Taylor Dahlin
On August 18, the Minneapolis City Council's Business, Housing & Zoning Committee will take up an ordinance requiring bars and other venues with a liquor and beer license to post a dress code if they have such a policy. ...
A new PAC has been registered called Safe and Just Hennepin to elect Anders Folk for Hennepin County Attorney. Due to the timing, having registered on July 31, there are only large pre-election contributions (more than $...
On June 3, 2025, a federal raid took place at Taqueria y Birrieria las Cuatro Milpas on Lake St and Bloomington Ave in South Minneapolis. Agents from the FBI, ICE, ATF, and others conducted it, many kitted out in militar...
Anders Folk, who is running for Hennepin County Attorney, held a fundraiser last night on May 28, 2026 in Minneapolis co-hosted by David Madgett, a candidate for Minnesota Attorney General who has been flip-flopping betw...
On May 27, 2026, Angie Craig announced she is dropping from seeking the DFL endorsement in her bid for US Senate and will be running to the primary, just days before the party's convention was due to take place, after 4 ...
The Berger (aka Dandelion) Fountain in Loring Park, formerly an icon in Minneapolis, has sat in disrepair since 2020 when it was turned off due to deferred maintenance and lack of capacity in the Covid-19 pandemic.
In 2012, Joan Vorderbruggen, an artist and organizer, created Artists in Storefronts, helping to address the issue of vacant storefronts in her neighborhood of Whittier in South Minneapolis by filling them with artist in...
On January 6, 2026, Commander Thomas Campbell of the Special Operations Division of the Minneapolis Police Department sent an email invitation to several city officials to discuss the Drones as First Responder program (D...
The Marquette Place Tenants Union, whose members live in the Marquette Place apartment building in Minneapolis, have sued their landlord Fine Associates, alleging a litany of issues with the quality of living conditions ...
C David George, the notorious owner of multiple Minneapolis apartment buildings in various states of disrepair and condemnation, with more than 200+ units taken off the market, leading to new policies with the City to ad...
The first new IE targeting the Hennepin County Attorney's race was registered on May 1, 2026, called Hennepin County Safety and Justice for All, and Facebook ads have begun appearing as of May 4 with the stated goal of "...
Last week, the City of Minneapolis announced $1 million in grants to 34 community-based organizations to help "revitalize neighborhood business districts and support small businesses impacted by Operation Metro Surge." T...
The 50th & France Business Association is among the 34 community-based organizations that received grants from the City of Minneapolis meant to help "revitalize neighborhood business districts and support small businesse...
The City of Minneapolis has announced $1 million in grants going to 34 community-based organizations across all wards meant to help "revitalize neighborhood business districts and support small businesses impacted by Ope...
In 2023, the Minneapolis City Council funded Uptown Safety Ambassadors, a program championed by Ward 10 Council Member Aisha Chughtai, and ever since, the program has languished instead of moving forward as Mayor Jacob F...
Last November, I wrote about a concerning centrist DFL / Republican alliance I noticed during the Minneapolis city elections, where Mayor Jacob Frey and the City Council candidates aligned with him were looking so far ri...
SD39 DFL held their endorsing convention on April 4, 2026 at Fridley High School. This district includes Fridley, Columbia Heights, Hilltop, St Anthony, and Spring Lake Park. For the last 6 months, ICE has hit this area ...
I was told that observing immigration court is an opportunity to see how disturbing an authoritarian state is by witnessing it first hand, as opposed to through the media. How you can see a small fraction of just how dif...
The Minneapolis Charter Commission have a special meeting scheduled for April 9, 2026 where an amendment proposal will be introduced to alter government structure and take away City Council confirmation for multiple depa...
Last fall I wrote about the problems facing the tenants of 110 Grant, a 300+ unit luxury apartment building in Loring Park, in the context of the municipal elections. Owned by Fine Associates, its President, Bianca Fine,...
The Star Tribune covered a recent meeting held by the Uptown Association and a new group called Uptown United with the framing that Ward 10 city council member Aisha Chughtai, who represents half of Uptown, wasn't presen...
Angie Craig is having a rough time finding support at DFL caucuses and conventions across Minnesota as she runs for Senate. Her website now includes a "red box," aka a section with messaging the campaign would like to se...
Anders Folk is running for Hennepin County Attorney and seeking the DFL endorsement at the Hennepin County convention coming up on June 13, 2026.
Former 2025 Republican candidate for Minneapolis Mayor Laverne Turner, along with Ronald Peterson, John Tschohl, and Mary Holmberg, are suing Jacob Frey in his official capacity as Mayor of Minneapolis, arguing that the ...
At her final Ward 11 meeting at Pearl Park on December 10, outgoing council member Emily Koski said that she had been granted a restraining order against a constituent for his harassment of her, explaining this is why sh...
