Arcadio Carrera-Flores, age 36 of Mexico, is our Minnesota Man of the Day for November 22. He has been indicted on three criminal counts in federal court, involving a firearm,…
Tomas Valencia-Ramirez takes Minnesota Man of the Day honors in a hard-fought, five-way contest. Valencia (a/k/a Rufino Ramirez) appeared this afternoon in federal court in downtown St. Paul, charged with…
The financial behemoth Blackrock has proposed taking over the Duluth-based electric utility Minnesota Power. The debate over the transaction is revealing some unexpected fault lines. The debate has a tiny…
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…
Minnesota Power, based in Duluth, got approval for a 4.9 percent rate hike to residential customers’ electricity rates compared to 2023 rates. Minnesota Power estimates the average residential customer will…
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Century Aluminum is planning to build the country’s first new smelter in 45 years. That could be good news, if the company can…
National news outlets such as The Wall Street Journal detail recent concerns about soaring energy prices crippling heavy industry in Germany and several other European countries. The nascent deindustrialization of…
Better late than never, when it comes to legislators fixing the DFL’s botched law that led many police departments to pull officers out of schools due to liability concerns. But…
A growing number of articles have detailed how soaring energy prices are crippling heavy industry in Germany and several other European countries. The nascent deindustrialization of Europe stems from decades of bad energy policies mandating…
The 2023 legislative session was a study of pushing through an ideological agenda.
In “Get on board with the train to Duluth” (June 11) the Star Tribune’s Editorial Board announced its support for the Northern Lights Express (NLX), the proposed passenger train service…
Although Minnesota has a constitutional requirement for a balanced budget, the legislature is allowed to borrow money for capital building projects.
As I noted last month, the state government voted to waste $200 million on a train running between Minneapolis and Duluth. The media is now — belatedly — asking “How…
Bob Dylan’s newest book speaks to the present through the songs of the past.
Last week, Republican Gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen released his 10-point plan for Northern Minnesota. Among his proposals was a plan to save the Boswell Energy Center, a 922-megawatt coal-fired power…
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.…
In 1985, Amtrak ended all passenger rail service to Duluth. It did so because hardly anyone was using the service anymore. Now, nearly 40 years on, there are proposals to…
American Experiment cultivates the grass roots.
Our friends at the group Better in Our Back Yard (BIOBY) are circulating a petition urging Gov. Tim Walz to publicly support the PolyMet mining project, which is the first-ever…
The radical Left is making race the most important factor in evaluating everyday Americans.
‘Raise Our Standards’ tour draws substantial crowds, support.
Eighty years ago today, Robert Allen Zimmerman was born in Duluth, Minnesota. As Bob Dylan, he would go on to become, probably, the most culturally influential Minnesotan in history. Dylan’s…
Standing on the banks of the Mississippi River in Cohasset, Minnesota, the Boswell Energy Center is the most productive, lowest-cost source of electricity in the entire state. Because Minnesota’s mining…
I detected a certain candor in the political mutiny in which Susan Kent (D-Woodbury) dethroned Tom Bakk (D-Cook) last month to become the Democrat leader of the Minnesota Senate. In…