Category: Minneapolis
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Headlines To Come
Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails: I suspect a few unindicted fraudsters are dusting off their resumes.
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As Predicted
I’m not gonna declare hope. But last Tuesday wasn’t ALL bad. Call it half bad.
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So Mid
Joe Doakes, and Mitch, on what Tuesday all means.
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Questions
The Star Tribune has questions. I have a bigger one.
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The Problem
SCENE: Mitch BERG is having an Old Fashioned at a bar in northern Wisconsin. Engrossed in a conversation with the waitress, he doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE has walked in, wearing a “MEAT IS MURDER” t-shirt. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Of, for…the second time this week, how ya doing… LIBRELLE: Shut up. It’s the guns, stupid. BERG.…
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Sicily On The Mississippi
Can a civil society survive when society spends more time and effort protecting criminals than the law-abiding citizen? The Mayor of Boston just made her, and presumably her city’s, priorities pretty visible: Now, you might say it costs nobody anything – the victims are alive, the attacker dead. Expressing (misplaced) sympathy isn’t going to kill…
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Kind Of A Good News/Bad News/Worse News Situation
The good news: Bloody Mary Moriarty is not running for re-election as Henco Attorney. The bad news? It’s so she can focus on “transforming the office” even further: “I ran for this office to do the hard work; the work that desperately needed doing and the work the voters chose when I was elected in…
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City Council Reps And County Attorney Of The Flies
This past Tuesday, scads of feds – FBI, DHS, BATFE – raided eight different businesses around the Twin Cities, serving search warrants related to human trafficking. Seven of the raids went off without a hitch. But the eighth – at Lake and Bloomington, deep in the heart of white, progressive Minneapolis – was different. The…
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Twin Cities Left: Bring Back The Good Old Days
A group of federal law enforcement agents – FBI, DHS – apparently served a warrant for drug trafficking and money laundering on a restaurant at Lake and Bloomington in South Minneapolis yesterday. And it’s almost – I say, almost – like Twin Cities Big Left is trying to coax a riot out of the situation: I…
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First Day Of Summer!
And it’s time for one of the great new Minneapolis summer traditions (X thread): One apparently dead, five more shot, and one woman injured in the brawl that inevitably followed at Hennepini County Hospital. Early reports say it was ELCA vs. Missouri Synod.
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Domino
Minneapolis deputy police chief Katie Blackwell’s defamation suit was thrown out, and she’s been ordered to pay back part of Liz Collin’s legal fees: This may be the biggest backfire I’ve seen in a defamation suit – and the subject is by no means academic to me. In a move that finally brings truth to…
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They Were Doing So Well
The Homicide rate in Minneapolis was way below recent trends… …well, “was” is the operant word, here, isn’t it? Shootings in the past 36 hours killed five, and left five more injured, several critically: The shootings occurred at the following locations. 25th Street and Bloomington Avenue, just before midnight on Tuesday. Cedar Avenue and 17th…
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In This House Of Cards
Last fall’s election was a rough one for America’s left. Their message was rejected by a majority of Latino men, an increasing share of the black vote, an astonishing percent of GenZ (some reports say that Trump drew a third of the vote at the deep-blue University of Minnesota), and even a near supermajority of…
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The Choice
So, what’s worse? Empty real estate? Or vacant lots? Evan Ramstad – who’s in a hammer-and-tongs battle with Jennifer Brooks for “worst Strib columnist” – says “empty lots” Now, that could make some sense, if there was some intense craving for downtown real estate – perhaps to build the “housing” that “urbanists” are fantasizing about. But…
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The Usual Suspects
After almost five years, the City of Minneapolis “plans” to “do” “something” with the former Speedway in “George Floyd Square”. I’m adding emphaiss to the quote below for a reason: The City of Minneapolis has received four applications to redevelop The People’s Way, which was formerly a Speedway gas station at the corner of 38th…
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Short On The Delivery
How it started: Mayor Frey bleating “Minneapolis is back, baybee!” How it’s going: Ameriprise Tower in Minneapolis sells for pennies on the dollar: That tower used to generate $2.5M a year in property taxes. I don’t think the city’s spending has dropped 97%. That burden is all going to residential property owners.
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Who Didn’t Get The Memo
Minneapolis boosters have been chanting, non-stop, that “crime is down in MInneapolis”. Seems everyone got the memo but the criminals: And it wasn’t just homicides – a quick look at the Minneapolis crime dashboard (before they rolled the data over for the new year) showed: And the categories that *are* dropping are doing it very…
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Berg’s 20th Law: Smollett Vibes
Seems like barely two weeks ago that a couple of “transgender women” claimed they’d been attacked at a rail station in downtown Minneapolis (aka “MAGA Country”) as a bunch of people cheered. I pointed out at the time the story seemed…implausible? A heavily-surveiled place in a leftist city – is this ringing any bells? CrimeWatch…
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Downtown Minneapolis Is (Checks Notes) MAGA Country
Two “transgender women” were assaulted in downtown Minneapolis. No, really. At 5th and Hennepin. No, they weren’t (apparently) going out looking for Subway. But the story is… ..well, I’ll let the Cheerleaders on Four pick up the story: So – 5th and Hennepin, you say? One of the busiest rail stops in the city? With…
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Not On My Bingo Card
Gotta confess, I didn’t see this coming: But knowing some of the people involved, and even some recent history, perhaps I should have expected at least some Somali to take umbrage at the sense of entitlement the DFL feels re their votes. Of course, I’d have to wonder if this endorsement happened after the vast…
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WUPH
JD Vance’s visit to the Third Precinct brought out, if not the worst of the plagues facing today’s Minnesota, at least the most comical: the WUPH. The White Urban Progressive Homer. Generally a 20-30-something male, employed in the non-profit, public or academic sector, part of the laptop class, single, socially mobile, mostly self-focused. And they…
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Let Them East Avocado Toast
Minneapolis has a crime problem. Even some Democrat-voting locals appear to be on the ragged brink of figuring it out: Nothing is being done about it? Balderdash! Minneapolis DFL leaders are posting photos of people biking, and sunsets! Who are you going to believe? Your lying eyes?