Meet your neighbor, Ezequiel Rojas-Gasca, aged 43, of Rochester, MN. Mr. Rojas spent several hours this afternoon at the Federal Courthouse in downtown St. Paul where much due process occurred. So much due process. He is charged federally with re-entry of a...
The town of Nantucket, Massachusetts has reached $10.5 million settlement agreement with the manufacturer of the faulty wind turbine blade that broke in July 2024, scattering fiberglass pieces onto the beaches. The July 2024 blade break caused large chunks of...
Since 2024, Minnesota has consistently spent more than it brings in, with deficits projected through 2029. Expected federal funding cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) could punch a bigger hole in the budget, forcing legislators to ponder yet again what...
In a July 10th Minnesota Star Tribune opinion piece, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN5) scolded fellow members of her state delegation who voted in favor of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB). In her typical understated fashion, Omar noted “We will never forget that...
Why do Minnesota public school districts with declining enrollment see an increase in per-pupil revenue? Because under public school finance systems, “districts that lose students do not lose a proportional share of their local, state, and federal funding,”...
You read that correctly, we are now scheduling Feeding Our Future trials with mid-2026 start dates. The trial of the seven members of the Ikram Mohamed group of defendants (Nos. 63-69 out of 72 total, so far) is scheduled to begin Monday, April 20, 2026. That...
News broke earlier this week of Minneapolis “Highs” gang member Marquan Deshaun Tucker, 20, being charged for murdering a rival gang member in north Minneapolis in 2023. The real news was that these charges marked the third murder in which Tucker has been a...
A key figure in the free-food scandal will be up for sentencing next week, Thursday, July 17. Abdiaziz Shafii Farah was convicted on 23 counts (acquitted on 1) in the first Feeding Our Future trial, which ended more than a year ago. Farah served as the lead...
Rep. Kristin Robbins, Chair of the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee held, a hearing on Tuesday, July 8th to hear from the Department of Human Services (DHS) regarding program integrity, fraud prevention for Medicaid. The...
Abymahel Torres-Arriaga, age 36, appears to be on his way back to his native Veracruz, Mexico, after pleading guilty this afternoon in federal court in downtown Minneapolis. Your correspondent was there. Mr. Torres pled guilty to one count of re-entry of a...