If all goes according to plan, guilty plea numbers 19 and 20 will be filed in the Feeding Our Future case next week. We’ve learned during the course of the…
The full quote goes: The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine. That axiom was on full display this morning at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis.…
On Wednesday, the Education and Workforce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives issued a press release announcing: Chair Foxx Subpoenas Walz’s Minnesota Department of Education to Demand Accountability in…
This afternoon, at the Federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, the bagwoman in the Feeding Our Future juror bribery case pled guilty to one count. Your correspondent was there. The hearing…
Deena Winter of MN Reformer is out with a piece this week looking at the connections between four autism clinics and the free-food scandal. Two of these names will jump…
The phrases “cooking the books” and “Madoff miracle” appear in a New York Post headline from last month (August 10) on the state Teachers Retirement Association (TRA) pension fund. The…
Minnesota’s budget is a disaster waiting to happen.
When St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and other city officials gushed about ordering the first electric fire truck in the state last year, they made it clear federal funds were…
On the surface, it sounds like an intriguing idea. Burnsville residents get the chance to decide how to spend some of their city taxes on projects in their neighborhoods. The…
Abdullahe Nur Jesow showed up more than 20 minutes late to court today, and when he finally arrived, he was in no mood to plead guilty. Jesow claimed to have…
For years, American Experiment’s message on teacher pensions has been clear: We need to keep the pension promises made to teachers. The Teachers Retirement Association (TRA) — which manages pensions…
Late last week, the always alert Lou Raguse of KARE-11 TV noticed a new filing in Federal court. Ladan Ali, the alleged bagwoman in the Feeding Our Future bribery case,…
Liz Collin of AlphaNews posted this thread on Twitter (X) last night about a new homeless encampment in south Minneapolis, Her thread documents the unsuccessful efforts by the neighbors to…
Minneapolis… This week, I’ve written about property tax hikes coming to Minneapolis. Sure enough, as the Star Tribune reports, on Wednesday Mayor Frey announced: …a $1.88 billion budget and an…
Never mind that Fargo voters already turned down their opportunity to raise the local sales and hotel taxes to upgrade the Fargodome and fund a new convention center last December.…
In what may be a first for the Feeding Our Future case, eleven (11) defendants were inside the same courtroom at the same time this morning at the Federal building…
Over the last couple of days, I’ve written about how soaring city spending coming on top of plummeting commercial property values and consequent declines in commercial property tax revenues are going…
Between July this year and July 2025, the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) will officially be breaking off into three state agencies. Due to a law passed in the…
Photo: Robert Matthews, Office of Communications, Princeton University Yesterday, I wrote about how soaring city spending coming on top of plummeting commercial property values and consequent declines in commercial property…
Back in May, I wrote an article titled “As council ramps up spending while commercial property values tank, Minneapolis property taxes set to rise.” This is now happening. Council ramps…
How does a state go from having an $18 billion surplus to potentially facing a deficit in a space of less than a year? The answer is reckless spending. After…
A St. Paul-based drug- and alcohol-treatment center, Evergreen Recovery, accused of defrauding the state in the amount of $28 million, had its day in court. Fifteen days ago, on July…
It has not been a good couple of months for the Minnesota state government. First, on June 11, the Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA) published a report estimating that…
We’ve added two items to our official Scandal Tracker 2024 list. Ryan Faircloth of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports this morning on a federal analysis of COVID-era unemployment benefit overpayments…