Mary Moriarty didn’t hide the fact that she would be a progressive prosecutor if elected as the Hennepin County Attorney. Despite examples of similarly minded progressive prosecutors across the country…
According to Black Lives Matter Twin Cities, Communities United Against Police Brutality, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and the family of Khalil Azad, an independent “community investigation” of Azad’s July…
There’s another threat to U.S. border security that continues to fly under the radar. With the focus largely on millions illegally crossing into the U.S. on the southern border under…
According to the latest Thinking Minnesota poll (February 26-28), an overwhelming majority (60%) of Minnesotans oppose restoring the right to vote for convicted felons. The poll results were released by…
In the follow-up to the recent murder inside St. Paul Harding High School, we are learning from students, teachers, and parents how a focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)…
Abdullah Arif, 48, of Stillwater was shot and killed last Thursday outside his tobacco shop in St. Paul. Arif’s murder is in part the result of a broken court system that…
The Minnesota legislature reached another new low this week when Sen. Omar Fateh called Minnesota Senate Republicans terrorists and white supremacists during his speech on the Senate floor in the…
Evidently it’s no secret that vagrants, drug use and defecation pose a public safety problem at several downtown Duluth city parking ramps. But the city’s unofficial policy of tolerating the…
On Thursday morning, February 9, Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District Representative Angie Craig was physically assaulted by a homeless man named Kendrid Hamlin in the elevator of the apartment complex she…
A 15-year-old St. Paul Harding High School student was stabbed to death in the halls of the school last Friday. A 16-year-old student is in custody for the murder. Harding High School…
The county’s effective use of resources for the mentally ill and chemical dependent is a cause for celebration.
Facts often get buried by unchallenged narratives and misinformation. As a result, bad policy and law get adopted without proper review, reflection, or debate. Case in point, the movement to ban…
The DFL-led Minnesota Legislature is moving forward with its plan to give voting rights to felons who have not yet completed their sentences. As written, the legislation would allow convicted felons…
Courts are skirting sentencing guidelines for gun related crimes.
Hennepin County public safety and public health leaders came together on a number of initiatives in the late 2010s that are having a positive impact on justice-involved individuals with mental…
Author and Manhattan Institute Fellow Heather Mac Donald has offered a brilliant piece in The Spectator on the death of Tyre Nichols, and the renewed calls for massive police reform. …
Federal data shows Twin Cities light rail is the most dangerous in America.
Memphis Tennessee isn’t well. It’s a city experiencing record-setting murders and associated violence — about eight times the national average and more than twice the rate of Minneapolis. The situation…
During an historic rise in violent crime, did Minnesota voters just ask for more of the same?
The defendant charged with shooting a White Bear Lake police officer this week is the poster child for an issue plaguing Minnesota’s district courts and our state psychiatric hospitals —…
Nobody seems to know. But no worries, much more money will be spent on the effort. In Minnesota, the City of Minneapolis is at the forefront of the use of…
Sometimes experts get lost in data, lengthy descriptions of problems and solutions, and ultimately cloudy policy recommendations. It happened to me just yesterday as I spoke with a reporter about transit…
The DFL and Gov. Walz are pushing for what they call the “simple legalization of recreational marijuana.” How truthful is that description? Not very.
Met Council Chairman Charlie Zelle has yet to acknowledge the brutal, not to mention embarrassing, fact he oversees the most dangerous light rail system in the country. As American Experiment…