Center of the American Experiment announced today the addition of Jon Justice to its media content line up allowing the popular host to continue his 3-hour daily talk show beginning…
On Wednesday afternoon in Madison Wisconsin, a police officer fatally shot a suspect who was resisting arrest while armed with a fixed blade knife. The suspect reportedly cut or stabbed…
Governor Walz either believes that fraud is not real, or for whatever reason that it is not worth stopping. Trump wants better fraud checks before paying questionable invoices. Minnesota is…
The top ten stories, for the week ending on July 17, 2026, are as follows: Energy Federal Energy Regulatory Commission => FERC Fast-Tracks Reviews to Accelerate Actions at Hydropower Projects…
A new Thinking Minnesota poll from the Center of the American Experiment has recently come out that shows affordability is the top issue for Minnesotans, of all political stripes, in…
I recently attended the most important energy affordability conference you probably never heard of. It was the Summer Policy Summit (SPS) in Minneapolis, hosted by NARUC. NARUC is the National…
Minnesota’s schools are required to teach about CPR, STDs, mental health, and, beginning this fall…cannabis. Minnesota legalized cannabis in 2023 and sales began in 2025, leading the legislature to enact…
CNBC recently released its annual “America’s Top States for Business” rankings, which compare all 50 states across 10 categories. One of those categories is education, where Minnesota came in 10th.…
There has been a concerted effort by “open immigration” advocates, “anti-Trumpers,” and a supportive legacy media, to portray the immigration enforcement efforts of the Trump administration in the poorest light…
Our “leaders” have no answers after ANOTHER violent weekend in Minneapolis Check out the American Experiment Podcast! Catch up on the violence that plagued Minneapolis over the weekend, the…
Today, the majority of Minnesota students cannot read or do math at grade level. One strong contributor is the fact that many students don’t attend class. In Minnesota, there’s been…
For a number of Minnesotans, answering the call to serve meant risking their lives for the nation, and sometimes sacrificing their education, too. A new Minnesota law set to take effect Aug.…
Last week, I noted that Minnesota’s job growth since 2018 had been less than one third the national rate. As I’ve noted before, these estimates of jobs come from the Establishment survey which…
On July 1, news broke that a three-person panel containing Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison had pardoned a man who had been convicted of repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl,…
Illegal aliens are seeing ever greater success in their habeas petitions filed in Minnesota federal court. Joe Biden-appointed Judge Jeffrey M. Bryan leads Minnesota-based federal district judges in defying an…
Minneapolis police are investigating two unrelated mass shootings that took place about 20 hours apart on Sunday in South Minneapolis. A total of 14 people were shot in the two…
Undergraduate enrollment at Minnesota’s public two-year schools increased more than 10 percent from 2024 to 2025, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC). While the latest two-year sector…
On July 1, news broke that a three-person panel containing Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison had pardoned a man who had been convicted of repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl,…
Iris Garcia Salamanca made her first court appearance yesterday on multiple drug distribution charges. The hearing took place at the federal courthouse in downtown St. Paul and your correspondent was…
Regulation KSTP: Business owners await decision this month on whether paid leave payroll tax will go up KSTP: Minnesota’s Paid Family Leave program paying out nearly $600M. Is wage tax…
This is my fourth post, of hopefully many to come, as a regular weekly resource for our readers: The top ten stories, for the week ending on July 17, 2026,…
Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, most recently an international fugitive from justice, appeared in court this afternoon at the federal courthouse in downtown St. Paul. Your correspondent was there. Yesterday, the U.S.…
Bail in Minnesota Minnesota is an outlier among states when it comes to mandating bail in criminal cases. Minnesota’s courts have interpreted the Minnesota Constitution to mandate a “bail only”…
There’s an old Schoolhouse Rock jingle that explains in about three minutes how a lonely bill on Capitol Hill hopes to become a law someday. Catchy tune, and it taught…