News stories from this past week continue to grow the list of devastating consequences when violent individuals walk free in Minnesota. Last Monday evening, 20-year-old Calon Markus Hatchett was arrested for shooting…
An analysis by the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative (EPIC) at Michigan State University found that states incorporating 16 best practices in their early literacy policies saw the largest sustained gains…
The legislature acted this past session to create a new law defining carjacking as separate and distinct from robbery. It left the decision of ranking the severity of sentences to the…
A new report released today from Center of the American Experiment refutes the widely-accepted narrative that Minnesota’s criminal justice system is biased against black offenders. In fact, the system is…
Last month it looked like a done deal. The Beltrami County Board of Commissioners announced their intention to build a new, half-a-billion dollar jail by a quiet Bemidji neighborhood zoned…
It is ludicrous enough already that people are seriously touting Minnesota as the fifth-best state for business, but the situation is about to get even worse with the imposition of…
The Worthington School District’s partnership with Venture Upward is providing students a flexible and innovative home-based learning experience. Venture Upward provides tuition-free, home-based education for Minnesota K-12 students through its…
Deaths and drug overdoses continue to mount among the occupants of the homeless camps popping up in Rochester parks, seemingly as fast as the authorities remove them. As city officials…
According to the 101-year-old organization PEN America, long considered the defender of free expression, there is. Headquartered in New York City, the advocacy organization describes itself as a protector of…
It must be a tough sales job trying to talk employees accustomed to working remotely in their sweats to return to their downtown St. Paul offices for at least a…
He also received U.S. citizenship in 2019. Add Mohamad Barakat’s name to the long list of people who shouldn’t have been around to commit mayhem on American soil. Earlier this…
The summer break may ultimately turn out to be more than a temporary hiatus for an additional number of Bemidji State University professors and staff who previously appeared to have…
Arguing that payday loans are exploitative, the Minnesota Legislature passed a law restricting interest rates charged on such loans. But as it turns out, that has had some negative consequences.…
The Twin Cities have an affordable housing problem as the result of excessive taxes, fees, and regulations that effectively make it illegal to build affordable housing there. Occasionally, when I…
Most Minnesotans disapprove of the Walz/DFL legislative agenda.
As states across the country create and expand educational freedom, more families are being empowered to pursue the education options best suited to their individual needs and goals. One of…
State and local taxes and spending KROC: Minnesota Fiscal Year Revenues Beat Forecast by a Half Billion $ KSTP: St. Paul voters to mull property, sales tax increases over next…
The Minneapolis suburb has a goal of adding 1,000 or more affordable housing units by the year 2030. One local developer has stepped forward to help, but local residents point…
Last summer Minneapolis Mayor Frey announced the hiring of Dr. Cedrick Alexander to lead the newly created Office of Community Safety. Mayor Frey called Alexander’s hire a “seminal moment” in the…
The City of Lakes adopts “ambitious” goals for global warming. Mild amusement follows. Today, the City of Minneapolis adopted its most ambitious climate change goals, ever. The Star Tribune recaps…
Impulsive expansion of health regulations will harm patients.
The Walz administration kept a tight lid on the behind-the-scenes deal-making in recent months to turn over ownership and control of the Upper Sioux Agency State Park to the Upper…
Fargo authorities conducted a follow-up press conference yesterday, as reported in the Fargo Inforum, to update the public with more facts that have been determined in the ambush shooting of several Fargo…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune has a story up about an incident from July 7, in which state Rep. Dan Wolgamott (DFL-St. Cloud) was arrested for DWI in Kanabec County. The…