There is cause for celebration! A federal tax credit for contributions to Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs) was included in the federal budget bill that was signed into law on July 4,…
Beginning this evening in Stillwater, the state Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) will hold a series of public hearings on Xcel Energy’s electricity rate increase request. MPR News reports: The public…
Abner Adiel Saravia-Arevalo is our Minnesota Man of the day. He appeared this morning in federal court in downtown St. Paul to plead guilty to one felony count of illegal…
Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in August, after…
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…
Recent data published by the Fordham Institute suggests that teachers want to revisit “equitable” grading practices. What is “equitable” grading? “Equitable” grading arises from mastery-based grading practice, which has been…
The Department of the Interior released its 2025 draft critical minerals list last month, which expands the list from 50 minerals to 54. The U.S. Geological Survey’s critical minerals list…
Twenty-two-year-old arrested for the murder of Charlie Kirk Following a joint press conference and other reporting, we know that last evening, about 33 hours after Charlie Kirk was fatally shot…
Luis Gerardo Gomez-Esteban is our Minnesota Man of the Week. Gomez is a 36-year-old Guatemalan. We have been tracking felony cases brought in federal district court for re-entry of previously…
In August 2020, Rep. Ilhan Omar (DFL) introduced the Make Billionaires Pay Act to Congress, which would have imposed a 60% tax on the gains in wealth billionaires made between…
Aimee Bock’s former live-in boyfriend, Empress Malcolm Watson, Jr., has been charged with two felony counts of state tax evasion, the state Dept. of Revenue announced today. Aimee Bock, of…
I was in 5th grade when our country was attacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Fast forward to my first year of teaching 5th graders about that fateful Tuesday…
Center of the American Experiment’s Public Safety Policy Fellow David Zimmer took part in an interview with Public Radio Exchange (PRX) recently. The segment focused on the gun control debate…
A new school year is underway and parents have some homework of their own — knowing what rights they have within the public education system and how to exercise them…
New data shows that in a nation where teachers often stock their own classrooms, parents and community members are stepping in to fill the gap. For example, Minnesota spent $16,900…
Who is Omar Fateh?? Here are five things you need to know about the (formerly DFL-endorsed) Minneapolis Mayoral candidate…
Why a 7k instead of a 5k? Who’s eligible to win the $7,000 scholarship raffle? What is $7k for Kids? We answer all these questions and more in this two-minute…
What if Minnesota had a Department of Government Efficiency? With a $70 billion state budget that provides health care for 1.5 million people, educates 850,000 children, plows 7500 miles of highways…
Gov. Tim Walz: [Medicaid] can always do better Bill Walsh: You have been governor for 6 years and done nothing better in Medicaid….fraud after fraud after FRAUD comes out of…