How Minneapolis voluntarily relinquished its streets to a mob of vandals, thieves and arsonists
Rent control disincentivizes investing in the maintenance of existing housing units. It also discourages investment in the production of new housing. Ultimately, this hurts low-income individuals the most in the…
Property values fall in low-income and minority communities because violence has escalated.
When it came time to help the Twin Cities get back on their feet, Minnesota’s business community took a pass.
Minneapolis became a significantly more violent and dangerous place to visit and live in 2020.
Minneapolis is too important to leave in the hands of its own elected officials.
A 20 percent rate increase is only the beginning.
According to the November rent report from Apartment List, rents in Minneapolis are falling faster than many peer cities nationally, including Miami, Denver, Chicago, Baltimore and Atlanta. Rents for a two…
California policymakers continue to enact bad energy policies. This time, the city of San Francisco joined nearly 40 other California towns in banning the use of natural gas in new…
This image of an attempted carjacking and robbery of a woman at gunpoint sums up the threat to everyday life for residents of Minneapolis, even in the quaint neighborhood of…
So-called protests by leftist agitators, anarchists and activists have left a devastating mark on the Twin Cities that will likely take decades to erase. But that’s not good enough for…
On Sunday, City Council President Lisa Bender announced she would not seek re-election in 2021, according to an article in the Star Tribune. Bender was among the first City Council…
Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender insists she made the decision not to run for reelection in 2021 long before leading the charge to defund police in the days and…
Xcel Energy is proposing to raise electricity prices by 20 percent in the coming years to fund a $597 million spending spree, according to a new article in the Star…
In what should have been a headline in The Onion or the Babylon Bee, and not the Star Tribune, the City of Minneapolis delayed the rebuilding of businesses destroyed by…
It’s no secret downtown Minneapolis was in decline due to violent crime and disorder before Covid-19 turned the business district into a ghost town. Riots and looting following George Floyd’s…
Businesses in Minneapolis are right to fear that growing lawlessness will kill their business. No individual or business thrives in an environment where they feel unsafe. If this trend continues,…
The Councillors can walk away from all this, whether they feel any shame about it or not. But, if activists like Al Flowers, Alicia Smith, and Lisa Clemons are correct…
Minneapolis city council may have recognized its mistake in calling for abolition of the police department, but it still refuses to take responsibility for the consequences.
Minneapolitans might have won a reprieve from the city council's lunatic ideas, but they will need to remain their guard.
Liberals and the “Progressive” politicians to their left love to use the buzzwords of “equity, diversity, and inclusivity,” but politicians like Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Jacob Frey have erased…
Increased crime, vandalism, and disorder - even just the perception of it - imposes economic costs. If people feel unsafe, they will go elsewhere and they will take their money…
Not only does Gov. Walz get to the make the rules Minnesotans live by via executive order, but he gets to break them when he feels like it. For proles…
In the midst of the overheated political responses to the Twin Cities riots, Minnesotans steadily support their cops but overwhelmingly expect reform.