Three defendants in the case ran a Burnsville charter school. In the last post, we dug into the tax returns filed by the biggest nonprofits involved in the free-food scandal.…
DOC settlement with transgender inmate risks the safety of female inmates.
The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) has moved transgender inmate Christina (formerly Craig) Lusk, 57, from the Moose Lake men’s prison to the all-female Minnesota Correctional Facility in Shakopee. Female-identifying…
In a belated move, the state Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a lawsuit against the free-food nonprofit ThinkTechAct in early January 2023. Ellison narrowly won re-election as Attorney General last…
Two defendants in the Feeding Our Future case were also arrested for passport fraud as they tried to flee the country. Both of them have been released from jail. Abdiaziz…
The latest person charged is the husband of No. 48. The always alert Lou Raguse of KARE 11 reported this afternoon that Abduljabar Hussein was charged in the Feeding Our…
Partners in Nutrition wants back into Federal programs that provided $100 million per year in revenue to the company. The St. Paul-based nonprofit corporation Partners in Nutrition has sued the…
The first guilty plea has been entered in the Feeding Our Future scandal… for passport fraud. Not much has been heard lately from the half-billion-dollar Feeding Our Future scandal. The…
Election integrity continues to be a hot issue heading into the highly anticipated election this fall, particularly when it comes to absentee voting. As a result, the Twin Cities suburb…
In which your correspondent returns to Edina. Subject Premises No. 1 in the third FBI search warrant in the Feeding Our Future case is this co-working office facility located at…
In which your correspondent ventures south of the river. The only two arrests made in connection to the Feeding Our Future scandal involve the two co-owners of the Empire Cuisine…
And, once again, it involves passport fraud. To date, not one person has been arrested or charged in the underlying Feeding Our Future fraud case. A second figure in the…
Remember when libraries were just libraries? A place you could go to check out books, periodicals and find a quiet place to read? With the virtual information age threatening their…
The free food scandal in Minnesota centers on the since-disbanded nonprofit Feeding Our Future. The FBI alleges that large-scale fraud took place in two government programs meant to provide free…
The numbers are staggering. FBI search warrants allege that $48 million was stolen from a federal low-income food program in Minnesota. How was it done? Volume, sheer volume. Not one…
Next Tuesday, dozens of school districts across the state will try to overcome a losing streak that’s led increasing skeptical local voters to reject nearly two-thirds of referendum and other…
How a small cadre of political radicals is hijacking the mission of the Minnesota Historical Society.
Economic theory dictates that when labor demand is higher than labor supply, employers raise wages in order to attract workers.
It’s not clear to what extent a backlash on the part of parents on how K-12 public schools are handling their children’s education during the pandemic figures into the dismal…
Where would Education Minnesota’s teacher of the year Kelly Holstine be without President Trump? The alternative school teacher at Tokata Learning Center in Shakopee first called attention to herself by…
Why does it seem to take a tragedy or natural disaster for MnDOT to come around and add more traffic lanes in the Twin Cities freeways? The I-35W bridge collapse…
If Farmer and Sue had been forced by the government to pay us the equivalent of $15 an hour, I think they would have hired older people, and avoided teenagers…
This investigation, focused primarily on welfare payments for child care, is just getting started. A former DHS investigator says the PCA Medicaid program fraud is much worse. The allegation is…
In response to the state's 'labor shortage', Minnesota's employers are digging into pockets of the labor market. Could they play a role in tackling problems of low wages and racial…