Former Democratic US Senator Heidi Heitkamp was soundly booted from office by her North Dakota constituents back in 2018. But she still has some $4.5 million in campaign contributions left…
American Experiment's proposals for a positive and productive legislative session.
There’s been a slew of examples in recent months of local and state government bodies going to extremes to avoid public scrutiny and accountability. The more notorious incidents include a…
Lawsuit asks AG about lawyers funded by billionaire Democrat donor.
The Rochester City Council might as well yell “Fore!” right now to warn local taxpayers about the bill coming at them for the escalating cost of subsidizing the city’s four…
The state’s ineptitude grows.
Brexit exemplifies what happens when electorates vote in ways the elite don’t like.
Rochester officials more than double their own salaries.
Today the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in a case that could greatly impact the role private schools play in the school choice debate. Three Montana mothers are…
It may finally be dawning on the St. Cloud City Council that the gag rule prohibiting individual members from publicly disagreeing with council actions approved by the majority violates the…
Heartland’s Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins, and Jim Lakely join Isaac Orr in episode 226 of the In The Tank Podcast. The crew starts off talking about the Democratic Presidential debate…
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2020 Issue of Thinking Minnesota, now the second largest magazine in Minnesota. To receive a free trial issue send your name and address to [email protected]. You…
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2020 Issue of Thinking Minnesota, now the second largest magazine in Minnesota. To receive a free trial issue send your name and address to [email protected]. Every…
For months Minnesotans have been waiting to find out what’s wrong at the anti-fraud unit at the Department of Human Services. The agency’s former inspector general Carolyn Ham was put…
Another day, another scandal at Minnesota's DHS.
For years backward-looking bureaucrats and local officials have sought to revive the failed passenger rail line between the Twin Cities and Duluth. But a legislative hearing in Duluth this week…
When’s the last time you or anyone you know received double the pay out of the blue, for doing the same work? That’s what I thought. But that’s how much…
A famous Minnesotan once said escalators can never break… Apparently, the state of Minnesota didn’t get the memo, because rather than letting people get a little extra exercise using their…
Minnesota’s Supreme Court greenlights a lawsuit that would sort students by skin color.
Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking to a local city council about the obstacles to the construction of affordable housing which state and local governments erect in terms of…
The maintenance of law and order is one of the core functions of government. How do you think Saint Paul’s government is doing?
The cover story in the current issue of Thinking Minnesota is titled “The Masquerade of Good Government.” Written by veteran investigative reporter Tom Steward, it documents the extraordinary series of…
After yesterday’s announcement that taxpayers are on the hook for another $23 million due to the Department of Human Service’s continued mismanagement of public funds, Center of the American Experiment…
One of the recurring themes from the Walz administration in the multiple scandals at the Department of Human Services is that no one individual can be blamed or should be…