Mike Mullen
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Jason Lewis has surgery on 'life-threatening' hernia
Jason Lewis was rushed to an emergency room for surgery on a "severe internal hernia" Monday morning, according to a statement from his campaign manager,… → Read More
Bogdan Vechirko charged for driving truck into 35W protesters in Minneapolis
Bogdan Vechirko, the man who drove his gas tanker into a crowd of more than a thousand protesters on a closed-down highway in… → Read More
Minneapolis police union responds to 'white boys' controversy
You'd think the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis might have more important things to worry about. → Read More
Picked to Click 2020 No. 3: Harper’s Jar
Forgive yourself if you hear echoes of other bands in Harper’s Jar debut album, Thank You Ancestor Finger.… → Read More
Picked to Click 2020 No. 7: Monica LaPlante
If 2020 deserves an anthem, it could do worse than Monica LaPlante’s funky August release “Compression,” an ode to an ever-more isolated, paranoid life under… → Read More
Minneapolis police deputy chief demoted for 'white boys' comment
Art Knight has a problem, and it is that he sometimes says things that are a little too true for his own good. → Read More
Gun-loving GOP candidate's ultra-violent cartoons also suck, artistically
Donald Raleigh's campaign website doesn't mention one of the other websites he owns, one with a fairly distinctive URL: mygun.com. … → Read More
Read a Minneapolis teacher's poignant, honest obituary
Most obituaries are pretty easy reads, sanitized of the parts we'd rather not read or remember. → Read More
This story about ex-soldiers 'guarding' Minnesota election sites is terrifying
Minnesota's reign as the kings and queens of voter turnout will not be deterred by a pandemic, if early voting and mail ballot… → Read More
Trump truck guy charged with assaulting WCCO reporter in Duluth
Of all the people to assault, a photojournalist who's recording you seems like the least easy one to get away with your crime. → Read More
Derek Chauvin, former Minneapolis cop charged with murder of George Floyd, released from prison
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis Police Department officer charged with murdering George Floyd, has been released from prison, Fox 9 reports. → Read More
As Minneapolis teens keep dying, North Siders push for a new youth center
On August 26, as police cornered a homicide suspect on Nicollet Mall, he raised a gun to his head and pulled the trigger in front of a group of teenagers. Many of those young people used to frequent the Teen Tech Center, a creative alcove in downtown’s Central Library. Students would go every day after school to read, screen-print, use the beat machine, and hang out. There’s nothing like it on… → Read More
Brooklyn Center arson blamed on Black Lives Matter Biden 2020 anarchists
The police and fire departments of Brooklyn Center are investigating a garage fire that started early Thursday morning as potentially politically motivated. → Read More
Hooded man steals Nicollet Island houseboat... briefly
It was a beautiful autumn Sunday morning. The sun shone, the breeze was cool but not cold, and a man in a hood jumped in… → Read More
Minnesota COVID testers 'confronted by a group of armed citizens'
As of last week, workers for the Minnesota Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are making housecalls, conducting a statewide survey… → Read More
Nisswa, Minnesota mayor accuses police of threats, cuckolding
The very last thing Nisswa Mayor Fred Heidmann said during a Wednesday city council hearing was, in theory, the most important. → Read More
Hot guy votes in 2020 Minnesota elections
If Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon had such an alarm, and we're not certain he doesn't, it certainly would have blared and flashed with piercing intensity Friday. Just ask local Twitter users, many of whom reacted to the following Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services tweet not with stoic reverence for electoral politics, but rather with hornt-up thirstiness for Jason, the city's… → Read More
Minneapolis police seek victim in vicious assault filmed outside CC Club
The Minneapolis Police Department is trying to identify and find the victim of an assault outside the CC Club bar in south Minneapolis. → Read More
The week in live and local music: Sept. 17-23
There's a cicada or two putting on a free concert outside my window right now too. → Read More
89.3 the Current dumps allegedly abusive DJ
Capping off a tumultuous two days, Minnesota Public Radio announced the firing of Eric Malmberg, an overnight DJ at 89.3 the Current. Malmberg had been… → Read More