Last week’s vice-presidential debate once again elevated the very controversial abortion law that Gov. Tim Walz signed in 2023, which many pro-life advocates claim now allows a doctor to let an infant die after a failed abortion. Even before the debate, several...
Minnesota teachers’ unions have a long tradition of being involved in school board races, from campaign planning and marketing to candidate endorsements. Their influence on these elections has largely gone unchallenged until a couple of years ago, when the...
A new report released today by Center of the American Experiment provides a stark warning that the minerals needed to achieve so-called net zero policies are either in short supply, made inaccessible by permitting delays and excessive regulations or controlled...
The son of the former state legislator is currently on trial for three Federal drug and gun counts. The Federal case arises from that same June 2023 car crash that killed five young women off Lake Street in south Minneapolis. A search of Thompson’s rented...
A new, independent report says that public school teachers’ pensions are underperforming the relevant benchmarks by more than $1 billion (with a “b”), per year. That’s what generated this provocative headline last week in the New York Post, Minnesota teacher...
It’s only a drop in the bucket when it comes to the massive cost overruns and delays that have plagued the continuing construction of the Southwest Light Rail Transit line from Minneapolis to Eden Prairie. Yet the $141,000 bill for removing and relocating a...
Relief for a beleaguered southern Minnesota community, as a field of abandoned wind turbine blades begins to depart. I’ve written several times about the saga of the 100-or-so used wind turbine blades that were abandoned years ago in a farm field outside of...
Since June 25, 2018, all public employees nationwide have the right to no longer financially support a government union in order to keep their job (Janus v. AFSCME). But exercising that right is not easy. Many union membership and dues authorization forms...
It was a near run thing, but, eventually, the Vikings put the Packers to bed at Lambeau Field last Sunday. But depressed cheese heads can find comfort in the results of some other match ups. As Mark Lisheron writes for our friends at the Badger Institute: As of...
The proposed sale of 80,000 acres of state-owned school trust land in the BWCA for an as of yet still undisclosed sum to the federal government has largely proceeded below the radar of the media and public. But the arrangement has come under fire from Iron...