DFL vs Ridesharing On Monday, I — along with thousands of others, I imagine — received an email from Lyft reading: John, the Minneapolis City Council is considering an ordinance…
Two separate armed robbery sprees occurred in the city yesterday, KSTP-5 reports. The victims were all women, who lost wallets and cell phones. Oh, and did I forget to mention…
The final campaign finance numbers are in for the 2023 election for the Minneapolis city council. All 13 council seats were on the ballot, and the results saw the avowedly…
The Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts announced yesterday that it will be closing for good, ending performances on March 31. In doing so, Cowles cancelled performances scheduled…
James William Turner, Jr. was charged in state court with the non-fatal shooting of a then 11-year-old girl in the first few minutes of New Years Day. Turner was allegedly…
KSTP-TV has observed an early-winter epidemic of stray bullets plaguing the state’s two largest cities. KSTP reports, Police in the Twin Cities are looking into multiple recent incidents that left…
We dig deep into the city’s crime numbers. A Twitter (X) commenter captured an image late last week of the city’s official Crime Dashboard. I draw your attention to the…
As another dismal year rolls off the board, we can total up the carnage. Despite all the available data, state attorney general Keith Ellison is taking an end-of-year victory lap…
If you recall the plot from the 2000 Nicholas Cage car theft movie, our hero is originally tasked with stealing 50 cars in a 72-hour period. That works out to…
Way back on December 4, I wrote about the developing crime spree emerging in Minneapolis. Local media are finally catching up. The city’s official Crime Dashboard (updated through Christmas Day)…
In the four weeks through December 4, Minneapolis recorded 11 homicides, with the adjacent suburb of Edina recording two more. In the midst of all this violence, the individual stories…
Despite all the talk about falling crime rates in the state’s largest city, we are ending the year on a bang. The latest incident to grab headlines was a shootout…
Minneapolis city council members are overpaid compared to their peers in similar-sized cities. That is the finding of an analysis carried out by the city’s own staff at the request of…
As we’ve documented on video, the situation at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in south Minneapolis hasn’t improved in 3 1/2 years. A group of businesses located in and near…
Back in 2020, my colleague Tom Steward and I described how Minnesotans — and residents of the Twin Cities specifically — were failed so miserably that summer by their state and…
For a few months now, a common theme in the local media is that the inflation rate in the Twin Cities is lower than in comparable metropolitan areas. In October,…
The number stands at 7,094, according to the official City of Minneapolis crime dashboard. The city blew by the annual record back in September. True, the pace has slowed in…
For several years now, the City of Minneapolis has more and more taken a “public health approach” to fighting crime, relying less on police and law enforcement and more on…
Despite the constant reassurances from local media and elected officials, activity in the inner core of the state’s largest city is not returning to pre-pandemic levels. We were told in…
The winners of all 13 city council seats have been decided, with majority control appearing to favor the far-left candidates. Incumbents on the city council have prevailed in all 11…
The pivotal city council races have only days to go before election day. We take a look at some of the last-minute money flowing into these contests. All thirteen seats…
It is no coincidence that it was a Minnesotan, Sinclair Lewis, who popularized the word “Boosterism” in his 1922 novel Babbitt. As I’ve noted before, much of the state’s media is constantly…
It’s a little over a week until the city council election in the state’s largest city. Local socialists are making a bid for functional control of the council, in opposition…
Back in 2020, my colleague Tom Steward and I described how Minnesotans — and residents of the Twin Cities specifically — were failed so miserably that summer by their state…