Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala, age 39, made a brief (6-minute) court appearance this morning at the Federal Courthouse in downtown St. Paul. Your correspondent was there. You will recall that Munoz…
Yesterday a major federal investigation into human trafficking and the distribution of controlled substances led to search warrants being executed in multiple locations in Minnesota. One of those locations was at…
For a state with low performance rankings across a number of metrics, the rise of Mississippi as a national exemplar in math and reading growth has been hard for many…
The four-year graduation rate for Minnesota’s class of 2024 is the highest to date at 84.2 percent, according to newly released data from the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). Yet,…
Digging for the roots of the rich/poor divide. In October 2024, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel…
Three years ago I wrote two articles for Econlib marking the centenary of Irish independence. Here they are to mark St. Patrick’s Day At the Irish Free State’s birth in…
A serious look behind our state’s average achievement scores shows we aren’t doing as well as we like to think we are. Comparing Minnesota’s average reading and math performance on…
Average English, math, reading, science, and composite American College Test (ACT) scores among Minnesota’s high school graduating class of 2024 have dropped again. The average composite score for the state…
This morning, I was back at Ft. Snelling, observing the workings of the local Federal Immigration Court. Charles Dickens famously wrote in his 1853 novel Bleak House about the fictional…
According to the 102-yearold organization PEN America, long considered the defender of free expression — particularly regarding literature and its proliferation — we are in a “book ban crisis.” Thousands…
You may have seen the videos on social media this weekend. The occasion was the annual Somali Independence Day festival on Lake Street in Minneapolis on Saturday. The event was…