…Minneapolis’s PR firm is going be earning its pay over this next one-to-fifty years. “Protesters” took to blocking off streets in the Uptown area over the weekend – leading to an incident where someone drove into the crowd, killing one … Continue reading
Report apparently leaked last week shows – to the surprise of nobody – that the City of Minneapolis just was n ot ready for the George Floyd riots – or much of anything else: An independent audit of Minneapolis’ handling … Continue reading
Not sure this was foreshadowing the evening’s vote in Minneapolis, but when Angela Conley, a Hennepin County commissioner who favors banning the police reported a carjacking…maybe… …it may not have ended well. No worse than the evening ended up for … Continue reading
A friend of the blog emails: The NY Times has an article saying that Arizona’s monsoon season this year is anything but normal. Local Arizona news is reporting that climate change is bringing more extreme weather.Surely, St Paul’s Chief Resiliency … Continue reading
Do you remember Kate Knuth? When we last heard from her, she was cashing checks as a resilience officer for the city of Minneapolis. It didn’t end well: Knuth, an environmental educator and former DFL legislator, spent her first months … Continue reading
The city looks for leadership. And jumping into the vacuum is… …Kate Knuth. The exceptionally undistinguished former state representative who went on to be a city wealth-transfer bureaucrat who was distinguished, if “Anti-Distinguished” is a thing [1]. Remember – if … Continue reading
When I hear city governments talking about hiring “resilience directors” – like Minneapolis and Saint Paul – the job usually involves… …well, let’s let the City of Minneapolis explain it: …expanding access to affordable housing, and the impact that would … Continue reading
MInneapolis’ “Resilience Officer” has departed, after seven months, after submitting no work product of any kind: [Former DFL legislatore Kate] Knuth, an environmental educator and former DFL legislator, spent her first months in the job interviewing people and conducting a … Continue reading
Former ineffective DFL legislator Katie Knuth has been hired as the City of Minneapolis’ “Chief Resilience Officer“. When I think “resilience”, I think “bouncing back from crises”, “being able to sustain a major human or natural disaster and keep functioning”, … Continue reading
Over the past couple of days, I’ve analyzed the votes of the Legislative GOP caucuses on the stadium votes over the past few weeks, and found that if you’re a conservative voter, you have some reason to take consolation; the … Continue reading
Matthew Torgerson – who claims to be a lawyer, I think – claims that “15% of Minnesota GOP legislators have a college degree”. Here’s one of several tweets on the subject: Now, Torgerson, like many DFLers, confuses “education” with “schooling” … Continue reading
Here is the list of Minnesota House members who voted for HF1467 – which expands the human right of self-defense, and creates a legal possibility that demonstrably-legitimate self-defense shootings don’t have to plead “guilty with an explanation” for exercising the … Continue reading
(Read the whole series) Let’s sum up what happened in the previous episode: A child, “Nate”, had made up a story; that Zam, my son, was late for homeroom because he was in North Dakota, “getting a sniper rifle” to … Continue reading