Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz continued his national “town hall” tour yesterday in Houston, TX. Local affiliate Fox 26 reported beforehand: You may recall that Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke’s most recent…
The steady decline in the quality of mail service in recent years has been well documented by MinnPost and other media outlets across the country. The saga over unreliable mail…
Governor Walz made news last week traveling around the Midwest holding tightly controlled town meetings in front of friendly audiences. It feels like he’s searching for the meaning of life…
Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach (R-MN7) outlined policy priorities for rural Minnesota at a Thursday evening meeting in Ottertail, MN. About 150 people attended the sold-out event, hosted by the Center of…
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…
Yesterday, the White House announced an executive order titled “Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production.” The order is intended to increase domestic mineral production and decrease reliance on foreign…
The dust finally settled on the November 2024 election as the House DFL candidate won the special election in Roseville and Shoreview last week. That means the House is now…
State and local taxes and spending Pioneer Press: Letters: The taxing cost of living in Minnesota Star Tribune: Minnesota faces a projected $6 billion budget deficit down the road. Here’s…
Flickr, Photo By: U.S. Department of State (IIP Bureau) On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced plans to reduce 1,315 staff positions, bringing the agency’s total workforce reduction to…
This article originally appeared in the Duluth News Tribune on March 11, 2025. The release of the February budget forecast last week started a second round of blame games. A…
The Province of Ontario wages a trade war against Minnesota, but without any ammunition. The putatively Conservative premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, launched a trade war of his own against…
Right on cue, the release of the February 2025 budget focus has ignited a second round of blame games. A new candidate, President Trump’s chaotic policymaking, is seemingly now in…
There were some whopper messages at the capitol this week reacting to the new budget forecast. The state budget office announced Thursday that the deficit in the 2028-29 biennium will…
Economic development Star Tribune: Will tax credits bring more film and TV production to Minnesota? Northern News Now: ‘They’re very entrepreneurial groups:’ Immigration and Northeast Minnesota’s economy Regulation Bring Me…
That’s “billion, with a “b.” Minnesota has much experience with brand-new nonprofits getting multi-million-dollar grants from the state government. The Feds have managed to go over the top in this…
The Trump administration has singled out the most crucial electrification metal, copper, as a focus of its domestic minerals policy. Last week, an executive order was released “addressing the threat…
The Trump administration this week signaled that it may roll back almost 50 years of regulations that created the lengthy and litigious permitting process in the U.S. That would be welcome news…
It was big news at the time. Liban Osman, the brother of then-Minneapolis city council candidate Jamal Osman, posted a video to social media in the summer of 2020 that…
The Center for Immigration Studies recently updated what’s widely viewed as an authoritative list of sanctuary jurisdictions under the following criteria. These cities, counties, and states have laws, ordinances, regulations,…
What should be the guiding principle of federal lands management? The House Subcommittee on Federal Lands heard from witnesses about just that last week. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages 245 million…
President Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, Kash Patel, was confirmed by the Senate in a 51-49 vote late last week. He was sworn into the office on Friday, for…
Gov. Tim Walz unilaterally raised the payroll tax paid by every employer and employee in Minnesota this week from .7% of wages to .88%. The legislature gave Walz the power…
Local law enforcement officials continue to wrestle with the quandary of how to handle illegal immigrants in custody and the legal questions raised by cooperation with federal Immigration and Customs…
The next (and perhaps final) chapter in Minnesota’s journey to dramatically change how we teach children is about to begin. The journey began in December 2020 when the Minnesota Department…