Rochester city hall desperately wants voters to reauthorize the half-cent local option sales tax that’s set to sunset this year, along with the $12 million the tax generates annually. Officials…
Just days after the death of a 61-year-old homeless man in a city park, Rochester’s top cop called for an ordinance banning homeless encampments on all city property at a…
Another momentous week at the State Capitol ended with the Senate passing a bill legalizing recreational marijuana. A similar bill already passed the House so now a conference committee will…
A year ago, Rochester city officials decided they wanted to build a $65 million regional sports and recreation center. But city hall had trouble articulating the need for it, other…
Rochester public schools face a $14 million budget shortfall for the forthcoming 2023-2024 school year. That reality has forced school administrators to announce a second straight year of sizable staff…
The tail continues to wag the dog in Rochester officials’ quest for a sexy project to sell to the public in an effort to continue raking in millions of dollars…
It’s all the rage among local elected officials in cities from Dilworth to Rochester to Fairmont and points in between. A community center funded by imposing an up to 25-year…
The Star Tribune reported last week that Mankato “has the lowest unemployment rate forany metro in U.S.” So it does, as Bureau of Labor Statistics data show. The Star Tribune…
The last time we last checked in April, the Rochester City Council desperately wanted to spend $65 million on a regional recreational complex with no clear idea of why or…
A lot of nonprofits were caught in the undertow of the Feeding Our Future scandal. The nonprofit Supportive Guidance of Rochester was founded in 2017. The nonprofit never did business…
The closer Election Day comes, the more media attention than ever appears to be focused on local school board elections this year. Take Rochester, where American Experiment’s Bill Walsh revealed…
The Rochester Education Association, also known as the teacher’s union, is pulling out all the stops to protect their preferred school board members in next Tuesday’s election. Action alert emails…
The sixth indictment in the Feeding Our Future case involves the family-run Brava Restaurant and Café in Rochester. The Brava indictment names six members of the Jama family and involves…
Much like St. Paul and Minneapolis, Rochester is also struggling with a housing affordability issue. However, unlike the two cities, Rochester is going in a different direction. Instead of imposing…
While facing a huge docket of backed up cases, Renville County’s new prosecutor is showing defendants that crime won’t pay.
The funds may not have already been in the bank, but you’d never know it by the way 17 cities and counties talked about their plans to spend hundreds of…
Rochester officials must be fans of the “if you build it, they will come” way of doing things. They’re racing to fill in the blanks on a vaguely defined $65…
An American Experiment event on the Crime Crisis was abruptly cancelled today by the Rochester Country Club after leftist activists pressured the venue with an online petition signed by 90…
The experimental grading system introduced in Rochester public schools was supposed to level the playing field for students. No more grades based on traditional testing, class participation and other factors,…
Economic development Duluth News Tribune: Local View: Mining isn’t Minnesota’s future; natural resources are Finance & Commerce: Rochester-area fund looks to spur development Star Tribune: Counterpoint: We must welcome investment…
Two Chinese companies stand to benefit from millions of dollars in local tax breaks being offered to locate or expand their operations in Grand Forks and Duluth. No one evidently…
Although the beleaguered nonprofit at the center of the alleged scandal gets most of the attention, there is a lot more going on below the surface. On the surface, the…
Madam Speaker: Open Up the House The Minnesota House of Representatives locked the public out of the State Office Building back in March 2020 when the pandemic hit and to…
Policies that transform parents from partners into protesters.