I provide a real-life example for the benefit of the incoming Minnesota legislature. Perhaps we won’t see a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)-style effort here at the state level any…
I’ll be blunt. The news of Matt Gaetz’s withdrawal from consideration in the Attorney General nomination process is a relief. Our Nation’s Attorney General must be a person of impeccable character. While…
Southwestern Minnesota farmers and residents left no doubt about their objections to Xcel Energy’s proposed billion dollar power line for renewable energy at a recent hearing before an administrative law…
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…
AlphaNews has the story of the incident which occurred near campus earlier this month, under the headline: U of M student dies after being struck by vehicle, alleged driver facing…
The Star Tribune wrote an in-depth piece on the widespread fears of utilities that President-elect Donald Trump will repeal the subsidy-soaked Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. What the article tacitly…
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…
Every year, the U.S. Census Bureau publishes the Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances. This is the country’s only source of state and local spending data for all…
As calls to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education continue, two questions likely come to mind: Will it happen this time around (there were legislative attempts in 2017 and 2021…
Our annual Golden Turkey contest wraps up this week. Personally, I’m pulling for Nominee No. 2, the estimated 173 DEI administrators employed by Tim Walz in state government. Minnesota is…
A new report released today from Center of the American Experiment pushes back on the widely accepted narrative that Minnesota’s criminal justice system is biased against black offenders. In fact,…
The weirdness just keeps piling up. You’ve probably seen the latest headlines: Felony charges: Hubbard County election judge allowed 11 unregistered voters to cast ballots You read that correctly, a…
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…
State and local taxes and spending Star Tribune: Economy worries reflected in MN school referendum results The Ely Echo: School levy gets voter OK Star Tribune: How would a divided…
A new report from the Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA) is highlighting yet another instance of mismanagement in Minnesota’s state-run programs, adding to a troubling pattern. While the report…
Minneapolis Ward 6 council member Jamal Osman is back in the news over his links to the sprawling free-food scandal. But he isn’t answering any questions. The latest round 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…
Baxter has become at least the fourth Minnesota city to prohibit homeless encampments on public property this year. The Crow Wing County city followed through on a summer work shop…
President-elect Donald Trump may have only made one campaign stop in the state this year, but that’s all it took to get the attention of supporters of overturning the Biden…
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…
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) may rule on a 28-mile Minnesota segment of the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline at its Dec. 12 meeting, according to the North Dakota Monitor.…
The Golden Turkey Committee returns to the State Arts Board’s Creative Individual grant program for this year’s low-dollar-but-high-outrage Golden Turkey Award nominee. In this case, $10,000 of sales tax revenue…
I’ve written several times about the state’s demographic death spiral: the declining birth rate coupled with consistent net outmigration. This trend has continued for years, unchecked. For some reason, the…
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…