On Monday, I wrote about the coming hikes to property taxes in Minnesota. What is causing this? Yesterday, I looked at the pressures coming from federal government action and what we could do to mitigate them short of hiking property taxes. Today, I’ll look at...
Welcome back to the American Experiment Podcast! This week, Bill Walsh joins Grace and Kathryn to stop the tape on Governor Walz’s trip down to Texas. In an event with the Texas Tribune, Governor Walz claims the old state flag was “racist,” and it doesn’t...
Tezzaree El Amin Champion, age 28, was sentenced to seven years in prison for fraud yesterday at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Prosecutors had asked for a 12-year sentence. MPR News reports, COVID loan fraudster gets 7 years, ordered to repay...
Israel Jose Amaya-Romero, of Mexico, is our Minnesota Man of the Day. The other two contestants this Tuesday have previously earned Minnesota Man honors and are thus ineligible for repeat prizes. No matter, Mr. Amaya certainly has earned this award on the...
Yesterday, I wrote about the coming hikes to property taxes in Minnesota. What is causing this? Today I’ll look at the pressures coming from the federal government and what we could do to mitigate them short of hiking property taxes. Tomorrow, I’ll look at the...
A recent KSTP 5 report found that the superintendents of the state’s 30 largest public school districts had eye-popping salaries and perks. The salaries of most superintendents ranged in the upper $200,000 range, with Minnetonka’s Dr. David Law taking home the...
Tomas Valencia-Ramirez takes Minnesota Man of the Day honors in a hard-fought, five-way contest. Valencia (a/k/a Rufino Ramirez) appeared this afternoon in federal court in downtown St. Paul, charged with felony re-entry of a previously deported illegal alien....
The Star Tribune reported this weekend about several data center projects that have pulled out of Minnesota thanks to “the state’s lengthy permitting process.” From the article: A company has halted two large-scale data center projects in Minnesota, saying the...
While in Texas recently Gov. Tim Walz talked up Minnesota’s education system, making a series of points that painted the state as a national model. He highlighted the state’s record-level graduation rates (but left off the fact that high school math and reading...
The bite People across Minnesota will be receiving their truth-in-taxation notices pretty soon, if they haven’t already. According to preliminary Department of Revenue estimates, all told Minnesotans will be told to cough up an extra $948.2 million in property...