Jon Collins

Longtime criminal defense attorney Joe Friedberg, who played a large role in some of the high-profile criminal cases in the state in the last fifty years, has died at the age of 87.

Labor attorney Jim Michels, who represents the Minneapolis Police Federation and more than 40 other unions, says trying to squeeze police reform and accountability into a labor agreement is, in essence, impossible — or at least improbable.

A federal judge has denied the city of Minneapolis’ motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the parents of a 22-year-old man shot and killed by a police officer in 2022.

A federal building in downtown Minneapolis was officially renamed on Tuesday afternoon in honor of former U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone, who died in 2002 in a plane crash with his wife, daughter and staffers.

The raises in the contract would make Minneapolis police officers some of the highest-paid in the state, but critics argue that the city should negotiate for more police reform in exchange for the cost.

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In court filings and emails, Edina city officials say that the decision to administer the sedative to Kyle Moore during a 2019 arrest was made by a paramedic, not a police officer. However, a police report shows that an officer requested paramedics to respond with the medication “in order to gain control of the male.”

Much has been written about the whys and wherefores of the recent Crowdstrike incident. Without dwelling too much on the past (you

This GigaOm survey, of 352 senior and technical decision makers across North America and Western Europe, assessed architectures, challenges, and approaches to building and managing performant applications.

I spoke recently with Carsten Brinkschulte, co-founder and CEO of Dryad. Here is some of our conversation. Carsten, tell me a bit