MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, made headlines yesterday for giving away a small part of her massive fortune to a handful of Minnesota nonprofits. The Minneapolis Star…
Control of the city council is up for grabs in the election less than a month away. As we get closer to Election Day 2023, we’ve been digging into the…
Picking up where we left off in Part 4 of our Minnesota For Sale series on campaign finance, we dig up more names and money in the shadowy world of…
Tracing the Minnesota influence of a different shadowy international billionaire. There is a famous H.L. Mencken quote that goes, Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they…
The controversial Hennepin County Attorney is much in the news. Just three months into her first term as the county’s prosecutor, Moriarty has been removed from a high-profile murder case…
In this fourth edition of our Minnesota For Sale series, we dive into the dark money supporting Democratic candidates in Minnesota. Democrats in Minnesota and elsewhere are famously opposed to…
A nonprofit you’ve never heard of spent $550,000 to mobilize the inner-city vote efforts in the last election. You will never guess who paid for it. Faith in Minnesota, a…
Who funded the unsuccessful ballot effort to defund the Minneapolis police department? Out-of-state interests, mostly, with some mystery donors thrown in. Question No. 2 appeared on the ballot last November…