This is a copy of my response to the Request for Information (RFI) from the public by the Great Plains Institute (GPI) regarding the Minnesota Nuclear Energy Study (MNES). The study began on July 1, 2026 and ends by January 30, 2027. GPI has a website devoted...
This weekend, the Star Tribune carried an excellent report by Ryan Faircloth which looked in detail at the Walz/Flanagan administration’s handling of Minnesota’s epidemic of fraud. It opens: Gov. Tim Walz was finally taking decisive action. It was summer 2025....
The massive, multi-billion-dollar fraud that has been perpetrated against Minnesota social welfare programs has not stopped. It continues to this day, to this minute. At best, the fraud has merely mutated, attacking different programs, or returning to plunder...
My previous two articles on September 10th and 8th showed that wind and solar renewables dramatically raised electricity prices in Minnesota and elsewhere around the country from 2002 onwards. This is backed up by the meteoric rise in renewable generation in...
Ijeoma Miriam Chanthavong of Nigeria was deported last week, presumably ending a years-long due-process drama. We’ll pick up the story three years ago with this September 2023 U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) press release, datelined St. Paul and headlined, Two...
State and local taxes and spending Ely Echo: County levy hike at 6.25% KSTP: How Eden Prairie officials came up with a proposed 2.9% levy rate West Central Tribune: Willmar Council to consider preliminary budget and levy on Tuesday KSTP: Minneapolis schools...
Kaamil Omar Sallah made his first court appearance this afternoon at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, facing four felony counts of wire fraud. Your correspondent was there: Source link
Photo courtesy of the National Archives A rude awakening On Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, I was a Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office detective on assignment to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis. My role was to help prosecutors prepare for...
What parent wouldn’t be overjoyed with an extra $7,000 or more in the bank account each year? That’s the difference between a cash-strapped family and one that enjoys things like academic tutoring, specialized coursework for special education students, private...
On 11 August 2001, Zacarias Moussaoui arrived in Minnesota. Aged 33, he was born in France to Moroccan, Muslim parents and moved to London in 1992 to study. Not especially religious previously, here he was radicalized. French authorities began monitoring...