American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten’s gross salary was over $426,000 from 2020-2021, according to the union’s federal LM-2 filing cited in a report by Americans for Fair…
A lot has been made of the recent drop in public-school enrollments. Get ready for the demographic cliff. Enrollment in Minnesota public schools dropped each of the past two years,…
Just when the car wreck of a plan to eliminate most parking spots in the reconstruction of Hennepin Avenue in Uptown appeared unstoppable, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey slammed the brakes…
Last week negotiations between leaders of the state House, Senate, and Governor over whether or not to have a special session broke down. If you’re wondering whether this was good…
If you put Governor Walz’s tax proposals on an X/Y axis, you would see an inverse relationship between how generous the tax proposal is, to how little chance it has…
Earlier this month progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin was ousted from his post in San Francisco per a special recall election. The recall was spurred on by Boudin’s radical anti-prosecution…
Whether the lights stay on today and tomorrow will hinge on a few main variables: how high is demand, how much power can we import from PJM (the power grid…
The article below was written by Mark Kolbinger in the Patriot News. Sizzling temperatures have one again forced area residents inside to the comfort of their air conditioners, while questions…
We visit two sites closely associated with the third free-food network shut down by the state Department of Education (MDE). At the time it was shut down by MDE, Gar…
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal and Linnea Lueken are joined by Isaac Orr from the Center of the American Experiment and Jason Hayes from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy…
The drama at the Hennepin County Public Defender’s Office appeared to have died down following the much-publicized departure of former chief Mary Moriarity. But a year and a half after…
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has issued a report warning that the regional electric grid to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), faces the highest…
On Thursday, June 22, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) announced that Minnesota’s unemployment was at yet another historic low. According to DEED, Minnesota’s unemployment rate dropped…
So far in this 2021-22 election cycle, Alida Messinger has donated $1.8 million to Democratic political causes in Minnesota. Messinger is the daughter of J.D. Rockefeller III and the former…
Rolling blackouts may be coming to the Upper Midwest—including Iowa— this summer, according to an analysis from the North American Reliability Council (NERC), a nonprofit international regulatory authority whose mission…
Minnesota, as is the case with much of the country, finds itself in the middle of a 1970’s-style energy crisis. Gasoline and diesel fuel prices are at record levels and…
We tour the growing ruins of this once great Midwestern city. Yesterday, my colleague David Zimmer and I took our third trip this month to see the sights in the…
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve announced that it is raising interest rates in an effort to curb inflation. The Fed will hike rates by 75 basis points — or 0.75…
Not so long ago, St. Paul customers who were unhappy with their garbage hauler could fire the company and sign up with a competitor. But not since residents voted to…
On June 5 a state trooper attempted to stop a car for speeding and driving on the shoulder of I-35E in St. Paul. The driver, Pablo Nava Jaimes, 30, of Minneapolis,…
The article below originally appeared in MinnPost. It was written by Isaac Orr On May 31, Sen. John Marty argued in MinnPost that nuclear power is “merely a distraction” to addressing climate. This…
With Minnesotans experiencing the highest gasoline prices in history, some legislators and the Walz administration put forward a policy during the 2022 session to artificially raise them even more by…
We wind up our free-food tour of the Twin Cities with stops at two “Youth”-related commercial buildings. We’ve previously covered the rise and fall of the short-lived nonprofit Youth Inventors…
The plan for reconstructing Hennepin Avenue in Uptown Minneapolis calls for sacrificing virtually all on-street parking to make room for bike lanes, bigger sidewalks and 24/7 dedicated rapid transit bus…