Tomas Valencia-Ramirez takes Minnesota Man of the Day honors in a hard-fought, five-way contest. Valencia (a/k/a Rufino Ramirez) appeared this afternoon in federal court in downtown St. Paul, charged with…
The Star Tribune reported this weekend about several data center projects that have pulled out of Minnesota thanks to “the state’s lengthy permitting process.” From the article: A company has…
While in Texas recently, Gov. Tim Walz talked up Minnesota’s education system, making a series of points that painted the state as a national model. He highlighted the state’s record-level…
The bite People across Minnesota will be receiving their truth-in-taxation notices pretty soon, if they haven’t already. According to preliminary Department of Revenue estimates, all told, Minnesotans will be told…
Following recent elections in Minneapolis for all 13 City Council seats and for the Mayor, renewed debate over public safety in the city has been a point of discussion in…
State and local taxes and spending KSTP: Stearns County officials explain how their 5.2% property tax hike will work Alexandria Echo Press: Alexandria’s lodging tax yields big impact Marshall Independent:…
The University of Minnesota Physicians, Fairview Health Services, and Attorney General Keith Ellison have reached a ten-year agreement that will prevent the medical school and hospital from shutting down next…
Chronic absenteeism, when a student is absent for 10 percent or more of the academic year, has deeply concerned educators for some time. While there were uncomfortable levels of chronic…
The economics of housing affordability The big buzzword in politics right now is “affordability.” Things aren’t affordable, the argument goes, or are becoming less so, and voters will reward the…
In defining this, she revealed the shutdown’s true purpose: stoking anti-Trump sentiment ahead of the 2025 elections.
A summer spent watching the rise of AI, tragic school shootings, and bumpy national politics hasn’t engendered confidence in the hearts of America’s teachers. A September 2025 survey conducted by…
Allan Fernando Flores-Lemus is our Minnesota Man of the Day, and he arrives with a trigger warning. Flores, age 37, was indicted yesterday in federal court on seven counts of…
Recent violence reflects a changing landscape in Mankato A murder on Sunday morning, followed by a drive-by shooting into a house on Monday evening, has rattled the normally peaceful city…
As American Experiment’s Bill Glahn reported last week, Xcel Energy is proposing to double its battery storage at the Sherco coal plant in Becker, from 300 MW to 600 MW…
We were told that the future lay in density, urban environments served by mass transit and with pedestrian/bike friendly landscapes. They were wrong. From the Minnesota Star Tribune, St. Louis…
As test score results continue to be quiet reminders of the millions of students who fell behind or dropped out entirely during years of disrupted learning, new research out of…
Starting in fall 2026, ethnic studies in its “liberated” form will be mandatory across all grade levels. This version of ethnic studies does more than simply encourage cultural awareness or…
Sign the petition today! In the 2023 legislative session, Gov. Tim Walz signed a Renewable Energy Standard (RES) requiring 100% of our energy to come from renewable sources such as wind and solar by the year…
With the November election just around the corner, how are Minnesotans feeling about the integrity of our voting systems? The powers that be assure us illegal immigrants won’t be able…
To support Minnesota’s new requirement for a liberated version of Ethnic Studies, the University of Minnesota’s Center for Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender & Sexuality Studies (RIDGS) is turning the new Ethnic…