Back in May, I wrote an article titled “As council ramps up spending while commercial property values tank, Minneapolis property taxes set to rise.” This is now happening. Council ramps…
That represents a 49 percent increase over the current level of $122,225. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports: Hennepin County Board members are ready to give themselves a 49% pay hike…
Pervasive criminality in the metro.
Minneapolis is still scarred by the violence of the George Floyd riots.
The crime stories from Minnesota get more bizarre by the day. The latest one involves a single-car accident on Interstate 90 near Rochester and is like something out of a…
A day after Minneapolis Police Officer Jamal Mitchell, who was ambushed and murdered by a gunman, was laid to rest, officers from the city’s 3rd precinct had to use deadly…
The third victim of Mustafa Ahmed Mohamed has been identified by the Hennepin County coroner. Mustafa reportedly ambushed hero Minneapolis police officer Jamal Mitchell on the street in broad daylight.…
Last night (Thursday) in downtown Minneapolis, the Center hosted the former Prime Minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett, for an evening of public policy discussion centered around recent events in the…
There have been several rebuttals to the divisive and defensive press conference Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty held Monday to announce she was dropping charges against Minnesota Trooper Ryan Londregan.…
In a curiously timed Sunday evening announcement, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty dropped all charges against Minnesota State Trooper Ryan Londregan, relating to the July 2023 use of deadly force…
This piece originally appeared in the New York Post on May 24, 2024. Saturday marks the fourth anniversary of the death of George Floyd on a Minneapolis street. The years in between…
Economic development Minnesota Reformer: Lawmakers expected to fund infrastructure, economic development projects on Iron Range Labor market KEYC: Minnesota’s unemployment rate holds steady for 6th month in a row Willmar…
The 2024 legislative session crashed to a conclusion late Sunday night amid scenes of chaos as the DFL rammed through a 2,800 page Omnibus Bill that nobody had read and…
This week marks National Police Week, in honor of the peace officers who have fallen in the line of duty over the past year. Governor Walz has ordered flags in Minnesota…
The modern coach-style tour bus parked in front of a south metro suburban hotel gave little hint as to the epic journey it had just completed. The blue and white…
It came as a surprise to many when the Forum recently revealed that 18 employees of the Fargo School District live out of state and work remotely from as far…
On Tuesday, April 30, the Hennepin County Board took the unusual step to “Delegate authority for the Hennepin County Attorney to approve and sign outside counsel agreements and amendments for…
Trooper Londregan appeared before Judge Tamera Garcia in Hennepin County District Court this morning, for the first of at least two omnibus hearings designed to allow the parties to make…
On Monday, April 29, at 9 a.m., Trooper Ryan Londregan will appear in Hennepin County District Court for his next pretrial hearing on charges filed against him for his use…
It’s a saga worthy of George Jefferson himself. The controversial Democratic Congresswoman from Minneapolis was back in the news today. More precisely, her eldest daughter was in the news for…
On July 31 at 2 a.m. on I-94 in North Minneapolis, three Minnesota State Patrol (MSP) troopers attempted to arrest Ricky Cobb II for a felony domestic abuse no contact…
Give Gov. Tim Walz credit for consistency. Each November when the budget forecast is announced, he preaches fiscal restraint. And each May when the legislative session ends, he signs budget…
Although neither the organization nor any of its staff have been charged with or accused of any wrongdoing, the nonprofit Somali Community Resettlement Services appears in a recently-filed Feeding Our…
While events are still unfolding, it has been reported that a Hennepin County deputy was shot and another deputy injured shortly before noon today in the 13000 block of Crestwood…