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...
Parent-led school boards are declaring their independence from progressive control over public education and Minnesota’s largest district is at the forefront. School board elections driven by parents made news in 2021. Now we hear little about them. Journalists...
From The Hill newspaper, Supreme Court takes up Trump’s mandatory detention policy. This is the habeas corpus issue that I frequently write about. The 5th (TX-LA-MS) and the 8th (ND-SD-NE-MN-IA-MO-AR) circuits have found that the 1996 law (“shall be detained”)...
Newly released chronic absenteeism rates for the 24-25 academic year suggest that Minnesota’s chronic absenteeism has found a new baseline at an unacceptably high level. Chronic absenteeism (when a student is absent for 10 percent or more of the academic year)...
That thing that never happens happened again. The U.S. Department of Justice announced today the indictments of ten non-citizens who somehow voted in the 2024 election in Minnesota. Secretary of State Steve Simon has repeatedly assured Minnesotans that...
From a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) press release, Justice Department Files Judicial Misconduct Complaint Alleging MN Judges Made Improper and Unethical Comments to the New York Times. The DOJ writes, On September 17, 2026, the paper published an article...
The Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) plans to adopt a package of new teacher licensing rules without a public hearing unless at least 25 people request one. Included is a new license for teaching ethnic studies to students in grades 5...
Last November, KSTP produced a report titled: “Wonder why your license tab fees aren’t going down? Here’s why…” Lately, many Minnesotans who own vehicles less than five years old have probably noticed that their license tabs are not decreasing in cost every...
The study of mathematics is an essential part of every student’s education, but it can pose a challenge for educators. Math is cyclical, repetitive, and builds upon itself. If a student misses a crucial lesson about long division, they’ll struggle throughout...
Today, we do a deep dive into some preliminary 2026 state-level Democratic party fundraising numbers. The above numbers are not meant to be comprehensive, they exclude fundraising for federal office (Congress, U.S. Senate) and fundraising by individual...