State and local taxes and spending KSTP: Senate Taxes Committee passes HCMC funding, social media tax KLGR: Senate Bill Aims to Lower Taxes KFGO: Minnesota Senate passes aid package for…
Continuing these risky, permanent, and potentially disfiguring procedures places Minnesota at increasing odds with federal policy and international medical trends.
Last week, I mentioned how, in his final State of the State speech, Gov. Walz touted as achievements a laundry list of spending increases which, in some cases, are blowing up…
Beginning in fall 2026, every K-12 public school in Minnesota will be required to align instruction with the state’s new social studies standards. School boards will have to decide how…
In 2018, the Center for American Progress studied high school graduation requirements in each state and compared them to basic entrance requirements to universities in that state. The verdict? Most…
Center of the American Experiment’s public safety policy fellow David Zimmer joined law enforcement leaders, legislators, and advocates today for a press conference at the State Capitol urging Minnesota lawmakers…
Today at the Federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, two sentences are scheduled to be handed down in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal. Judge Nancy Brasel is set to preside…
Last month, the Star Tribune‘s mascot Stribby the Gray Duck was at the Capitol “lobbying in support of local news.” I have not seen Stribby on the register of lobbyists,…
Even though high schoolers need at least 8 hours of sleep per night, over three in four high schoolers are classified as having insufficient sleep schedules. Unsurprisingly, students who sleep…
National Teacher Appreciation Week is a time to recognize the commitment and impact of educators across the country. But beyond the celebratory headlines (guilty!), new survey data points to a…
Last year, the Tax Committee in the Minnesota Senate, where the DFL holds a one seat majority, passed a bill that would have imposed the first “social media tax” in…
Shireen Gandhi is still in charge of the state Dept. of Human Services (DHS). Ignore the cynical games being played with job titles, the situation is unchanged. MPR News reports,…
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! This week, parents and students are hopefully flooding teachers’ desks with notes, gift cards, and kitschy mugs. But what are the policies that teachers would really…
“State of Hennepin” It is true that crime has decreased in recent years in Minnesota overall — and that’s a good thing. However, as this article illustrates, the statewide recovery…
A couple of weeks ago I noted how, in 2025, Minnesota had become a state with a below average level of per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the first…
Amy Klobuchar announced her anti-fraud plan, DFL senators are predicting doomsday scenarios if we end the “temporary” COVID rules expanding taxpayer-funded healthcare, and Keith Ellison is getting sued by the…
Amidst mounting frustration with the state and national teachers’ union, a small group of teachers in Becker, Minnesota decided to try something different. They successfully petitioned the state to call…
Starting fall 2026, public schools across the state will be required to implement new K-12 academic standards and benchmarks in social studies. Since there is no external approval process on…
The last few years will go down in history as a time when fraudsters brazenly stole billions of dollars from Minnesota and federal taxpayers while state regulators looked the other…
Gov. Tim Walz delivered his final State of the State address last Tuesday evening, using the speech to tout false education “successes,” claim he lowered taxes for Minnesotans, and take…