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…
Education Minnesota — the state teachers’ union — has a series of resources for educators and school leadership on how to defend Critical Race Theory. The documents, first reported on…
Tobacco taxes hurt low-income Minnesotans, small businesses.
Judging by the Met Council and Southwest Light Rail Transit’s regular e-updates for the public, the most expensive public works project in Minnesota history appears to be right on track.…
State and Twin Cities leaders dither while vulnerable residents live in fear and increasing danger.
State leaders again ignore school choice advocates.
In an effort to address the housing crisis, the Minneapolis City Council made it legal to build rooming houses. According to the Star Tribune, The City Council last week approved…
In May 2020, Great River Energy made a surprising announcement: It would close the Coal Creek Station — a large, 1,150-megawatt coal plant in North Dakota — if it could…
You can almost understand their outrage. After all, Gov. Tim Walz, the Minnesota State Patrol and Minneapolis police have coddled leftist mobs who’ve made a habit of taking their protest…
Dictionary.com offers several definitions of the word ‘frequency,’ one of which is: Also frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence Bear this definition in mind when you consider what…
Minneapolis needs more cops to help stem the explosion of violent crime in the city. But that will only do so much. There is very little point apprehending violent criminals…
Violent crime is exploding in Minneapolis this year. Data from the City of Minneapolis shows that there were 47 homicides in the city between January 1 and July 15 this…
The head of the Minneapolis Police Federation confirms what many residents already know and fear. There aren’t enough police on the job citywide with the shortage in staffing affecting the…
It didn’t take long for residents in the besieged Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis to react to word that the latest threat to the area was finally being cleared out by…
American Experiment Releases Voter Integrity Report, Urges Secretary of State Simon to Release Data Post card experiment reveals weakness in Minnesota voting system (Golden Valley, MN) Center of the American…
Back in 2015, President Obama compared Minnesota favorably with Wisconsin, holding up our state’s high, progressive taxes as the model for others to follow. When I joined the Center in 2017, we…
At least the organizers of the Uptown Art Fair could blame the popular event’s cancellation last year on COVID-19. But now one of the highlights of the Minnesota summer has…
Last weekend, the Star Tribune reported: This was going to be the big comeback summer for Minnesota’s tourism business. Freed from the limits placed on them last year during the…
On July 1, 2021, the Hennepin County District Court issued a Writ of Mandamus that orders the Minneapolis City Council and Mayor Jacob Frey to “immediately take any and all…
When Chipotle raised its minimum wage to $15, it also hiked food prices by 4 percent. “It made sense in this scenario to invest in our employees and get these…
The dust is finally settling on the 2021 state budget and the spenders won again. Any chance of lowering taxes and cutting spending was lost when all three entities (House,…
According to city data, there have been 41 homicides in Minneapolis so far in 2021. That is a 46 percent increase on the number for the same period in 2020.…
Last month, I wrote that ‘“If you build it, they will come” …might be sound advice when it comes to supernatural baseball fields, but [is] bad advice for government transit.’…
State and local taxes and spending Star Tribune: Minnesota Legislature agrees to nearly $1 billion in tax cuts The Center Square: Minnesota liquor taxes fourteenth-highest in nation MPR News: Tax…