Large businesses in Saint Paul are already paying their workers at least $15ph and raising the city's minimum wage has always been about raising costs for the city's small businesses.…
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reported this week on voter fraud, reminding us on the eve of the 2018 mid-term why American citizens, and legal immigrants waiting to become…
I’d say Happy Halloween, but the increasing cost of electricity is downright frightening. Minnesota’s electricity prices have been skyrocketing, largely because our state has squandered $15 billion on wind turbines…
This morning, I appeared on Kerri Miller's show on MPR and was asked how long businesses could get away with citing uncertainty as a reason for their lack of investment.…
Last night, Policy Fellow Isaac Orr appeared at the Theater of Public Policy held at Bryant Lake Bowl in Minneapolis. The Theater, run by Tane Danger, has a policy purpose…
A group that opposes the proposed Twin Metals copper nickel mine in northern Minnesota has released a new ad endorsing Tim Walz for Governor. This doesn't necessarily mean Walz opposes…
The Star Tribune’s Erin Golden, who covers the education and teachers’ union beat, wrote an article about how the union is aggressively asking teachers to vote and encourage their students…
It light of the darkness of Pittsburgh last Saturday, a hard question: How do Americans in the main really feel about Jews? A perhaps surprising but reassuring answer: Americans feel…
Negative political messaging has dominated the television ad space for the past several months, often evoking a visceral response of changing the channel whenever possible. So, why the pervasiveness of…
If we can keep a growing economy with rising demand for labor and increased wages, the 'labor shortage' might be a nice problem to have.
Environmental groups may pay lip service to "environmental justice" in low-income communities, but these communities are being hoodwinked by the environmentalists who will make it harder for low-income families to…
John Lundy of the Duluth News Tribune wrote a misleading article about American Experiment’s mining rally in Duluth on Monday, October 22nd at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center. In the…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
There may be hope for the Duluth City Council after all. Days after council members impotently stood by while a mob of masked and screaming protesters shut down a meeting…
Minnesota’s most vulnerable population has been exposed to a data breach at the state agency that is supposed to guard their privacy and well-being. According to a letter mailed to…
I can't say that a place with multicolored cleaning goo is more colorful than one where Richard Pryor hung out with George Carlin and The Pointer Sisters, but in an…
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…