Monthly Archives: July 2015

The Minnesota Department of Education released numbers this week which showed no overall student improvement in math, reading, or science in standardized tests with only 60% of students meeting state reading and math standards. Education Minnesota's lobbying efforts during the 2015 legislative session paid big dividends to the system producing these results. Alpha News takes a closer look.

65 Minnesota state legislators have called for an investigation into Planned Parenthood of Minnesota and also want to know whether the University of Minnesota is involved in procuring fetal organs for research purposes. With national scrutiny of Planned Parenthood heating up, Alpha News takes a look at fetal tissue research in Minnesota.

Protesters and lawmakers rallied outside the regional office for Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota in St Paul yesterday afternoon calling for the end of taxpayer funded abortions...

A Somali arts group hired lobbyists this year and requested $4.35 million in taxpayer funds to prevent Somali youth from being targeted by terrorist recruiters. They were rewarded $250,000 in legacy funds in the end and the organization's arts mission and past funding levels raise questions about how they money will be used.

A $100 million plan to turn 26 buildings at historic Ft. Snelling into 190-government-subsidized apartment units was announced this week by Lt. Governor Tina Flint Smith. The project will get the go-ahead from the state's executive council with no input from the legislature. The company making the proposal, Dominium, employs Governor Mark Dayton's senior-level adviser Kathy Tunheim's PR firm. Alpha News takes a closer look at the project.

Alpha News asks a number of locals and Judge Jim Gray their thoughts on the Commission on Presidential Debates and third parties.

Large Minnesota cities and counties that take Community Development Block Grants from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will be required to assess their zoning and land use decisions to determine their impact on fair housing choice. How will it affect where you live?

Protesters gathered outside the Southdale Gardens Condominiums to express their anger over a military mom being told to take her American flag down....

Last year, twenty-four different corrections facilities across Minnesota applied for payments from the federal government's State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) which reimburses states to incarcerate illegal immigrants. Minnesota's liberal immigration policies in the state's largest cities and counties may mean losing these federal dollars as Congress seeks to cut off funding from sanctuary cities.

Alpha News investigates the responses in Minnesota to the leaked Planned Parenthood video....