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News of note in Minnesota: Center events, initiatives, and policy work.

Free speech comes with a price on college campuses — for now.

Center of the American Experiment announced a summer tour of events based on exclusive polling showing young people in Minnesota dissatisfied with the direction of the state and pessimistic about…

News of note in Minnesota: Center events, initiatives, and policy work.

Now that the dust has settled from the 2024 legislative session, it’s time to unpack several noteworthy provisions pertaining to K-12 education. Health academic standards State academic health standards will…

On Wednesday, Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan tweeted: The Pioneer Press article she retweeted explains: After a several-month consultation process, the Minnesota Historical Society has agreed to return the “Mankato hanging…

Thursday morning, I drove over to South Minneapolis to document anew some of the carnage to be found in the once thriving city. We’ve edited what I saw down to…

News of note in Minnesota: Center events, initiatives, and policy work.

The latest development in Mankato’s “No Mow May” campaign has got to sting those who signed up for the trendy effort to save bees. After two years of encouraging residents…

The Minnesota Legislature is about to build another new office building for themselves, and the Golden Turkey committee is here for it. Without a single vote on the floor of…

A new Mankato high school is teaching students skills for tomorrow through a scripturally-grounded curriculum.

Center events, initiatives, and policy work.

There's a trend cropping up among nurses under union representation in the Mayo Clinic Health System. Nurses at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Austin just became the fourth collective…

The Minnesota Legislature is about to build another new office building for themselves and once again, they’re doing it without ever taking a vote on the floor of the House…

The first person Tim Walz called after he became governor in 2018 was his real estate agent in Mankato. Since the job of governor includes the perk of living in…

Historians essentially agree the bloody Dakota uprising of 1862 still stands as the most consequential event in Minnesota history. The media’s attention generally focuses on the December anniversary of the…

In this second part of the series, we Follow the Money™ into the finances of another education-focused nonprofit. In part 1, we followed the money behind a leading nonprofit in…

From outside the classroom, the issue appears as elementary as ABC. But it’s taken until now for school districts to finally reach the obvious conclusion that allowing students to have…

Mankato became ground zero in the fight to get SROs back in schools last week as the police were called in to Mankato East High School to break up a…

Claims of widespread “book banning” in school libraries continue to work their way into comments and articles, despite the fact such rhetoric is not reality. Most notably, Gov. Tim Walz…

There’s no sugarcoating the precipitous decline in Minnesota’s K-12 public school system and inverse relationship between increased funding and decreased results. The latest statewide test scores show more than half…

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…

State and local taxes and spending KROC: Minnesota Fiscal Year Revenues Beat Forecast by a Half Billion $  KSTP: St. Paul voters to mull property, sales tax increases over next…

Anyone who paid attention in Civics 101 to the chapter on the separation of powers between the three branches of American government should have seen it coming. The Cato Institute,…