In 1826, Americans prepared to celebrate their country’s fiftieth birthday. It was a time to reflect on the audacious gamble which had seen a group of colonists take up arms against the mightiest empire on the planet and on the results of that gamble; a nation...
This is the second in a series of articles explaining how the United States came to be and how the lands we now know as Minnesota came to be a part of it. British woes On July 4, 1775, the British had every reason for alarm at the situation in their American...
Yesterday, we wrote about a man who was convicted of repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl but has now been pardoned by a three person panel including Governor Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison. We reported that the pardon had been issued to help the man —...
This is my second post, of hopefully many to come, as a regular weekly resource for our readers: for news, commentary and more; on energy, environment and natural resources; from around the state, country and world. The top ten stories, for the week ending on...
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The Minneapolis City Council, by a vote of 9-2, repealed a 38-year-old ban on commercially operated sex venues and bathhouses, while the council’s next agenda item banned data center development.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...