Source: ChatGPT Source: AZ Quotes Note: Renewable portfolio standards (RPS), and clean energy standards (CES), are considered by most experts to be less economically efficient than a cap-and-trade system. Thus, ipso facto, “electricity rates would necessarily...
From the Minneapolis Star Tribune (paywalled), Sharp rise in deportation orders for Somalis in Minnesota: More than 500 Somalis in Minnesota have been ordered deported this year as the Trump administration speeds up asylum hearings and narrows paths to legal...
I had my second appearance on The Jon Justice Show earlier this week on Monday the 28th of September. The focus was on NIMBYnomics, renewables and energy affordability. A 55 seconds clip from that appearance can be found here =>...
One of the lessons I taught my kids is that nothing good happens after midnight. My unscientific guess is that becomes even more certain as one approaches 4 am. One of the more troubling public safety stories of the week bore that out early Tuesday morning in...
Photo: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0) (https://flic.kr/p/2ivpbJD) On October 1, the Minnesota Department of Commerce approved a 17.4 percent average weighted increase in the individual market, covering about 203,000 people. Carrier averages run from 10.0...
In July 2022, Minnesota’s average combined state and local sales tax rate was 7.49%, which was lower than in 16 other states, according to the Tax Foundation (Figure 1). Figure 1 For January this year, Tax Foundation data show that Minnesota’s average combined...
The Minnesota Department of Education has just released spring 2026 statewide assessment results, emphasizing that test scores “remained stable” across grade levels and subjects during a “challenging year.” “We see where students are on their journey toward...
Shaakir Mohamud Ibrahim became the 81st defendant charged in the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud scandal. He was indicted on seven counts of wire fraud and money laundering on Tuesday. Ibrahim made his first court appearance this afternoon and was assisted...
Abdi Nur Salah was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison today for his role in the Feeding Our Future fraud. The U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) issued this press release, St. Paul Man Sentenced to 33 Months’ Imprisonment for Defrauding $1.6 Million in Federal...
Ahmed Abdirashid Mohamed entered a guilty plea this morning at the federal courthouse in downtown St. Paul, recording the 89th federal welfare fraud conviction in the past four years. He joins his co-defendant, Hassan Ahmed Hussein, who pled guilty last week in...