Kevin Burke

Addicted To Drug Court

The Good News and the Bad News: Hennepin County’s drug court has cleared court dockets and steered a lot of people toward treatment. It’s also allowed the county to push thousands more casual offenders into the corrections system.

The DNA

Hennepin county faces a huge case backlog

Drawn and Quartered

Welcome to redistricting 101. Now shut up.

Throwing Away the Key

There is no cure and no way out. So why does the state spend more than $20 million a year to treat 179 former sex offenders?

Case Closed

At the Hennepin County courthouse, resentment over off-the-record meetings keeps simmering--off the record

Johnny's Last Song

Hennepin County's favorite informant faces the music

Suspended Animation

Jonesing for a Scooby snack? Still waiting for Underdog to save the day? Nostalgia victims beware: It's hard to revisit the cartoons of one's youth

Fitzpatrick Follies

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