Abdikadir Mohamud, now aged 34, was sentenced to five years in federal prison and ordered to repay $3 million in restitution for his role in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal. Your correspondent was there this afternoon at the federal courthouse in downtown...
Nukes and natural gas: End two bans, for the price of one
Electricity prices started to become more-and-more unaffordable in Minnesota from 2002 onwards. This was driven by the state’s: 2001 Renewable Energy Objective (REO); 2007 Renewable Energy Standard (RES); 2022 Climate Action Framework (CAF); and 2023...
Minneapolis mass shooting at downtown highrise.
Carlton Neal Johnson II – Photo courtesy of @GrageDustin According to a statement release by the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD), police received a 911 call about a shooting at the Loring Towers at 15 East Grant St. in downtown at 4:30 pm on Wednesday....
Mass shooting in Minneapolis shows how wrong Ellison was to back abolishing MPD in 2021
…again. The City of Minneapolis reports: At approximately 4:36 p.m. today, MPD officers were dispatched to a shooting at 15 E Grant St. Initial information indicated that one person had been shot. Additional 911 callers then reported hearing further gunfire.—...
From prison guard to ICE detainee
Abubakar Swalley Alhassan is pursuing a habeas corpus petition in federal district court in Minnesota attempting to free himself from ICE detention (26-cv-3818). In his petition, Alhassan, from Ghana, asserts that he is employed as a correctional officer by the...
Minnesota districts shouldn’t follow NY to paint a ‘Portrait of a Graduate’
Nearly 13 years after Minnesota scrapped high school exit exam requirements, New York is now doing the same. New York’s famous Regents exams, a tradition since the 19th century, have been rejected in favor of a “Portrait of a Graduate.” New York is the latest...
Nuke the Mandate, Free the Nukes! Minnesota’s time is nigh
Earlier this year on March 5, the Center of the American Experiment (CAE) launched a public campaign to end the moratorium on expanding nuclear power in Minnesota. This was called “Nuke the Mandate, Free the Nukes!” As CAE put it then: “The campaign…features...
ABM’s sad attempt to smear American Experiment
Every election year, the DFL’s dark money group Alliance for a Better Minnesota (ABM) fills up their bank account with out of state money and uses it to go after Republicans running for office in Minnesota. You can hear all about ABM and their scheme to funnel...
Flock cameras – can we ditch the hysteria?
Photo courtesy of Flock Safety The recent outcry over Flock cameras is lacking in fact and echoes the same narrative driven hysteria that led people to vandalize Tesla cars just a year ago – only today that hysteria is leading people to vandalize and remove...
Back to school, back to the union?
It’s that time of year again — back to school! Teachers are diligently working on establishing classroom routines and writing lesson plans, but there is another important decision that falls during the busiest time of year: determining if union membership is...










