The Minnesota Reformer reports: The U.S. Census Bureau released new data last week showing that in 2023 the median household income rose significantly for the first time since 2019. In inflation-adjusted terms,…
Drilling down into local politics, we find an interesting story in the south Metro, illustrating a number of trends in state politics. The seven members of the Dakota County Board…
What stands in the way of effective environmental quality efforts in North Dakota? Federal bureaucracy within the Environmental Protection Agency. That was the crux of recent comments made by…
This afternoon at 1:30 pm EST, the U.S. Secret Service thwarted an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump while he golfed on his course in West Palm Beach Florida.…
We’ve been reporting on a particularly troubled homeless encampment in south Minneapolis this summer. Police have now made an arrest in an August murder associated with the camp. In custody…
State and local taxes and spending Rochester Post Bulletin: Rochester’s proposed 10.5% tax levy increase projected to add $58 to median-valued home’s tax bill Duluth News Tribune: Duluth mayor asks…
Hints at a widening scope for the Feeding Our Future bribery case emerged at an ordinary court hearing yesterday in downtown Minneapolis. Your correspondent was there. The occasion was a…
A Canadian man whom customs officials say entered the United States illegally has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Bismarck to attacking energy installations in North Dakota and South…
If all goes according to plan, guilty plea numbers 19 and 20 will be filed in the Feeding Our Future case next week. We’ve learned during the course of the…
Residents of 11 Western states should prepare for an influx of solar panels on public lands near them. A Bureau of Land Management rule is designating 31 million acres of Western lands…
A couple of years ago, I wrote that: Shortly after moving to Minnesota in 2017, my wife and I went to see a Saint Paul Saints game. Arriving early, we…
A federal scholarship tax credit bill that would expand educational freedom to all 50 states has passed the U.S. House Ways & Means Committee and is headed to the U.S.…
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article highlighting a growing shortfall in nuclear engineers. Energy workforce development is too often entirely overlooked or taken to mean training wind and…
Fourteen states have committed to cutting their chronic absenteeism rates in half in five years, accepting the challenge to do so from a group of education advocates. Attendance Works, EdTrust,…
Back in 2018, I asked, “Why is the Ramsey County board going to waste up to $2 billion on a pointless streetcar?” This was in reference to the proposal “to…
Any hopes Xcel Energy may have had of Renville County commissioners changing their minds on the utility’s proposed high-voltage power line were all but eliminated at a recent board meeting.…
The full quote goes: The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine. That axiom was on full display this morning at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis.…
KSTP ran a story yesterday citing encouraging information from Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey relative to police staffing. According to Mayor Frey, there has been a 45% increase in applicants for…
Tonight sees the second televised debate of this presidential campaign, and Vice President Harris’ first after President Biden’s disastrous performance in the first debate ended both his campaign and, effectively,…
Last year’s legislative session in Minnesota, which concluded in May 2023, has been described as “historic.” And it was. For the first time in eight years, the state’s Democratic party…
Back in 2021, I wrote about “a pair of studies from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis [commissioned by the cities] into the effects of the minimum wage hikes in Minneapolis and St.…
The state Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) met on Thursday and ordered an out-of-state wind-power developer to live up to its commitment to remove a field full of abandoned wind turbine…
Center of the American Experiment announced today that Mike Amery has been hired as the new Director of Greater Minnesota Outreach. Amery has worked in politics and government for more…
On Wednesday, the Education and Workforce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives issued a press release announcing: Chair Foxx Subpoenas Walz’s Minnesota Department of Education to Demand Accountability in…