In the rush of other events yesterday, I neglected to write a post I’ve had in my mental notes for years. July 2 was the 145th anniversary of the epic charge of the First Minnesota Regiment.
The charge was one of the pivotal moments in the Union victory in the [...]











A federal judge’s ruling on Wednesday allows the civil rights lawsuit filed by Sgt. Giovanni Veliz against the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) to go to trial, despite the city’s efforts to impede it.
A taste of the action to come this September: protesters under the Project to Stop The War bound themselves together (one attached herself to a sign with a bike lock) and blocked access at ATK in Anoka Wednesday. After protesters ignored a warning from police to leave,
A taste of the action to come this September: protesters under the Project to Stop The War bound themselves together (one attached herself to a sign with a bike lock) and blocked access at ATK in Anoka Wednesday. After protesters ignored a warning from police to leave, the
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A report released on Tuesday by the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security looks at the deaths of detainees being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through the lens of two particular cases. One of the spotlighted deaths occurred in St. Paul in April