Minneapolis records the 7th murder in and around homeless encampments in 10 months This past weekend three people were fatally shot, and three others were wounded in two separate shooting…
County caught illegally staffing ballot boards. The headline from KSTP-TV: Supreme Court rules Hennepin County Absentee Ballot Board must comply with state law in choosing election judges by Nov. 1…
We wrote last week about Hennepin County ignoring the list of election judges submitted by the political parties in the creation of their ballot board. Today, the Minnesota Supreme Court…
We’ve written a couple of times about the horrific double murder that took place last December in a Dinkytown cigar store. Royal Cigar and Tobacco was the scene of the…
Minneapolis man’s violent crime spree leaves one dead and another injured in outstate Minnesota. On Tuesday, a 25-year-old Minneapolis man named Ameer Matariyeh assaulted his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend…
In an ongoing dispute over the composition of ballot boards, Hennepin County claimed they “exhausted” the list of election judges put forward by the Republican Party because they forwarded the…
[Updated: driver fired.] The parking lot was, in fact, a handicapped parking space in front of City Hall. The “courier” was stopping by to pick up more absentee ballots en…
Unreported FBI crime data adjustments under scrutiny — A number of conservative outlets reported this week that the FBI had quietly updated its 2022 crime data sometime after releasing the…
A couple of times last year I wrote about the effort by Hennepin County to convert aging area motels into homeless shelters. One of these was the old Metro Inn…
The following public safety news made headlines this past week. I offer this summary and insight: Minneapolis juveniles arrested after armed robbery spree. Six Minneapolis juveniles aged between 11-14 years…
The federal trial involving gun and drug charges against Derrick John Thompson is on the docket for 9 a.m. Monday morning in courtroom 3A in downtown St. Paul. So far,…
Nolosha is still hoping to acquire Feeding Our Future-linked property next month. State attorney general Keith Ellison announced a lawsuit on Wednesday against a controversial housing developer with plans for…
Power play by commissioners involving now-former Hennepin Healthcare board chair undermines solutions for the communities they represent. Being unfairly denounced as racist ranks among the most hurtful and difficult accusations…
The following public safety issues made headlines this past week. I offer this summary and insight: Random execution-style murder in Lowertown St. Paul. On Wednesday 9/25/24, a local artist, Carrie Shobe…
A one-man crime spree? Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced additional felony counts today against Joshua Anthony Jones related to an alleged crime spree in south Minneapolis on Wednesday, September…
Last week, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reported: Two downtown Minneapolis office towers have sold in a deal representing one of the core’s steepest discounts in recent history. The 634,000-square-foot…
A mass shooting in downtown Minneapolis overnight claimed the lives of two with three more injured. It caps a deadly week in the state’s largest city. The Minnesota Star Tribune…
Hennepin County attorney Mary Moriarty put out a press release today announcing five additional murder charges against Derrick Thompson, aged 28. He remains in custody on $1 million bond. You…
We’ve been reporting on a particularly troubled homeless encampment in south Minneapolis this summer. Police have now made an arrest in an August murder associated with the camp. In custody…
The Murder In 2002, Myon Burrell, then 16 years old, went with two others in his gang to ambush and kill a rival gang member on the street in South…
Max Nesterak of MN Reformer was the first to report on the lawsuit filed by some local rideshare drivers against their own nonprofit advocacy group Minnesota Uber/Lyft Drivers Association (MULDA).…
Derrick John Thompson, the son of the former DFL state representative John Derrick Thompson, was back in state court today. You will recall that the younger Thompson, now aged 28,…
Over the past month, the latest controversies surrounding Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty have led to two formal complaints of unethical behavior made against Moriarty to the Minnesota Lawyers Board…
As if Minnesota politics couldn’t get any weirder, a candidate for the state House of Representatives has been charged with two felony counts related to the theft of lawn signs…