Your correspondent attends a game in downtown Minneapolis, and lives to tell the tale. The Minnesota Twins are currently leading the Central division of the American League. In the stands,…
WCCO-TV aired a story on the news Wednesday evening of a homeless encampment along the Midtown Greenway in south Minneapolis. The CBS affiliate even aired drone footage of the site,…
Hennepin County held its annual “State of the County” address on Wednesday morning. The challenges the Board identified were climate change, housing, business and employment — all with an umbrella theme…
Earlier this year, MinnPost reported that since the passage of rent control, housing permits in St. Paul were down considerably compared to Minneapolis. According to the US Department of Housing…
One of the properties that the U.S. Attorney is trying to seize in this case is located in Brooklyn Park. It is property No. 13 of the 14 locations named…
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled this week in favor of Minneapolis citizens who were forced to sue just to ensure the city maintained a proportion of police officers guaranteed in…
Leftist nonprofits in Minnesota can count on a steady funding stream from a Minneapolis-based foundation. Funded by the fortune earned by William McKnight, the long-time CEO and board chair of…
Just when the car wreck of a plan to eliminate most parking spots in the reconstruction of Hennepin Avenue in Uptown appeared unstoppable, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey slammed the brakes…
If you put Governor Walz’s tax proposals on an X/Y axis, you would see an inverse relationship between how generous the tax proposal is, to how little chance it has…
We visit two sites closely associated with the third free-food network shut down by the state Department of Education (MDE). At the time it was shut down by MDE, Gar…
We tour the growing ruins of this once great Midwestern city. Yesterday, my colleague David Zimmer and I took our third trip this month to see the sights in the…
On June 5 a state trooper attempted to stop a car for speeding and driving on the shoulder of I-35E in St. Paul. The driver, Pablo Nava Jaimes, 30, of Minneapolis,…
We wind up our free-food tour of the Twin Cities with stops at two “Youth”-related commercial buildings. We’ve previously covered the rise and fall of the short-lived nonprofit Youth Inventors…
The plan for reconstructing Hennepin Avenue in Uptown Minneapolis calls for sacrificing virtually all on-street parking to make room for bike lanes, bigger sidewalks and 24/7 dedicated rapid transit bus…
A key committee voted last week to proceed full speed ahead with the proposed route for the Twin Cities next light-rail boondoggle in the works, the $1.5 billion and counting…
We visit Brooklyn Center, the home of the one success story behind Feeding Our Future. During the years-long battle between the free-food nonprofit Feeding Our Future and the state Department…
Labor market WJON: Many Companies Turning to Teenagers to Fill Open Positions Star Tribune: Minnesotans with disabilities feel left behind amid workforce shortage Kare 11: More than 214,000 jobs open…
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…
We visit the corner of North Lyndale and West Broadway in north Minneapolis. Home of Merwin Liquors and Winner Gas. For those devotees of the @crimewatchmpls Twitter account, the scene…
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…
The other day, my colleague David Zimmer and I drove by a block-long homeless encampment in Minneapolis and we posted the video on Twitter: Located on land owned by the…
Recent releases of official data have shown that in 2021, Minnesota’s population grew by just 225 people. Our state lost 13,453 residents to other states, its biggest net loss of…
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…