Charges The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office (HCAO) filed charges today against Adam Abdihakeem Adam, 18, of St. Louis Park for the shooting at the Eden Prairie High School homecoming football game one week ago today. Reports indicated that police arrested...
From today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune, A new kind of gang violence is rattling Twin Cities suburbs: Police say loosely organized gangs of Somali American youths are settling online disputes with gunfire, alarming residents and community leaders. The Star...
From KSTP-5, ‘Deeply troubling’: Eden Prairie Somali leaders address youth gang violence KSTP reports, After several shootings across the metro area, including one at a high school homecoming football game and another at a gas station, Somali community leaders...
The Upper Midwest Law Center (UMLC), a local public interest law firm, recently sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights requesting an investigation — and enforcement action, if necessary — into 16 Minnesota school districts...
My economist colleague John Phelan reported today that Minnesota’s economy has been struggling in terms of growth and jobs between 2014 and 2025. Electricity unaffordability is a key reason for that, not just since 2014, but from 2001 through to 2026, driven by...
Remember last year, when taxpayers got stuck with a $430,000 legal bill to prepare Gov. Tim Walz for a single congressional hearing? His administration hired outside lawyers to prepare him for a June 12, 2025 hearing. The public didn’t learn what the...
Yesterday afternoon, your correspondent took in a couple of hours of Feeding Our Future jury trial No. 3, at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. This afternoon I took in a couple of hours of the jury trial of Muna Fidhin, 45, of Burnsville. She is...
Yesterday, I wrote about revisions to official data which show that Minnesota’s economic performance in recent years has been even worse than previously thought. As Figure 1 shows, since that inflection point for per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth...
Walz/Flanagan Administration still haven’t released single payer cost study As candidates race toward the finish line in the final month of campaigning, health care affordability and fraud have risen to the top of mind for Minnesota voters. Amy Klobuchar’s...
Photo of Sheikhdoon Mohamud from federal criminal complaint According to a federal criminal complaint filed today, a local Somali man, Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, has been plotting to either travel to Somalia and fight on behalf of foreign terrorist...