The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has invited public comments on their energy affordability investigation by 4:30 pm on Friday, October 16, 2026. The formal title for this is: In the Matter of Commission Investigation into Rate-Regulated Electric...
The U.S. Education and Justice Departments sent a joint letter on Oct. 5 to every state Attorney General saying that schools need prior written parental consent before giving students mental health screenings. Letting parents opt out isn’t enough, the...
The Minnesota Budget Project has released an estimate that “ICE spike means 32,000 fewer jobs in Minnesota.” This estimate has been uncritically reported by the Star Tribune in a story titled “ICE’s Operation Metro Surge cost Twin Cities a reported 32,000...
Your favorite senior-Walz-Administration-bureaucrat/illegal-alien/convicted-felon Wilson Tindi is again in ICE custody. I have written frequently about the Tindi files. I included a timeline of events in this post. Wilson Nduri Tindi, a citizen of Kenya, is now...
Your correspondent was there this afternoon for a sitting of the federal fraud trial USA v. Fidhin (File No. 25-cr-334). Burnsville restauranteur Muna Fidhin, owner of the now-defunct M5 cafe, is facing ten (10) felony counts, including wire fraud, bribery, and...
Yesterday morning on October 13, I attended the first information session of the energy affordability investigation held at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) in downtown St Paul. I was joined by former Administrative Law Judge, Eric Lipman, who...
Democrats, with their crippling energy utility mandates, are the proximate cause of high electricity prices. But we are only days before an election, so state Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) put in an appearance before the state Public Utilities Commission...
Kathryn Johnson and Bill Walsh sit down to discuss another week of craziness in Minnesota. First, they expose the radical left-wing professional protesters intruding on and disrupting Republican events across the state. Then, in shocking news, the Eden Prairie...
This November, voters will decide whether the state should draw more money from the Permanent School Fund to increase per-pupil aid to schools. In addition to the general fund— the state’s primary operating fund — Minnesota public schools have historically...
For years many conservatives have taken the position that our larger cities, such as Minneapolis, are “lost causes” and that the residents deserve to “reap what they have sewn.” While taking that position is tempting at times, conservatives must recognize that...