State and local taxes and spending Pioneer Press: St. Paul schedules sessions on sales tax increase for road and park projects KRFO: Minnesota continues to collect more than expected in…
Another day, another ranking of the states. On Wednesday, Gov. Walz tweeted: This was in response to a “study” — a word increasingly bereft of meaning since it is applied…
A citizen posted photos of drug paraphernalia and other garbage strewn around this week in what's just another day in the life of passengers at the 46th Street light rail…
Proposed controversial K-12 social studies standards are one step closer to formal adoption following the release of the Minnesota Department of Education’s Statement of Need and Reasonableness (SONAR) on Monday.…
At least 38 law enforcement agencies across the state have continued to keep their School Resource Officers (SROs) out of schools this week despite assurances last week from Attorney General…
It was a team effort. As reported through yesterday (Sept. 29), the official Minneapolis Crime Dashboard indicates that, year-to-date, there have been 6,211 cars stolen in the City of Lakes.…
West Fargo school administrators went to the mat to promote the district’s $147 million bond referendum right up to the opening of polls this week on WZFG and other media…
The majority of Minnesotans — 74 percent — support parents being given the right to use the tax dollars designated for their child’s education to send their child to the…
Educators’ once-a-year-only opportunity to evaluate their relationship with the teachers’ union will end this Saturday, Sept. 30. If you are a Minnesota educator and have decided that union membership is…
Back in 2020, Minnesota's state government based much of its policy response to COVID-19 on a computer model, built over a weekend by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health…
Since August 2023, the electric grid operator in Texas, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), has issued at least 10 conservation appeals asking residents to reduce electricity usage. ERCOT…
In this fourth part of our series on ethnic studies nonprofits in Minnesota, we Follow the Money™ flowing to a group called Education Evolving. As we pointed out earlier, Education…
News that the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center (DECC) faced a financial emergency shouldn’t have caught city councilors and officials by surprise. After all, earlier this month Mayor Emily Larson…
John Phelan joined Jon Justice this morning to chat about how Minnesota’s left lives in a fantasy land, discuss the recent shift in population growth from rural to urban areas,…
In April voters emphatically rejected Winona Area Public Schools’ $94 million referendum to upgrade six district buildings by a two-to-one margin. Former school board member Steve Schild evidently spoke for…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a new study which found that remote work is allowing people to move to cheaper, rural areas. This is behind the faster…