Not so long ago, St. Paul customers who were unhappy with their garbage hauler could fire the company and sign up with a competitor. But not since residents voted to…
On June 5 a state trooper attempted to stop a car for speeding and driving on the shoulder of I-35E in St. Paul. The driver, Pablo Nava Jaimes, 30, of Minneapolis,…
The article below originally appeared in MinnPost. It was written by Isaac Orr On May 31, Sen. John Marty argued in MinnPost that nuclear power is “merely a distraction” to addressing climate. This…
With Minnesotans experiencing the highest gasoline prices in history, some legislators and the Walz administration put forward a policy during the 2022 session to artificially raise them even more by…
We wind up our free-food tour of the Twin Cities with stops at two “Youth”-related commercial buildings. We’ve previously covered the rise and fall of the short-lived nonprofit Youth Inventors…
The plan for reconstructing Hennepin Avenue in Uptown Minneapolis calls for sacrificing virtually all on-street parking to make room for bike lanes, bigger sidewalks and 24/7 dedicated rapid transit bus…
A recent report by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has determined that the regional electric grid to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), faces the…
In 1885, Wisconsin schoolteacher Bernard J. Cigrand encouraged his students to observe June 14 as a “Flag Birthday” to remember the date in 1777 when the Second Continental Congress introduced…
Author Michael Shellenberger finished 3rd in the open primary for California governor held last week. He is best known for such books as San Fransicko, about the decline of the…
A key committee voted last week to proceed full speed ahead with the proposed route for the Twin Cities next light-rail boondoggle in the works, the $1.5 billion and counting…
The Wall Street Journal reports that President Joe Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia next month to discuss energy and international relations as the national average price of gasoline has…
One of the last of the great pre-war movie palaces closed for good a year ago. I visit the scene. Representing and located at the heart of Minneapolis’ Uptown neighborhood,…
We visit Brooklyn Center, the home of the one success story behind Feeding Our Future. During the years-long battle between the free-food nonprofit Feeding Our Future and the state Department…
Labor market WJON: Many Companies Turning to Teenagers to Fill Open Positions Star Tribune: Minnesotans with disabilities feel left behind amid workforce shortage Kare 11: More than 214,000 jobs open…
Residents along Cleveland Avenue in St. Paul say they were blindsided by Ramsey County’s plan to clear cut dozens of mature oaks along their scenic street to make way for…
Your correspondent visits Subject Premises No. 6 in the Feeding Our Future case. In the middle of a narrow residential street in south Minneapolis sits an unmarked one-story office building…
Wednesday evening the Brooklyn Center High School was celebrating graduation when a fight broke out among the six males. Staff and Brooklyn Center police were able to detain two of…
The following article originally appeared in Newsweek. It was written by Robert Bryce. Last June, the Biden administration was so concerned about China’s use of Uyghur Muslim slave labor to…
Writing about the April inflation figures last month, I noted that “gas prices have been ticking up again recently… and this will be reflected in next month’s CPI numbers.” That…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) imposed the first fines, totaling over $1 million, on two Georgia hospitals for violating federal requirements to publicly post their prices. These…
Minneapolis is turning into another two-tiered city — mind-blowing luxury at one end, third-world-style poverty at the other. A recent drive through Minneapolis revealed a city moving in two directions…
On Monday, my colleague Tom Steward wrote about property valuations by county assessors in Crow Wing County. As house prices have surged in the last 18 months, these new valuations…
Recently compiled data by Center of the American Experiment shows a troubling correlation between Minnesota’s increasing crime rate and its decreasing incarceration rate. In 2020, for the first time in…
A Victorian mansion-turned-office building sits at the heart of the scandal. Yesterday, we visited forfeiture properties Nos. 6 and 7 in the Feeding Our Future case. The properties at 2722…