…just keeps happening in Minnesota. The U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) announced last week, Indian National Charged with Making False Claim of U.S. Citizenship to Vote in 2024 Election The DOJ announced that Mukeshkumar Somabhai Chaudhari was indicted by a federal...
The New York Times interviews Minnesota-based federal judges on Operation Metro Surge and the habeas corpus phenomenon: sanctimoniousness ensues. Yesterday, the Times wrote (paywall), Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns. Where to begin?...
Photo: Tony Webster via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) (https://flic.kr/p/LvJVD1) In economics, a “sunk cost” is one “incurred in the past which is irretrievable and which is therefore irrelevant to any future decision-making.” A brewer, for example, might print up a...
The top ten stories for the week: for news, commentary and more; on energy, environment and natural resources; from around the state, country and world. Energy & Public Utilities Cato Institute => The Case for Consumer-Regulated Electricity: Private...
The Big 3 measures for electricity reliability in Minnesota (MN), as well as around the country and world, are SAIFI, SAIDI and CAIDI. The MN Public Utilities Commission (PUC) defines these as follows: System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI)...
Minnesota’s state budget is heading in a troubling direction, with spending growing faster than taxpayers can sustain. Here are five critical details every Minnesotan needs to know. Minnesota has spent more than it collects in revenue each year since 2024....
Microsoft recently joined forces with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), America’s second-largest teachers’ union, to release a “National AI Safety & Privacy Standard.” The “first-of-its-kind agreement” ensures that “tech companies cannot use...
Image courtesy of KSTP-TV / ABC 5 Eyewitness News The Washington Policy Center (WPC) has uncovered “widespread and systematic factual errors” in the outcomes reporting of the Seattle based drug diversion program, Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD). In...
Earlier this week, the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) district school board met to hear three proposals from Superintendent Dr. Lisa Sayles-Adams and her team, each outlining a pathway to right-size the district’s physical footprint. It’s about time. The...
Six months ago, the Hennepin County Board set aside $2 million for its “Small Business Recovery Fund.” “Many small businesses in Hennepin County, including immigrant-owned businesses and those that anchor our most vibrant cultural corridors, experienced...