Activists are discovering the power of working together to bring accountability to their communities.
The Minneapolis-based Russian art museum is housed in a Spanish Colonial church. The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) is located in south Minneapolis, at I-35W and Diamond Lake Road. The…
How local activists in White Bear Lake persuaded the Met Council to prevent 89 daily buses from cutting through their charming community.
President Biden and other liberal politicians have been taking credit for falling prices at the pump, but gasoline and diesel prices are only falling because people can’t afford to buy…
On Friday evening the son of a former metro area police chief was violently assaulted and hospitalized during a robbery of his cell phone in downtown Minneapolis. The chief posted…
Minnesotans are some of the most heavily taxed citizens in the United States. In our Give It Back report, we noted that at 10.2%, Census Bureau data showed that in…
In the dystopian game of whack-a-mole playing out in south Minneapolis, the homeless encampment cleared by the city last Wednesday has reappeared two blocks to the east. As reported by…
John Constable is the director of energy at the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a British public charity. In this episode, Constable (who previously appeared on the podcast on February 1,…
Exposing the troubling agenda upending our public schools.
Motherboard had an interesting article on the nature of solar jobs, describing the work as transient and low-paying. You can read the beginning third below, or click the link for…
According to the Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), as of June 2022, Minnesota’s unemployment is at an all-time low rate of 1.8 percent. Certainly, low unemployment is usually…
Efforts to de jure defund the Minneapolis police department may have failed at the ballot box, but the fallout is causing a de facto privatization of policing in the city.…
There were high expectations for the economic benefits Enbridge’s Line 3 replacement project promised to bring to the 15 northern Minnesota counties the pipeline runs through. But a new study…
Minnesota’s economic train falls off the tracks.
I had the opportunity last night to attend a screening of the film made by Kendall and Sheila Qualls, I Am A Victor. The 55-minute movie was screened before two…
While the national teachers’ unions cite Republicans’ and parents’ “politicization” of the classroom as the reason for educators wanting to leave the field, Tony Kinnett with the Chalkboard Review discovered…
Good news on the mining front today as PolyMet Mining and Teck Resources have announced a joint venture that would place their respective Minnesota projects, which contain high-in-demand copper, nickel, cobalt and platinum-group metals under…
A powerful U.S. Senator rebukes the Minneapolis Fed for playing politics with issues outside its ‘statutory mandate.’
I attended the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission (SGC) roundtable discussion yesterday and voiced opposition to the commission’s consideration of eliminating the Custody Status Point (CSP) from the sentencing guidelines. The…
In May, we celebrated when Gov. Tim Walz signed a bill to reform Minnesota’s liquor laws. The so-called “Free the Growler” bill raised the annual cap on craft beer production…
Controversial comedian Dave Chappelle adds 4 more shows at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis after being cancelled by First Avenue hours before his appearance last night. Chappelle performed his show…
We visit the now-cleared homeless encampment on 14th Avenue and the burned-out block nearby. Late last month, we visited the homeless encampment along the Midtown Greenway at 14th Avenue in…
Center of the American Experiment Public Safety Policy Fellow David Zimmer will participate in a roundtable discussion tomorrow with criminal justice system stakeholders and legislators called by the Minnesota Sentencing…
The recent officer involved shooting in Minneapolis will take time to investigate — perhaps more than usual. We need to support the process if we are serious about actual justice. Recent…