The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) imposed the first fines, totaling over $1 million, on two Georgia hospitals for violating federal requirements to publicly post their prices. These…
Minneapolis is turning into another two-tiered city — mind-blowing luxury at one end, third-world-style poverty at the other. A recent drive through Minneapolis revealed a city moving in two directions…
On Monday, my colleague Tom Steward wrote about property valuations by county assessors in Crow Wing County. As house prices have surged in the last 18 months, these new valuations…
Recently compiled data by Center of the American Experiment shows a troubling correlation between Minnesota’s increasing crime rate and its decreasing incarceration rate. In 2020, for the first time in…
A Victorian mansion-turned-office building sits at the heart of the scandal. Yesterday, we visited forfeiture properties Nos. 6 and 7 in the Feeding Our Future case. The properties at 2722…
The Ruthless Podcast will produce their show in front of a live audience on Lake Minnetonka June 29, 2022, at an event sponsored by Center of the American Experiment. The…
If you need more convincing of the economic fact that high and rising housing prices are a result of demand outpacing supply, take a look at what is happening in…
We visit the corner of North Lyndale and West Broadway in north Minneapolis. Home of Merwin Liquors and Winner Gas. For those devotees of the @crimewatchmpls Twitter account, the scene…
Louis D. Johnston, a Professor of Economics at College of Saint Benedict | Saint John’s University, wrote a column for MinnPost back in December titled: ‘An overlooked piece of good…
My recent visits to Lake Street in Minneapolis inspired me to return to one of my favorite subjects: the In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre. (Think…
In an update to our story on the insidious movement of installing progressive prosecutors around the country, one of the key figures in the movement, San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin,…
The perpetually troubled Veterans Administration usually seems to have enough battles on its hands without looking for more. But the federal agency continues to fight to compel medical staff at…
“Critical Race Theory is not taught in K-12 schools,” American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten tweeted on July 6, 2021. And in another tweet: “We don’t teach Critical…
Why has the market for baby formula in the United States collapsed owing to the closure of one factory? It is, in part, because just four major companies — Abbott…
As the debate over gun control rages on, @CrimeWatchMpls has chronicled 27 local examples of failure to enforce the controls already in place. Each example illustrates the failures of our…
There has been a lot of focus on Minnesota’s historically low unemployment rate. As of April 2022, the BLS reported that Minnesota’s unemployment rate stood at 2.2 percent. Certainly, this…
The other day, my colleague David Zimmer and I drove by a block-long homeless encampment in Minneapolis and we posted the video on Twitter: Located on land owned by the…
President Biden has announced a 24-month tariff exemption on solar modules manufactured in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, which are under investigation from the U.S. Department of Commerce for selling…
Property valuations by county assessors have gone through the roof all over Minnesota this year, but nowhere more so than in Crow Wing County. Brainerd Lakes Area residents are still…
Recent releases of official data have shown that in 2021, Minnesota’s population grew by just 225 people. Our state lost 13,453 residents to other states, its biggest net loss of…
Two years after the George Floyd riots, the station’s ruins sit at the corner of Lake Street and Minnehaha Avenue in central Minneapolis. The tall metal fencing is the only…
In a city on pace to experience 10,000 “shots fired” calls, Friday night’s gun battle on the University of Minnesota’s Fraternity Row stands out. Dramatic video captured much of the…
It’s no secret that COVID-19 and school closures gave many parents a new perspective on the K-12 education their child was receiving. Enrollment in Minnesota public schools has dropped for…
In 2019, San Francisco voters elected a “progressive” prosecutor named Chesa Boudin, who ran on a promise to bring about “radical change.” The change San Francisco residents received has been…