The Star Tribune reports on a demonstration in downtown Minneapolis, which it considers to be newsworthy: “Hundreds turn out in Minneapolis for march opposing Trump administration’s policies on climate.” Hundreds?…
Taxpayers get it coming and going in a new report issued by the Office of the State Auditor. The figures show $9.1 million in property taxes was spent by local governments…
Congressman Jason Lewis’s bill reining in the Met Council has already passed the U.S. Senate and is up in the House this week. We are expecting to hear that the…
Not only is light rail transit ineffective in combating congestion, it’s also expensive, adding billions to the national debt. The US Department of Transportation has signaled that future transit projects…
Hold everything. Top U.S. Department of Transportation officials have informed Minnesota legislators the controversial Southwest Light Rail Transit line does not qualify for $928 million in make-or-break federal funding necessary…
Hold everything. Top U.S. Department of Transportation officials have informed Minnesota legislators the controversial Southwest Light Rail Transit line does not qualify for $928 million in make-or-break federal funding necessary…
Writing in the Observer, Arick Wierson rates the three worst mayors in the U.S. Wierson ranks the mayor of Minneapolis, Betsy Hodges, second-worst. Hodges is in rarefied company: #3 on…
A speech delivered Monday night by Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges proved once again her re-election campaign is focused on President Donald Trump. She mentioned his name 58 times in her…
From today’s Pioneer Press, an appalling story that should be a wake-up call: A Detroit-area emergency room doctor has been charged for allegedly performing genital mutilation on two 7-year-old girls…
Hopkins real estate developer Kelly Doran wrote an enraged commentary in the Star Tribune when he heard that 84 state legislators had asked the FTA and Congress to kill Southwest…
A Minneapolis ban on plastic bags is set to take effect on June 1. According to a city news release, the purpose of the ban is “to reduce the litter,…
School’s out early for Thomas Rademacher, the 2014 Minnesota Teacher of the Year. Despite being awarded the state’s highest educational honor by MN's largest teachers union and honored by President…
It was encouraging to read in the Star Tribune on Tuesday (April 4) that Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges, along with the CEO of the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce, the…
The House and Senate have both passed transportation bills that follow the general outline recommended in the Center’s Minnesota Policy Blueprint for Transportation: road, roads, and more roads funded with…
Migration, especially domestic migration, is a key indicator of the desirability and success of an area. People vote with their feet and move to places with good jobs, affordable housing,…
Wilmoth began his career with a job that put him mere steps from the Oval Office
The Met Council always expected the Southwest Light Rail Transit line to be on the short list in Washington—the short list for $895 million in federal funding for construction. Instead,…
The Met Council always expected the Southwest Light Rail Transit line to be on the short list in Washington—the short list for $895 million in federal funding for construction. Instead,…
Minneapolis may boast it makes the “Best of” lists, but this self-praise is not reality for most of the city’s population. Frontpage Magazine recently published an article on how the…
In November 2015, a Minneapolis lawyer named Dan Shulman filed a purported class action lawsuit on behalf of all children in the Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools. The lawsuit…
Relying on fads, pseudoscientific planning and an enormous budget, the council has actually increased the cost of housing and created even greater traffic congestion.
Town meetings extend CAE’s reach throughout Minnesota
A test score ‘meritocracy’ is battling the Left Behinds
Author David Lebedoff long ago predicted our current political dissonance. Dare I say ‘deplorables?’