This piece originally appeared in the New York Post on May 24, 2024. Saturday marks the fourth anniversary of the death of George Floyd on a Minneapolis street. The years in between…
The horrific murder of a Los Angeles model and realtor illustrates the disfunction in Minnesota’s criminal justice system. The New York Post headline from this morning reads, Minnesota felon arrested…
Here we go again. The congresswoman from Minnesota (representing the 5th district–Minneapolis and nearby suburbs) has stirred up another international controversy. And, as always, local media show little interest. [Update:…
Of course, the headline in the UK Daily Mail is more spicy than any that local media could offer up. The headline from the New York Post is slightly less…
In the four weeks through December 4, Minneapolis recorded 11 homicides, with the adjacent suburb of Edina recording two more. In the midst of all this violence, the individual stories…
Nearly 50 million people in America were born somewhere else. On the first day of this month, I wrote a piece speculating on whether the share of foreign-born had reached…
Journalist Matt Taibbi tells John Hinderaker why the First Amendment is under threat from Big Government and Big Tech.
Last year saw the City of Lakes suffer through a record 6,138 auto thefts, according to city statistics. The official Minneapolis Crime Dashboard indicates that the city is only about…
During the long hot summer of 2023, we’ve been logging the incidents of large hordes of feral youth roaming the countryside of Minnesota. Apparently, the golden state of California is…
Tom Hauser of KSTP reports on Twitter that Thompson has been charged in the case. According to records on file with the state court system, Derrick John Thompson has been…
Today is Juneteenth, which commemorates the emancipation of the last remaining enslaved African Americans in the Confederacy. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas and declared the…
The first post I did (Nov. 2021) in my latest stint with the Center cataloged the $3,000 plus in unpaid court fines racked up by then-state Rep. John D. Thompson…
In the pre-dawn hours of yesterday morning, after a contentious, marathon debate on the House floor, the lower chamber passed HF 146, marketed as the “Trans Refuge Act.” In the…
A Minneapolis city council member proposes to halt the clearing of homeless encampments through April 30, 2023. KSTP-TV reports that Aisha Chughtai will propose a “temporary” halt that would last…
The Miami Dolphins are 3-1 this season and wide receiver Tyreek Hill is one reason for that. The six-time Pro Bowler currently leads the Dolphins with 31 receptions for 477…
One of the new media fashions is to put the phrase ‘Fact Check’ or some variation of it into the title of a piece. This is meant to tell you…
Earlier this month progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin was ousted from his post in San Francisco per a special recall election. The recall was spurred on by Boudin’s radical anti-prosecution…
On Tuesday, Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Players Association — the players’ union — spent 17 hours trying, and failing, to negotiate an end to the four-month MLB lockout.…
Not one person has been arrested or charged in the scandal as of yet. But the seriousness of the allegations is complicating efforts to launch ambitious new spending programs in…
On an 8-2 vote, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors backed Mayor London Breed’s plan to implement an emergency declaration in the city’s troubled Tenderloin neighborhood. The mayor needed their…
Author Michael Shellenberger of San Fransicko takes a victory lap after city reverses course on fighting crime. The mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, has announced a crackdown on crime…
The verdict, as they say, is still out on whether Minnesota has turned the corner on its current crime epidemic. It was announced today that Medaria Arradondo, Minneapolis police chief…
The following article was written by Michael Shellenberger at Substack: Journalists, experts, and elected officials are today blaming heat wave deaths, forest fires, and electricity shortages in New York, California,…
We’ve seen many cases of interesting new learning techniques brought on by the government-mandated school closures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the most interesting of them all is…