A recent CNN article said: After two years of surging prices, economists still can’t agree on what has caused the world’s worst inflation crisis in decades. While the usual culprits…
The auditors’ report identifies dozens of questionable transactions. You will recall the fallout back in March from the disastrous, late-February, Expo put on at the convention center by the City…
My friend Madi Hilly has blown up the internet over the last two days after posing next to stored nuclear fuel while 27 weeks pregnant while visiting Idaho National Labs.…
A 30-second ad put out by the state’s tourism board was featured today on the multimillion-follower Twitter account Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok). The video can be seen here. The Libs’…
Thanks to some absentee council members, rent control will likely not appear on the November ballot in Minneapolis. As reported by the Star Tribune, In a contentious maneuver backed by…
Vagrants sleeping in skyways and parking ramps, discarded drug paraphernalia on sidewalks, impromptu campsites in public areas. It’s become an all too familiar scenario, increasingly even in cities outside the…
The state’s third-largest school district has admitted it is facing an “imminent financial crisis” but that it will find cuts to balance the budget, reported Deena Winter with the Minnesota…
Policy fellow Isaac Orr joined Mark Hinaman on his new show about the need for more nuclear power. In the show, Isaac laments about how “Free Willy” environmentalism, which is…
Last week I wrote about how, faced with declining college enrollments after decades of above-inflation increases in college tuition fees, colleges ought to be cutting their fees. I also wrote…
I recently wrote about another round of assessment results capturing the continual fall in academic achievement among our country’s students. While the declines were certainly exacerbated by government policy responses…
Yesterday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations came out with a statement calling for Governor Walz to appoint an independent investigator to provide answers regarding law enforcement’s role leading up to…
Political centrists provide cover for the far-left agenda in Minnesota. Tom Horner, the 2010 Independence Party candidate for governor, has an opinion piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune under the…
Maybe it’s nothing new or perhaps it’s another unsettling sign of the times. Either way, a surprising number of cities report an outbreak of incidents of vandalism at parks, beaches…
It’s not all fun and twerking at the Twin Cities Pride Festival and Parade. It’s big money, too, and some of it was yours. The annual event held in downtown…
Five years ago today, a multi-year effort started by the brave veteran teacher Rebecca Friedrichs finally concluded, freeing all public-sector employees from financially supporting a government union as a condition…
Last week, the Star Tribune reported: In seven years, Minneapolis transportation planners want 60% of trips in the city taken on public transit, or made by biking, walking or rolling.…
In May the City of Minneapolis announced its “Warehouse District Live” plan to bring foot traffic back to downtown Minneapolis on weekend nights — June through October. The plan blocks off…
Out of the 15 locations under consideration for a new Beltrami County Jail, county commissioners evidently chose the most controversial option on the table, a site in a residential Bemidji…
Accused in the motor vehicle-related deaths of five young women on June 16, Thompson made his first court appearance in the case last Friday. The story continues to make national…
Back in March, my colleague Bill Walsh warned that the proposed creation and expansion of a raft of state agencies would lead to a boom in state government hiring: Gov.…
Can school choice and quality public schools coexist? The research says yes, and so does Superintendent Kurt Browning in Florida, who calls himself a “champion of choice.” “You can sit…
If you enjoy massive trade shows, you, like the mayor of Bloomington, are probably disappointed that Minnesota lost its bid to host the 2027 World Expo (which went instead to…
Regulation Star Tribune: Why did Minnesota once require margarine to be dyed pink? Albert Lea Tribune: Senate Report: More mandates may hurt border businesses Morning Ag Clips: MN Soybean Growers…
A packed room of parents and community members respectfully voiced their concerns recently over the Osseo school district’s “LGBTQIA+ History and Culture Resolution” and its implementation. The 2022 resolution includes,…