Minnesota is a state divided — more and more straight down the middle. In recent years, many observers have said that our politics are becoming more polarized, with voters gravitating…
The DNR is having a rough year. Arrested development: DNR’s licensing app The list of highly promoted state government website rollouts that have crashed and burned over the years is…
Minneapolis and St. Paul are two fast-sinking ships. The urban centers of Minneapolis and St. Paul are slowly dying. In fact, by some accounts, St. Paul is already dead, and…
American Experiment interviewed Edward Siedle, public pension warrior, for our podcast yesterday. The full 32-minute video of the interview: A former lawyer for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),…
The mass shooting On June 1, a mass shooting occurred at Boom Island Park in Northeast Minneapolis. Shots were fired into a crowd during a drive-by shooting, and multiple people…
Draft 2 of the Minnesota Department of Education’s K-12 health standards has been released and includes benchmarks that require third graders to “describe internal and external reproductive body parts using…
Census Bureau data show that, between July 1, 2020, and July 1, 2024, Minnesota’s population grew by 1.4%, a rate slower than in 31 other states, as Figure 1 shows.…
Hymies Records, an iconic secondhand record shop located on Lake Street in Minneapolis, is closing after 37 years in business. The alarming part of the announcement was the recognition that…
Labor market Winona Post: MN jobs picture changes little in April KNSI: Minnesota Adds Thousands of Jobs In May KIMT 3: Minnesota adds 6,600 jobs, doubles national growth rate Detroit…
Vance Boelter, 57, stands charged in both federal and state court related to the murders of Minnesota Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in their Brooklyn Park home, and…
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough decided on Thursday to reject key Medicaid provisions in the GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” (BBB) in a move that could end up costing taxpayers hundreds of…
Since President Trump began his second term back in January, the state’s Attorney General seems obsessed with stopping his agenda, and little else. Since the start of Trump’s new term…
Until July 11, the Department of Human Services (DHS) is seeking feedback on the second draft of revised standards for family childcare. This is part of the Childcare Regulation Modernization…
This week saw a heat wave strong enough that Mark Christie, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, warned that “Some of our systems really came close to the edge.”…
It took a third try, but Ahmed Ghedi. defendant No. 13 in the sprawling free-food scandal, entered the 40th guilty plea in the case to become the 47th person convicted.…
On January 1, 2025, the Washington Post quietly stopped updating its popular Fatal Force database, which had purported to be the most complete list of nationwide fatal police shootings. 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…