As we’ve mentioned many times, there were thousands of free-food distribution sites registered under the government programs caught up in the “Feeding Our Future” scandal. Each one tells a story.…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is, once again, seeking the infamous ‘Umbrella Man’ who played an allegedly catalytic role in the riots in Minneapolis in May 2020. Minneapolis Police had…
The back pages of this week’s Star Tribune were a quiet reminder of the investigative clean-up that continues some 2 ½ years after the George Floyd-related riots. This is a sliver…
There have been 49 people (and counting) charged in the Feeding Our Future fraud. Of those, twelve were associated with Safari Restaurant of Minneapolis, including all three co-owners. Combing through…
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…
Violent crime in Minnesota and in particular the metro area has spiked to unacceptable levels over the past two years. Early 2022 data indicates there is no appreciable retreat in the…
Your correspondent visits Subject Premises No. 6 in the Feeding Our Future case. In the middle of a narrow residential street in south Minneapolis sits an unmarked one-story office building…
Minneapolis is turning into another two-tiered city — mind-blowing luxury at one end, third-world-style poverty at the other. A recent drive through Minneapolis revealed a city moving in two directions…
My recent visits to Lake Street in Minneapolis inspired me to return to one of my favorite subjects: the In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre. (Think…
Two years after the George Floyd riots, the station’s ruins sit at the corner of Lake Street and Minnehaha Avenue in central Minneapolis. The tall metal fencing is the only…
In which your correspondent visits two of the Feeding Our Future forfeiture properties. We’ve previously discussed the 309 address on E. Lake Street in Minneapolis, which included Subject Premises Nos.…
The state Department of Education (MDE) has shut down a third nonprofit network in the free-food scandal. The Minneapolis Star Tribune has reported that MDE shut off the nonprofit network…
The free food scandal involves at least three distinct groups of alleged fraudsters. Not one person has been arrested or charged, to date. In Part 1, we introduced the group…
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…
State and Twin Cities leaders dither while vulnerable residents live in fear and increasing danger.
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…
Violent crime is exploding in Minneapolis. Figure 1 shows the number of homicides in Minneapolis for the period from January 1 to June 8 in the current year and each…
How Minneapolis voluntarily relinquished its streets to a mob of vandals, thieves and arsonists
Post-riot surges in crime disproportionately hurt the Black community.
Minneapolis became a significantly more violent and dangerous place to visit and live in 2020.
Blue checks on Twitter shrugged off damage to businesses, arguing that the owners were insured. Many weren't. People like this rely on the city and state government to protect them…
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…
Recent months have given Minnesotans a front-row seat to the shortcomings of liberal governance.
Recent months have given Minnesotans a front-row seat to the shortcomings of liberal governance.