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…
Your correspondent goes looking for free food and finds light rail instead. A couple of months ago, we wrote about the connections between the free-food scandal and the small western…
In which your correspondent visits two of the Feeding Our Future forfeiture properties. We’ve previously discussed the 309 address on E. Lake Street in Minneapolis, which included Subject Premises Nos.…
In which your correspondent ventures into St. Paul. We previously reported on the curious case of 1821 University Avenue, St. Paul, a large office complex home to no fewer than…
One big topic dominated the 2022 legislative session: what to do with the state’s historic budget surplus. While the session has ended with no agreement, a decision will still have…
In which your correspondent returns to Edina. Subject Premises No. 1 in the third FBI search warrant in the Feeding Our Future case is this co-working office facility located at…
Recently, we’ve been making connections between the free-food scandal, overseen by the state Department of Education (MDE), and other government entitlement programs overseen by the state Department of Human Services…
In which your correspondent ventures south of the river. The only two arrests made in connection to the Feeding Our Future scandal involve the two co-owners of the Empire Cuisine…
Your correspondent visits the scene of the (alleged) crime. They say that the map is not the terrain. In that spirit, your correspondent visited, in person, the office building where…
And, once again, it involves passport fraud. To date, not one person has been arrested or charged in the underlying Feeding Our Future fraud case. A second figure in the…
Just south of the once-bustling Uptown neighborhood is this nondescript office building: It was Feeding Our Future’s Abdikerm Eidleh’s business address on Hennepin Avenue, which was searched by the FBI…
It’s been more than four months since the FBI raids on Feeding Our Future and related organizations. To date only a single person involved has been arrested, and that was…
One nonprofit went from earning $200,000 per year in revenue to pulling in more than $700,000 per month from distributing free food, serving up to 10,000 meals per day.