Two Minnesota men pled guilty, back-to-back, to illegal immigration felonies in federal court in downtown Minneapolis this afternoon. The hearings were scheduled consecutively on the court calendar. The overlapping hearings…
September 17 is Constitution Day, a federal observance to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution on this day in 1787. If a school receives federal funds for a fiscal…
After the framing of the Constitution of the United States was completed in 1787, a bitter argument followed over its ratification. The earliest political factions in the United States were…
A new brief published by the policy firm ILO Group suggests that school superintendent turnover continues at historic levels. The 2025 update of the ILO Group’s Superintendent Research Project studied…
My posts about achievement levels within Minnesota’s public education system always generate a few interesting comments from individuals who want to downplay the declines — they either state the data…
This morning at 11:20 a.m., police were called to a shots-fired call at Lake Street and I-35. The 2900 block of Stevens Avenue has become notorious for continuous drug dealing…
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has set an “external planning meeting” for tomorrow, September 16, 2025 to hear significant changes to wind turbine siting in Minnesota. The proposed change has…
There is cause for celebration! A federal tax credit for contributions to Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs) was included in the federal budget bill that was signed into law on July 4,…
Beginning this evening in Stillwater, the state Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) will hold a series of public hearings on Xcel Energy’s electricity rate increase request. MPR News reports: The public…
Abner Adiel Saravia-Arevalo is our Minnesota Man of the day. He appeared this morning in federal court in downtown St. Paul to plead guilty to one felony count of illegal…
Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in August, after…
One newspaper columnist at a time. Rochelle Olson writes in the Star Tribune this weekend: U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson: Fraud is stealing Minnesota’s way of life Olson reports about her…
Regulation Duluth News Tribune: Our View: Minnesota’s wild rice standard demands compromise Grand Forks Herald: At Iron Range hearing, miners warn of closures if wild rice rule enforced St. Cloud…
Recent data published by the Fordham Institute suggests that teachers want to revisit “equitable” grading practices. What is “equitable” grading? “Equitable” grading arises from mastery-based grading practice, which has been…
The Department of the Interior released its 2025 draft critical minerals list last month, which expands the list from 50 minerals to 54. The U.S. Geological Survey’s critical minerals list…
Twenty-two-year-old arrested for the murder of Charlie Kirk Following a joint press conference and other reporting, we know that last evening, about 33 hours after Charlie Kirk was fatally shot…
Luis Gerardo Gomez-Esteban is our Minnesota Man of the Week. Gomez is a 36-year-old Guatemalan. We have been tracking felony cases brought in federal district court for re-entry of previously…
In August 2020, Rep. Ilhan Omar (DFL) introduced the Make Billionaires Pay Act to Congress, which would have imposed a 60% tax on the gains in wealth billionaires made between…
Aimee Bock’s former live-in boyfriend, Empress Malcolm Watson, Jr., has been charged with two felony counts of state tax evasion, the state Dept. of Revenue announced today. Aimee Bock, of…
I was in 5th grade when our country was attacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Fast forward to my first year of teaching 5th graders about that fateful Tuesday…
Center of the American Experiment’s Public Safety Policy Fellow David Zimmer took part in an interview with Public Radio Exchange (PRX) recently. The segment focused on the gun control debate…
A new school year is underway and parents have some homework of their own — knowing what rights they have within the public education system and how to exercise them…
New data shows that in a nation where teachers often stock their own classrooms, parents and community members are stepping in to fill the gap. For example, Minnesota spent $16,900…
It was a clear day, with a clearer consciousness, when the world collapsed in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania. Twenty-four years after the terror attacks on…