President Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, Kash Patel, was confirmed by the Senate in a 51-49 vote late last week. He was sworn into the office on Friday, for…
With a looming $5 billion deficit, the Minnesota state budget is on an unsustainable path. Spending reform is essential in the 2025 legislative session. Unfortunately, the numerous proposals to increase…
Last Wednesday, my colleague, Bill Glahn, wrote that KSTP had found that there are 62 fraud investigations currently underway involving federally-funded Minnesota child care centers. Two days later, he wrote:…
Yesterday, the Minnesota Star Tribune committed an act of journalism in reporting on another significant fraud scandal in state government. This one involves a program called Housing Stabilization Services (HSS)…
Yesterday, KARE-11 TV ran a new story in their investigative series on the addiction treatment industry in Minnesota. This time, KARE-11 uncovers what appears to be a massive overbilling scandal…
Part 2 of reporter Jay Kolls’ series looking into fraud in the state’s child care assistance program (CCAP) aired last night on KSTP-TV’s 10 o’clock news. Kolls interviews state Rep.…
Jay Kolls of KSTP-5 TV performs a public service in his report last night on the 10 o’clock news. His headline: 62 investigations underway involving federally-funded Minnesota child care centers…
It’s been portrayed as a narrow decision answering the question of “What is a quorum, 67 or 68?” As always in such matters, the decision was handed down on a…
On Thursday, December 12, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Michael Horowitz released his report entitled “A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Handling…
Reporter Deena Winter of the Minnesota Star Tribune was the first to break the story on Twitter (X) this morning: Winter followed up with a story on the Star Tribune…
The state’s Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA) issued a new report this morning with the title: Department of Human Services: Outstanding Provider Debt in Minnesota’s Medicaid Program The full…
Attempting to address the lack of affordable childcare, an issue vexing the rest of Minnesota, Stevens County did something creative. According to the Star Tribune, last year: The county took…
Over the past 24 months, with little fanfare, more than 423,000 Haitian nationals are known to have entered the United States. The island nation has a population of around 11…
The Minnesota Star Tribune writes about the growing number of investigations undertaken by the state Department of Human Services (DHS) of taxpayer-funded private autism clinics. The Star Tribune‘s headline: Minnesota…
This morning, I was back at Ft. Snelling, observing the workings of the local Federal Immigration Court. Charles Dickens famously wrote in his 1853 novel Bleak House about the fictional…
Your correspondent was there this morning, attending a session of immigration court at Ft. Snelling. Officially named the U.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, Ft. Snelling Immigration…
Between July this year and July 2025, the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) will officially be breaking off into three state agencies. Due to a law passed in the…
We add another item to the ever-growing list of scandals involving state welfare programs. KARE-11 TV has been on top of the saga involving Evergreen Recovery, Inc., a drug- and…
In a federal courtroom in Minneapolis in early June, a jury found five of seven defendants guilty of fraud and other charges in the first trial of the “Feeding Our…
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on Monday, July 22, nine days after a shooter defeated security at a Trump campaign rally…
We are officially adding another item to our Scandal Tracker 2024 list. This latest scandal involves the state’s private autism clinics, which are not licensed by the state, but receive…
A childcare modernization project is underway at the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS). In 2021, legislators passed a law requiring the DHS to revise standards for licensed daycare centers.…
That’s exactly the question posed by the Minneapolis Star Tribune in a remarkable article published today under the headline: Many millions lost. Is the Walz administration taking fraud and waste…
In 2021, lawmakers passed a law requiring the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) to revise family childcare standards. The DHS has released a draft of the proposed standards and…