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Our tour of questionable Amy Klobuchar earmarks takes us to the north side of Minneapolis today. It’s a location where U.S. Sen. Klobuchar once proposed (p. 12) to invest $882,000 of federal taxpayer money in developing a new building on the site of an existing...
Twenty-five years ago on Sept. 11, 2001, the United States was attacked by terrorists. Nearly 3,000 people, including over 400 emergency workers, lost their lives that fateful Tuesday morning, making it the largest loss of life from a foreign attack in U.S....
Families attempting to visit the State Fair this year might have encountered a head-scratching problem: their child’s school, unlike years past, may have already been in session. Mom and Dad aren’t losing their minds. For more than 40 years, Minnesota law has...
In my recent article entitled, “Renewables raise electricity prices, University of Chicago economists find,” two University of Chicago academics estimated that electricity price rises, due to Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), were 11% over 7 years and 17%...
Between 2021 and 2023, according to the Pew Research Center, the number of illegal immigrants in the United States rose by 33%, from 10.5 million to 14.0 million. “The increase of 3.5 million in two years is the biggest on record,” Pew notes, and this total was...
Another election-year political ad is out connecting Amy Klobuchar to a fraud-linked nonprofit earmark. The ad was put out by the MN Restore Sanity Political Action Committee (PAC). The facts in the ad are easily verifiable. U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)...
Photo: Brian via Flickr (https://flic.kr/p/6U4Vo2) (CC BY-NC 2.0) The preparation Leading up to the 2026 Minnesota State Fair, public safety authorities took a unique, pro-active stance to blunt potential gang violence that had marred portions of the fair...
Academic performance results on the 2025 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) show the United States has lost significant ground in reading since the test was last administered in 2022. The global test assesses the reading, math, and science...
As he looks back over his time as Minnesota’s governor, searching for something he can call an achievement, Tim Walz likes to tout the state’s “free” school meals program. Passed into law by the “historic” DFL trifecta in 2023, it provides one “free” breakfast...