Rochester public schools face a $14 million budget shortfall for the forthcoming 2023-2024 school year. That reality has forced school administrators to announce a second straight year of sizable staff…
A new report by Stanford economist Thomas Dee confirms that the exodus of 1.2 million plus students from district schools during COVID-19 was sustained throughout the 2021-2022 school year. The…
This outlet was the first to report on efforts by Minnesota Democrats to ban the sale of water in plastic containers. HF 1857 was introduced on February 16 by state…
In December, I noted that: New Census Bureau data show that…From mid-2021 to mid-2022, 19,400 Minnesota residents left for other states, by far the highest number in at least three decades. …until…
Fargo car repair shop owner John Bultman didn’t appear to stand a chance against the city government’s threats to fine him up to $1,000 a day unless he shut down…
As of last spring, 49 percent of Minnesota students statewide weren’t proficient in reading, according to the state’s Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment (MCA). On national assessments, the average reading scores for…
The saying used to go, “All politics is local.” Not anymore. To be competitive in Minnesota politics, at least within the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party, you need to have a…
Mary Moriarty didn’t hide the fact that she would be a progressive prosecutor if elected as the Hennepin County Attorney. Despite examples of similarly minded progressive prosecutors across the country…
On Monday, March 6th, Minnesotans had a chance to let Xcel Energy know about its plan to increase your electric bills to pay for electric vehicle charging stations. If you…
In what some are taking as a sign of revival for the beleaguered Minneapolis neighborhood, the Uptown Theatre on Lake and Lagoon is reopening. Alas, not as a movie palace,…
On Monday, House progressives reintroduced legislation that would force Minnesota to enact a California Fuel Standard (CFS). As Mitch Rolling and I wrote in our March 2022 report Gas Station…
Often, advocates of minimum wage hikes present them as the fabled "free lunch" — the workers gets better off and, to the extent that anyone gets worse off, it is…
A bill to establish a “basic income” program was introduced today at the Minnesota state legislature. HF 2666/SF 2559 were introduced into their respective bodies and would provide $100 million…
Most Americans know that the Biden administration is pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into subsidizing wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicles via the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. However,…
Even though it’s still a work in progress, the push by North Dakota lawmakers to cap and ultimately phase out the state income tax has already attracted the attention of…
According to Black Lives Matter Twin Cities, Communities United Against Police Brutality, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and the family of Khalil Azad, an independent “community investigation” of Azad’s July…
If you’re unhappy about Xcel Energy’s plan to increase your electric bills to pay for electric vehicle charging stations, you can air your grievances today at an online hearing from…
The last three years or so have seen the death of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). This is a theory that starts with a banal observation — that a government that…
It was a busy week for the issue of reparations across America. HF 2397 was introduced last week by freshman state Rep. Samakab Hussein (DFL-St. Paul) as the “Minnesota Migration…
While most of their peers were in algebra or English class Monday morning, a group of students gathered in the Capitol rotunda to listen to speeches in favor of a…
The idea that investing in child care will bring with it huge rewards is big in St. Paul. Speaking at Laura MacArthur Elementary School in West Duluth regarding his “One…
In a belated move, the state Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a lawsuit against the free-food nonprofit ThinkTechAct in early January 2023. Ellison narrowly won re-election as Attorney General last…
State and local taxes and spending The Center Square: Minnesota is in the top 10 for marginal state individual income tax rate CBS News: Minnesota officials set to release new…
The political campaign of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz returned a maximum $4,000 donation from Nishad Singh, a key figure in the FTX cryptocurrency scandal. The money was originally donated by…