Inside the World of Local Street Racing
Posted By: voxpopuli, 10/18/2021 6:25:34 PM
It was 4 in the morning, and my wife’s Subaru was a crumpled wreck on the side of the road in Northeast Minneapolis. Hours earlier, I had left it in North Mississippi Regional Park on the city’s Northside neighborhood. The Minneapolis police had rolled through the lot, and a cop on a bullhorn sternly instructed all the teens and 20-somethings gathered for the Friday-night slideshow to disperse. I was there to meet my chaperone for the night..
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The Minnesota National Guard is preparing for several new missions in the battle against COVID-19.
"We are really multi-faceted and that's the thing that's really great about the National Guard," said Col. Scott Rohweder, the Minnesota National Guard's director of operations.
5 EYEWITNESS NEWS was allowed into the Joint Operations Center near the Minnesota State Capitol, which serves as the Minnesota National Guard's command hub for communication and decision-making.
Inside the World of Local Street Racing
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It was 4 in the morning, and my wife’s Subaru was a crumpled wreck on the side of the road in Northeast Minneapolis.
Hours earlier, I had left it in North Mississippi Regional Park on the city’s Northside neighborhood. The Minneapolis police had rolled through the lot, and a cop on a bullhorn sternly instructed all the teens and 20-somethings gathered for the Friday-night slideshow to disperse. I was there to meet my chaperone for the night..
A group of Minneapolis neighbors is calling Gov. Tim Walz’s response to a request for help “insufficient.”
More than two dozen people who live on the north side sent a letter to the governor in September asking him to send the National Guard and State Patrol to the city to assist Minneapolis Police amid ongoing violence.
According to multiple reports, Gruden informed his staff he will resign as head coach after a series of emails showed him delivering racist, homophobic and misogynistic comments in emails during his time at ESPN.
Gruden later announced through the Raiders he was resigning.
City allowed unlicensed 'rooming house'
to continue operating for years despite
warnings, orders 7 replies
to continue operating for years despite
warnings, orders 7 replies
The ceiling above Jaime Steffenson’s bed was cracked and sagging. Burn marks on an electrical socket had her afraid to plug anything into it.
Ron Miller says conditions in his makeshift bedroom in the basement of the same house in Minneapolis were even worse. A lawsuit he filed against the owner this year documented blocked windows, standing water and raw sewage. (snip) ..the city did not file criminal charges against Mohammed Shahidullah until after 5 INVESTIGATES started asking questions last month.
Gunfire exchange among people in 2 SUVs
results in Minneapolis crash that kills bystander 23 replies
results in Minneapolis crash that kills bystander 23 replies
A woman is dead and four others were hospitalized after police said a gunfight between people in two vehicles ended in a crash.
The crash happened late Wednesday near Target Field in Minneapolis.
Police said investigators are checking cameras and gathering evidence to see what led up to the crash. (snip) Witnesses told police people in two vehicles were shooting at each other.
Moments later, those two SUVs crashed at the intersection of Fifth Street and Sixth Avenue North.
One of the vehicles left the road and hit a woman riding a scooter down the sidewalk.
After a battle over the ballot, early voting begins Friday in Minneapolis.
Residents will get to vote on the ballot question on whether to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a new department of public safety.
The Minnesota Supreme Court reversed a decision blocking the city from counting votes on the question.
The question on the ballot, to which voters respond "yes" or "no," is as follows:
Corporate tax increases are necessary for the U.S. to better compete globally, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told Yahoo Finance Live in an interview. House Democrats are out with a proposal to raise the tax rate on companies with income of at least $5 million to 26.5%.
“If American business is going to compete, we need these investments,”
UPDATE: Emily Claire Hari, who was previously known as Michael Hari and recently said she is transgender, has been sentenced to 53 years in prison for the 2017 bombing of a Bloomington mosque. (snip) The leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group who authorities say masterminded the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque is in a federal court on Monday, awaiting sentencing for several civil rights and hate crimes in an attack that terrified a community.
President Biden called a Black adviser "boy" during a Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) briefing on Monday.
The president used the term while introducing his senior adviser Cedric Richmond, a former Louisiana congressman.
"I'm here with my senior adviser and boy who knows Louisiana very, very well and New Orleans, Cedric Richmond," Biden said at a press briefing with FEMA after Hurricane Ida rocked Louisiana.
Macalester College announced on Monday that they will divest all of their publicly traded oil and gas investments, including from Enbridge, Inc., in response to the student divestment proposal in the protest of the Line 3 tar sands pipeline replacement project.
According to the college, the Board of Trustees of Macalester College decided to:
Divest of all dedicated, publicly traded oil and gas assets, including all shares of Enbridge, Inc.
Wednesday, hundreds of protesters gathered amid a four-day event calling on state and federal leaders to stop the progress of Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 oil pipeline.
Protesters were gathering for the "Treaties not Tar Sands Rally to Stop Line 3" at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.
"I think my whole life and my whole history is defined by water," Karen Goulet, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe who is helping to lead the rally, said in a statement.
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Rachel Levine becomes first transgender
four-star officer, will lead U.S. Public
Health Service 52 replies
four-star officer, will lead U.S. Public
Health Service 52 replies
The Biden administration said Tuesday it was burnishing its support for the LGBTQ community by swearing in Rachel Levine, an assistant health secretary, as the first openly transgender four-star officer of the eight uniformed services of the United States. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy held a ceremonial swearing-in for Adm. Levine, who will lead 6,000 officers in the U.S. Public Health Service.
