A controversial project to convert an abandoned hotel in Eagan was denied last night by the Dakota County board of commissioners. KARE 11 reports that commissioners did not take a…
Football isn’t the only game kicking off this fall. It’s also the season for schools to throw Hail Mary bonding and levy referendums in many districts, despite record state spending…
Six blue-state Governors on the East Coast want you to pay for their offshore wind turbines. On September 13, 2023, Governors from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and…
John Phelan joined Jon Justice this morning to chat about how the Biden administration’s energy policies are hurting Americans and helping Vladimir Putin, discuss Gov. Walz’s hypocrisy about working from…
Minnesota Senior Judge Leslie Metzen threw out trespassing charges against three women, Winona LaDuke, Tania Aubid and Dawn Goodwin this week concluding, “The charges against these three individuals who were…
In this second part of the series, we Follow the Money™ into the finances of another education-focused nonprofit. In part 1, we followed the money behind a leading nonprofit in…
The civil unrest following the death of George Floyd ushered in a variety of demands for criminal justice reforms across the state and nation – some sound, others not. The…
Stanford economist Eric Hanushek has predicted that academic setbacks during COVID-19 could cost each impacted student $70,000 over the course of their careers, or roughly $28 trillion total, reports The…
Isaac Orr joined Jon Justice this morning to chat about how bad energy policy is driving up the price of electricity for Kansas schools, discuss RFK Jr.’s fracking ban, and…
Yesterday, I wrote about how “supply shocks” can generate inflation independently of whatever the central bank might be doing to the money supply. A classic example is the “oil shock”…
The brutal crime of carjacking hit the suburb of Minnetonka recently, motivating 100 residents to show up at a city council meeting last night demanding accountability. The remedy for this…
Later this year Minnesota cities will receive their share of a supposedly one-time $210 million allotment authorized by state lawmakers to bolster public safety in their communities. But it’s an…
The city’s annual stolen car record is set to fall by the end of this weekend as many cars are resurfacing overseas. According to the city’s Crime Dashboard (updated yesterday,…
As inflation has spiked over the last three years, I’ve often quoted the economist Milton Friedman, who argued that: Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense…
Over the weekend, our own Katherine Kersten appeared on Fox News’ Fox & friends program to discuss the state’s recently enacted ethnic studies mandate. Click on the 4-minute long video,…
Photo: Daniel Schwen, Wikimedia Commons (CC 4.0) Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Jr. has become popular in some conservative circles due to his criticism of the nation’s response to the COVID-19…
At the pinnacle of her college swimming career, Riley Gaines was forced to compete with biological male swimmer Lia Thomas at the NCAA championships. After finishing with the same time,…
FULL TOUR LINEUP: www.americanexperiment.org/events/ You know the legislative session was bad, but just how bad was it? Over the next two months, American Experiment policy experts will visit nearly 20…
Bill Glahn and Bill Walsh take on the 2023 legislative session, covering everything from worst bills passed to the few pieces of good news.
“School choice evangelist” Corey DeAngelis has spoken out in favor of educational freedom all around the country. On May 10, 2023, he visited Minnesota to speak with legislators, the press,…