The subject of the Department of Justice’s fourth indictment in the Feeding Our Future scandal is an entity called Haji’s Kitchen, run by a man with the last name of…
Much like St. Paul and Minneapolis, Rochester is also struggling with a housing affordability issue. However, unlike the two cities, Rochester is going in a different direction. Instead of imposing…
A newly uncovered court transcript indicated that unnamed state representative went to bat for Feeding Our Future and one of its nonprofit food providers. The transcript, from a hearing that…
In putting together the September indictments of the 49 individuals charged so far in the Feeding Our Future scandal, the Department of Justice went well beyond the cast of characters…
The public has been begging for a complete list of political donations from figures indicted in the Feeding Our Future scandal. See below: A few caveats are in order. The…
After unprecedented surges in crime in 2020 and 2021, some have suggested Minneapolis is turning the corner on crime. Not so fast. Three quarters of the way through 2022, the city…
Mohamed Muse Noor, of Blaine, was arrested before he could board a flight to Istanbul, Turkey. He is the 49th suspect to be arrested in the Feeding Our Future scandal.…
The Stillwater teachers’ union, known as the St. Croix Education Association, is doing the voters of Stillwater a favor with their outrageous questionnaire for prospective school board candidates. First, the…
Pretty much everyone agrees Minneapolis and St. Paul desperately need more police officers on the streets, a lot more. It’s still just too unpredictable and potentially dangerous to take a…
The U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, Andy Luger, announced the indictments today (Sept. 20) of 47 individuals in the Feeding Our Future scandal. Scroll to the bottom for the latest developments.…
More Minneapolis residents and businesses are turning to private security. Why isn’t Minneapolis city government? Last week, Emma Freire published a piece at City Journal under the headline “Police by…
Should it? As images emerge of the Martha’s Vineyard immigrants leaving on buses for the mainland, observers wonder, what will be the next destination for border crossers? It’s estimated that…
Back in June, David Zimmer and I toured the infamous block in North Minneapolis featuring Winner Gas and Merwin Liquors. The intersection of Broadway and Lyndale is much in the…
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…
Even after rent control severely reduced housing permits in St. Paul, and pushed some investors to pause housing projects, Minneapolis is considering going in the same direction. Last year, while…
If our own struggles to control crime and violence aren’t enough to convince Minnesotan’s how disastrous the progressive led anti-police movement has been, Seattle might provide for a convincing comparative…
This past weekend Minneapolis experienced one of its most violent stretches in recent memory. 18 people were shot, and 3 died between Thursday and early Monday morning. 3 of the shootings…
The construction of the Southwest Light Rail Transit Line now stands nine years behind schedule, pushed back from 2018 to 2027. At the same time, the cost of the biggest…
As a Minneapolis kid who served 33 years in and around the city as a Sheriff’s deputy, I am not just troubled by the level of violence in my hometown,…
In November 2021, Minneapolis voters soundly rejected a proposal put forth by the City Council to replace the police department with a new Department of Public Safety. This came after…
The Met Council continues to plug away on the construction of the troubled Southwest Line Rail Transit line as though there’s no tomorrow. And at some point there may not…
If not, they should be, according to a hitherto unknown website. Local media love any list where Minneapolis scores well. A real-estate website called “Commercial Cafe” published a list of…
State and local taxes and spending Minnesota Reformer: Scott Jensen’s proposal to eliminate income tax would benefit Minnesota’s wealthiest Kare 11: While student loan forgiveness won’t be taxed federally, Minnesota…
Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly, especially when hundreds of protesters who set out to get arrested wind up inundating the court system in rural counties with limited resources.…