I’ve explained before just what a total waste of money the proposed Northern Lights Express will be. It will be a slower, more expensive, and less convenient way of moving…
With the 2023 Minnesota legislative session finishing today, Gov. Tim Walz and Democratic majorities in the House and Senate accomplished everything on their wish list. We won’t have to wait…
Coincidences abound when it comes to the Feeding Our Future scandal. In this post, we look at some of the links connecting the various scandals reverberating around Minneapolis Democratic politics…
State and local taxes and spending Minnesota Reformer: House Dems no-show at tax panel Minn Post: Mayor says Minneapolis must ‘step up’ to fund public housing. Does the city need…
Council member Jeremiah Ellison is accused. Yesterday, the challenger for the Democratic endorsement in Ward 10 for the Minneapolis city council, Nasri Warsame, held a press conference to tell his…
We are coming up on the third anniversary of George Floyd’s death. This morning, my colleague David Zimmer and I returned to Floyd’s namesake square in south Minneapolis. We last…
The Saturday melee at the Minneapolis Ward 10 Democratic convention has received worldwide attention. I’m not going to get into the middle of who did what and who was to…
When entertainers, advertisers or politicians want to know if an idea will be well-received by mainstream America, they ask the question, “Will it play in Peoria?”
State and local taxes and spending AP News: Minnesota Legislature shapes budget bills as deadline looms WCCO: Businesses raise alarm about 75-cent retail delivery fee proposal at Minnesota Legislature Morrison…
The Office of the Legislative Auditor released a scathing report in March on the Golden Turkey Winner Southwest Light Rail Transit (SWLRT), criticizing the Met Council for, among other things:…
A first-hand account of a Minneapolis murder case and what we can learn from it now.
It happens all too frequently, gunfire and violence at and around Metro Transit light rail stations. But there’s no substitute for witnessing a shooting firsthand to get the attention of…
The true, seldom told story of overwhelming sacrifice and heroism.
In November 2021, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis released two reports — each analyzing the impact of minimum wage hikes in the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul between…
Minnesota families are ditching public schools, and finding homeschooling is a challenging but fulfilling alternative.
Oliver Stone’s latest movie is about nuclear power and why it is probably the future of energy. The film will be airing in Minnesota in four different locations, including Minneapolis…
Walz doubles down on failure at the Met Council.
Back in 2018, Finance & Commerce wrote: A concrete fortress of a parking ramp appeared to be the former Macy’s future after its 2013 exit from downtown St. Paul. What…
…After avoiding an early brush with the Feeding Our Future scandal. In some rare good news for the economy of Minneapolis and St. Paul, local entrepreneur Abdirahman Kahin won the…
Teacher licensure exams take up the ‘equity’ cause.
The Minneapolis Police Department’s 3rd Precinct was overrun and set afire on Thursday, May 28, 2020, during the civil unrest that followed the death of George Floyd while in police…
There isn’t space in the newsletter to write about all the bad things that passed this week, so here are just ten things that happened this week in St. Paul…
The American Revolution can, in many ways, be seen as one of a string of attempts running back through English history to restrain the arbitrary power of government. In 1642,…
When both Minneapolis and St. Paul proposed rent control on their ballots in 2021, American Experiment recommended voting against those proposals, citing the harmful consequences of rent control. Specifically, our…