State and local taxes and spending The Ely Echo: Ely school levy uncertain KROC: Minnesota Tax Revenues Exceed Forecast by 4.2% in August CNHI News: North Mankato to set preliminary…
Friday morning in Minneapolis City Hall, police chiefs from across the county joined Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt to condemn the announcement from Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty that her…
One newspaper columnist at a time. Rochelle Olson writes in the Star Tribune this weekend: U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson: Fraud is stealing Minnesota’s way of life Olson reports about her…
Regulation Duluth News Tribune: Our View: Minnesota’s wild rice standard demands compromise Grand Forks Herald: At Iron Range hearing, miners warn of closures if wild rice rule enforced St. Cloud…
Francisco Estrada-Deltaro is now a convicted federal felon, by his own admission. This turn of events may have come as a complete shock to local media consumers, The Minnesota Star…
Today, the Minnesota Star Tribune’s Walker Orenstein published an assessment of the challenges facing Becker after Amazon abandoned its planned data center: For now, the land will remain vacant. In…
State and local taxes and spending KTTC: Digging Deeper: Rochester’s state aid shortfalls lead to rising taxes Ely Echo: County tax increase coming Duluth News Tribune: St. Louis County Board…
Behind the blue door. Hussein Mohamed Farah appeared in federal court in downtown Minneapolis this afternoon to enter the 47th guilty plea in the sprawling Feeding Our Future scandal. Farah,…
A funny thing happened on the way to BlackRock’s takeover of Minnesota Power: the environmentalist movement was split. From Walker Orenstein at the Minnesota Star Tribune: Northern Minnesota power company…
Labor market MPR News: July jobs report: Minnesota economy strong but slowing as shifting federal policy creates uncertainty St. Cloud Live: Minnesota economy remains stable despite layoffs, tariffs, DEED says…
Trade Star Tribune: The last bite: Tariffs, economy and beans are hot topics at Minnesota Farmfest Economic growth WCCO: Is the Twin Cities restaurant scene in crisis? KFGO: Farm and…
From the Minnesota Star Tribune: Rising costs have Rochester debating whether to move back 100% renewable energy goal. Say it ain’t so! A bit of background: Rochester is the largest…
It’s easier said than done. The tiny city of Slayton, MN, wants to replace Xcel Energy as its electricity provider with a different utility. Walker Orenstein of the Minnesota Star…
The decision Mary Moriarty, serving in her first term as Hennepin County Attorney, announced Wednesday that she had decided not to seek re-election next year. The decision is great news…
The DFL’s left and right go to war. On July 7, 1977, state DFL Rep. Phyllis Kahn from Minneapolis addressed a meeting at the Capitol’s State Office Building in St.…
Joe Thompson gets results. The acting United States Attorney for Minnesota launched an investigation into the fraud-riddled Medicaid program Housing Stabilization Services (HSS). Don’t be confused. HSS doesn’t provide actual…
Despite being pigeonholed as a “voucher” or a “diversion” of funds from public schools, the recently passed federal tax-credit scholarship provision created under the Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA)…
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…
There should be far less of it. Ideally, the amount of fraud perpetrated against state and federal welfare programs should be zero. That’s my controversial opinion. Someone else who doesn’t…
From the Minnesota Star Tribune this evening (Monday): Minnesota halts payments to housing program providers amid fraud investigation. The Star Tribune quotes the governor: The payments that were scheduled to…
How much fraud is there in Minnesota state government? Many people, mostly taxpayers, including me, want an answer to that question. Two people who do not want an answer to…
Restaurateur, motorist, convicted felon (twice), deported alien (thrice), and Minnesota Dad Francisco Estrada-Deltaro was back in court this morning at the Federal Courthouse in downtown St. Paul. Your correspondent was…
Welcome back to the American Experiment Podcast! In today’s episode, Grace, Bill, and Kathryn sit down to STOP THE TAPE on the legacy media’s LIES about the Big Beautiful Bill.…
Convicted felon, state Sen. Nicole Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury) announces her future intention to resign. Maybe next month. From the Star Tribune: Sen. Nicole Mitchell to resign seat by early August after…