy Committee will hold a hearing on House File (HF) 7, which is the 100 percent carbon-free electricity…
My colleague Bill Walsh writes about the coming collision of two bills at the legislature, both dealing with driver’s licenses, in this week’s Capitol Watch. HF 4, if passed, would…
Yesterday we honored Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and remembered the dream he had for all Americans. A dream that focuses on our common humanity over identity politics and racial…
Semi-retired Star Tribune columnist Lori Sturdevant wrote recently about the just-started Minnesota legislative session under the headline: DFL may go big, and that wouldn’t be bad Some policy moves are…
In 2015, Hennepin County seized Geraldine Tyler’s Minneapolis condo “over about $2,300 of unpaid property taxes, plus $12,700 in penalties, interest and fees.” The county sold the condo for $40,000…