Last Friday, the Star Tribune reported that the cost of Xcel Energy’s proposed transmission line from Becker, Minnesota, to Lyon County, has more than doubled, leaping from $528 million to…
You may recall our February visit to these southwest Minneapolis icons of the early motoring age. These turn out to be two of six aging motels purchased by Hennepin County…
State and local taxes and spending Brainerd Dispatch: Beltrami County passes local sales tax to fund new jail by huge margin Pioneer Press: Progressives continue notching victories in St. Paul…
Minnesota’s media is cock-a-hoop over the latest jobs numbers: WCCO: Minnesota reached record 3 million jobs in October Star Tribune: More than 3 million Minnesotans worked in October, the highest total ever…
In August 2023, Cecil Wayman, a man with a violent criminal history dating back to the early 1990s who is appropriately prohibited from possessing firearms, was stopped in downtown Minneapolis…
For several years now, the City of Minneapolis has more and more taken a “public health approach” to fighting crime, relying less on police and law enforcement and more on…
State and local taxes and spending WCCO: St. Paul voters to weigh in on sales tax increase to fix roads Kare 11: St. Paul voters weigh sales tax for roads,…
Minneapolis leaders have made a concerted effort over the past five years to “re-imagine public safety.” They have committed to diversifying their approach away from a law enforcement-centric approach to…
The winners of all 13 city council seats have been decided, with majority control appearing to favor the far-left candidates. Incumbents on the city council have prevailed in all 11…
Deputy Hennepin County Attorney Mark Osler recently wrote an Opinion Exchange printed in the Star Tribune, entitled, “Moriarty’s vision, not critics’ fears, has been fulfilled.” The piece requires a response. …
State and local taxes and spending Willmar Radio: Stearns County voters will be asked to approve local option sales tax for new jail Star Tribune: Minn. legislators say they’ve expanded…
Everyone agrees the high crime rate on Metro Transit light rail train presents a threat to the public and regaining respectable ridership levels. The quickest way to restore order and…
A core argument of advocates for higher legal minimum wages is that the increase in the price of labor which they propose will not to lead to a fall in…
The Star Tribune’s top of the fold, front page article today proclaimed, “Metro Transit cites 22% crime drop.” Wisely, the online article had a more subdued headline that read, “Metro Transit…
Minneapolis isn’t the only core Metro city with an election next week. All seven of St. Paul’s city council seats are up for election on November 7 and there are…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune committed an act of journalism this week with Maya Rao‘s lengthy piece on the growing migrant crisis in the state’s largest county. Scott Johnson at PowerLine…
It’s a little over a week until the city council election in the state’s largest city. Local socialists are making a bid for functional control of the council, in opposition…
Back in 2020, my colleague Tom Steward and I described how Minnesotans — and residents of the Twin Cities specifically — were failed so miserably that summer by their state…
State and local taxes and spending Spokesman-Recorder: New sales tax increase funds transportation, housing Rochester Post Bulletin: Letter: Rochester, RPS referenda are excessive tax asks Rochester Post Bulletin: Letter: Benefits…
Keith Ellison, the state’s attorney general, has filed lawsuits against 23 nonprofit corporations based in five greater Metro counties. His is seeking to have the nonprofits dissolved as corporate entities.…
Minnesota will adopt California’s car mandates requiring an increase in electric vehicles offered for sale and decreased tailpipe emissions of carbon dioxide after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take…
State and local taxes and spending Albert Lea Tribune: Senate Report: Government must be more thoughtful when spending the people’s money Star Tribune: St. Paul’s sales tax: Minnesota Miracle 2.0?…
The local Twin Cities chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (TCDSA) issued a follow-up today to their incendiary statement backing Hamas issued on Monday. The original statement is still…
In the wake of the recent attacks on Israel — which saw hundreds of civilians killed, raped, and kidnapped by Hamas — the Democratic Socialists of America moved quickly to…