“This is a momentous occasion and I am honored to take this role for the impact that I can make, and for the historic nature of what it symbolizes,” Adm. Levine said. “I stand on the shoulder of those LGBTQ-plus individuals who came
Planeloads of underage migrants are being flown secretly into suburban New York in an effort by President Biden’s administration to quietly resettle them across the region, The Post has learned.
The charter flights originate in Texas, where the ongoing border crisis has overwhelmed local immigration officials, and have been underway since at least August, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Last week, The Post saw two planes land at the Westchester County Airport, where most of the passengers who got off appeared to be children and teens, with a small portion appearing to be men in their 20s.
Former Trump administration Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Monday on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” that former Secretary of State Colin Powell died because some Americans were not vaccinated.Anchor Chris Cuomo said, “In terms of his passing and how he would want it understood, what do you say about the idea that Powell passing while being vaccinated is proof that the vaccination is not necessary?”Adams said, “It’s absolutely untrue. We’ve got people out there who are in the vaccine-resistant crowd. We’ve got people who have completely different agendas, agendas that have nothing to do with vaccines, and as you mentioned, want to divide us.
Fauci: People Who Have Conspiracy Theories,
Deny Reality ‘Don’t Particularly Care
for Me’ 40 replies
Deny Reality ‘Don’t Particularly Care
for Me’ 40 replies
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Dr. Anthony Fauci said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that Americans who think he is a “polarizing figure” were people who denied “reality.”Anchor Chris Wallace asked, “When this pandemic started, it is fair to say you were generally regarded as the authority on infectious disease. As time has gone on, you have become a polarizing figure, and critics accuse you of sending mixed messages. There’s allegations that you helped fund dangerous research at the Wuhan lab. Two questions, why do you think you’ve become so controversial? And honestly, do you think there’s anything you have done
Breaking: Colin Powell Has Died
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Colin Powell, 84, died from complications due to Covid-19, his family said Monday.
"General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19," the Powell family said in a statement posted on his official Facebook page.
“He was fully vaccinated,” they added. “We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment. We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American.”
Powell was a distinguished and trailblazing professional soldier whose career took him from combat duty in Vietnam
The TSA should use its canine teams to keep airport security lines moving if there is a worker shortage amid the federal COVID-19 vaccination mandate, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday.President Biden’s vaccination order for federal workers takes effect three days before Thanksgiving — the busiest time of the year for air travel.“If TSA lags in jabs, send in the dogs,” Schumer said during a press conference in Manhattan, citing recent revelations from the TSA that 40 percent of its employees remain unvaccinated.
Democrats to scale back Treasury's IRS
bank reporting plan, raise threshold from
$600 to $10,000 33 replies
bank reporting plan, raise threshold from
$600 to $10,000 33 replies
Senate Democrats are set Tuesday to announce a scaled-down version of the Biden administration's proposal to crack down on Americans it suspects are dodging taxes.The administration's original proposal was greeted with overwhelming opposition from fiscal conservative groups, the banking industry and other over concerns about financial privacy.The initial plan, conceived by the Treasury Department and Senate Democrats, would have allowed the Internal Revenue Service access to information on bank accounts that had at least $600 worth of annual deposits or withdrawals. The new proposal will still allow the IRS to access information on accounts that transfer or receive more than $10,000 annually.
Democrats are grappling with the increasingly dire political reality facing them in next year’s midterm elections as warning signs pile up for the party ahead of 2022.
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A student at an $80,000-a-year ultra-liberal Oberlin College in Ohio claimed in an op-ed that he was left ‘angry, scared, and confused’ because ‘cisgender men’ installed a radiator in his ‘safe space’ dormitory.Peter Fray-Witzer, a student enrolled at Oberlin College, posted an article in Friday's edition of The Oberlin Review in which he takes school administrators to task for giving him short notice about the installation.Fray-Witzer writes that he asked a campus official if he could be exempt from having a radiator installed in his room
Donald Trump was bombarded with criticism on Tuesday for labeling late Secretary of State Colin Powell a 'RINO' who 'made plenty of mistakes' in a statement one day after Powell's death of COVID-19 complications at age 84. In an email full of mixed messages, Trump commented on the posthumous praise Powell has been receiving since Monday morning and said he hoped he'd get the same treatment 'one day.''Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media,' Trump said
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‘We Just Don’t Know’ How to Defend
Against Possible Chinese Hypersonic Missile:
US Ambassador 26 replies
Against Possible Chinese Hypersonic Missile:
US Ambassador 26 replies
A new investigative report by the Financial Times asserted that China launched a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile, which circled the earth in a low orbit before cruising toward and narrowly missing a test target. The Chinese regime has officially denied the report’s findings, saying that the object in question was a spaceship.
U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood said that Washington is concerned about China’s possible deployment of hypersonic weaponry, and said the United States hadn’t developed a means of countering it.
“Hypersonic technology is something that we have been concerned about, the potential military applications of it and we have held back from pursuing, we had held back from pursuing military applications for
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an article on hotrodding that LIONIZES these criminals.. THANKS commie-media