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Giving Bureaucrats The Slip!

Want to help special needs kids?

Louisiana bureaucrats say you may not, unless you prove to them that you’re needed.

I reported on a social worker who sued Louisiana because they told her she wasn’t “needed.”

Four years later, they STILL won’t let her, so now she helps kids by HIRING them at Chubbies, her new restaurant!

Here’s more from John Stossel.

Defund The Police Debacle

Greg Reese reports that the unsurprising outcome on the city of Minneapolis’ experiment to wean itself from police enforcement has basically fallen through the bureaucratic cracks.

The Minneapolis City Council voted en masse to take a defund-the-police approach in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder, replacing swat teams with social workers, a move also approved by Gov. Tim Walz.

The new format, which Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey calls a cultural shift, not only failed to curb violence, but appeared to increase more criminal activity. Here’s the rest of the story with Reese.

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