A legislative proposal would keep friendly arbitrators from reversing public employee reprimands.
The video of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis on Memorial Day is sickening. There is no way that arresting a man for an alleged minor infraction should involve a police…
Recent months have given Minnesotans a front-row seat to the shortcomings of liberal governance.
The "woke" movement is built on shows of "right-thinking" and Puritan-style intolerance.
A public awareness campaign launched this week by Center of the American Experiment seeks to inform Minnesotans of a dramatic increase in violent crime in the Twin Cities and give…
Just because doing something is a good idea, it doesn't necessarily follow that it is a good idea for government to force people to do it. Ask yourself how, in…
The Minnesota National Guard commander whose soldiers effectively quelled the Twin Cities riots overnight once Gov. Tim Walz authorized the necessary troops to do the job has gotten a big-time…
This op ed appeared in the Duluth News Tribune on July 18th, 2020 In May, Kris Schiffler, owner of Shady’s Hometown Tavern in Albany, Minnesota, announced he was going to…
Recent months have given Minnesotans a front-row seat to the shortcomings of liberal governance.
Duluth’s new superintendent of schools John Magas has hit the ground running in his first month on the job, considering it’s still uncertain whether students will be physically present at…
A proposal for public employees to serve reprimands.
The state hasn't issued its guidance yet on public schools reopening this fall, but many private religious schools are intending to bring their students back for in-person classes.
That reduced policing leads to more crime is another manifestation of the consistent research finding that more cops means less crime. What will happen to crime in Minneapolis if the…
'One Minnesota' is a smart slogan. That is all it is.
Minnesotans support cops. Expect reform.
Not surprisingly, pretty much all of us, African-Americans included, want our families to live in safe neighborhoods.
While Minneapolis city council and 'Self-described liberals' are dreaming big dreams of abolishing the police and replacing them with an undefined “new transformative model for cultivating safety”, people are dying. How…
With some 561,000 absentee ballots tallied in 2018, there’s no flattening of the curve when it comes to the number of Minnesotans expected to vote absentee this fall. By all…
It had to be humiliating for the Minnesota State Patrol officers evidently ordered to stand down while a mob lassoed and ripped down the statue of Christopher Columbus on June…
On July 1, The Center of the American Experiment released the following statement: An overwhelming majority of Minnesotans have confidence in their local police departments and oppose plans to defund…
An overwhelming majority of Minnesotans have confidence in their local police departments and oppose plans to defund and disband the Minneapolis police department, according to a new statewide Center of…
There is, at present, a broad consensus in America that policing reform is needed. That consensus will shatter if extremists, like those at City Pages, succeed in hijacking the cause…
Sure it may be way out there to demand the immediate removal of the police officers assigned to Duluth schools for more than twenty years. But the students behind the…
Some suggest that Minneapolis police officers should live in the neighborhoods they police so that they will have to live with the results of their work. The city's council members…