There has been a lot of focus on Minnesota’s historically low unemployment rate. As of April 2022, the BLS reported that Minnesota’s unemployment rate stood at 2.2 percent. Certainly, this…
The other day, my colleague David Zimmer and I drove by a block-long homeless encampment in Minneapolis and we posted the video on Twitter: Located on land owned by the…
President Biden has announced a 24-month tariff exemption on solar modules manufactured in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, which are under investigation from the U.S. Department of Commerce for selling…
Property valuations by county assessors have gone through the roof all over Minnesota this year, but nowhere more so than in Crow Wing County. Brainerd Lakes Area residents are still…
Recent releases of official data have shown that in 2021, Minnesota’s population grew by just 225 people. Our state lost 13,453 residents to other states, its biggest net loss of…
Two years after the George Floyd riots, the station’s ruins sit at the corner of Lake Street and Minnehaha Avenue in central Minneapolis. The tall metal fencing is the only…
In a city on pace to experience 10,000 “shots fired” calls, Friday night’s gun battle on the University of Minnesota’s Fraternity Row stands out. Dramatic video captured much of the…
It’s no secret that COVID-19 and school closures gave many parents a new perspective on the K-12 education their child was receiving. Enrollment in Minnesota public schools has dropped for…
In 2019, San Francisco voters elected a “progressive” prosecutor named Chesa Boudin, who ran on a promise to bring about “radical change.” The change San Francisco residents received has been…
Abbott’s Michigan plant has resumed its baby formula production after meeting initial government sanitary requirements for reopening, according to a recent company statement. The factory’s closure, coupled with COVID-19 lockdowns…
Your correspondent ventures south of the river, again. A while back we documented the free-food connections to be found in the south metro suburban city of Burnsville. 1506 Southcross Drive…
Your correspondent goes looking for free food and finds light rail instead. A couple of months ago, we wrote about the connections between the free-food scandal and the small western…
State and local taxes and spending Rochester Post Bulletin: It was the largest proposed tax cut in Minnesota’s history. And it didn’t get done Bemidji Now: Coalition of greater Minnesota…
Better late than never, as far as St. Paul firefighters, cops and other union members are concerned in the case of their months-long challenge to Mayor Melvin Carter’s mandatory COVID…
In which your correspondent visits two of the Feeding Our Future forfeiture properties. We’ve previously discussed the 309 address on E. Lake Street in Minneapolis, which included Subject Premises Nos.…
Prices of key minerals and metals for wind, solar, and battery storage have spiked in recent months, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The cost of many minerals and…
The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) has too often been dismissed as hopelessly flawed and in need of “radical change.” City leaders have not only failed to support their police but have…
The Rochester Golf and Country Club this week paid Center of the American Experiment $5,300.48 to cover 100% of its costs of the venue abruptly canceling a March 15 event…
Documenting the decline and fall of a once great Midwestern city. Your correspondent drove through George Floyd Square this morning, my first trip to the site since the unfortunate events…
In which your correspondent ventures into St. Paul. We previously reported on the curious case of 1821 University Avenue, St. Paul, a large office complex home to no fewer than…
The genie’s out of the bottle. The flight of students from college campuses continues to gain momentum, driven by tuition hikes, soaring student loan debt and doubts over the relevance…
Last week I wrote about a DFL proposal to fight the shortage of baby formula in Minnesota with a law banning ‘price gouging’. This proposal stems from the idea that…
Mitch Rolling and I are proud to present the findings of research conducted in partnership with the John Locke Foundation in North Carolina. You can read the full report by…
One big topic dominated the 2022 legislative session: what to do with the state’s historic budget surplus. While the session has ended with no agreement, a decision will still have…