Deena Winter of the Minnesota Reformer has a scoop: the wife of Minneapolis city council member Jamal Osman operated a free food site last year. Ilo Amba incorporated the nonprofit…
Decades of bad energy policy in Europe have left Europeans scouring for firewood to stay warm this winter. Bloomberg writes: Not far from Berlin’s Tempelhof airport, Peter Engelke is putting…
Disquieted voters have flipped the script on the state’s usually sunny disposition as they prepare to head to the polls this fall.
Recently, I asked ‘What do states without an income tax do?‘ Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute asks a similar question about the states without an income tax: “How do…
One of the features of the Feeding Our Future scandal from the beginning has been the connections between the alleged fraudsters and well-placed politicians.
Last week’s jobs report estimated that Nonfarm payrolls increased 263,000 for the month, compared with the Dow Jones estimate of 275,000. This prompted the usual round of celebrations from people…
To celebrate Columbus Day, I decided to check in on Minnesota’s statue of Christopher Columbus. The statue has been in cold storage at an undisclosed government location since being violently…
While all of the attention of late has been on apprehensions of migrants at the southern border, the northern border made the news last week. The U.S. Border Patrol issued…
Did you know Minnesota has the highest industrial electricity prices in the Midwest? Data from the U.S. Energy Information show that only twelve states in the entire country charge their…
In September 2022, Center for American Progress (CAP) published a presentation that summarized “a body of polling and qualitative research conducted from April to August 2022.” Much of the presentation…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that a high-profile events center project is moving ahead in Bloomington, despite the indictment of the project’s CEO in the Feeding Our Future scandal. Mukhtar…
My friend Emmet Penney runs an excellent daily energy newsletter called Grid Brief. I highly encourage to you subscribe to it by clicking here. The piece below is from the…
State and local taxes and spending Lonsdale Area News-Review: Lonsdale sets preliminary 17.6% tax levy increase Pipestone County Star: City approves preliminary tax levy increase of 13.5 percent Wadena Pioneer…
The sixth indictment in the Feeding Our Future case involves the family-run Brava Restaurant and Café in Rochester. The Brava indictment names six members of the Jama family and involves…
Dental assistants, make-up artists, manicurists, Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs), barbers, cosmetologists, and packers are just a few of the numerous occupations that Minnesota licenses. For some of these occupations —…
A new report released today from Center of the American Experiment details how state government policy responses to COVID-19, including shutting down schools, exacerbated the already-declining academic achievement of Minnesota…
David Zimmer and I visited a Minneapolis encampment back in early June and shot this video: Fox 9 reports that the city cleared the encampment today, located on city-owned property.…
Everything appeared to be business as usual as the West Fargo City Commission prepared to approve the 2023 city budget that had been months in the making. But when the…
The Minnesota Reformer reports on the ties between a former Bernie Sanders campaign staffer in Iowa and the Feeding Our Future network. The Reformer reports that Abshir Omar worked for…
The Miami Dolphins are 3-1 this season and wide receiver Tyreek Hill is one reason for that. The six-time Pro Bowler currently leads the Dolphins with 31 receptions for 477…
Isaac Orr joined the show for two segments to talk about the future of the energy sector in the state of Minnesota.
It’s the sort of standard atta-boy endorsement of a leftwing cause or group that usually sails through the Duluth City Council. Three city councilors introduced a resolution in support of…
The subject of the Department of Justice’s fourth indictment in the Feeding Our Future scandal is an entity called Haji’s Kitchen, run by a man with the last name of…
Two Cannon Falls School Board incumbents expressed frustration this week that other people in the community dared run against them, and worse yet, dared to share resources and run as…