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Crime, Parking Concerns Overshadow Plan for African Market in Cedar-Riverside

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s plan for a new “African market” in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is being met with opposition from an unlikely group: Cedar-Riverside...

Omar Paid 250K Campaign Money To Her Alleged Lover

Just last week, the news broke that Omar was headed to her second divorce from Ahmed Hirsi. Now, a photo was revealed last week...

Minnesota government overpaid two tribes $25 million

Two Native American tribes—Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and the White Earth Nation—were overpaid by Minnesota’s Department of Human Services (DHS) to provide Suboxone,...

Retaliation, Shootings, Murder: Court Docs, Reports Reveal Violence of Twin Cities...

A Hennepin County criminal complaint detailing the March 1 murder of a Somali teenager links several other Somali-involved shootings and paints a picture of...

Man Pleads Guilty to Killing Eagan Couple

A man said he was “freaked out” by a couple who were walking in Eagan last year and that’s why he deliberately drove his...

Republican Dave Hughes Announces 2020 Run for Congress in District 7

Dave Hughes is a 21 year veteran of the US Air Force from Kalstad, Minnesota. Hughes ran against incumbent Collin Peterson in 2018 and...

Does traffic from construction make you angry? Well, prepare to get...

Twin Cities traffic is bad and only getting worse. When commutes encounter congestion over a quarter of the time, solutions need to appear to...

Alyssa Ahlgren: Mental Health, Evil, and Mass Shootings

In a time where the country should be focused on mourning, in gross political fashion, the aftermath of the shootings in El Paso, Texas...

The Charlottesville Lie

Politicians lie. We all know that. That is not an indictment of all politicians—it’s simply part of the game. It’s our job, as informed citizens, to figure...

THE DECLINING PRESTIGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION

In the New York Times, Bret Stephens decries the decline of higher education. He cites a familiar litany of leftist presumption and abuse: Anyone who has...