As another dismal year rolls off the board, we can total up the carnage. Despite all the available data, state attorney general Keith Ellison is taking an end-of-year victory lap…
In September this year, Gov. Gavin Newsome signed a bill raising California’s minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 an hour beginning April 2024. Expectedly, the law is already…
After a years long battle with medical workers weary of union representation, the United Steelworkers has quietly pulled out of Mayo Clinic Health System in Austin with hardly a whimper,…
On Christmas Eve, 2022, millions of American families experienced rolling blackouts as frigid temperatures brought by Winter Storm Elliot caused fuel supply problems for natural gas power plants throughout the…
My colleague John Phelan has been writing about the latest U.S. Census data, showing the continued net exodus from Minnesota to other states. Since the last national census (April 1,…
At the height of the pandemic, in 2020, St Paul created a guaranteed income program, giving $500 every month to 150 families — no strings attached. The program ran for…
North Dakota joined 20 other states in sending the Biden administration the legal equivalent of a Christmas lump of coal. A lawsuit filed days before Christmas aims to block the…
So much for the newly designed official Minnesota flag serving as a vehicle to unify state residents. It may have taken a few days to sink in with the public,…
If you recall the plot from the 2000 Nicholas Cage car theft movie, our hero is originally tasked with stealing 50 cars in a 72-hour period. That works out to…
As we close out 2023 one thing remains unchanged — Minneapolis violence. For those wanting to scoff at such a statement, consider the following violence in the past 28 days…
The state’s largest unsheltered homeless encampment appears poised to enter its fourth month and second calendar year of existence. This despite several recent dates being set by Minneapolis officials to…
So far 60 individuals have been indicted in the case. Sixteen have pled guilty in the free-food-fraud scandal and one has died. The remaining 43 are scheduled to go to…
In December 2023, the Minneapolis Foundation published its action strategy for revitalizing Downtown Minneapolis entitled “Downtown Next.” “Our goal with this report is to spur discussion and action, mobilizing the…
The now infamous tiny house that was supposed to be a prototype for the city's Rebuild Duluth affordable housing program has instead turned out to be a massive and expensive…
Way back on December 4, I wrote about the developing crime spree emerging in Minneapolis. Local media are finally catching up. The city’s official Crime Dashboard (updated through Christmas Day)…
State and local taxes and spending Mesabi Tribune: Stauber takes a shot at Walz over rebates Minnesotans to pay federal tax on rebate checks MPR News: Will Minnesotans have to…
The New York Times put its stamp of approval on the bland new Minnesota state flag unveiled this week. It was quite a stretch, but the reporter did her best…
On Tuesday, I wrote about new Census Bureau data for population and components of population change for 2022-2023 and revisions to the data for previous years. I noted that “they…
Last week, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the international regulatory authority with the mission to ensure the reliability of the electric grid, released the latest version of its…
Earlier this month a new group called Hunters for Hunters made headlines by holding standing-room-only public meetings to publicize the need to overhaul the Department of Natural Resource’s management of…
The majority of voters support school policies that require educators to inform parents about changes to their children’s pronouns, according to a national poll conducted by the Center Square Voter’s…
“Progressives” often allege that conservatives want to take the United States back to the 1950s. In fact, with their obsession with getting Americans back onto trains, it is America’s “progressives”…
The Minnesota Department of Commerce’s Division of Energy Resources has added 64 new government bureaucrat positions to its roughly 90 employees, bloating its staff by nearly two-thirds, using your state…
Farmers by definition spend a lot of time on their own and for the most part, no doubt, prefer it that way. But the increasing attacks on modern agriculture by…