Last week I took the train from the Twin Cities to Chicago for a work trip. I enjoyed it, and it set me wondering whether we ought to expand rail…
We’ve reached a baker’s dozen of convictions in the free-food scandal. Yusuf Ali is the latest defendant to plead guilty in the case. Ali, defendant No. 30 in the scandal,…
It’s one of the busiest times of the year for teachers — back to school! It’s also the only annual opportunity educators get to evaluate their relationship with the teachers’…
Three-term state Rep. Ruth Richardson (DFL-Mendota Heights) abruptly resigned via Twitter (X) last night, as the long Labor Day weekend began. Little additional explanation was given for her sudden departure.…
A sweeping new ballot petition filed with North Dakota Secretary of State Michael Howe aims to significantly revamp the system for voting in North Dakota elections. The “Election Integrity Act…
The idea that our state should spend, or as politicians like to say, “invest,” more of our tax dollars on childcare was not only prevalent in this year’s legislative session,…
In the past week, at least twelve (12) law enforcement agencies across Minnesota have reportedly decided to pull their school resource officers (SROs) from area schools. These agencies include sheriff’s…
Abdikadir Kadiye, Defendant No. 55 in the case, entered a guilty plea yesterday in Federal court in Minneapolis. This represents the 12th conviction, to date, obtained by the U.S. Attorney.…
Illinois has long been a byword for bad governance and Illinoisans have been getting out in huge numbers: in 2021-2022, the state lost 141,656 residents to other parts of the…
The steady stream of revelations exposing the Met Council’s incompetence in managing the botched Southwest Light Rail Line still under construction finally appears to be rattling some members’ cages at…
MN Reformer calls attention to this new Gallup poll (scroll down) about American opinions on crime in various cities. The Reformer‘s headline reads, Americans think Minneapolis is less safe than…
State Attorney General Keith Ellison charged 18 individuals with a range of crimes related to a $9.5 million scheme to defraud the state’s Medicaid program through a personal care assistant…
According to MinnPost, Fabio Azeredo earned a Ph.D. in psychology and practiced as a licensed supervising psychologist in Brazil for 29 years. Since moving to Minnesota two years ago, he…
With the latest statewide test results showing more than half of Minnesota students not meeting basic proficiency standards in reading and math, some are rationalizing the discouraging data by claiming…
Last year, I wrote about a paper by economists by economists James Cloyne, Joseba Martinez, Haroon Mumtaz, and Paolo Surico which found that: A corporate income tax cut leads to a…
There’s no sugarcoating the precipitous decline in Minnesota’s K-12 public school system and inverse relationship between increased funding and decreased results. The latest statewide test scores show more than half…
Most of the consequences of any action are unintended consequences. Hiking the minimum wage, for example, is intended to raise the wages of workers, but other — unintended — consequences…
After the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) published its latest inflation numbers, one thing was noticeably picked up by both local and national media. This is the fact that BLS…
September 17 is Constitution Day, a federal observance to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution on this day in 1787. If a school receives federal funds for a fiscal…
You can see why the Rochester City Council went for broke in overriding Mayor Kim Norton’s veto on the proposed $205 million extension of the city’s expiring local sales tax…
During the long hot summer of 2023, we’ve been logging the incidents of large hordes of feral youth roaming the countryside of Minnesota. Apparently, the golden state of California is…
It is often argued that, at the federal and state level, “the rich” and their corporations use their wealth to influence policy in their economic interest. An example is found…
Having destroyed their hometown of San Francisco, a new city is planned for rural Solano County. For years, a mystery has lingered around exactly who was buying up tens of…
State and local taxes and spending Kittson County Enterprise: Governor Walz Announces Payments of up to $1,300 Will Begin This Week Minn Post: Downtowns, including St. Paul and Minneapolis, turning…