A new KSTP 5 INVESTIGATES report has found that Rochester Public Schools spent more than a quarter of a million dollars on a professional development program run by superintendent Dr. Kent Pekel’s wife, Dr. Katie Pekel. Dr. Kent Pekel joined the district in...
I break down the $1 billion Minnesota fraud estimate and where it comes from. Local reporter Lou Raguse of the NBC-affiliate KARE-11 has produced a helpful 2:33 video explaining the details underneath the $billion estimate for Minnesota frauds: Link here.. How...
Stop the fraud or win elections. This is the choice now facing Democrats in Minnesota. Want to guess which one will prevail? The ethnic-Somali population in Minnesota (including refugees and 2nd generation) numbers around 107,000, according to census data....
Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has recently announced he intends to opt his state in to the new federal tax-credit scholarship program. The announcement places fresh attention on how other Democratic governors may respond, as it marks another notable...
One falsehood tends to lead to another, and then another… During a November 30 appearence on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Kristen Welker asked Governor Walz: “Do you take responsibility for failing to stop this fraud in your state?” He replied: Well,...
From today’s Star Tribune, Trump claims Minnesota lost billions to fraud. The evidence to date isn’t close. The Star Tribune‘s figure? $152 million. Or $0. I’m not kidding. They write, A review of court records shows the alleged fraud...
Former Star Tribune editor Patricia Lopez wrote on Bloomberg November 26, under the headline, We can stop fraud in Minnesota without attacking Somalis In a perfect world, Lopez is absolutely correct. She writes (non-paywall version here) that, It is true that...
State and local taxes and spending Star Tribune: Budget battle brewing between mayor and outgoing Minneapolis City Council Duluth News Tribune: Local View: Minnesota has to stop treating taxpayers like an ATM West Central Tribune: Chippewa County commissioners...
Jose Israel Tenesaca-Mejia, 21, of East Haven, CT, is our Connecticut Man of the Day for December 5. Tenesaca appeared in federal court in downtown St. Paul this afternoon. He was arrested back on October 28 on a felony warrant out of Connecticut, flight to...
What exactly does it mean for “Congress to make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise therof” in the context of charter schools? Can a charter school be religious? The answer is still legally undecided. Currently, no...