The first post I did (Nov. 2021) in my latest stint with the Center cataloged the $3,000 plus in unpaid court fines racked up by then-state Rep. John D. Thompson…
Connecting more dots between Feeding Our Future defendants and political figures in Minnesota. Back in March, the U.S. Attorney announced the latest batch of Feeding Our Future indictments. The batch…
Yesterday, the Star Tribune ran a story about Xcel Energy’s plan to relicense both of its nuclear power plants in Minnesota (Monticello, and Prairie Island) to run for a total…
A strong majority (74 percent) of Minnesotans favor a school choice policy where parents can use tax dollars to send their child to a public or private school that best…
Pending a lawsuit against a recent provision that bars certain religious institutions from participating in Minnesota’s Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program, the state recently issued an injunction that prevents “state…
Despite recent headlines, “teacher misery is not uniform across school sectors in America,” writes Mike McShane for Forbes. A new national poll by Morning Consult and Ed Choice reveals that…
Kite and Key Media released an excellent video describing how the United States is weakening its electric grid by shutting down reliable power plants and replacing them with unreliable wind…
Downtown Fargo has a problem. It’s gotten so rowdy and noisy on the streets on many nights that city hall has been deluged with complaints. Last summer the controversy got…
On average, an automobile is stolen every hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week in the state’s largest city. According to the Minneapolis crime dashboard, 4,125 cars have…
Seven percent of Americans believe it is suitable for early elementary schools to teach the concept of non-binary identity, according to a recent survey by PRRI reported on by MSN.…
Of Minnesota’s many supposed “labor shortages,” one of the most pressing is the shortage of nurses. WCCO reports that: …Minnesota’s workforce agencies are making a push to fill tens of…
Sixty-one percent of Minnesotans who identify as Democrats support school choice, according to American Experiment’s most recent May 2023 Thinking Minnesota Poll. Majority support spans the political, geographic and age…
Yesterday MPR News asked, “Minnesota bets on the child tax credit to cut poverty. Will it work?” To answer that, let’s revisit a post I wrote in March about poverty.…
Abdulkadir Awale, defendant No. 56, has become the 10th defendant to plead guilty in the Feeding Our Future scandal. Awale, of Bloomington, ran three restaurants involved in the scandal: Karmel…
The Fargo School Board recently made national headlines for a few hours by vowing to defy a new state law setting standards on how schools handle transgender students and related…
“They are raising the flag to celebrate my birthday!” joked my great uncle every year, who was born on June 14 and served as a sergeant in the United States…
The smoke from the Canadian wildfires has supercharged claims that carbon dioxide emissions are responsible for making wildfires worse. However, my friend Jason Hayes of the Mackinac Center for Public…
The Minnesota Legislature appeared to address one of our most vexing criminal issues this past legislative session: carjacking. However, it’s turning out to be an inconsequential move. You can help change that…
Rochester Public Schools recently approved a bid of $562,548 for seven “advanced autonomous floor-scrubbing robots.” This, the Rochester Post Bulletin reports, “led to a discussion about the role of technology…
Licensure barriers that will prevent educators from entering the classroom through alternative pathways will go into effect July 2024. This change in teacher licensing rules is one of many included…
Just days after the death of a 61-year-old homeless man in a city park, Rochester’s top cop called for an ordinance banning homeless encampments on all city property at a…
As the weather heats up in Minnesota, hordes of feral youth have begun roaming the countryside. The media reports have become more and more frequent in recent weeks, involving hundreds…
You need a program to keep up with the intramural warfare in the Minneapolis Democratic (DFL) party these days. The official party logo: All thirteen seats (representing individual wards) on…
Yesterday, I wrote about the Chamber of Commerce’s new 2023 state of business retention and expansion in Minnesota report which identified “Minnesota’s high state tax rates and lack of available workers…