After lawmakers raised Health and Human Services (HHS) spending in the 2023 session by over $6 billion, welfare is now the fastest-growing expenditure in the Minnesota state budget. Between 2024 and 2027, for example, over 40 percent of all new general fund...
I previously wrote about several anti-Israel resolutions that union delegates submitted for consideration at the National Education Association’s Representative Assembly. An unexpected turn of events, including union president Becky Pringle choosing to skip...
Less than a month before new federal nursing staff requirements take effect, long-term care providers reiterated their bleak warning that many North Dakota facilities will not be able to meet the Biden administration mandate. The regulations come at a time when...
There is no sense in which a solar power plant, however large, could substitute for the round-the-clock electricity provided by a coal-fired power plant. Yet, here we are. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports under the headline: PUC approves Xcel plan to...
Last week, I wrote about the bankruptcy of the Park Square Court building in downtown St. Paul and how it is an omen of looming budget problems in the city. Simply put, as in Minneapolis, empty offices have lead to cratering commercial real estate values which...
Deena Winter of MN Reformer names five names in a report today linking Feeding Our Future defendants with state-funded autism clinics. She reports, Five of the 70 defendants in the massive federal Feeding Our Future fraud case had ties to Medicaid-funded autism...
On Tuesday, Vineyard Wind was ordered to shut down until further notice to clean up the shards of a turbine blade that failed Saturday. Six Nantucket beaches were closed for swimming. CBS News reported: “You can walk on the beaches, however we strongly...
Gov. Tim Walz’s office released a press statement recently touting Minnesota’s ranking as 6th best state in the nation for business by CNBC. (A ranking which, as my colleague John Phelan wrote here, should be taken with a grain of salt.) The media company’s...
On Saturday evening at 6:11 pm in Pennsylvania, former President Trump was speaking at a campaign rally when at least 3 shots were fired at him from a 20 year old man named Thomas Crooks. Crooks had shot at Trump with an AR-15 rifle from 164 yards away while...
It’s less than a year since the DFL trifecta in St. Paul legalized the use of marijuana in Minnesota. At the time, public safety officials warned that legalization would increase the prevalence of impaired driving and complicate their enforcement efforts. Turns...