MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Aug. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota posted the following news release on Aug. 26, 2025: * * * Three More Lows Gang Members Charged with RICO Conspiracy and Murder A federal grand jury in Minneapolis charged three more alleged members or associates of the violent street gang known as the Lows, bringing the total number of defendants in this indictment to fourteen. The newest defendants--Marques Armstrong Jr., 30, Davant Moore, 23,   more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Aug. 27 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on Aug. 26, 2025: * * * BlackRock's MP buyout: green v. green By Bill Glahn A funny thing happened on the way to BlackRock's takeover of Minnesota Power: the environmentalist movement was split. From Walker Orenstein at the Minnesota Star Tribune: Northern Minnesota power company sale has clean energy gr  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Aug. 27 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on Aug. 26, 2025: * * * Feeding Our Future: 54th conviction By Bill Glahn Behind the blue door. Hussein Mohamed Farah appeared in federal court in downtown Minneapolis this afternoon to enter the 47th guilty plea in the sprawling Feeding Our Future scandal. Farah, the most recent defendant charged in the  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Aug. 27 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on Aug. 25, 2025: * * * Judge rules state law re: PSEO changes unconstitutional By Catrin Wigfall A law passed by the 2023 DFL-controlled Minnesota Legislature that bars certain religious colleges and universities from participating in the state's 40-year-old Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) progra  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Aug. 27 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on Aug. 25, 2025: * * * National teachers' unions spent over $40M since 2022 on politically left causes By Josiah Padley The national nonprofit group Defending Education recently released a report highlighting the funds spent since 2022 by the nation's two largest teachers' unions, the American Federation  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Aug. 27 (TNSrep) -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on Aug. 26, 2025: * * * Study: New York's rent control policy likely increased unemployment By Martha Njolomole According to a newly published study (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094119025000555?dgcid=author), New York City's rent control policy likely raised unemployme  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Aug. 27 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on Aug. 26, 2025: * * * The value of deterrence By David Zimmer Dr. James Dobson, who sadly passed away last week at the age of 89, wrote in his 1970 book Dare to Discipline, "Respect for leadership is the glue that holds social organization together. Without it there is chaos, violence, and insecurity f  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Aug. 27 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on Aug. 26, 2025: * * * Who's coming to school? The student absentee crisis continues By Josiah Padley Before the pandemic, chronic absenteeism in schools -- defined as when a student misses 10 percent or more of the school year -- was considered a crisis. But COVID pushed chronic absentee numbers into a   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- Rep. Brad Finstad, R-Minnesota, issued the following news release: * * * Finstad Introduces Legislation to Streamline Pork and Poultry Processing, Provide Certainty to America's Food Supply Chain * WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congressman Brad Finstad (MN-01), member of the House Agriculture Committee, introduced the American Protein Processing Modernization Act, which would provide a permanent framework to ensure pork and poultry processing facilities are able to maintai  more

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Aug. 26 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Taft, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * Verhalen and Rojas Present at NSPECon25 * Taft Minneapolis partner, Kodi Verhalen and associate, Spencer Rojas presented "Professional Engineering Ethics in Action: Practical Decision-Making," at NSPECon25 on Aug. 8. Throughout the session, Verhalen and Rojas led guided discussions and activities focused on ethical challenges engineers face and the decision-making process necessary   more