A call to resign Minnesota’s 87 elected sheriffs met on December 8 for their annual Minnesota Sheriff’s Association (MSA) business meeting. In dramatic fashion, these law enforcement leaders issued a…
A warning This summer I blew the whistle on the Minnesota Department of Corrections’ (DOC) early release incentive that was about to go into effect. As planned, the DOC intended…
Firomsa Ahmed Umar, age 30 of Fridley, was indicted in federal court today on four arson-related counts relating to two incidents last month at a Minneapolis ice cream parlor. He…
As American Experiment’s Bill Glahn reported last week, Xcel Energy is proposing to double its battery storage at the Sherco coal plant in Becker, from 300 MW to 600 MW…
From a company news release issued yesterday, Xcel Energy to build Upper Midwest’s largest battery storage site:600 megawatts at Sherco Energy Hub among a series of planned battery, solar projects…
Back in 2023, the “historic” DFL trifecta enacted a K-12 education bill which included a $2.2 billion hike in spending on schools. The bill indexed the per pupil funding formula…
Said Shafii Farah, age 43, entered a guilty plea in the attempted juror bribery case arising out of the first Feeding Our Future courtroom trial conducted last year. He pled…
Land acknowledgments are based in woke ideology, not the truth. If you’ve attended a cultural event or government meeting in the Twin Cities in the last few years, you’ve likely…
A West St. Paul couple is expected to plead guilty in federal court to charges of voter registration fraud. That thing that never happens in Minnesota happened again. Ronnie Williams…
This week Minnesota House Republicans brought forward HF 435, which seeks to prevent the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) from housing biological males identifying as transgender females in the state’s…
Yesterday, at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, two guilty pleas were entered in the sprawling free-food scandal. Zamzam Jama was first up Wednesday morning. Zamzam, Defendant No. 44 in…
After three and a half weeks of shutting down state government, House Democratic leaders finally buckled under the pressure and announced they would give the speaker’s gavel to Republican Lisa…
Yesterday’s shenanigans at the capitol have been ably covered by my colleagues Bill Walsh and Bill Glahn. Nevertheless, there remains one unanswered question. Yesterday, Bill G. noted: During today’s session,…
A few minutes late, but shortly after noon on the appointed day (today), MN Secretary of State Steve Simon gaveled into session the House of Representatives of the 94th Minnesota…
Welcome to Capitol Watch 2025 Happy New Year and welcome to Capitol Watch 2025! Hold onto your wallets because the Minnesota Legislature returns to St. Paul on Tuesday, January 14,…
Despite being on the short end of a 66-67 party split in the Minnesota House of Representatives, Democrats say they will not show up next week for the start of…
The election contest of the Shakopee-area House 54A seat reveals more incompetence. The election was almost two months ago, and we’ve almost sorted out what happened. One state House of…
The 94th Minnesota Legislature will convene on Tuesday, January 14, 2025. And when that happens, it appears that Republicans will hold a slight, if temporary, advantage in both houses. Two…
As expected, Republican Aaron Paul, the challenger in the House 54A (Shakopee-area) election last month, filed a court challenge to the published result. Officially, the Democratic incumbent state Rep. Brad…
In a Thanksgiving-eve, pre-holiday, afternoon news dump, officials in Scott County admit that 20 ballots were destroyed in this year’s election. The county attorney issued a two-page report, summarizing the…
Yesterday, a recount of ballots from three precincts located in Sherburne County (St. Cloud) was conducted. One vote shifted from the incumbent Democrat state Rep. Dan Wolgamott (14B) to his…
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…
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…
I guess we’ll find out for sure once the new legislature convenes in January. In the meantime, we search for signs and portents. As for trends, I’ve been pointing to…