Cyndy Martin, the chair of CD8 DFL, has reportedly resigned from all of her DFL party positions as of Friday, December 12. The news broke after another CD8 party official walked into a labor lunch in Duluth today, announ...
At a court hearing on November 25, 2025, Judge William Koch found that Taylor Schulz was competent to stand trial in the murder of Robert Skafte, with no objections raised by either the prosecution or the defense.
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Lisa Goodman was the Ward 7 councilmember for 26 years, the longest serving councilmember in Minneapolis history, before she stepped down in 2023.
After pressure from the city due to numerous property issues going ignored, the former Speedway / Super America gas station site in Loring Park at Grant St and LaSalle Ave finally sold on December 2 to Aymen Soliman, the...
On July 3, 2024, MN DFL CD8 chair Cyndy Martin hit and killed 19 year old Carter Haithcock, the father of a young son, as he walked along the road with her vehicle on the Iron Range near Nashwauk on her drive home from a...
One concerning trend throughout the 2025 Minneapolis election season has been the way the conservative DFLers have become so polarized in their opposition to DSA that they appear to be welcoming Republicans, even in a ne...
All of Mpls was founded in 2021 by Richard Forschler, a former lobbyist who represented corporate and capital interests such as the Minneapolis Downtown Council (who donated $35,000 to We Love Mpls in May 2025), the Cham...
In late September 2025, Ward 2 city council candidate Shelley Madore ran digital ads with a circular blue logo in the corner reading "Only DFL Candidate in Race." The "DFL" text is larger and bolded, visibly more promine...
Here are my recommendations for the municipal election in Minneapolis coming up on November 4, 2025, and some photos I've taken this year.
In addition to chairing the new PAC We Can Do Better Mpls, Lawrence Wright is also the treasurer for Safer Hennepin, a PAC first registered in 2019 under the name "Cannabis for Economic Growth," chaired by Corey Day, for...
Mailers have begun arriving in Ward 5 mailboxes this week sent by a PAC called Minneapolis Forward that are promoting Pearll Warren and Miles Wilson over Ethrophic Burnett for the city council seat that is open after Jer...
Homemade signs have appeared around Minneapolis ahead of the November 4th municipal election with colorful spray-painted text reading "NO LAND GRAB - VOTE NEW PARK BOARD." The Park & Recreation Board seats are on the bal...
Thrive Mpls is a new PAC in Minneapolis ahead of the November election after We Love Mpls ceased operating. Its chair is Martha Holton Dimick, who unsuccessfully ran against Mary Moriarty for Hennepin County Attorney in ...
Political signs are often looked to as an early way of determining which way election results may swing, but is this really accurate when a large swath of the population is excluded from expressing their views this way?
A new billboard appeared recently on top of a building on the southwest corner of Lake St & Cedar Ave in South Minneapolis with an anti-Jacob Frey message, reading "Frey's Lies Cost Lives," "Where There is No Accountabil...
For the last several months in Ward 11, Jamison Whiting supporters have reported their lawn signs being stolen from their yards, only to appear later on attached very high to a telephone pole, defaced, saying things like...
At the League of Women Voters Ward 7 forum on September 15th, candidates Katie Cashman and Elizabeth Shaffer were asked about 311 and accountability:
In 2024, Minneapolis launched the first ever Latino Business Week celebration, kicking off Sunday, October 6th at 2pm at Mercado Central. It was a family friendly and bustling event with free food, music, dancers, speech...
This morning, the Minnesota Court of Administrative Hearings found landlord and real estate developer John Wall of the Wall Companies in violation of Minnesota Stat. § 211B.20 on 3 occasions, assigning a penalty of $1,45...
We Can Do Better Mpls is a new PAC chaired by Lawrence Wright, and its treasurer is Bruceanne Phillips (a Vice President at LS2Group, a "bipartisan public relations government affairs, public affairs, and marketing firm ...
On the night of October 2nd, the Minneapolis Fire Department and the Minneapolis Police Department responded to 200 Oak Grove St, C David George's condemned Loring Park building, after a man called 911 saying he had been...
An evidentiary hearing was held on September 25th for the Robin Wonsley and Michael Wilson vs. John Wall case after Judge Christa Moseng found there was probable cause to believe the violations alleged by the complaints ...
This week, Sen. Omar Fateh's campaign office in Minneapolis was vandalized with an Islamophobic threat reading “Somali Muslim — This warning is no joke.” The campaign filed a police report on September 24th.
On September 10th, the Minnesota Campaign Fianance Board issued a fine of $4,000 to We Love Minneapolis, the PAC chaired by former Frey campaign manager Joe Radinovich.