Imagine sitting down to take a school exam in the late 19th century — no multiple-choice bubbles to fill in, no standardized test booklets, just long, challenging questions covering a…
The winner of the 2025 Golden Turkey Award is Governor Walz’s $430,000 Whopper Legal Bill! The first Golden Turkey in 2020 “honored” Gov. Tim Walz’s purchase of an empty fruit…
Axios reported yesterday that the chair of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin, is mulling the use of ranked-choice voting (RCV) for the 2028 presidential primary. Interest in RCV has…
Price controls are famously known for being bad policy. Rent control, for instance, discourages housing development, reducing supply, which leads to even higher costs in the long run. A New…
On Tuesday, voters in Minneapolis made international news for holding off the socialist challenge in local elections, unlike their counterparts in New York City. In the rest of America, voters…
Tim Walz was elected to Congress in 2006 and served there for 12 years before becoming governor. So when he was asked to return to Washington to testify in front…
On November 2, 1965, John Lindsay became the first Republican elected Mayor of New York City since Fiorello La Guardia in 1941 and the last until Rudolph Giuliani in 1993.…
Announced just yesterday (October 31), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) endorsed ten (10) candidates running for local office in Minneapolis and St. Paul on the ballot Tuesday. At the…
Former Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson sat down with KSTP-5 for another interview, this time as part of their What the Fraud? series. A four-minute excerpt: Thompson again emphasizes that…
A small sip of bleach might not kill you, but it will burn your insides so badly that you’ll regret your choice forever. Turns out, the effects of social media…
This week, a deal brokered by President Trump brought an end to Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip. Not all observers welcomed the end of this war. The Democratic…
Today is National Be A Teacher Day, a day representing a national initiative to spark students’ interest in the teaching profession. For young people who feel a duty to their…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young student in possession of a cell phone must be in want of a place to use it. One prevailing theory behind…
When it comes to politics, the teachers’ union rarely misses a roll call. An organization intended to support teachers and their professional needs has morphed into a loud, persistent political…
This article is part of a series that examines Minnesota’s recent early literacy education reforms and compares them to successful early literacy education reforms throughout the country. Today’s focus is…
People are voting for the same policies that caused New York City to declare bankruptcy 50 years ago — why? On one level, the story of New York City’s bankruptcy…
The (not-so-shocking) truth about Minnesota’s agriculture. A while back, some soul searching was done at the Star Tribune, pondering why, outside the Twin Cities metro, so few Minnesotans use the…
There is cause for celebration! A federal tax credit for contributions to Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs) was included in the federal budget bill that was signed into law on July 4,…
Recent data published by the Fordham Institute suggests that teachers want to revisit “equitable” grading practices. What is “equitable” grading? “Equitable” grading arises from mastery-based grading practice, which has been…
I was in 5th grade when our country was attacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Fast forward to my first year of teaching 5th graders about that fateful Tuesday…
It was a clear day, with a clearer consciousness, when the world collapsed in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania. Twenty-four years after the terror attacks on…
Dr. James Dobson, who sadly passed away last week at the age of 89, wrote in his 1970 book Dare to Discipline, “Respect for leadership is the glue that holds…
A funny thing happened on the way to BlackRock’s takeover of Minnesota Power: the environmentalist movement was split. From Walker Orenstein at the Minnesota Star Tribune: Northern Minnesota power company…
According to a newly published study, New York City’s rent control policy likely raised unemployment by discouraging job search. Analyzing data from 2002 to 2017, the study found that rent…