So where did the Minneapolis Star Tribune get hundreds of confidential FBI witness interview reports? Why was the Star Tribune using these reports to intimidate witnesses in an ongoing federal…
The U.S. Dept. of Justice has accused Aimee Bock and her adult sons of sending confidential court material to the Minnesota Star Tribune and other media outlets. Bock, defendant No.…
The debate over how much fraud has been committed against Minnesota social welfare programs has now gone national. Joe Thompson, the First Assistant U.S. Attorney and lead prosector of the…
Convictions in federal court now exceed 60 defendants. Millions of dollars in property seized by the feds have already been sold off. But the Star Tribune says there is only…
Former Star Tribune editor Patricia Lopez wrote on Bloomberg November 26, under the headline, We can stop fraud in Minnesota without attacking Somalis In a perfect world, Lopez is absolutely…
Your government at work. From the Minnesota Star Tribune Minnesota can release records on Medicaid providers accused of fraud – but won’t First, let me sincerely praise the Star Tribune…
Democrats and local media (but I repeat myself) are in denial about the scale of fraud in Minnesota. The Minneapolis Star Tribune puts on a master class today in political propaganda. The…
The Star Tribune reported this weekend about several data center projects that have pulled out of Minnesota thanks to “the state’s lengthy permitting process.” From the article: A company has…
Carlos Guillermo Aragon-Baez is our Minnesota Man of the Day. He has been charged in federal court with one count of illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien. Aragon, aged…
From a Bloomberg opinion column, Minnesota Is Becoming the Land of 10,000 Frauds. I would update the headline with “has become.” The column was written by Patricia Lopez, formerly of…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune rebuts the Rick Kupchella documentary on the decline and fall of the Twin Cities. Last week, I reviewed and recommended the 59-minute film. The headline of…
Today, the Minnesota Star Tribune’s Walker Orenstein published an assessment of the challenges facing Becker after Amazon abandoned its planned data center: For now, the land will remain vacant. In…
Yesterday, the Minnesota Star Tribune committed an act of journalism in reporting on another significant fraud scandal in state government. This one involves a program called Housing Stabilization Services (HSS)…
The Star Tribune wrote an in-depth piece on the widespread fears of utilities that President-elect Donald Trump will repeal the subsidy-soaked Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. What the article tacitly…
A hitherto obscure Ramsey County judge, John Guthmann, has received much of the blame for the Feeding Our Future debacle. He has now been vindicated. The fault lies in this…
The Star Tribune has finally said the “b-word:” blackouts. Several of our readers reached out to me over the weekend to share this article from the Star Tribune, entitled “Midwest,…
NBC News reports that rising demand for the nickel used in the batteries of electric vehicles (EVs) is prompting the expansion of a nickel mine located in a rainforest in…
The article below was originally published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: We need to stop planning our electric system around wind turbines and solar panels, technologies that often fail to show…
My recent article entitled “Counterpoint: Here’s how we ‘modernize’ the GOP,” in the Star Tribune, generated three different letters to the editor where the authors attempt to refute my points.…
Last weekend the Minneapolis Star Tribune ran an article entitled Xcel Looks At New Nuclear Options As it Moves to Carbon-Free Power Goals. The article explains that nuclear energy is critical to…
On April 20th, the Star Tribune ran a story entitled "Technology, Cost Could Hamper Efforts for 100 Percent Carbon-Free Grid in Minnesota by 2050." It was good to see the…
Gee, I wonder how the folks over at the StarTribune feel about the DNR’s decision to grant the needed Permit to Mine for the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine. Oh wait,…