State senate Democrats fired their top staff person, yet you the taxpayer are on the hook for $203,000. It may all sound like a tempest-in-a-teapot, and the $ amount may…
State and local taxes and spending Star Tribune: Proposal would tax Minnesota farmers to help pay for cleanup of nitrate pollution Duluth News Tribune: Our View: New tax credit can…
DFL vs Ridesharing On Monday, I — along with thousands of others, I imagine — received an email from Lyft reading: John, the Minneapolis City Council is considering an ordinance…
Yesterday, a Twitter (X) account caught my eye, going by the handle of Minnesota Department of Human Services Employees, @Minnesota_DHS. It only has 34 followers, but makes the following claim…
Yesterday’s webinar is now available for viewing on YouTube. I mentioned during the webinar that many of the Feeding Our Future defendants also owned other businesses subsidized by other agencies…
The final campaign finance numbers are in for the 2023 election for the Minneapolis city council. All 13 council seats were on the ballot, and the results saw the avowedly…
A review of Alpha News’ ‘The Fall of Minneapolis.’
Back in 2020, my colleague Tom Steward and I described how Minnesotans — and residents of the Twin Cities specifically — were failed so miserably that summer by their state and…
The local Twin Cities chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (TCDSA) issued a follow-up today to their incendiary statement backing Hamas issued on Monday. The original statement is still…
July 4, 2022, was a night many in Minneapolis will never forget. Rampant violence occurred throughout downtown, much of it focused on the Mill District, which includes the Stone Arch…
The Twin Cities chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (TCDSA) issued a controversial statement last night in support of the Palestinian cause, just weeks before the November 7 election…
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey announced today that he was nominating Todderick Barnette, current Chief Judge of the 4th Judicial District (Hennepin County) to become the city’s second Commissioner of Community…
State and local taxes and spending Kittson County Enterprise: Governor Walz Announces Payments of up to $1,300 Will Begin This Week Minn Post: Downtowns, including St. Paul and Minneapolis, turning…
A number of properties linked to the free-food scandal have fallen behind on their property taxes. Immediately after the FBI raids on Feeding Our Future in January 2022, the U.S.…
The Twin Cities have an affordable housing problem as the result of excessive taxes, fees, and regulations that effectively make it illegal to build affordable housing there. Occasionally, when I…
Last summer Minneapolis Mayor Frey announced the hiring of Dr. Cedrick Alexander to lead the newly created Office of Community Safety. Mayor Frey called Alexander’s hire a “seminal moment” in the…
The City of Lakes adopts “ambitious” goals for global warming. Mild amusement follows. Today, the City of Minneapolis adopted its most ambitious climate change goals, ever. The Star Tribune recaps…
Thanks to some absentee council members, rent control will likely not appear on the November ballot in Minneapolis. As reported by the Star Tribune, In a contentious maneuver backed by…
When both Minneapolis and St. Paul proposed rent control on their ballots in 2021, American Experiment recommended voting against those proposals, citing the harmful consequences of rent control. Specifically, our…
The latest snow storm to hit the state dropped an impressive 13 inches of snow on the Metro area. But, somehow managed to fall well short of expectations. As the…
Nobody seems to know. But no worries, much more money will be spent on the effort. In Minnesota, the City of Minneapolis is at the forefront of the use of…
It’s in the math. Advocates for the ranked-choice voting method claim many advantages for their voting system, not least among them producing a nicer, more moderate politics. Something closer to…
Digging deeper into the Feeding Our Future scandal.
Deena Winter of the Minnesota Reformer has a scoop: the wife of Minneapolis city council member Jamal Osman operated a free food site last year. Ilo Amba incorporated the nonprofit…