National government unions spent $13.2 million on politics in Minnesota, with the national teacher unions the top spenders, according to a recent report by the Commonwealth Foundation. The four largest…
Within days of residents rejecting Rochester schools’ $10 million technology levy referendum last month, Superintendent Kent Pekel effectively dismissed the voters’ verdict and put the measure back on the table.…
Last week, the Minnesota Reformer reported that: Data released last week by the Bureau of Economic Analysis show that Minnesota’s gross domestic product rose by about 0.7% in the second quarter, lagging…
State and local taxes and spending Washington Examiner: Minnesota’s Democratic governor trashes Biden administration for taxing rebate checks West Central Tribune: Kandiyohi County tax levy increases by 4.9% in 2024,…
Back in late August, Attorney General Keith Ellison (himself a Democrat) announced the indictment of five men in a $9.5 million alleged PCA fraud.
Center of the American Experiment’s Public Safety Policy Fellow David Zimmer was quoted extensively in a recent College Fix article regarding the city of Minneapolis’ plan to “reimagine policing.” Zimmer…
In March 2021, I testified in a hearing of the House Committee on Taxes on yet another proposal to hike our state’s already high taxes. I said that there was…
A new law requiring Minnesota public schools to stock free menstrual products in bathrooms used by students in 4th through 12th grade goes into effect Jan. 1, 2024. The requirement…
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)’s Winter Reliability Assessment has identified MISO as one of the areas at an elevated risk of capacity shortfalls, i.e. blackouts, if we experience higher-than-normal generator…
This is the first guilty plea involving the Safari Restaurant group of defendants. Ahmed Sharif Omar-Hashim, a/k/a Salah Donyale, Defendant No. 5 and Guilty Plea No. 16 in the case,…
I’m not generally a fan of calling anything I disagree with “woke,” but in this instance, the headline was too good to pass up. On November 27, 2023, Ed Ballard…
The case of Marvin Haynes We should all be proud to live in a country where people are considered innocent until proven guilty. Marvin Haynes was proven guilty of a…
After blowing Minnesota’s staggering $18 billion expanding welfare, and paying for free college as well as “affordable housing,” among other things, our lawmakers have dug Minnesota into a budget hole…
On Monday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a landmark bill to ensure that patients get access to transparent pricing information from providers and health plans. The bill — the…
I’ve previously written how Minnesota performance on national tests is the worst in 30 years, but what does that mean for the impacted students’ futures? Lower skills, and therefore future…
There’s a disturbing new trend developing in Minnesota with superintendents and school board chairs bullying conservative members into submission through phony “investigations” for not following school district policy. This week,…
An Edina school board meeting was adjourned early Monday night after protesters first prompted the board into recess. In response to the recess, protesters began chanting, “From the river to…
The postal service anticipates lots of letters to Santa this time of year. But this Christmas the USPS has also been inundated with letters from members of Congress, who put…
This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its numbers for inflation in November. They showed inflation rising from October’s rate of 0.0% to a 0.1% increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).…
In May, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced proposed rules to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions from new and existing power plants. Our modeling at American Experiment found these strict regulations would cause massive…
When the state legislature set aside $200 million in support of a passenger rail service between Duluth and Minneapolis earlier this year, a project known as the Northern Lights Express…
Several Minneapolis City Council members have taken the bizarre stance to prolong the existence of the city’s largest illegal homeless encampment which has taken over the better part of a…
Last week Governor Walz finally found a tax he didn’t like when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that the “Walz checks” received by more than 2 million Minnesotans this…
Last week, Mitch and I detailed the massive costs associated with replacing the electricity generated by the Lower Snake River (LSR) dams with 100 percent wind, solar, and battery storage.…