Jamal Osman, Minneapolis City Council Member representing Ward 6, was car jacked last night in South Minneapolis. There have been few details released, but in a written statement Osman stated that at 8:00 pm he was carjacked while sitting in his car near...
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 1296 is in a blue-collar area of suburban Minneapolis. With a UH-1 “Huey” helicopter permanently touching down by its doors and an M1 57mm anti-tank gun ensuring members of the public park correctly, this location is...
Last Friday, the state of Minnesota formally revoked the license of a long-closed and allegedly fraudulent substance abuse clinic, Evergreen Recovery, Inc. of St. Paul. At this point, the revocation is moot, as the Midway-based clinic was effectively shut down...
High school girls from around the state spent their Saturday at the Minnesota Capitol bringing history and civic responsibility to life through a speech competition centered on the theme, “The Consent of the Governed in America’s 250th Year.” Speaking Proudly,...
Carlos Guillermo Aragon-Baez is our Minnesota Man of the Day. He has been charged in federal court with one count of illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien. Aragon, aged 40 or so, is being held in the Sherburne County jail on the federal charge and...
Last week, the Department of the Interior finalized its 2025 Critical Minerals List, adding 10 new entries for a total of 60. What’s a critical mineral? There is a school of thought out there—and I’m sympathetic to it—that any mineral that the market demands is...
In the first eleven days of its operation in May 2024, Amtrak’s Borealis service between St. Paul and Chicago generated a “profit” of $100,000 which excited a few local people. In fact, as I and others noted shortly afterwards, this was based on a basic...
More than half of parents say they would choose a school type other than a traditional public district school if given the option, highlighting a continued and substantial disconnect between parents’ schooling preferences and actual enrollment patterns. The...
Understanding Minnesota’s abysmal test scores — with 42.6 percent of students performing at grade level in math in 2025 and only 47.6 percent at grade level in reading — can be a more nuanced process than might be expected. While the goals for student...
From a Bloomberg opinion column, Minnesota Is Becoming the Land of 10,000 Frauds. I would update the headline with “has become.” The column was written by Patricia Lopez, formerly of the Minnesota Star Tribune. File this effort under the label, “Better late...