Following that Tuesday morning incident in Bloomington, a federal grand jury has formally indicted Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala with one count of assaulting a federal officer: Presumably, the “deadly weapon” was…
On Wednesday, I offered a cautious welcome for the House tax bill. Faced with ballooning state government budget deficits as a result of an explosion in spending since 2023, the…
On this day 160 years ago, Confederate General in Chief Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to the Union Army of the Potomac under the Commanding General of the United States Army, Ulysses S. Grant.…
Economic development Star Tribune: Will tax credits bring more film and TV production to Minnesota? Northern News Now: ‘They’re very entrepreneurial groups:’ Immigration and Northeast Minnesota’s economy Regulation Bring Me…
Economic growth KRFO: Young People Are Leaving Minnesota By The Tens Of Thousands Pine Journal: Richest 1% of Minnesota families own nearly one third of the wealth, data report says…
Border patrol agents report illegal aliens continue to attempt to cross the border with Canada into North Dakota and Minnesota in higher than usual numbers. While the influx remains exponentially…
Is anyone paying attention? More importantly, are the correct people paying attention? As far as I can tell, our own Sarah Montalbano was the first to report locally on the…
Some recent headlines in the local media read: Those business leaders are correct. The proposed tariffs would harm Minnesota’s economy. The precise details of the proposed tariffs are somewhat fluid,…
Over the past 24 months, with little fanfare, more than 423,000 Haitian nationals are known to have entered the United States. The island nation has a population of around 11…
Your correspondent was there this morning, attending a session of immigration court at Ft. Snelling. Officially named the U.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, Ft. Snelling Immigration…
The flow of millions of undocumented individuals across the U.S. border with Mexico dominates the discussion over the threats posed by illegal immigration. Yet the number of incidents along the…
The modern coach-style tour bus parked in front of a south metro suburban hotel gave little hint as to the epic journey it had just completed. The blue and white…
The White House demands that corporations turn a blind eye to human rights abuses in the mining of minerals in “risky” countries. That’s what Amos Hochstein, White House senior adviser…
The so-called North Star Act would prohibit cooperation on the part of local, county and state law enforcement agencies with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. American Experiment’s latest Thinking…
As new markets open up, entrepreneurs rush in to fill the demand. An alert reader sent me this picture taken Friday, March 1, of a bus parked at a south…
North Dakota has joined a coalition of 25 Republican-led states coming to the defense of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s escalating standoff with the Biden administration over the state’s effort to…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune had a headline yesterday noting that Minnesota is among the top states to which New York City is redirecting its excess illegal immigrant arrivals. The Star…
My colleague John Phelan has been writing about the latest U.S. Census data, showing the continued net exodus from Minnesota to other states. Since the last national census (April 1,…
With immigration much in the news these days, it’s maddening difficult to find concrete data on the phenomenon. Thousands of migrants are streaming across the southern border every day, but…
It turns out two wrongs do make a right for illegal aliens getting driver’s licenses in Minnesota. Thanks to Gov. Tim Walz and the DFL legislature, illegal aliens in Minnesota…
Apologists for Hamas are using very specific language in their attempt to shift blame for the heinous acts of terrorism committed against Israeli citizens this week. That same language is…
The Guthrie Theater tries hard to ruin a great story.
I was looking forward to the Guthrie Theater’s last performance of the season, a theatrical adaption of the novel Shane. I read and studied Jack Schaefer’s classic 1949 western as…
You’ve probably never heard of the American Governors’ Border Strike Force, but anyone who supports secure borders should salute them. The Biden administration’s open-border policy allowing millions of illegal aliens…