Firomsa Ahmed Umar, age 30 of Fridley, was indicted in federal court today on four arson-related counts relating to two incidents last month at a Minneapolis ice cream parlor. He…
Minneapolis, known as the “City of Lakes,” will no longer host the Aquatennial, which has been its signature summer event since 1940. It’s also pulling the plug on the popular…
Minneapolis Sometime between 2017 and 2020, I was walking north up Hennepin Avenue at about 5:00 PM. I had just navigated the cluster of citizens who spread out across the…
Update: Shortly after posting the original news of some ten shooting victims in Minneapolis on Tuesday, the tragic news broke of a mass shooting at Annunciation Church this morning as…
After shutting down in 2020 due to the pandemic and the following year by concerns over crime and “civil unrest,” the Uptown Art Fair in south Minneapolis appeared to be…
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…
In December 2023, the Minneapolis Foundation published its action strategy for revitalizing Downtown Minneapolis entitled “Downtown Next.” “Our goal with this report is to spur discussion and action, mobilizing the…
It has become the working policy of law enforcement to allow protestors to take over roadways or block access to buildings, etc. This passive approach has grown in popularity in…
The beleaguered Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis witnessed more bad luck last evening. The collision of two automobiles at the intersection of Hennepin Avenue and Lagoon saw one of the vehicles…
In May the City of Minneapolis announced its “Warehouse District Live” plan to bring foot traffic back to downtown Minneapolis on weekend nights — June through October. The plan blocks off…
Nobody seems to know. But no worries, much more money will be spent on the effort. In Minnesota, the City of Minneapolis is at the forefront of the use of…
Tuesday’s election results are said to be, in part, a rejection of attempts by conservatives to “amplify” the crime problem, and to inappropriately use fear as motivation for change. The…
The recent announcement by Attorney General Keith Ellison, that his office has opened a civil investigation into Merwin Liquors and Winner Gas at Lyndale and West Broadway to hold the…
On Wednesday, August 10, the Minneapolis City Council’s Public Health and Safety Committee received an update from police investigative and intelligence representatives. The hearing can be viewed in its entirety…
On Friday evening the son of a former metro area police chief was violently assaulted and hospitalized during a robbery of his cell phone in downtown Minneapolis. The chief posted…
There has been a steady increase in lawlessness felt in the Twin Cities since 2020, when the defund the police movement promoted weeks of rioting and the burning of the…
Just when the car wreck of a plan to eliminate most parking spots in the reconstruction of Hennepin Avenue in Uptown appeared unstoppable, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey slammed the brakes…
The plan for reconstructing Hennepin Avenue in Uptown Minneapolis calls for sacrificing virtually all on-street parking to make room for bike lanes, bigger sidewalks and 24/7 dedicated rapid transit bus…
One of the last of the great pre-war movie palaces closed for good a year ago. I visit the scene. Representing and located at the heart of Minneapolis’ Uptown neighborhood,…
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…
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey tweeted last week about how on the first Friday of his new vaccine and testing regime (Jan. 21), his phone had “been flooded with pictures of…
It’s coming down to the wire for small businesses to change the minds of Minneapolis planners bent on eliminating 92 percent of parking spots in favor of bikes and busses…
It may well be the last Christmas shopping season for some businesses on South Hennepin Avenue if the city of Minneapolis follows through on plans to eliminate parking for customers…
At least the organizers of the Uptown Art Fair could blame the popular event’s cancellation last year on COVID-19. But now one of the highlights of the Minnesota summer has…