Machinations in federal court grow ever more opaque. The latest affront to transparency occurred on Thursday, when district court in Minnesota accepted for filing a habeas corpus petition (Case No. 26-cv-3622) from plaintiff Jane Doe. Ms. Doe is being allowed...
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Arguments were heard this morning at the federal courthouse in downtown St. Paul in the case captioned Mohamed v. Walz. Your correspondent was there. It’s a civil lawsuit (Case No. 25-cv-2930) filed by operators of two state-subsidized childcare businesses who...
Based on recent court filings, a third individual has been identified by name as having been present at the Edina pool disturbance of the evening of August 8. We still have no confirmation about the nature of the underlying disturbance. We have been told that...
There are many factors that contribute to a student’s academic achievement: natural talent, family resources, conditions of poverty, personal willpower, and school structure. Typically, researchers isolate student groups by their race, gender, poverty, special...
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In most states, where a child goes to school is still largely based on where that child lives. Wealthy families buy homes in the “right” zip code to live in a desirable school district; those without that luxury take what they are assigned. It’s a system that...
On Tuesday, based on reporting from KSTP, I wrote about how, in 2023, the state government voted to give $1.5 million of Minnesota taxpayer’s money in grants to a company which wasn’t even registered with the Secretary of State. The company has since received...
Ahmed Mohamed Artan is scheduled to become the 21st defendant sentenced in the sprawling Feeding Our Future free-food fraud this afternoon at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Artan is defendant No. 8 (out of 80, overall) in the case, part of the...
Yesterday, I went on Scott Hennen’s radio show and podcast of “What’s On Your Mind.” A summary of that talk is reproduced, with permission, further below. This segment can be found here under the title “Minnesota’s ‘Natural Gas Innovation Act’ Is an Effective...