Minnesota’s new social media warning law passed during the 2025 special legislative session requires social media companies to display a mental health warning label to users on their sites. The provision is set to go into effect July 1, 2026. But a tech...
Alexio Miranda, 32, pled guilty on Friday (June 26) to a felony firearm charge arising out of an anti-ICE riot back in January. The U.S. Attorney for Minnesota announced the plea deal in a press release, St. Paul Man Pleads Guilty to Possession of Stolen...
This is my first 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. And let me give a ‘shout out’ to my colleague...
Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, now 42, was arrested Thursday in Mogadishu, Somalia, according to a press release issued yesterday (Friday) by the U.S. Dept. of Justice. As Defendant No. 2 (out of 80 or so) in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, Eidleh played a...
State and local taxes and spending Minn Post: Documenters report: Ramsey County commissioners consider 3.5% raise next year KSTP: Plans forming to address Minneapolis’ ‘substantial’ $30M budget gap The Center Square: Minnesota special districts report $5.4B...
This is the first 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. Taxation and representation It is often said that Britain’s empire made it rich. It did not. Britain got an...
Two posts from a couple years back in Powerline sounded the alarm on the push to replace gas heating in Minnesota with heat pumps. The author was no less than John Hinderaker, the President of Center of the American Experiment. The initial post on March 19,...
New federal rules could cause Minnesota to pay $130 million per year for SNAP benefits to balance a high distribution error rate. Since its creation in 1964, the federal government has covered the full cost of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)...
It was a dramatic scene in the land of Paul Bunyan. From the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Roofers jump from homes in Bemidji to escape ICE agents The raid occurred two weeks ago, back on June 11 in Bemidji. The Star Tribune reports, Ryan Lamusga assembled a crew...
A former Rochester Public Schools (RPS) staff member says she received a packet of Teaching Tolerance materials — a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — during a district professional development session in January 2024. The claim raises new...