A Ramsey County District Court judge has suspended implementation of St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s all-or-nothing vaccine mandate on the city’s police and firefighters set to take effect in January.…
St. Paul faces a violent crime wave that promises to get worse before it gets better any time soon. At the same time, Capitol City residents remain dangerously vulnerable due…
On Tuesday, Rochester Mayor Kim Norton issued an emergency declaration requiring protective masks to be worn indoors throughout the city in all areas where “medically vulnerable individuals or children under…
On April 13, the St. Paul City Council approved a plan to “funnel” $46.9 million in property taxes to affordable housing projects on the former Ford Plant Site. The city…
On Sunday, City Council President Lisa Bender announced she would not seek re-election in 2021, according to an article in the Star Tribune. Bender was among the first City Council…
President Trump has done an exceptional job of cleaning up Superfund sites designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The following article contains excerpts from this article in Politico, along with…
The planning commission in Minnetrista was gung ho on the solar garden installation with 4,100 nine-foot high photovoltaic panels proposed for the rural western Twin Cities suburb. Just weeks ago,…
In November Bloomington residents will finally get the chance to send a message to their elected officials and city hall power brokers over the blatantly illegal 2016 decision to usurp…
One of the core arguments for limited government involvement in the private sector is that private companies are much more receptive to changes in market conditions than governments because they…
Yesterday I wrote about how the City of San Francisco has not only revered their ban on single-use plastic bags to help slow the spread of the Coronavirus, but they…
Supreme Court rules that Bloomington taxpayer group was disenfranchised.
Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking to a local city council about the obstacles to the construction of affordable housing which state and local governments erect in terms of…
What would it take for St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter to come down on the side of average constituents in his city? Apparently more than an act of God. A…
Elected officials and planners in the city of Minneapolis are lamenting the fact that carbon dioxide emissions from natural gas increased in 2018, and that the city is not on…
American Experiment has been a leader in exposing the fact that wind turbines only last for twenty years, and after that time the turbines must be torn down as part…
A new report from the Housing Affordability Institute shows that many of Minnesota's cities are overcharging homeowners for services and not complying with state law by failing to report on…
There goes the neighborhood. The last thing anyone wants on their block is an empty house. In fact, the city of St. Paul has a what to do about a…
Brooklyn Park made headlines earlier this week after announcing the completion of their 6,000 solar panel project. The City claims they will now operate on 100 percent “clean energy,” even…
It was supposed to be a done deal. The resolution to make Plymouth Minnesota’s newest “GreenStep City” was slipped into the city council’s consent agenda, clearing the way for expected…
You'd think ultra liberal voters in St. Paul would be happy about energy efficient LED lights being installed in their neighborhood. You'd be wrong.
Grumpy’s, a dive-bar staple in downtown Minneapolis, is closing for good today. The bar has been a mainstay on Washington Ave since it opened in 1999. But a lot has…
Energy efficiency is a good thing. It reduces the amount of energy used, but more importantly, at least from my perspective, it is cost effective. This is why it is…
On Wednesday evening, St. Paul city leaders came to a wider consensus of their plans to raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour. Earlier last week, Citizens League sponsored by the St.…
Yesterday I wrote about how Minneapolis’ renewable energy targets are just expensive virtue signalling. A closer look at the City advisory board helps explain why the state’s largest city could…