How Minn State’s radical new plan sacrifices academic excellence for racial and ethnic priorities.
The legacy of the policeman turned mayor who fought Minneapolis crime and establishment politicians.
Talon Metals is planning to open a new, high-grade nickel, copper, and cobalt mine near Tamarack, Minnesota. The mine drew national attention when it signed a supply agreement with Tesla…
The back pages of this week’s Star Tribune were a quiet reminder of the investigative clean-up that continues some 2 ½ years after the George Floyd-related riots. This is a sliver…
Outrage grows over escalating violence at the U of M.
We’ve heard it all before from Met Council chairman Charles Zelle, who oversees Metro Transit and the Twin Cities’ light rail lines. Promises and plans to crack down on the…
It’s one thing for the proponents of cancel culture to get their way in erasing the names of urban historical landmarks like Lake Calhoun in the Twin Cities. But the…
In case you missed it… and what to watch for.
It’s the sort of standard atta-boy endorsement of a leftwing cause or group that usually sails through the Duluth City Council. Three city councilors introduced a resolution in support of…
Two Cannon Falls School Board incumbents expressed frustration this week that other people in the community dared run against them, and worse yet, dared to share resources and run as…
Much like St. Paul and Minneapolis, Rochester is also struggling with a housing affordability issue. However, unlike the two cities, Rochester is going in a different direction. Instead of imposing…
The chronic housing shortage that’s so often in the news isn’t confined to the Twin Cities metro area. Residents in rural Minnesota can run into the same problem, prompting one…
State and local taxes and spending Duluth News Tribune: Minnesota lawmakers back waiving taxes on student loan forgiveness West Central Tribune: Kandiyohi County 2023 tax levy set to increase, but…
On Monday, the Minnesota Reformer reported: The largest private-sector nurses strike in U.S. history began on Monday with some 15,000 nurses launching a three-day strike at 15 hospitals across the…
As a Minneapolis kid who served 33 years in and around the city as a Sheriff’s deputy, I am not just troubled by the level of violence in my hometown,…
Violence marred the Labor Day holiday weekend. Saturday’s shooting inside the state fairgrounds, and Monday night’s shooting just outside the fairgrounds overshadowed Sunday’s quintuple shooting/triple murder in St. Paul. Unfortunately,…
It may not happen often enough, but every once in a while local elected officials do something that stands out — in a good way. The Twin Cities suburb of…
State and local taxes and spending KSTP: Minnesota’s film industry welcomes 6 projects after launch of tax credit program Mankato Free Press: Our View: Minnesota finances “above average” Bring Me…
Thousands of Twin Cities residents have chosen to abandon riding light rail. They’ve been driven off by the high crime rate and Met Council Chair Charles Zelle’s inability to make…
While facing a huge docket of backed up cases, Renville County’s new prosecutor is showing defendants that crime won’t pay.
Public safety and political activism are on a collision course in the Twin Cities.
In September, 2016, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reported: Starbucks is expanding its presence in the Twin Cities with several new shops in the works, including one in downtown Minneapolis.…
Minnesota’s childcare crisis hurts parents, children, and the communities they live in.
In May, I wrote about Census Bureau data which showed that in 2021 Minneapolis lost 3,678 residents (a decline of 0.9% in its population): To put this in context, in…