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…
Felipe David Cruz-Romero, age 38 of El Salvador, is our Minnesota Man of the Day for November 24. He is due in federal court in downtown Minneapolis this morning for…
Public education is a hard-fought American right, and one that hasn’t always existed. Throughout American history, some have been unable to achieve a formal education due to the limits of…
Two Minnesota men pled guilty, back-to-back, to illegal immigration felonies in federal court in downtown Minneapolis this afternoon. The hearings were scheduled consecutively on the court calendar. The overlapping hearings…
Martin Ernesto Salvador-Tomas, age 28, pled guilty to a felony count of illegal reentry of a previously-deported alien. He appeared Tuesday morning at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Prosecutors…
For the second time this summer, the Feds have executed a drug bust seizing 900 pounds of meth. Here are 630 lbs. of the nearly 900 seized in the bed…
Meet your neighbor, Ezequiel Rojas-Gasca, aged 43, of Rochester, MN. Mr. Rojas spent several hours this afternoon at the Federal Courthouse in downtown St. Paul where much due process occurred.…
The south Minneapolis intersection of East Lake Street and Minnehaha Ave. was the epicenter of the May 28, 2020, George Floyd riots. On May 30, 2025, we returned to the…
Legislation introduced in both the Minnesota House and Senate would bring flexibility and innovation to students’ K-12 education journeys. Under H.F. 19 and S.F. 244, Minnesota would establish an education…
Digging for the roots of the rich/poor divide. In October 2024, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel…
Happy National School Choice Week! New survey results reveal that 60 percent of U.S. parents said they considered new or different schools for at least one of their kids last…
Your correspondent was there this morning, attending a session of immigration court at Ft. Snelling. Officially named the U.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, Ft. Snelling Immigration…
Last week, Walker Orenstein of the Star Tribune reported on a remarkable situation in Grand Meadow, Minnesota. He reports from a neighbor’s point of view: Trucks dropped off more than…
The unfortunate consequences of degrading common societal norms.