Until July 11, the Department of Human Services (DHS) is seeking feedback on the second draft of revised standards for family childcare. This is part of the Childcare Regulation Modernization…
This week saw a heat wave strong enough that Mark Christie, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, warned that “Some of our systems really came close to the edge.”…
It took a third try, but Ahmed Ghedi. defendant No. 13 in the sprawling free-food scandal, entered the 40th guilty plea in the case to become the 47th person convicted.…
On January 1, 2025, the Washington Post quietly stopped updating its popular Fatal Force database, which had purported to be the most complete list of nationwide fatal police shootings. The…
As Congress wrestles with unsustainable Medicaid growth, and proposes ways to slow it, the state of Minnesota released a taxpayer-funded poll designed to show and manufacture opposition to the “Big…
Mehran Makari Saheli arrested by ICE. The press release from DHS reads: ICE Arrests 11 Iranian Nationals Illegally in the U.S. Over the Weekend What were the odds that one…
News broke late yesterday afternoon of an 11-year-old boy shot and killed at Fowell Park in North Minneapolis. Eleven years old. Star Tribune headline. The killing is tragic, but the…
Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala, age 39, made a brief (6-minute) court appearance this morning at the Federal Courthouse in downtown St. Paul. Your correspondent was there. You will recall that Munoz…
Lorraine Lee Combs, age 57, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit voter registration fraud at the Federal Courthouse in downtown St. Paul this morning. Your correspondent was…
Have no fear — the situation is being monitored! Grace and Kathryn sit down to break down the latest news out of Minnesota, as Governor Walz joins the chorus of…
Individual Health Plans Jump up to 26% Buried in the last-minute deal to prevent a government shutdown, Governor Walz and legislative leaders created a new tax on health plans to…
With the 2025 legislative session finally in the books, we humbly offer the final Capitol Watch of the season. They didn’t finish on time, but the legislature and Gov. Tim…
A major announcement for New York State, the U.K. Guardian reports: Kathy Hochul has announced plans to build a nuclear-power plant in New York, the first major new US plant…
We have more courtroom trials stacked up in America’s largest free-food scandal, beginning in August. The August trial currently includes five defendants, Nos. 11-14 and No. 16. The first four…
Trade Minnesota Reformer: Minnesota exports down 6% from this time last year WJON: Minnesota Exports Decline Amid Tariff Uncertainty Business North: Minnesota exports declined 6% to $6.3Billion in first quarter…
Vance Luther Boelter, 57, the man charged with killing Minnesota Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark last Saturday in their Brooklyn Park home, was arrested Sunday evening near his…
Following that Tuesday morning incident in Bloomington, a federal grand jury has formally indicted Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala with one count of assaulting a federal officer: Presumably, the “deadly weapon” was…
From property to income tax On Wednesday, I asked: If you are not willing to forgo the goods and services property taxes pay for but want the property tax eliminated anyway, then…
Repeat after me: It’s a $300 million+ scandal. MPR News has been monitoring some of the other litigation spun off from the sprawling Feeding Our Future scandal. Partners in Nutrition,…
In 2021, the Minnesota legislature passed a law creating the childcare modernization project. The legislature tasked the Department of Human Services (DHS) with analyzing and recommending updates to childcare licensing…
Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, now age 36, pled guilty to one count of attempted bribery of a juror at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis this morning. Your correspondent was there.…
The Owatonna People’s Press has an op-ed from Derek Delaney titled “Property taxes in Minnesota should end once a home is paid off.” I have long argued that Minnesotans are…
Big River Pizza, a long time wood fired pizza restaurant located in downtown St. Paul’s Lowertown made the announcement that it would be closing its business at the end of…
Yesterday, American Experiment released a new report, “Shattered Green Dreams: The Environmental Costs of Wind and Solar,” and it is already getting traction. Josh Antonini at the Mackinac Center for…