We’ve got mail! Family legacy In the Fall 2024 issue, I was elated that John Phelan wrote an article about the 2nd Minnesota. My Norwegian immigrant great-great grandfather Even, his…
They may be virtually powerless to stop Xcel Energy from forcing another high-voltage transmission line through their area, but that hasn’t stopped landowners from Marshall to Becker from trying to…
Ninety years ago today, the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, the first line of which read: The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States…
The Department of Natural Resources never sought public input before the controversial transfer of the historic Upper Sioux Agency State Park to the Upper Sioux Community was essentially a done…
The Walz administration kept a tight lid on the behind-the-scenes deal-making in recent months to turn over ownership and control of the Upper Sioux Agency State Park to the Upper…
The Upper Sioux Agency State Park draws more than 30,000 visitors annually to Yellow Medicine County in southwestern Minnesota. But probably not for much longer, given the Walz administration’s plan…
It’s worth retracing their paths as progressives aim to edit the Constitution again This op-ed originally appeared as the Sunday Opinion cover in the Star Tribune on October 6, 2019.…
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Thinking Minnesota, now the second largest magazine in Minnesota. To receive a free trial issue send your name and address to [email protected]. The cover of…
America's first experiment in social engineering-conceived by a congressman from Minnesota-became an epic fail because Americans didn't buy it.
Minnesota’s rural economy is gaining strength, reports MinnPost, with many businesses primed for growth. The challenge, of course, is finding the qualified workers necessary to make that growth happen. Southwestern…
It remains to be seen if and when Bakken shale oil will flow through the Dakota Access Pipeline that’s still under construction, as well as protest, in North Dakota. The…