New York Times reporter and 1619 Project writer Nikole Hannah-Jones recently published an essay titled, “In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?” It’s an update to her 2016 piece titled, “Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,”...
President Donald J. Trump announced on September 30, 2026 that the “Largest-Ever Steel Plant [is] Coming to Iowa.” This is Iowa. Not Minnesota, where the iron ore is mined by the same company of Mesabi Metallics. Although not asserted, MN energy affordability...
Every year, Education Minnesota — the state teachers’ union — automatically deducts money from member teachers and education support professionals (ESPs) for its political action committee, or PAC. The union’s PAC money is spent on political parties (mostly one...
“When the facts change, I change my mind,” the economist John Maynard Keynes is supposed to have said. “What do you do, sir?” Back in April, I wrote: “It’s official: Minnesota is now a below-average per capita income state.” Minnesota has long been able to...
Some much-needed truth regarding suburban gang violence emerged yesterday from a couple of viral videos. Bloomington police chief Booker Hodges held a press conference yesterday afternoon about the most recent disturbance in his city. FOX 9 reports, After more...
A high-stakes, down-ballot contest on the November election ballot is generating larger-than-usual attention. Soft-on-crime Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty is not running for a second term as chief prosecutor. And thanks to the quirks of county-election...
Last evening the City of Edina held a community meeting involving city, county, state, and federal law enforcement leaders to address the recent violence occurring among many Somali youths. The violence During the meeting, the Edina police chief listed a number...
Kathryn Johnson is joined by Bill Walsh as they discuss the latest voter fraud incidents in Minnesota, even though voter fraud never happens in Minnesota. They Stop the Tape on Secretary of State Steve Simon as a U.S. Congressman grills him on Minnesota’s lack...
On December 28, 2025, my colleague Bill Glahn reported that Joe Thompson, then acting United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota, “held a 35-minute press conference…to discuss the scope of the fraud, and to announce six more indictments and a new FBI...
Our man (not me) was on the scene last night at the Speedway gas station at Highway 5 and Eden Prairie Road, the site of another shooting. Police were out in force, taping off the gas pumps to secure the scene, WCCO-4 reports on the incident, 4 detained after...