Given the seriousness of the allegations, especially the concerns expressed by federal investigators that welfare funds are supporting terror abroad, and the finding by the OLA that DHS did not…
A pension bailout to municipalities, that would have effectively made the bailout permanent at about $14 million a year, did not become law . Enjoy the "win" because local government…
If we want to build for the masses and reduce human impact, why are we destroying environment and sticking mass transit where there aren’t many masses? Why are we encouraging…
Something is up. The Met Council is spending $200,000 in taxpayer dollars on lobbyists to secure the federal funding. Why spend bucks on lobbyists if you are certain of funding?…
Minnesota’s HQ2 bid is subject to transparency laws. So why didn’t the State release the bid back in 2017? Apparently, Governor Dayton did not think taxpayers had the right to…
Minneapolis officials are resisting carrying out the court order, which would require them to change the signs back to Lake Calhoun. The park board and mayor are saying they will…
It has been a puzzle to me that Lake Calhoun was named after John C. Calhoun. After all, Minnesota was a hard-core abolitionist state. Besides, the guy looks way too…
American Experiment thinks that government unions should, at a minimum, be subject to at least the same reporting rules as private-sector unions, so the Center has joined an effort to…
After the Janus decision at the U.S. Supreme Court, the state of Minnesota ordered all public employers to stop deducting “fair-share” fees from nonmember paychecks. But the state was silent…
Perhaps by coming together on the CCAP fraud issue, lawmakers can begin to plan for a complete overhaul of Minnesota’s generous and infamous welfare system. What other programs are being…
Given Minnesota’s leadership in the metro and the governor’s mansion, if you are cheering on the idea of punishing sanctuary cities, be careful what you wish for. Minnesota’s already overburdened…
The 2018 bill was supposed to immediately and miraculously drop the unfunded liability by billions while lowering the assumed rate of return and solve the funding crisis “for the next…
Back in 1997, I was working as an intern at Center of the American Experiment. Lady Thatcher was scheduled to keynote the Center’s annual dinner in May 1997 and I…
This is a troubling use of strikes (some legal, some illegal depending on the state law) because unions are using their clout to limit, or even take out, their competition…
After the ceremony, Biden was glad-handing so I walked up to him. "Senator Biden, I wanted to say hello and thank you for coming today." He was flashing me that…
I got a text this morning alerting me to a potential strike by the people who work as employees for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). "OPEIU rejected the SEIU’s…
I get to talk to the hosts of Education Nation tonight about the one of my favorite topics: how the teachers’ union is a political organization using teachers’ dues to…
The achievement gap is not a rationale for universal pre-K.
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