News that the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center (DECC) faced a financial emergency shouldn’t have caught city councilors and officials by surprise. After all, earlier this month Mayor Emily Larson…
John Phelan joined Jon Justice this morning to chat about how Minnesota’s left lives in a fantasy land, discuss the recent shift in population growth from rural to urban areas,…
In April voters emphatically rejected Winona Area Public Schools’ $94 million referendum to upgrade six district buildings by a two-to-one margin. Former school board member Steve Schild evidently spoke for…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a new study which found that remote work is allowing people to move to cheaper, rural areas. This is behind the faster…
Last Thursday Governor Walz announced his appointment for the State’s first Director of the Office of Cannabis Management, Erin Dupree. By Friday Dupree had resigned after it was reported Dupree’s…
My conversations with families who home educate have revealed their mixed feelings on school choice policies — there are those who want to be included and those who are concerned…
As of this morning, some 40 law enforcement agencies around the state have suspended their School Resource Officer programs (SROs) because of poorly worded legislation this past session that...
In this edition of Follow the Money™, we track another member of the Minnesota Ethnic Studies Coalition (METC), Unidos MN. You will recall from our earlier reporting, recently passed legislation…
Economic growth Star Tribune: Minnesota med-tech startups on pace to raise more than $1B again this year Star Tribune: Minnesota factories, dealerships brace for trickle-down effects from UAW strike Twin…
A package of bipartisan health policies is currently moving through the U.S. House of Representatives to strengthen federal price transparency requirements on providers and health plans. The Lower Costs, More…
We think Minnesota’s $250 million+ Feeding Our Future scandal is impressive. The national unemployment scandal adds another three zeros. Earlier this month, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO, f/k/a General…
Advocates of mandating wind and solar often talk about these electricity generators as if they will usher in a new utopia for us all. For a local example, look no…
Those on the political left in Minnesota always struggle to answer this question: Why, if life in our high-tax and high-spending state is so good, are record numbers of people…
September is the month for educators to evaluate their relationship with the teachers’ union and decide if union membership is right for them. If teachers do not feel that being…
Communists are hosting a weekend event centered on “Marxist theory and revolutionary strategy” in Minneapolis from Sept. 30-Oct. 1. The event series, titled “2023 Marxist School,” will focus on organizing…
The debate about school resource officers (SROs) in Minnesota’s schools — or not, as the case may be — has, so far, been conducted with little recourse to the data.…
In yet another attempt to avoid a special session of the Legislature, Governor Walz and Attorney General Ellison met Wednesday with a group of DFL legislators and representatives of several…
Minneapolis DFL party Vice Chairman Mike Norton resigned from his post yesterday, just six weeks before the election for city council members. The MN Reformer reports, The vice chair of…
A controversial project to convert an abandoned hotel in Eagan was denied last night by the Dakota County board of commissioners. KARE 11 reports that commissioners did not take a…
Football isn’t the only game kicking off this fall. It’s also the season for schools to throw Hail Mary bonding and levy referendums in many districts, despite record state spending…
Six blue-state Governors on the East Coast want you to pay for their offshore wind turbines. On September 13, 2023, Governors from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and…
John Phelan joined Jon Justice this morning to chat about how the Biden administration’s energy policies are hurting Americans and helping Vladimir Putin, discuss Gov. Walz’s hypocrisy about working from…
Minnesota Senior Judge Leslie Metzen threw out trespassing charges against three women, Winona LaDuke, Tania Aubid and Dawn Goodwin this week concluding, “The charges against these three individuals who were…
In this second part of the series, we Follow the Money™ into the finances of another education-focused nonprofit. In part 1, we followed the money behind a leading nonprofit in…