Here’s the bad news: Minnesota is still nowhere close to pre-COVID student achievement in either math or reading. Now, here’s the silver lining. Minnesota is (barely) on the road to recovery in both mathematics and reading. The newly released 2025 Education...
Leaders from Minnesota’s divided Legislature and Governor Tim Walz have reached a session-ending deal that includes a major bailout for Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), a sizable bonding bill to borrow money for construction projects across the state, and...
In February, gas prices in the Twin Cities hit their lowest level since May 2021. In April, as Figure 1 shows, they hit their highest level since September 2023. This 35% jump in gas prices was the biggest in a two-month period since at least January 2018....
Artemio Martin-Martin of Guatemala pled guilty yesterday to the felony crime of illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien in federal court in downtown St. Paul. He had previously been deported in 2018. I wrote about Martin back in February and his...
When congressional Republicans passed H.R. 1—the major reconciliation bill, Governor Tim Walz and Senator Amy Klobuchar warned that 250,000 Minnesotans would lose Medicaid coverage. They painted a dire picture: work requirements for able-bodied adults,...
Last month, a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala. indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on 11 criminal counts — wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The Justice Department’s allegation...
“More than a year after passing the bill the first time, the Minnesota Senate has repassed the Office of Inspector General bill and is sending it to the governor’s desk to be signed into law,” KLGR reports. “The new OIG will serve as an independent watchdog to...
From Fox News, Million-dollar SNAP food stamp fraud scheme in Walz’s backyard sparks outrage: ‘Cruel joke’ Fox News reports, Authorities in Minnesota have filed criminal charges against a man accused of a food stamp fraud scheme that defrauded taxpayers out of...
On Monday afternoon in Cambridge Massachusetts, Tyler Brown, 46, a man with a violent criminal history and documented mental illness walked onto Memorial Drive and fired as many as 60 rounds from a semi-automatic rifle at passing cars, striking and critically...
Minnesota’s hard-fought Office of Inspector General bill is headed to Governor Walz’s desk (which means DFL legislators are rebranding themselves as anti-fraud), legacy media outlets are asking for $500,000 in taxpayer dollars, and crime is going down in...