Photo: @amyklobuchar via Instagram On July 1, news broke that a three person panel containing Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison had pardoned a man who had been convicted of repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl, apparently to help him avoid...
Labor market KDHL: Job Growth in Minnesota: 5,400 New Positions Added in May Rochester Post Bulletin: Rochester’s unemployment rate still better than state average KAAL TV: Southeast Minnesota jobless rates remain steady as U.S. hiring slows Winona Post: Jobs...
For 10 months, the Minneapolis Public Schools district quietly shorted its own employees’ health care trust by hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. Thanks to an unredacted report on the scandal, we now know who did it. First reported by the Minnesota...
Here’s why you should consider serving on your school board. Let’s start with the obvious: District governance matters. School boards control far more than most people think they do. They direct all types of funding. That includes the funding for sports, arts,...
This is my third post, of hopefully many to come, as a regular weekly resource for our readers: for news, commentary and more; on energy, environment and natural resources; from around the state, country and world. The top ten stories, for the week ending on...
The case of Tou Lou Vang has made headlines over recent weeks after Minnesota’s Board of Pardons (Governor Walz, Attorney General Ellison, and Supreme Court Chief Justice Hudson) unanimously voted to issue a full pardon to Vang for his 2006 conviction involving...
“Landmark June 2026 study found DCs modestly reduced US electricity prices between 2015 and 2024.” – Love ’em or hate ’em; data centers are not the source of electricity inflation This study was published on June 18, authored by the Electric Power Research...
Fahima Mahamud, age 50, defendant No. 79 in the free-food fraud scandal, pled guilty to two fraud counts this morning at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Your correspondent was there. A court-appointed, taxpayer-paid Somali-language interpreter...
It’s that time of year again when CNBC pulls out of who-knows-where some ranking which purports to show Minnesota’s economy going gangbusters. The release of CNBC’s ‘Top States for Business’ rankings used to be a red-letter day for Minnesota’s media and...
On Wednesday July 8th at 5:00 PM, at the State Capitol, Minnesotans joined groups around the country to read the Declaration of Independence to mark the exact time 250 years ago, Colonel John Nixon read the Declaration aloud for the first time to a public...