One of the most powerful political organizations in Minnesota is not a political party or branch of the government but the state teachers’ union, Education Minnesota. The state teachers’ union…
The suspended nonprofit Partners in Nutrition wins a round in its appeal against the state Dept. of Education. One of three free-food nonprofits suspended in the wake of the Feeding…
Gov. Walz and legislative leaders in the state House and Senate announced the outline of a budget deal Monday morning. Fox 9 reports: The agreement calls for $4 billion in…
The headline says it all: “Records show meals program was ripe for fraud in Minnesota.” In the first article published by any local media outlet on the Feeding Our Future…
The recent tax bill by the Minnesota Senate would, among other things, cut our state’s bottom rate of state income tax from 5.35 percent to 2.80 percent. Refreshingly in these…
Reporter Pafoua Yang at Alpha News has put together two video reports on the Feeding Our Future scandal. The first report features an overview of the scandal with an interview…
Homeowners across Minnesota face significant double-digit increases in county government valuation of their properties. The huge hikes, which factor into next year’s property tax bills, came out of the blue…
In January 2016, Center of the American Experiment filed an Amicus Brief supporting a legal challenge to the City of St. Paul’s right-of-way maintenance (ROW) fee on behalf of two…
Minnesota’s own Rep. Ilhan Omar urged the Biden administration to cancel federal student loan debt last week. As the NAACP helpfully pointed out, one of the beneficiaries of such a…
Who says there aren’t any good jobs out there? The Minnesota Department of Corrections seeks to hire an experienced tattoo supervisor to mentor and train inmates interested in tattooing as…
If you have looked at the news lately, chances are you have read that the Florida legislature passed a bill that will dissolve the private government that Walt Disney World currently operates.…
An overflow crowd in the State Capitol rotunda rallied this Saturday for permanent tax cuts in response to the record $9.3 billion state budget surplus. Center of the American Experiment…
Back to normal Tonight’s speech was more like his first SOTS in 2019 where he introduced a number of guests and voiced support for a vague legislative agenda. His speech…
How indifference about the whopping budget surplus could permanently anchor Minnesota as a second-rate state. The solution: Give it back!
Rochester officials have proposed building a $65 million regional community and recreation center. They’re using it as a vehicle to build legislative and local support for approving an extension of…
The problem of overspending isn’t just anecdotal, it is systemic.
What to do with Minnesota’s historic surplus of $9.3 billion? That is the question dominating the Legislature. But from Minnesotans, the answer is clear: they want the state government to…
One of the legacies of the pandemic in America is that the government has taken over the basic responsibility, at least on paper, of feeding the nation’s children. You may…
Opponents of a $350 million Chinese-backed agricultural processing plant proposed in Grand Forks captured far more than the required 3,617 signatures on a petition to put the controversial project up…
The Minnesota Legislature is on “Spring Break” this week, taking some time off from all the hard work they’ve done passing bills and coming up with a plan to return…
A little over nine months ago, the Minnesota Reformer reported: Minnesota legislative leaders reached an education budget agreement Tuesday, just over a week before the June 30 deadline for lawmakers…
Depending on your point of view, it was the phoenix rising from the ashes, or the zombie rising from the dead. In either case, a nonprofit called Feeding Our Future…
The State Senate passed a tax bill on Thursday that, among other things, would cut Minnesota’s bottom rate of state income tax from 5.35 percent to 2.80 percent. Refreshingly in…
The Minnesota Senate passed a huge tax cut bill today, lowering the bottom income tax rate from 5.35% to 2.8%. Slashing the bottom rate nearly in half benefits all income…