Thanks to some absentee council members, rent control will likely not appear on the November ballot in Minneapolis. As reported by the Star Tribune, In a contentious maneuver backed by…
You need a program to keep up with the intramural warfare in the Minneapolis Democratic (DFL) party these days. The official party logo: All thirteen seats (representing individual wards) on…
Coincidences abound when it comes to the Feeding Our Future scandal. In this post, we look at some of the links connecting the various scandals reverberating around Minneapolis Democratic politics…
Council member Jeremiah Ellison is accused. Yesterday, the challenger for the Democratic endorsement in Ward 10 for the Minneapolis city council, Nasri Warsame, held a press conference to tell his…
Digging deeper into the Feeding Our Future scandal.
One of the features of the Feeding Our Future scandal from the beginning has been the connections between the alleged fraudsters and well-placed politicians.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that a high-profile events center project is moving ahead in Bloomington, despite the indictment of the project’s CEO in the Feeding Our Future scandal. Mukhtar…
The sixth indictment in the Feeding Our Future case involves the family-run Brava Restaurant and Café in Rochester. The Brava indictment names six members of the Jama family and involves…
They say to always follow the money. The fallout from the alleged free-food scandal has claimed another Minneapolis official. This time it was the chair of the city’s public housing…
Crime is surging in Minneapolis; that is not new. As a new article by the Star Tribune reveals, According to the most recent police statistics, the number of people shot…
How Minneapolis voluntarily relinquished its streets to a mob of vandals, thieves and arsonists
Rent control disincentivizes investing in the maintenance of existing housing units. It also discourages investment in the production of new housing. Ultimately, this hurts low-income individuals the most in the…
The Councillors can walk away from all this, whether they feel any shame about it or not. But, if activists like Al Flowers, Alicia Smith, and Lisa Clemons are correct…
We often hear the old quote that "a riot is the language of the unheard". Sometimes, maybe. Sometimes it is just the language of thieves and vandals.
With crime on the rise, there is evidence that business are starting to recognize Minneapolis as somewhere to be avoided.
The video of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis on Memorial Day is sickening. There is no way that arresting a man for an alleged minor infraction should involve a police…
Minneapolis city council is moving to abolish the police. The city's residents might not be so keen.
Conservatives have long considered the Minneapolis City Council to be out of control. But now, even some liberal city council members find themselves in agreement, according to the Star Tribune.…
Can you even for a second imagine Minneapolis–or any other city for that matter–without cops? Not a lowered presence for cops on the beat but no police patrolling the streets,…