Leonides Hernanez-Portillo, 39, made his first appearance in federal court today (July 2) facing two felony criminal counts related to illegal immigration. He was indicted by a federal grand jury on June 10. Hernandez had been previously deported in 2006, 2007,...
When the United States celebrated its 200th birthday in 1976, it wasn’t the best time for a party. In 1974, President Nixon had resigned from office following the Watergate scandal and inflation hit a post war high of 11%. In 1975, Saigon had fallen despite the...
Source: The Misery Index on Amazon Prime Center of the American Experiment has just released a new index clearly showing the miserable trajectory for electricity inflation in the Twin Cities. This is the Minnesota Electricity Misery Index. Or MEMI for short....
Students in Minneapolis Public Schools are losing ground, according to an analysis on academic performance. The analysis, from researchers at Stanford and Harvard, is full of metrics on where Minneapolis schools stand. One that stood out to me is the district’s...
The Pioneer Press reports: A three-person Minnesota panel including Gov. Tim Walz granted a pardon to an immigrant convicted of sexually abusing a child, drawing accusations that he and other Democrats are impeding federal efforts to expel dangerous foreign...
The Minneapolis City Council, by a vote of 9-2, repealed a 38-year-old ban on commercially operated sex venues and bathhouses, while the council’s next agenda item banned data center development. At a time when Minneapolis is shifting its tax burden from...
Minnesota is once again administering a summer meal program that was exploited in the biggest fraud case connected to federal child nutrition programs. The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) recently announced it will again run the federally funded Summer...
Both Minnesota and Texas are in the process of implementing new social studies standards that brought backlash for their politicized origin, alleged instructional bias, and sweeping changes. Besides the fact that Texas boasts the beginning of Interstate-35 and...
Historical approach to mental illness and chemical dependency Up through the 1960’s, Minnesota, like much of the nation, had developed a significant state hospital structure where some 16,000 patients were involuntarily held and treated across a system of 11...
An idea popped into my head last week to create a new simple index of electricity prices for Minnesota’s Twin Cities of Minneapolis St Paul (MSP). Which I then did. I am calling it the MSP Electricity Misery Index. Or MEMI for short. But provocatively...