Case law across the country since the 1970s has discouraged and, in many cases, prohibited cities from finding effective ways to address vagrancy, loitering, and unsheltered homelessness. In general case…
Minneapolis, the epicenter of chaos following the death of George Floyd and the self-imposed economic damage from COVID-19, has significant problems to address in 2024. Many would say that unless…
James William Turner, Jr. was charged in state court with the non-fatal shooting of a then 11-year-old girl in the first few minutes of New Years Day. Turner was allegedly…
Sharon Ross, of St. Paul’s House of Refuge Outreach, entered a guilty plea yesterday in the free-food fraud case, in Federal court in Minneapolis. Ross’ case is notable in that…
You may have missed the provocative headline that came out right before the recent holiday period. The Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports surveyed more than a thousand “likely” voters in…
The man accused of killing five young women in a horror Minneapolis car crash back in June of last year is now being held in federal custody. Derrick John Thompson,…
Every year, thousands of young people from other countries come to the United States to participate in what is called the Exchange Visitor’s Program. These young people, commonly referred to…
KSTP-TV has observed an early-winter epidemic of stray bullets plaguing the state’s two largest cities. KSTP reports, Police in the Twin Cities are looking into multiple recent incidents that left…
We dig deep into the city’s crime numbers. A Twitter (X) commenter captured an image late last week of the city’s official Crime Dashboard. I draw your attention to the…
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The importance of common sense to a properly functioning society.
Our adversarial system of justice is under attack from within.
The never-ending (not so) merry-go-round.
UMLC adds to its team fighting for freedom and constitutional rights in Minnesota.
Trendy ‘land acknowledgments’ distort more history than they claim to be revealing.
As another dismal year rolls off the board, we can total up the carnage. Despite all the available data, state attorney general Keith Ellison is taking an end-of-year victory lap…
My colleague John Phelan has been writing about the latest U.S. Census data, showing the continued net exodus from Minnesota to other states. Since the last national census (April 1,…
If you recall the plot from the 2000 Nicholas Cage car theft movie, our hero is originally tasked with stealing 50 cars in a 72-hour period. That works out to…
As we close out 2023 one thing remains unchanged — Minneapolis violence. For those wanting to scoff at such a statement, consider the following violence in the past 28 days…
The state’s largest unsheltered homeless encampment appears poised to enter its fourth month and second calendar year of existence. This despite several recent dates being set by Minneapolis officials to…
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…
Way back on December 4, I wrote about the developing crime spree emerging in Minneapolis. Local media are finally catching up. The city’s official Crime Dashboard (updated through Christmas Day)…
“Progressives” often allege that conservatives want to take the United States back to the 1950s. In fact, with their obsession with getting Americans back onto trains, it is America’s “progressives”…
In 2019, Husayn Braveheart, then 15 years old, and Jared Osman, then 17 years old, conspired to commit multiple armed carjackings and burglaries over several days. During their third carjacking,…