In December 2023, the Minneapolis Foundation published its action strategy for revitalizing Downtown Minneapolis entitled “Downtown Next.” “Our goal with this report is to spur discussion and action, mobilizing the…
The now infamous tiny house that was supposed to be a prototype for the city's Rebuild Duluth affordable housing program has instead turned out to be a massive and expensive…
Way back on December 4, I wrote about the developing crime spree emerging in Minneapolis. Local media are finally catching up. The city’s official Crime Dashboard (updated through Christmas Day)…
State and local taxes and spending Mesabi Tribune: Stauber takes a shot at Walz over rebates Minnesotans to pay federal tax on rebate checks MPR News: Will Minnesotans have to…
The New York Times put its stamp of approval on the bland new Minnesota state flag unveiled this week. It was quite a stretch, but the reporter did her best…
On Tuesday, I wrote about new Census Bureau data for population and components of population change for 2022-2023 and revisions to the data for previous years. I noted that “they…
Last week, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the international regulatory authority with the mission to ensure the reliability of the electric grid, released the latest version of its…
Earlier this month a new group called Hunters for Hunters made headlines by holding standing-room-only public meetings to publicize the need to overhaul the Department of Natural Resource’s management of…
The majority of voters support school policies that require educators to inform parents about changes to their children’s pronouns, according to a national poll conducted by the Center Square Voter’s…
“Progressives” often allege that conservatives want to take the United States back to the 1950s. In fact, with their obsession with getting Americans back onto trains, it is America’s “progressives”…
The Minnesota Department of Commerce’s Division of Energy Resources has added 64 new government bureaucrat positions to its roughly 90 employees, bloating its staff by nearly two-thirds, using your state…
Farmers by definition spend a lot of time on their own and for the most part, no doubt, prefer it that way. But the increasing attacks on modern agriculture by…
The city of Fargo and its citizens continue to impress. Their collective response, and their unwavering support for the peace officers and first responders who came under gun fire on July…
A judge panel from the First Court of Appeals in Houston ruled this week that electric companies in Texas can’t be held liable for failing to supply electricity to consumers…
Teacher membership in Education Minnesota has dropped significantly, according to a recent federal LM-2 report the union filed with the U.S. Department of Labor that covers from September 1, 2022…
Center of the American Experiment released a first-of-its-kind report today addressing how social capital is driving Minnesota’s economic well-being and whether policy changes can increase social capital at the state…
In 2019, Husayn Braveheart, then 15 years old, and Jared Osman, then 17 years old, conspired to commit multiple armed carjackings and burglaries over several days. During their third carjacking,…
There's a trend cropping up among nurses under union representation in the Mayo Clinic Health System. Nurses at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Austin just became the fourth collective…
The Census Bureau released its estimates for State Population Totals and Components of Change: 2020-2023 today and they show that, once again, Minnesota lost residents, on net, to other states…
For years, Minnesotans were lectured by liberal energy advocates that we should be more like Germany, the nation that dogmatically built wind turbines and solar panels while shuttering its fleet…
National government unions spent $13.2 million on politics in Minnesota, with the national teacher unions the top spenders, according to a recent report by the Commonwealth Foundation. The four largest…
Within days of residents rejecting Rochester schools’ $10 million technology levy referendum last month, Superintendent Kent Pekel effectively dismissed the voters’ verdict and put the measure back on the table.…
Last week, the Minnesota Reformer reported that: Data released last week by the Bureau of Economic Analysis show that Minnesota’s gross domestic product rose by about 0.7% in the second quarter, lagging…
State and local taxes and spending Washington Examiner: Minnesota’s Democratic governor trashes Biden administration for taxing rebate checks West Central Tribune: Kandiyohi County tax levy increases by 4.9% in 2024,…