3+ week, 7+ hour ago (45+ words) RELATED: Pro-Fateh group wins majority on Minneapolis City Council as Frey secures third term " The post Alpha News cartoon: The finish line appeared first on Alpha News MN. RELATED: Pro-Fateh group wins majority on Minneapolis City Council as Frey secures third term...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago (46+ words) RELATED: Candidate questions county's decision to send $38 million to nonprofits while hiking property taxes " The post Alpha News cartoon: Taxed out appeared first on Alpha News MN. RELATED: Candidate questions county's decision to send $38 million to nonprofits while hiking property taxes...

10+ hour, 6+ min ago (16+ words) The post Alpha News cartoon: Land of billions in fraud appeared first on Alpha News MN....

10+ hour, 6+ min ago (16+ words) The post Alpha News cartoon: Land of 10,000 frauds appeared first on Alpha News MN....

3+ week, 2+ day ago (367+ words) David Wicklund, 43, was convicted in Hennepin County District Court in September 2022 on a felony count of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct. A Twin Cities "No Kings" protest organizer against President Donald Trump is a convicted sex offender who appears to be presenting himself using a name other than the one he was convicted under. David Anthony Wicklund, who goes by David Larklund on social media and in media reports, was listed as one of four organizers behind an Oct. 18 "No Kings" protest that took place at Lakeview Terrace Park near the border of Robbinsdale and north Minneapolis, which was attended by DFL Rep. Mike Freiberg. Wicklund was offered a plea deal in the case that called for a stay of execution on the 24-month prison sentence. Wicklund was instead sentenced to 60 days in the workhouse and was placed on probation for…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago (45+ words) RELATED: Minnesota Somalis allegedly sent welfare money to Al-Qaeda ally planning another 9/11 " The post Alpha News cartoon: Taxes for terror appeared first on Alpha News MN. RELATED: Minnesota Somalis allegedly sent welfare money to Al-Qaeda ally planning another 9/11...

3+ week, 3+ day ago (220+ words) Trump said "we've got to" continue to get prices "way down." (The Daily Signal) " Following Republicans" sweeping defeats this week in off-year elections, President Donald Trump says Republicans need to focus on affordability. Trump called it the party"s "biggest problem." "I think the biggest problem is Republicans don"t talk about it. They don"t talk about the word affordability. And the Democrats lie about it." "You know, [Republicans] have this new word called affordability and they don"t talk about it enough, the Democrats did," he continued. "And the Democrats make it up because we took over a mess. Think of energy. Energy was so expensive, and now I have it down to half what it was." Trump boasted that energy, gas, and grocery prices are down. "Groceries are way down, other than beef," he said. "Now, beef…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago (229+ words) Half a century ago, 29 mariners perished when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior during a violent storm. Today, on the anniversary of that fateful day in 1975, the Minnesota Historical Society will host its annual memorial and beacon lighting at Split Rock Lighthouse, Two Harbors, Minn. Panelists include Split Rock Lighthouse Site Manager Hayes Scriven; author John U. Bacon; Executive Director of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, Bruce Lynn; and former Split Rock Lighthouse Site Manager, Lee Radzak. The event will also be streamed live on YouTube. For a comprehensive look at the history of the Edmund Fitzgerald, check out the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum.It is also hosting a livestreamed ceremony at 7 p.m. EST. "Of the estimated 10,000 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes region, only about 350 of them are located in Lake Superior. Of those, about 50 wrecks are presumed to be…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago (401+ words) Ousman Camara is the 77th defendant in the Feeding Our Future scheme. The U.S. Attorney's Office wrote that "Camara fraudulently claimed to be serving meals to 1,000 children a day, seven days a week, at his site." A man named Ousman Camara has been charged for his alleged role in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. The 45-year-old is facing a nine-count federal indictment that includes charges of wire fraud, money laundering, and federal programs bribery. Camara is the 77th person to be charged in connection with the COVID-era scheme that saw fraudsters steal hundreds of millions of dollars from a federal child nutrition program which reimbursed participants for feeding hungry children. In short, fraudsters claimed they were providing meals to hungry children when few if any meals were actually provided. Feeding Our Future, a now-shuttered nonprofit, was at the center of the…...

2+ hour ago (312+ words) With the release of HHS' final report, it "became abundantly clear that the best medical science supports protecting children," writes Kurt Miceli M.D. Perhaps no issue in modern society is more divisive or emotional than whether children should receive sex-change treatments. Yet Nov. 19 could very well be remembered as the day when that debate was largely settled. That's the day when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued its final report on the medical evidence regarding child sex-change treatments. HHS released an early version of the report in May, but in the intervening months, it directly asked skeptical physicians and medical associations to scrutinize its conclusions. Rarely will you see a more honest or humble approach to such a tricky medical issue. When HHS released its initial report in May, critics, including some of the most prominent medical groups, condemned…...