We must no longer tolerate the petty criminals who ultimately hold our communities hostage to fear and lawlessness.
Members of Minnesota’s Sentencing Guidelines Commission abandon their plan to reduce prison terms during our record spike in violent crime. At least for now.
Minneapolis riot report leaves out Gov. Walz’s unnecessary delay in sending the national guard while the city burned.
A third report about the 2020 riots released this week revealed once again that Tim Walz’s stated reason for not immediately deploying the National Guard is not supported by the…
This week, the Minneapolis City Council released a long-awaited report analyzing the city’s response to protest and civil unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police. Remarkably, this…
According to the Star Tribune, Developers of a $251 million project with luxury apartments, retail and office space in Edina are seeking a $22 million tax subsidy to counter rising…
After years of declining violent crime rates in Minnesota, 2021 was a bad year. Homicides, gun violence, and carjackings escalated to numbers not seen in nearly twenty years. Experts and…
Tax cuts, students, transparent healthcare, and reliable, affordable energy.
It’s tougher than ever to be a cop in the era of the defund the police movement that started in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd in police custody.…
Collections of a hospitality-specific city tax were down by 81 percent last spring. No doubt, hotels, bars, restaurants, and entertainment venues in the City of Minneapolis have suffered in the…
From time to time, local Minnesota media will mention how deserted downtown Minneapolis has become. The local CBS affiliate, WCCO, ran a story today under the headline, ‘It’s Just a…
All of a sudden the fervor for purging schools of police officers appears to be falling flat. The ‘no cops in the corridors’ campaign gained momentum in the aftermath of…
The only decisions being made right now in Minnesota are political decisions. It was a political decision to charge Kim Potter with a crime for making a mistake while carrying…
It may well be the last Christmas shopping season for some businesses on South Hennepin Avenue if the city of Minneapolis follows through on plans to eliminate parking for customers…
In the wake of George Floyd’s death in May 2020, Minneapolis became a center for the movement to ‘defund the police.’ Last week, Fox 9 reports: Minneapolis City Council mostly…
The verdict, as they say, is still out on whether Minnesota has turned the corner on its current crime epidemic. It was announced today that Medaria Arradondo, Minneapolis police chief…
San Fransicko focuses on the west coast city, but Minneapolis is prominently mentioned throughout the book. Author Michael Shellenberger explains how and why progressive policies have made the big Pacific…
Minnesota police and public safety authorities might just as well have dialed 911 at a recent MN State Senate hearing focusing on the crime wave hitting not just the Twin…
Legislators’ rush to revise deadly force law backfires.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, a gunfight broke out in a bar on St. Paul’s popular West 7th Avenue which left 14 people injured and 27-year-old Marquisha Wiley…
St. Paul Public Schools were among the first to jump on the anti-law enforcement bandwagon following the death of George Floyd in police custody, purging police officers stationed in seven…
‘The war on cops,’ which American Experiment has been talking about since 2016, is only one part of a much broader war on the safety of Minnesotans, which is being…
Increasing crime rates and a growing sense of lawlessness are the biggest challenges facing our state, but Gov. Tim Walz is doing everything in his power to ignore, deflect and…
A tale of two Starbucks Downtown Minneapolis has been a strange place to go for more than a year now. First, COVID-19 hit in March last year. Businesses were closed…