Yesterday, Scott County completed a recount of ballots in the race for State House of Representatives District 54A. The headline from the Minnesota Star Tribune: DFL Rep. Brad Tabke picks…
Information surfaces about dramatic staffing crisis in Hennepin County Attorney’s Office Alpha News broke a story this week that confirms rumors that have existed for the past two years that…
2025 will be an election year in Minneapolis, with the mayor and the entire city council on the ballot. Incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey appears ready to run for a third…
I learned a new German word this week, via Zerohedge. It turns out that the Germans really do have a compound word to describe everything: The UK Telegraph provides some…
Minnesota utilities face a state deadline to provide 100 percent of power from carbon-free sources by 2040, just 15 years from now. It’s a pipe dream, given the unreliability of…
That’s the apparent situation in Shakopee, MN, where the incumbent DFL state Rep. Brad Tabke leads his Republican opponent, Aaron Paul, by 14 votes out of nearly 22,000 votes cast…
The ban on building a new nuclear power plant in the state is incorporated into Minnesota Statute Chapter 216B.243 Subd. 3b(a). The ban was included in the 1994 law to…
I write occasional articles about Minnesota’s history for our magazine, Thinking Minnesota. In the course of doing so, I often write more material than I have room for, as was…
I guess we’ll find out for sure once the new legislature convenes in January. In the meantime, we search for signs and portents. As for trends, I’ve been pointing to…
Notes from the day after the night before. Election 2024 saw the end of Democratic party (DFL) monopoly control at the state capitol. Trump did not prevail in Minnesota, but…
Steve Sviggum was first elected to the Minnesota House in 1978, arriving in St. Paul as a wide-eyed farmer and teacher from Kenyon, Minnesota. The blatant abuse of power he…
It wasn’t enough for the 2023 legislature to spend the entire surplus, raise taxes and add thousands of new government bureaucrats. They had to do one more thing: change the…
Each year, Education Minnesota charges member teachers and education support professionals (ESPs) $25 to fund its political action committee, or PAC. PAC money is spent on supporting political parties, candidates,…
There is one constitutional amendment on the ballot this November that seeks to renew and extend an amendment passed originally in 1988 directing proceeds from the Minnesota Lottery into a…
The state’s teachers’ union Education Minnesota is holding its annual Minnesota Educator Academy (MEA) conference this Thursday, and par for the course, ideological agendas are front and center. Billed as…
A jury in St. Paul delivered its verdict today in the weeklong trial of Derrick John Thompson, son of former state Rep. John Derrick Thompson (DFL-St. Paul, b. 1971). The…
In response to COVID, the federal government sent Minnesota $1.3 billion for E-12 education. Those dollars were meant to help schools return to, and maintain, safe in-person learning for all…
The following public safety issues made headlines this past week. I offer this summary and insight: Random execution-style murder in Lowertown St. Paul. On Wednesday 9/25/24, a local artist, Carrie Shobe…
The owners of 9,000 vehicles owe the city of Rochester hundreds of thousands of dollars for delinquent, unpaid parking tickets. When all else fails, one of the tried and true…
Each year, Education Minnesota charges member teachers and eduction support professionals (ESPs) $25.00 for its political action committee, or PAC. PAC money is spent on supporting political parties, candidates, and…
It came as a surprise to many Minnesotans in 2023 to discover that one one of the most pressing priorities facing our state was not crime or the economy but…
It would be hard to overstate the depth of uncertainty plaguing Minnesota businesses, big and small, over the looming paid family and medical leave program rammed through the DFL-controlled state…
Damarco Thompson is reported to have been Derrick’s passenger in the rented Cadillac Escalade that night. The federal trial for Derrick John Thompson on drug and gun charges begins October…
It’s no secret that the state teachers’ union and its affiliates are big spenders on politics. During 2022, Education Minnesota’s Political Action Committee (PAC) spent $5.4 million on statewide general…