The pandemic may be over but the quest to continue the seemingly unlimited amounts of federal cash doled out to state and local governments the last two years has only…
According to Gov. Tim Walz and Lieutenant Gov. Penny Flannagan, Assuming that a household does indeed spend $2,000 on a couple of months’ rent, it means no money left over…
Back in February, I wrote that the DFL’s gas tax holiday is a bad idea. Even as gas prices continue to rise and it becomes more popular, it remains a…
One of the properties that the U.S. Attorney is trying to seize in this case is located in Brooklyn Park. It is property No. 13 of the 14 locations named…
Negotiations broke down last week between leaders of the state House, Senate, and Governor over whether or not to have a special session. This effectively ended the possibility of tax…
Last week negotiations between leaders of the state House, Senate, and Governor over whether or not to have a special session broke down. If you’re wondering whether this was good…
If you put Governor Walz’s tax proposals on an x/y axis, you would see an inverse relationship between how generous the tax proposal is, to how little chance it has…
We visit two sites closely associated with the third free-food network shut down by the state Department of Education (MDE). At the time it was shut down by MDE, Gar…
We wind up our free-food tour of the Twin Cities with stops at two “Youth”-related commercial buildings. We’ve previously covered the rise and fall of the short-lived nonprofit Youth Inventors…
We visit Brooklyn Center, the home of the one success story behind Feeding Our Future. During the years-long battle between the free-food nonprofit Feeding Our Future and the state Department…
Your correspondent visits Subject Premises No. 6 in the Feeding Our Future case. In the middle of a narrow residential street in south Minneapolis sits an unmarked one-story office building…
On Monday, my colleague Tom Steward wrote about property valuations by county assessors in Crow Wing County. As house prices have surged in the last 18 months, these new valuations…
A Victorian mansion-turned-office building sits at the heart of the scandal. Yesterday, we visited forfeiture properties Nos. 6 and 7 in the Feeding Our Future case. The properties at 2722…
My recent visits to Lake Street in Minneapolis inspired me to return to one of my favorite subjects: the In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre. (Think…
Property valuations by county assessors have gone through the roof all over Minnesota this year, but nowhere more so than in Crow Wing County. Brainerd Lakes Area residents are still…
Your correspondent ventures south of the river, again. A while back we documented the free-food connections to be found in the south metro suburban city of Burnsville. 1506 Southcross Drive…