I’m digging into the campaign finance reports filed earlier this week and a new, big player has appeared on the scene: Working Peoples Project. The Project is a special purpose…
State and local taxes and spending Wall Street Journal: The Minnesota Tax-and-Spend Model Cato Institute: Governor Tim Walz’s Fiscal Record Washington Times: While other governors were lowering taxes, Walz socked…
Back in May, I wrote an article titled “As council ramps up spending while commercial property values tank, Minneapolis property taxes set to rise.” This is now happening. Council ramps…
The more things change, the more they stay the same, and for good reason! After making a big deal out of abruptly cutting some ties with the Minneapolis Police Department…
How a small cadre of political radicals is hijacking the mission of the Minnesota Historical Society.
Who should be held accountable for the hiring and abrupt firing of Equity Alliance Minnesota, whose outlandish racial equity survey put the Sartell school district in the media spotlight for…
After giving themselves a 250 percent pay raise, park commissioner no-shows force the board to cancel meetings.
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board regularly makes news for all the wrong reasons. Awhile back the board’s chaotic public meetings routinely made headlines for being disrupted and even shut…
A curious thing happened at the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board’s last meeting on October 16. The table appeared to be set for the liberal-dominated board to approve renting office…
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Thinking Minnesota, now the second largest magazine in Minnesota. To receive a free trial issue send your name and address to [email protected]. In George Orwell’s…
Why the Left wants to rewrite Minnesota’s history.
Minneapolis officials are resisting carrying out the court order, which would require them to change the signs back to Lake Calhoun. The park board and mayor are saying they will…
It has been a puzzle to me that Lake Calhoun was named after John C. Calhoun. After all, Minnesota was a hard-core abolitionist state. Besides, the guy looks way too…
It’s taking longer than expected for Minneapolis to fill what used to be one of the most highly sought after jobs in the field–superintendent of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation…
Not so fast! That’s the essence of the Star Tribune’s editorial aimed at the new slate of Minneapolis Park Board commissioners who ran on reform but now want to more…
The election of six outsiders to the Minneapolis Park Board last fall was supposed to change everything. MinnPost summed it up this way when the new commissioners took office this year.…
Another school board meeting, another angry near-mob of protesters. But judging from the outcome, members of the Richfield School Board has learned a lesson from the intimidation tactics employed recently…
Hopkins real estate developer Kelly Doran wrote an enraged commentary in the Star Tribune when he heard that 84 state legislators had asked the FTA and Congress to kill Southwest…