A poll carried out for the Star Tribune, MPR News, KARE 11, FRONTLINE and the PBS series sheds some fascinating light on the ongoing debate on policing in Minneapolis. Some…
State and Twin Cities leaders dither while vulnerable residents live in fear and increasing danger.
University of Minnesota President Joan Gabel has taken the institution’s tagline “Driven to Discover” to heart in a whole new way. A year after precipitously reducing ties with the Minneapolis…
The vandals and looters first unleashed by the Failure to Lead of Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter following the death of George…
Walz says Frey was to blame, Frey says Walz was to blame. The Senate report says they were both right.
A 'failed state' is defined as "a state whose political or economic system has become so weak that the government is no longer in control." For a few days in…
St. Paul police want to know who looted the upscale store Lululemon during the riots following the death of George Floyd. The police department just posted an online wanted notice…
The big question following a third night of rioting and looting in Minneapolis is where was the Minnesota National Guard? After all, media reports all day Thursday trumpeted news that…
The state’s ineptitude grows.
Minnesota’s craft beer industry has boomed over the past several years thanks to legislative reforms focused on deregulation and tax cuts. The 2019 Winter Issue of Thinking Minnesota features a…
He’s only a year and a half late. But even Gov. Dayton now admits the MNLARS vehicle registration system rolled out on his watch has been nothing short of “disastrous.”…
Minnesota motorists can’t get a break. The Dayton Administration’s Department of Public Safety continues to struggle to salvage the disastrous roll-out of the motor and vehicle registration system that has…
The more things change, the more they stay the same. That should be the tagline for MNIT, the state agency responsible for development and implementation of the disastrous vehicle and…
A quick check of vanity license plates registered in Minnesota reveals that “INEPT” is still available for Gov. Mark Dayton’s official vehicle in recognition of his administration’s role in causing…
The geniuses that recently named Minnesota the best run state clearly never had a run-in with Driver and Vehicle Services. The public and political impatience with the beyond embarrassing breakdown…
The heat’s on at Driver and Vehicle Services. Not only over the botched roll-out of the new and not-so-improved high-tech MNLARS vehicle registration system that continues to cause chaos at…
Tens of thousands of Minnesotans have been traumatized by a close encounter with the state’s new dysfunctional vehicle licensing system. It’s so bad that Gov. Dayton recently apologized for the…
The state’s new online vehicle registration system was tens of millions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule. But the Department of Public Safety rolled out the first phase…
Why is our secretary of state hiding the 2020 voter lists?