The following public safety issues made headlines this past week. I offer this summary and insight: Random execution-style murder in Lowertown St. Paul. On Wednesday 9/25/24, a local artist, Carrie Shobe Kwok, 66, was shot and killed execution-style as she...
A recent post by Energy Bad Boys Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling, formerly of American Experiment, shared a piece of good news. Four Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs), including MISO, filed an amicus brief last month to challenge the Environmental...
To combat the affordable housing crisis as well as the declining value of commercial properties, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey signed a law cutting red tape for office-to-residential conversions. According to the Minnesota Reformer: Under the new rules,...
The owners of 9,000 vehicles owe the city of Rochester hundreds of thousands of dollars for delinquent, unpaid parking tickets. When all else fails, one of the tried and true methods available to authorities for collecting from serial violators has been to tow...
Each year, Education Minnesota charges member teachers and eduction support professionals (ESPs) $25.00 for its political action committee, or PAC. PAC money is spent on supporting political parties, candidates, and other political funds. Because the Education...
Tomorrow, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) is expected to consider for approval two unrelated major high-voltage transmission line projects which will nearly span the state at a cost of nearly $1.4 billion (with a “b”). First up on Thursday’s...
It’s apparently Exxon’s fault that Californians have to sort their paper, plastic and glass. California’s attorney general maintains that the company has “been deceiving the public to convince us that plastic recycling could solve the plastic waste and...
According to the federal government’s own data, there have been nearly 11 million illegal border crossing encounters (2.675 million/year) between 2021 and 2024. By comparison, there were just over 3 million illegal border crossing encounters between 2017-2020...
Sentencing for the five Feeding Our Future defendants convicted at trial back in June is scheduled to occur on October 16. Two other defendants in that trial were acquitted. This is the federal case that involved an unsuccessful attempt to bribe a juror. To...
It came as a surprise to many Minnesotans in 2023 to discover that one one of the most pressing priorities facing our state was not crime or the economy but its flag and seal. Previously an issue confined to a few cranks and the easily triggered, the DFL...