The epidemic of carjackings in Minneapolis has now spilled over into the adjacent suburbs. As Minneapolis is approaching 500 carjackings for the calendar year, car thieves are looking for new…
Since Minnesota seems to adopt only the worst ideas from California, it pays to monitor events on the left coast. After the infamous sacking of the local Louis Vuitton store,…
Recently, I wrote about how the rise in violent crime in the Twin Cities is spreading to the suburbs. That was inspired by a spree of carjackings in Woodbury and…
Educators from Intermediate District 287 have been selected to join the inaugural cohort of The 1619 Project Education Network, according to the Pulitzer Center. Forty-two teams of educators from 22…
The pandemic, the death of George Floyd, the trial of Derek Chauvin and now the death of Daunte Wright have put the state of Minnesota and its people under a…
Following this week’s killing of Daunte Wright by a Brooklyn Center police officer, protesters exercised their First Amendment right to “peaceably” assemble. It must be rather galling for these protesters…
If parents could grade Twin Cities public schools on their COVID-era teaching plans for kindergartners this fall, it’s safe to say teachers and administrators would recieve low marks indeed. The…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Steve Kalina, a veteran of more than two decades in manufacturing, is the still-new executive director of the Minnesota Precision Manufacturing Association, having started in August. He’s also (I’m guessing…
As apprenticeship expansion continues to unfold across the country, it is important Minnesotans are aware and informed of apprenticeship opportunities here in the state. Apprenticeship Minnesota, part of the state's…
The Met Council got some very bad news. A freight line, BNSF, told the Met Council that it did not want to co-locate its freight line with the proposed 13-mile…
If Minnesota is to solve its looming workforce talent shortfall, the state’s employers will have to explore new talent pools and push for a higher workforce participation rate. The Minnesota…
You heard it here first. State public employee unions and the Dayton Administration can no longer count on state legislators to be a rubber stamp for negotiated labor agreements, as American…
Surly Brewing Company sends out periodic emails about product launches, etc. Today’s email included an entertaining rant about traffic congestion in the Twin Cities. First Surly’s email, then a few…
House committee scrutinizes the controversial home care worker contract
It’s not often a hearing of the Subcommittee on Employee Relations packs the room. But the chambers were filled for a hard-hitting legislative session at the State Capitol on Monday…
It’s not often a hearing of the Subcommittee on Employee Relations packs the room. But the chambers were filled for a hard-hitting legislative session at the State Capitol on Monday…
Another Minnesota city, North Mankato, has restricted one of Americans’ most fundamental property rights – the ability to rent out one’s home. But North Mankato faces not only constitutional concerns but…
Update: The Minnesota Supreme Court blocked the ballot proposal from being placed on the ballot because the present city charter does not provide for submitting ordinances by a citizen petition.…
Property rights proponents are two-for-two so far this year in contesting proposed ordinances in Twin Cities suburbs that wanted to make it illegal for many homeowners to rent out their…
Brooklyn Center, Minn.—For the second time this year, a Twin Cities suburb has turned back a controversial proposal to curtail one of its residents’ fundamental property rights—a homeowner’s freedom to…
The Minneapolis City Council recently voted to require employers to provide paid sick leave to employees. The requirement applies to firms with six or more employees and extends to all…