State and local taxes and spending Star Tribune: Minneapolis property taxes are going up, but not as fast as most major U.S. cities since 2019 Grand Rapids Herald Review: Housing…
Northstar Commuter Rail has never come close to meeting the rosy ridership projections touted at the $320 million line’s kick-off 15 years ago this month. Not before the pandemic, certainly…
This morning, I was back at Ft. Snelling, observing the workings of the local Federal Immigration Court. Charles Dickens famously wrote in his 1853 novel Bleak House about the fictional…
The final campaign finance numbers are in for the 2023 election for the Minneapolis city council. All 13 council seats were on the ballot, and the results saw the avowedly…
The silly season has officially begun for the 2023 election. Today’s installment comes from Bloomington courtesy of some unhinged liberals accusing Ricardo Oliva of “anglicizing” his name to appeal to…
In “Get on board with the train to Duluth” (June 11) the Star Tribune’s Editorial Board announced its support for the Northern Lights Express (NLX), the proposed passenger train service…
As I noted last month, the state government voted to waste $200 million on a train running between Minneapolis and Duluth. The media is now — belatedly — asking “How…
On this July 3rd evening, I enjoyed the holiday fireworks display in my western Minneapolis suburb of Edina. A clip of tonight’s finale: Apologies for the poor video quality. From…
Your correspondent attends a game in downtown Minneapolis, and lives to tell the tale. The Minnesota Twins are currently leading the Central division of the American League. In the stands,…
Hennepin County held its annual “State of the County” address on Wednesday morning. The challenges the Board identified were climate change, housing, business and employment — all with an umbrella theme…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this week that inflation rose by 8.5 percent in the year to March. This is the fastest annual rate of increase since December 1981.…
The Minnesota Twins have canceled the opening game of the 2022 Major League Baseball season due to bad weather. Accordingly, Metro Transit canceled Northstar commuter rail service to the stadium…
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that inflation rose by 6.9 percent in the year to November. This is the fastest annual rate of increase since June 1982. You’d…
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A tale of two Starbucks Downtown Minneapolis has been a strange place to go for more than a year now. First, COVID-19 hit in March last year. Businesses were closed…
The Minnesota Twins and other virtue-signaling elites will eventually reassess their PR rush to embrace Black Lives Matter.
Top Twins prospect Royce Lewis tells the Star Tribune why he moved from California to Texas. Taxes were a factor.
Its likely that Randy Dobnak has a better work ethic than the people taunting him for driving for Uber when he was in the minors last year. Its a cert…
The United States Soccer Federation denies the pay difference between male and female soccer players is related to sex.
Alexis de Tocqueville is properly credited for getting America insightfully right in his legendary Democracy in America in the 1830s. My goodness, the young Frenchman was brilliantly prescient, but who…
Last night, Black Lives Matter blocked intersections, and the light rail, in the hopes of disrupting fans on their way to the Twins Game. I saw it firsthand.
Back in the mid-1980s, there was a surge of writing celebrating the supposed poetry of baseball as opposed to the mere prose of other sports. George Will’s Men at Work…
Lots of people look at sports stars multi-million dollar contracts and say "Nobody is worth that much money". But some of them are. The trouble is, you only know that…
The Minnesota Lynx clinched its fourth WNBA title in seven years after taking down the Los Angeles Sparks 85-76 in Game 5. The Minnesota Twins lost to the New York…