On July 31st at 2 am on I-94 in North Minneapolis, three Minnesota State Patrol (MSP) troopers attempted to arrest Ricky Cobb II for a felony domestic abuse no contact order violation issued out of Ramsey County. Instead of complying with the Trooper’s...
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the Minnesota Department of Education’s release of 2023 graduation data. The department reported a slight decline compared to the 2022 graduation rate — from 83.6 percent to 83.3 percent, or a 0.3 percentage point decrease —...
Give Gov. Tim Walz credit for consistency. Each November when the budget forecast is announced, he preaches fiscal restraint. And each May when the legislative session ends, he signs budget bills that spend all of the available money. There’s hope this year...
Mitch and I have been promoting the idea that utility customers should only pay for the reliable portion of an asset for years. Now, the John Locke Foundation (JLF) in North Carolina is promoting this idea as a way to prevent electricity prices in the Tar Heel...
Legal and legislative action backed by North Dakota elected officials has resulted in blocking a rogue Biden administration climate change rule on states in both the federal courts and Congress. In December North Dakota joined 20 states in challenging the...
Although neither the organization nor any of its staff have been charged with or accused of any wrongdoing, the nonprofit Somali Community Resettlement Services appears in a recently-filed Feeding Our Future trial document some 43 times. The document is the...
Last week, the Star Tribune carried an article by Evan Ramstad which provided a decent tour d’horizon of the economic debate in Minnesota. It showed, once again, how American Experiment leads the conversation on Minnesota’s economy. Net migration: It isn’t just...
We recently wrote about hundreds of thousands of Xcel Energy customers in Colorado who lost power as high winds damaged power lines, and Xcel preemptively shut off the power to 55,000 customers to mitigate the risk of wildfires. Among the customers who lost...
Last week, my colleague, Martha Njolomole, wrote that Minnesota’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in 2023 ranked 43rd in the country. This relatively poor performance wasn’t an anomaly. Indeed, as… April 1, 2024 by John Phelan Source...
Abdulahi Osman has NOT been charged with any crime. Nor does his name appear in any indictment or search warrant in the Feeding Our Future list. However, his name does appear eight (8) times on a list of trial exhibits submitted by the U.S. Attorney’s office in...