On the surface, it sounds like an intriguing idea. Burnsville residents get the chance to decide how to spend some of their city taxes on projects in their neighborhoods. The…
Is crime down in Minneapolis?
On June 10, 2024, the FBI released its Quarterly Uniformed Crime Report (UCR) covering January through March 2024. The report compared the 1st quarter of 2024 to the 1st quarter…
Semi-retired Star Tribune columnist Lori Sturdevant wrote recently about the just-started Minnesota legislative session under the headline: DFL may go big, and that wouldn’t be bad Some policy moves are…
Last week, the St. Paul City Council voted to amend the city’s strict rent control ordinance. While the law still caps rent hikes at 3 percent, it will exempt new…
The epidemic of carjackings in Minneapolis has now spilled over into the adjacent suburbs. As Minneapolis is approaching 500 carjackings for the calendar year, car thieves are looking for new…
Since Minnesota seems to adopt only the worst ideas from California, it pays to monitor events on the left coast. After the infamous sacking of the local Louis Vuitton store,…
San Fransicko focuses on the west coast city, but Minneapolis is prominently mentioned throughout the book. Author Michael Shellenberger explains how and why progressive policies have made the big Pacific…
Rent control is a bad policy; economists agree. In 1992, when economists were polled on whether rent control reduces the supply of housing, 93 percent of them agreed. Similarly, in…
Schools are indoctrinating students with a radical vision of American society.
In the name of ending white supremacy and systemic racism, school districts are indoctrinating students with a new radical vision of American society.
Governor Walz's latest executive order (EO) requiring most high schoolers participating in sports to wear protective masks clashes with his own guidelines giving professional athletes a pass from having to…
The concept of “environmental justice” has gained increasing traction among liberal lawmakers who claim that past energy and environmental policies have left low income and minority communities less able to…
With the presumptive win of Joe Biden to the presidency, it make sense to what the future will look like for our country over the next four years. Unfortunately, when…
Despite being governed by progressives for most of the last five decades, California has the fourth-highest degree of wealth inequality in the country, and this wealth inequality is on full…
From New York to Philadelphia to California, school discipline reforms focused on curtailing school suspensions and implementing “restorative justice” practices are putting students’ academic achievement and safety at risk.
The tactics of today's campus 'anti-fascists' are descended from the actual fascists of yesteryear
This is a troubling use of strikes (some legal, some illegal depending on the state law) because unions are using their clout to limit, or even take out, their competition…
I tried my hand at calling how the NFL season would play out before the season started. Turns out I should keep this day job because my picks were hot…
When President Trump says NFL teams should fire kneeling players, the teams respond by saying that they are private enterprises. But if they want to be treated like private enterprises…
Minneapolis has 400 empty lots on the North Side. In the Star Tribune, Neeraj Mehta advocates state government spending to build affordable housing. But the problem isn't that people cannot…