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…
The 2023 legislative session saw a torrent of mostly bad policy passed into law. Gov. Walz, among others, called the session “Transformational” and I would not disagree. As I wrote…
The 2023 legislative session was a study of pushing through an ideological agenda.
North Dakotans are not represented in Washington by a 90-year-old like California Senator Diane Feinstein, whose frail health and memory have prompted widespread calls for her resignation. They don’t have…
The DFL-controlled legislature passed many changes to Minnesota’s E-12 education landscape this past legislative session. One of those changes is the removal of a local arts standards option. While the…