Proposed cuts in Gov. Tim Walz’s budget look to end a more than 50-year-old practice of providing aid to private schools — from transportation to counseling — a move nonpublic school leaders say threatens family choice. Minnesota leaders have until … Continued
In the race between Gophers and Badgers for voter turnout, the Badgers won. Voters in Wisconsin narrowly outperformed Minnesota voters in the 2024 election. The University of Florida’s Election Lab reported that 76.35% of the voting-eligible population cast ballots in Minnesota. In … Continued
Today is Thursday, April 17, the 107th day of 2025. There are 258 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an … Continued
William O’Brien State Park in northern Washington County recently underwent a $5.25 million renovation to make the park’s day use area, campground and park office more accessible to people with mobility issues. The park’s Walter F. Mondale Day Use Area … Continued
In recent weeks, the nation’s most selective universities have been waking up to a new reality: the billions of dollars in federal funding that have long sustained them now come with strings attached. The Trump administration has put Columbia, Harvard, … Continued
The bare-knuckled tactics of Trump 2.0 have brought some once-mighty companies and institutions to their knees. Many of the nation’s most prominent places of higher education such as Columbia University improbably have agreed in the face of federal funding threats … Continued