In mid-January, U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson, who had been leading the legal fight against fraud in Minnesota, resigned along with a number of his colleagues. This was a hard blow to Minnesota’s taxpayers, who have been fleeced of billions of dollars under an...
From the Star Tribune, Another wave of departures in Minnesota’s US Attorney’s Office. The Star Tribune reports, Another eight lawyers have left or announced their intentions to leave the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office, according to multiple people with...
In a world where education increasingly determines economic opportunity and social mobility, understanding how well education systems perform and whom they serve is important. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently published a...
Last week, I looked through the available poll data to try to find common ground among Minnesotans on the issue of immigration. Broadly speaking, what I found was disquiet with the tactics of immigration law enforcement but some ambivalence — or lack of poll...
From KCBD-11 TV Lubbock, TX, Texas approves ‘largest permitted data center campus’ in the U.S.: Pacifico Energy received its air permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for 7.65 GW of gas-fired power generation. To put this into context, 7.65...
The big news in habeas corpus yesterday occurred down in San Antonio, Texas. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery (Clinton appointee) issued a ruling in a much-followed case. From The Hill newspaper, A federal judge in Texas on Saturday ordered the release of the...
On January 12th, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison along with the Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul sued the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over Operation Metro Surge – a 3,000 agent immigration and fraud investigative effort in Minnesota....
Another seventeen (17) habeas corpus cases have been filed in the federal district court for Minnesota so far this Saturday morning. That brings to 578 the total number of habeas cases filed in the month of January 2026, alone. As I’ve mentioned before,...
Labor market Albert Lea Tribune: Minnesota jobs stable over the month and grew over the year KRFO: Understanding Minnesota’s December Job Losses And Gains Austin Daily Herald: Latest DEED report finds ‘solid’ labor market amid ‘flat’ job growth in December for...
Student performance data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the nation’s most widely recognized benchmark of academic achievement, measuring reading and math in 4th and 8th grade and allowing results to be analyzed across states and...