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…
A recent report by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has determined that the regional electric grid to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), faces the…
In 1885, Wisconsin schoolteacher Bernard J. Cigrand encouraged his students to observe June 14 as a “Flag Birthday” to remember the date in 1777 when the Second Continental Congress introduced…
Author Michael Shellenberger finished 3rd in the open primary for California governor held last week. He is best known for such books as San Fransicko, about the decline of the…
A key committee voted last week to proceed full speed ahead with the proposed route for the Twin Cities next light-rail boondoggle in the works, the $1.5 billion and counting…
The Wall Street Journal reports that President Joe Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia next month to discuss energy and international relations as the national average price of gasoline has…
One of the last of the great pre-war movie palaces closed for good a year ago. I visit the scene. Representing and located at the heart of Minneapolis’ Uptown neighborhood,…
We visit Brooklyn Center, the home of the one success story behind Feeding Our Future. During the years-long battle between the free-food nonprofit Feeding Our Future and the state Department…
Labor market WJON: Many Companies Turning to Teenagers to Fill Open Positions Star Tribune: Minnesotans with disabilities feel left behind amid workforce shortage Kare 11: More than 214,000 jobs open…
Residents along Cleveland Avenue in St. Paul say they were blindsided by Ramsey County’s plan to clear cut dozens of mature oaks along their scenic street to make way for…
Your correspondent visits Subject Premises No. 6 in the Feeding Our Future case. In the middle of a narrow residential street in south Minneapolis sits an unmarked one-story office building…