Equal outcomes by decree are now the top priority at our state’s largest higher ed system. The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system — our state’s largest higher education system,…
Economic development The Center Square: $4.3M Minnesota taxpayer subsidies expected to create 321 jobs Minn Post: Officials estimate ‘remarkable’ $650 million for Minnesota broadband from infrastructure bill Minneapolis/St. Paul Business…
The dramatic drop in enrollment at Minneapolis public schools is a leading indicator of the city’s eventual decline. Two decades ago (2002-2003 school year), Minneapolis ranked in the top 100…
Public officials in Minneapolis and St. Paul seem determined to cram more and wider bike lanes onto city streets, often at the expense of parking places and vehicle lanes. But…
“I have no business understanding this better than you.” U of M student addressing the lack of public safety on campus to university and public safety leadership On Wednesday evening…
With inflation still at a historic high, Minneapolis and St. Paul residents are about to be hit with some (huge) property tax hikes. According to the Star Tribune, St. Paul…
The story is a familiar one: missing free-food money, but no arrests or charges. The setting is the southeast Alabama city of Dothan, so the accents are different. The peanut…
Renaming schools is another example of the Minnesota education cartel being more concerned with inputs than outputs. The name of a school is an input. The color of a teacher…
With this November’s governor’s race rated only a “lean” to the Democrats, national groups are taking no chances. In case they are needed late in the race, national groups are…
Minneapolis leadership has failed the citizens and business owners of South Minneapolis. Two years after the death of George Floyd the city continues to capitulate to activist groups over plans…
The first guilty plea has been entered in the Feeding Our Future scandal… for passport fraud. Not much has been heard lately from the half-billion-dollar Feeding Our Future scandal. The…
On Wednesday, August 10, the Minneapolis City Council’s Public Health and Safety Committee received an update from police investigative and intelligence representatives. The hearing can be viewed in its entirety…
That Congresswoman Omar won last night was not the surprise. The shocking thing was her thin margin of victory. Omar prevailed over former Minneapolis city council member Don Samuels by…
While facing a huge docket of backed up cases, Renville County’s new prosecutor is showing defendants that crime won’t pay.
It may not be as contagious as Covid, but for the second time in as many weeks nurses at a Mayo hospital in southern Minnesota have voted to end union…
Here are some facts. Minneapolis is: At an all-time low proportion of police officers to citizens – 1.3/1,000 while the national average is 2.8/1,000. Managing its police department with an…
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.…
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…
Last night was a new low for public safety in our signature city. “SHOTS FIRED in the 4th Precinct lot. “100 shots” in the lot. OFFICER HELP CALL. Vehicle fleeing.…
Minnesota’s lawmakers had a chance to make the honor roll; they chose to settle for ‘Did Not Pass’ instead.
Activists are discovering the power of working together to bring accountability to their communities.
The Minneapolis-based Russian art museum is housed in a Spanish Colonial church. The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) is located in south Minneapolis, at I-35W and Diamond Lake Road. The…
On Friday evening the son of a former metro area police chief was violently assaulted and hospitalized during a robbery of his cell phone in downtown Minneapolis. The chief posted…
In the dystopian game of whack-a-mole playing out in south Minneapolis, the homeless encampment cleared by the city last Wednesday has reappeared two blocks to the east. As reported by…