While in Texas recently, Gov. Tim Walz talked up Minnesota’s education system, making a series of points that painted the state as a national model. He highlighted the state’s record-level…
The bite People across Minnesota will be receiving their truth-in-taxation notices pretty soon, if they haven’t already. According to preliminary Department of Revenue estimates, all told, Minnesotans will be told…
Following recent elections in Minneapolis for all 13 City Council seats and for the Mayor, renewed debate over public safety in the city has been a point of discussion in…
State and local taxes and spending KSTP: Stearns County officials explain how their 5.2% property tax hike will work Alexandria Echo Press: Alexandria’s lodging tax yields big impact Marshall Independent:…
The University of Minnesota Physicians, Fairview Health Services, and Attorney General Keith Ellison have reached a ten-year agreement that will prevent the medical school and hospital from shutting down next…
Chronic absenteeism, when a student is absent for 10 percent or more of the academic year, has deeply concerned educators for some time. While there were uncomfortable levels of chronic…
The economics of housing affordability The big buzzword in politics right now is “affordability.” Things aren’t affordable, the argument goes, or are becoming less so, and voters will reward the…
In defining this, she revealed the shutdown’s true purpose: stoking anti-Trump sentiment ahead of the 2025 elections.
A summer spent watching the rise of AI, tragic school shootings, and bumpy national politics hasn’t engendered confidence in the hearts of America’s teachers. A September 2025 survey conducted by…
Allan Fernando Flores-Lemus is our Minnesota Man of the Day, and he arrives with a trigger warning. Flores, age 37, was indicted yesterday in federal court on seven counts of…
Recent violence reflects a changing landscape in Mankato A murder on Sunday morning, followed by a drive-by shooting into a house on Monday evening, has rattled the normally peaceful city…
As American Experiment’s Bill Glahn reported last week, Xcel Energy is proposing to double its battery storage at the Sherco coal plant in Becker, from 300 MW to 600 MW…
We were told that the future lay in density, urban environments served by mass transit and with pedestrian/bike friendly landscapes. They were wrong. From the Minnesota Star Tribune, St. Louis…
As test score results continue to be quiet reminders of the millions of students who fell behind or dropped out entirely during years of disrupted learning, new research out of…
After I published my EXCLUSIVE report on Hennepin County’s Mental Health Center, which stands accused of ninety (90) licensing violations by the state Department of Human Services (DHS), whistleblowers reached…
Welcome back to the American Experiment Podcast! Today, Grace and Kathryn kick things off by discussing Minnesota’s explosive growth of SNAP benefits under Governor Walz (the largest increase of any…
Minnesotans will be discovering the many ways the “historic” trifecta of 2023 hit them in the pocket for years. Not only did it blow through a budget surplus of $18…
Jamal Osman, Minneapolis City Council Member representing Ward 6, was carjacked last night in South Minneapolis. There have been few details released, but in a written statement, Osman stated that…
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 1296 is in a blue-collar area of suburban Minneapolis. With a UH-1 “Huey” helicopter permanently touching down by its doors and an M1…
Last Friday, the state of Minnesota formally revoked the license of a long-closed and allegedly fraudulent substance abuse clinic, Evergreen Recovery, Inc. of St. Paul. At this point, the revocation…
High school girls from around the state spent their Saturday at the Minnesota Capitol bringing history and civic responsibility to life through a speech competition centered on the theme, “The…
Carlos Guillermo Aragon-Baez is our Minnesota Man of the Day. He has been charged in federal court with one count of illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien. Aragon, aged…
Last week, the Department of the Interior finalized its 2025 Critical Minerals List, adding 10 new entries for a total of 60. What’s a critical mineral? There is a school…
In the first eleven days of its operation in May 2024, Amtrak’s Borealis service between St. Paul and Chicago generated a “profit” of $100,000, which excited a few local people.…