One of the highest aspirations of the public school system is to educate students from all backgrounds, colors, creeds, and income levels. Sometimes, it’s easy for students to have their past, present, and future defined by their struggles or marginalized...
Recent events may have pushed the Minnesota fraud story out of the national headlines, but the work goes on. The next big event in the calendar will occur on Wednesday, January 21, at 9 am CST. The U.S. House of Representatives, Judiciary Committee,...
An analysis of recent federal labor filings reveals a familiar pattern in the priorities of the largest teachers’ union in the United States: the allocation of millions of dollars from union funds to advocacy groups, social justice organizations, ballot...
Back in November, I noted that since 2014, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita growth in Minnesota has ranked 38th out of 50 states. Indeed, as Figure 1 shows, Minnesota’s rate of real per capita GDP growth has lagged that of the United States generally...
Protests and counter-protests on the streets of downtown Minneapolis this afternoon in front of City Hall. The U.K. Daily Mail reports, Aspiring conservative lawmaker’s head gushes with blood as Minneapolis descends into anarchy. The Daily Mail includes 30...
In an unusual holiday-weekend session, the U.S. District Court in Minnesota is open for business, hurriedly adding new habeas corpus petitions to the docket to prevent more illegal aliens from being deported. So far on this Saturday morning (January 17), eight...
State and local taxes and spending KNSI: More electric vehicles means less gas tax revenue: How this impacts Minnesota’s budget Alpha News: Coalition of Minnesota mayors calling for end to fraud and high taxes grows to 241 Laker Pioneer: Our View: State leaders...
While we have been supportive of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) surge in immigration enforcement in Minnesota, we have also advocated for the DHS to improve its messaging. Accuracy is a must. Operation Metro Surge has been a statistical success...
The alleged Latin King gangster is accused of stealing weapons from an FBI vehicle during anti-ICE riots earlier this week. He is scheduled to appear in federal court in downtown St. Paul this afternoon Raul Gutierrez, age 33 billed out of Inver Grove Heights,...
Georgio Thomas James-Jones, age 27, has been charged federally with one count of willful destruction of government property. The government property in this case was a window on the ground floor of the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. The vandalism...