Felipe David Cruz-Romero, age 38 of El Salvador, is our Minnesota Man of the Day for November 24. He is due in federal court in downtown Minneapolis this morning for…
We were told that the future lay in density, urban environments served by mass transit and with pedestrian/bike friendly landscapes. They were wrong. From the Minnesota Star Tribune, St. Louis…
Luis Gerardo Gomez-Esteban is our Minnesota Man of the Week. Gomez is a 36-year-old Guatemalan. We have been tracking felony cases brought in federal district court for re-entry of previously…
Two videos, both produced in 2021, show the Minneapolis mayoral candidate speaking about his advocacy work on behalf of private companies providing social services funded by state government (taxpayers). Here…
Another homeless encampment pops up in south Minneapolis. A story on KSTP TV-5 caught my attention over the weekend. The latest update, City leaders, residents, advocates discuss next steps for…
More news not fit to print. A reader alerted me to a bizarre incident that occurred in suburban St. Louis Park late Friday afternoon (5:14 p.m.) involving two women, two…
Late last week, the U.S. Census Bureau released 2023 county-level population data. The bad news continued for Hennepin County. Hennepin County, which includes the state’s largest city of Minneapolis, has…
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…
We begin digging into the official voter registry to see what we can see. Join us! We got around to obtaining the official voter registry for Minnesota from the Secretary…
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,…
We’ve written frequently about the struggles of Minneapolis, the state’s largest city, to elevate the principles of Race, Equity, and Inclusion (REI) in city government. Now the cause is being…
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The cliché example of the Irish cop has some company in Minnesota. For decades early 20th century Irish immigrants were a driving force in local law enforcement ranks, dominating many…
A murder in Lakeville on Sunday evening further demonstrated the inability of our criminal justice system to ensure public safety under its current self-imposed sentencing limitations. Donte R. McCray, 32,…
It’s become all too common — criminals under court and correctional control remaining free to commit horrendous crimes of violence. The latest example comes from Friday night’s murder at the Mall…
The small suburb of Hopkins, MN, is wedged in between the larger western Minneapolis suburbs of Edina, Minnetonka, and St. Louis Park. The city has a population of about 20,000,…
The St. Louis Park School Board is looking to fill a recent vacancy and is asking applicants for four pieces of information — confirmation they are an eligible candidate, their…
It didn’t take long into 2022 to see that serious crime in the Twin Cities isn’t relenting. In early January, Kashwan Wertman, 18, and Nautica Argue, 19, terrorized 27 vehicle…
There have been 610 carjackings reported in Minneapolis so far in 2021 with nary a response. But it took only a handful of such crimes committed in nearby suburbs for…
The epidemic of carjackings in Minneapolis has now spilled over into the adjacent suburbs. As Minneapolis is approaching 500 carjackings for the calendar year, car thieves are looking for new…
Minneapolis candidates swept into office with ranked-choice voting are swept out again. The off-year election of 2021 may have been tough on incumbents, but advocates for Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) were…
Educators from Intermediate District 287 have been selected to join the inaugural cohort of The 1619 Project Education Network, according to the Pulitzer Center. Forty-two teams of educators from 22…
Before Covid-19 the light rail was plagued with low ridership. Covid-19 has made public transportation less appealing for the masses and has the potential to obliterate public transportation. It is…
In nine of the state's 50 largest school districts, the 2020 school year started virtually for Minnesota students, but now in several of those districts, students are physically heading back…