Like the famous Griggs-Midway building in St. Paul, Alpha News has found an address in Rochester with lots of interesting connections. They report, Under one Rochester roof: DFL office, mosque,…
From the Minnesota Star Tribune: Rising costs have Rochester debating whether to move back 100% renewable energy goal. Say it ain’t so! A bit of background: Rochester is the largest…
Slowly, but surely the realization the new administration means business in scrutinizing previous policies and cutting programs that do not align has begun to hit home. Rochester public school officials…
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is expected to conduct a “town hall” meeting in Rochester tomorrow (Saturday) morning at a local high school auditorium. It’s part of his multi-state tour, conducting…
The homeless camps in Rochester may be fewer and farther in between than before the city passed a ban on such activity in public spaces. But the time and money…
It was the crown jewel of city officials’ pitch to convince Rochester voters to extend the local sales tax for 25 years in 2023. A $65 million regional sports and…
A lot of nonprofits were caught in the undertow of the Feeding Our Future scandal. The nonprofit Supportive Guidance of Rochester was founded in 2017. The nonprofit never did business…
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…
Last month I was part of a round-table discussion hosted in Owatonna by Center of the American Experiment’s chapter there. The event brought together representatives of businesses from all over…
Rochester officials must be fans of the “if you build it, they will come” way of doing things. They’re racing to fill in the blanks on a vaguely defined $65…
Our free-food fraud tour brings us to Minnesota’s third largest city. Home of the famed Mayo Clinic, a large IBM facility, and a campus of the University of Minnesota, the…
Tensions over bike lanes have boiled over in Rochester, Minnesota where bikes and bike lanes have become a contentious issue in the City Council Elections. According to an MPR article,…
Data on metropolitan areas shows Minnesota's economic performance is increasingly mediocre