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...
Reducing fraud was the number one suggestion for how to make the state more affordable according to respondents to the latest Thinking Minnesota Poll. Forty-five percent said reducing fraud should be the top affordability focus of candidates in 2026. The next...
It’s a mystery rivaling The Ipcress File for pure suspense: what happened at Edina’s public pool last Saturday evening? I’m told the incident kicked off with a half-dozen or so pool patrons refusing to leave at closing time, 7 p.m. That narrative is consistent...
Officials in Ramsey County teamed up with the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office late last week in a unique effort to secure the 2026 Minnesota State Fair. The effort makes use of a seldom used state statute – the “Minnesota civil gang nuisance law” – that...
From KARE-11, Federal observers spotted at Minneapolis polling place. KARE-11 reports, A KARE 11 crew spotted two federal monitors outside Powderhorn Recreation Center Tuesday afternoon. The federal observers were only there for a few minutes and asked a couple...
Since it was first coined over [27] years ago, no precise definition for what [the deep state] means has fully taken hold. … According to a Monmouth poll from the spring of 2018, …almost three-quarters of respondents agreed such a “deep state”...
Tiana Lashay Alize Hughes, age 21, has apparently been charged with three felony counts in relation to the Saturday evening incident. Count #3 involves the assault of a police officer. She is currently being held at the Hennepin County jail on $100,000 bail....
Sen. Klobuchar’s record: SEE no fraud, HEAR no fraud, SAY no fraud… Check out the American Experiment Podcast! This week we’re investigating Senator Klobuchar’s questionable track record on fraud, wondering why Minnesota taxpayers just paid for a convicted...
It never stops. Minnesota’s state government has lost billions of dollars of taxpayer’s money in recent years to fraud; let us call this Category 1. Then there is all the taxpayer’s money which is spent as intended, but those intentions are wasteful, the...