High taxes, excessive fees and regulations all conspire to make housing here considerably less affordable than in many other areas of the country. It only follows that reducing some of the government red tape driving up housing costs could make all the...
Despite pressure from Rochester Public Schools (RPS), student counselor Christina Barton is standing by her statement that transgender and gender-expansive administrative “guidelines” were being hidden from the public. Barton recently blew the whistle on the...
Last week, we detailed how power outages at the Niwot Market in Colorado cost the small grocery store $35,000 over the course of 24 hours. By dividing the company’s monetary losses by the number of kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity that were not consumed, we...
Last month, my colleague Martha Njolomole wrote about a bill — HF 4050 / SF 3947 — which would eliminate the lower minimum wage rate for small businesses. But that isn’t all these bills would do. HF 4050 – authored by Reps. Kozlowski (DFL), Michael Nelson...
Students who attend private schools have, on average, better civic outcomes than students who attend public schools, according to a new statistical meta-analysis published in the journal Educational Psychology Review. “While civic values can be inculcated in...
An attempt to rush through legislation transferring state forest land to the White Earth Band of Ojibwe appears to have hit a dead end for this session. The DFL-sponsored measure seeks to repeal the statute establishing the 160,000 acre White Earth State...
Last week I noted that, because of the “The ideological divide between the two main parties in the state legislature…we actually see some rather profound debates up at the state capitol these days.” Once again, Minn Post’s Peter Callaghan provides a good...
The first trial involving seven (7) defendants (out of the 70 charged, so far) in the free-food scandal began Monday morning at the Federal courthouse in Minneapolis. All seven were affiliated with a now-closed Shakopee restaurant, Empire Cuisine and Market....
Three years and $190 billion of federal taxpayer funding later, K-12 schools face the sudden reality that Covid gives and, just as certainly, takes away. Yet Education Week and the news media continue to sound the alarm over the impending reality that schools...
The DFL is proposing yet another tax hike. HF 3566 would, MPR News reports: …update Minnesota’s current electronics waste law, which was passed back in 2007 — the year the first iPhone was released — and focuses mainly on televisions and computers. The bill...