Jury nullification
From KARE-11, Hennepin County Judge tosses out jury’s guilty verdict in $7.2 million home healthcare fraud case. Jurors tell KARE 11 News their decision wasn’t difficult after seeing evidence of…
From KARE-11, Hennepin County Judge tosses out jury’s guilty verdict in $7.2 million home healthcare fraud case. Jurors tell KARE 11 News their decision wasn’t difficult after seeing evidence of…
Lots of Feeding Our Future news to report this week. Ayan Abukar, award-winning founder of the nonprofit organization Action for East African People (AFEAP), is scheduled to plead guilty in…
Yesterday’s shenanigans at the capitol have been ably covered by my colleagues Bill Walsh and Bill Glahn. Nevertheless, there remains one unanswered question. Yesterday, Bill G. noted: During today’s session,…
Back in 1973, when Time magazine ran a story titled “The Good Life in Minnesota” and put our state’s governor, Wendell Anderson, on the cover, the article stated: “Politics is almost…
That’s not likely to happen; the real problem with the trans refuge law centers on how it assists and encourages interstate parental kidnapping, which will exact enormous harm on the…
With a jury in place, opening statements began this morning in the trial of seven (7) defendants in the first Feeding Our Future trial. The seven were associated with a…
Legal and legislative action backed by North Dakota elected officials has resulted in blocking a rogue Biden administration climate change rule on states in both the federal courts and Congress.…
Five years after a landmark SCOTUS decision, public employees continue exercising their restored freedom of association.
Could this be the end for the free-food nonprofit Partners in Nutrition? In a ruling published last month by the state Court of Appeals, the court ruled that the state…
…After avoiding an early brush with the Feeding Our Future scandal. In some rare good news for the economy of Minneapolis and St. Paul, local entrepreneur Abdirahman Kahin won the…
The Federal Reserve’s imprudent firing of a long-time employee sparks a lawsuit about religious freedom.
Minnesotans could be paying the price for California’s green policies.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings last week involving abortion and gun rights were firm reminders of the important role the Court plays in the balance of government by defending our…
In a big win for students and parents, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down an opinion today in Carson v. Makin that grants more educational freedom to families. The High…
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…
Minneapolis is still on the hook to replenish its police force.
State officials manipulate COVID-19 data about minorities.
Governor Walz issued updated guidance today to his executive order that revealed "next steps" regarding schools and youth sports activities, among other areas. But even with these changes, too many students…
This report by Chris Stewart of Brightbeam is a blockbuster. It is titled: “The Secret Shame: How America’s Most Progressive Cities Betray Their Commitment to Educational Opportunity For All.” Stewart…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Minnesota Personal Care Attendants (PCAs) celebrated today’s announcement that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has overturned an Obama-era rule allowing Medicaid payments to be diverted to government…
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) was quick to boast about its “strong membership numbers” in a press release on the union’s new filing with the…
The state of public employee freedom in Minnesota.