On July 1, news broke that a three-person panel containing Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison had pardoned a man who had been convicted of repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl,…
Iris Garcia Salamanca made her first court appearance yesterday on multiple drug distribution charges. The hearing took place at the federal courthouse in downtown St. Paul and your correspondent was…
Regulation KSTP: Business owners await decision this month on whether paid leave payroll tax will go up KSTP: Minnesota’s Paid Family Leave program paying out nearly $600M. Is wage tax…
This is my fourth post, of hopefully many to come, as a regular weekly resource for our readers: The top ten stories, for the week ending on July 17, 2026,…
Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, most recently an international fugitive from justice, appeared in court this afternoon at the federal courthouse in downtown St. Paul. Your correspondent was there. Yesterday, the U.S.…
Bail in Minnesota Minnesota is an outlier among states when it comes to mandating bail in criminal cases. Minnesota’s courts have interpreted the Minnesota Constitution to mandate a “bail only”…
There’s an old Schoolhouse Rock jingle that explains in about three minutes how a lonely bill on Capitol Hill hopes to become a law someday. Catchy tune, and it taught…
The Natural Gas Innovation Act, or NGIA, is yet another example of Orwellian doublespeak. Rather than being about innovation in natural gas, the NGIA’s provisions are about the replacement of…
On July 1, news broke that a three-person panel containing Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison had pardoned a man who had been convicted of repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl,…
Two women from Philadelphia pled guilty this morning to Medicaid fraud at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Your correspondent was there. Cynthia Allen, age 62, and Candice Langley, age…
Maria Virginia Lopez Herandez, age 47, pled guilty this afternoon in federal court in downtown St. Paul to one count of illegal immigration. Your correspondent was there. Technically, Lopez, of…
“Ideas have consequences.” – Richard M. Weaver (1964) “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is…
The almost 500,000 students in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will all experience a dramatic technological shift this fall. The California district just announced a first-in-the-nation overhaul of…
Moktar Hassan Aden, age 30, pled guilty to one count of wire fraud this morning at the federal courthouse in downtown St. Paul. Aden was one of four men indicted…
If you are married with three kids, you must make over $106,370/year to get your kids off Medicaid. Oh, you inherited a $750,000 house and $2 million? Your kids are…
Proponents of rent control often tout its progressive effects. By effectively capping what “wealthy” landlords can charge, rent control redistributes income to “low-income” renters. — albeit indirectly. But what if that…
Recent advocacy around solving non-fatal shootings in Minnesota led to my invitation to participate in this week’s Niskanen Center Third Annual Criminal Justice Convening in Savannah, Georgia. The event brought…
Nearly two-thirds of Minnesota 11th graders are below grade level in math, and the class of 2025 posted the worst academic performance on record for a graduating cohort even as…
“Affordability” has become a political buzzword in recent times, starting with Democrats in November 2025 and then later adopted by Republicans by at least March of this year. As Democrat…
Walz says he can “find no reason how Minnesota will be safer” by deporting an illegal immigrant rapist… Why did Walz and Ellison pardon the illegal immigrant rapist deported by…
Comments by state Clemency Review Commission members raise more questions about the controversial pardon of convicted child rapist Tou Lue Vang. From Fox News, Exposed docs reveal why Tim Walz…
The Star Tribune reports that, on Monday, Abdirashid Bixi Dool pleaded guilty in Minnesota federal court to defrauding the U.S. government, admitting that only a fraction of the federal funds…
Earlier this month, it was reported that “Nonfarm jobs” in Minnesota increased by 5,400 between April and May. As I’ve noted before, these estimates of the number of jobs come…
Abdirashid Bixi Dool, age 37, became the 69th defendant convicted in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal. Dool entered a guilty plea in federal court in downtown Minneapolis this afternoon.…