Minnesota’s troubling and persistent literacy challenges finally spurred the legislature to act during the 2023 legislative session when the state passed the Reading to Ensure Academic Development (READ) Act. Inspired…
Back in December, YouTuber Nick Shirley posted a video in which he visted ten Minnesota daycare centers — including the now infamous Quality Learing Center — and found no children…
A couple of weeks ago, the Minnesota Chamber released results of a statewide poll asking various economic questions. Few of the findings will come as a surprise to our readers, but…
Minneapolis Public Schools, the state’s third-largest district, is continuing plans to build a brand new $105 million school to rehome Anishinabe Academy. The PK-5 school “is dedicated to serving and…
Minneapolis’s auto theft problem reached a new depths this week with the death of Amos Ferrier, 38. Ferrier was seriously injured on Friday afternoon, May 16, when he attempted to…
The Minnesota Office of Higher Education’s latest student debt report shows that students who earned certificates and associate degrees from the state’s technical and community colleges completed school with significantly…
The Claims Bill During the final week of the 2026 legislative session, the joint House-Senate Subcommittee on Claims identified the tort claims against the state that it recommended be paid…
Amid the last-minute flurry in this spring’s legislative session to push bills to the governor’s desk, one bipartisan bill made the cut: a push to heavily regulate social media for…
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison held a press conference yesterday to announce 2nd degree assault charges filed against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent…
Join us as we unpack the biggest wins and losses of the newly wrapped 2025-26 Minnesota legislative session with special guest Bill Walsh (QOTD: Will you go surfing on the…
Yesterday, I wrote about Census Bureau data which show that Minnesota’s net loss of residents since 2020 was worse than in 34 other states. Data from the Internal Revenue Service…
In the very first Capitol Watch email of 2026, we wrote: “If you want to know what Democrats and Republicans believe will be their best issues for the November election,…
Minnesota should take the recent offer of the National Assessment Governing Board and opt into the newly announced, federally funded expanded high school tests. Last week, the National Assessment Governing…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about “Blue states” which “are bad-policying themselves into electoral oblivion.” Minnesota, with its evenly split legislature, isn’t quite one of those states, but…
State and local taxes and spending The Black Chronicle: Minnesota lawmakers weigh taxpayer funding for local news program KSTP: Bill would fold North Loop into downtown Minneapolis hospitality tax district…
Critics of private school choice have long contended that such policies drain public school budgets. A new analysis of two decades of federal spending data says otherwise. Marty Lueken and…
Something must be done about the high cost of childcare in Minnesota. But as I have illustrated in a previous article, solutions like tax credits fail to address why costs…
Say it ain’t so! From Bloomberg, New York Prepares to Rollback Ambitious Climate Laws Governor Kathy Hochul cited soaring energy prices as a reason. I had honestly thought that the…
Here’s the bad news: Minnesota is still nowhere close to pre-COVID student achievement in either math or reading. Now, here’s the silver lining. Minnesota is (barely) on the road to…
The deal includes roughly $205 million in immediate funding this year, plus up to $500 million through 2031 in a new hospital stabilization reserve account.
In February, gas prices in the Twin Cities hit their lowest level since May 2021. In April, as Figure 1 shows, they hit their highest level since September 2023. This…
Artemio Martin-Martin of Guatemala pled guilty yesterday to the felony crime of illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien in federal court in downtown St. Paul. He had previously been…
Governor Walz claimed HR1 would “tear health care away from a quarter million Minnesotans so Trump can give tax cuts to billionaires” but his administration plans on spending $1.2 billion…
Last month, a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala. indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on 11 criminal counts — wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank,…