When North Dakota Department of Transportation officials were figuring out ways to use up some $4 million in federal pandemic funds, they invited more than “2,000 diverse stakeholders for input…
Hopkins school board member Steve Adams — who was named to the 2022 All-State School Board, which is the Minnesota School Boards Association’s (MSBA) most prestigious award — recently called…
Respondents in the latest Thinking Minnesota Poll have traded their normally sunny disposition for feelings of uncertainty and concern about the future of Minnesota and the nation. Minnesotans are particularly…
Minnesotans frequently ask Center of the American Experiment how they can find information to help evaluate the performance of judges in their district. Unfortunately information on judicial performance is traditionally reported…
Gov. Walz’s new energy proposal is untenable and irresponsible.
According to the Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB), Minnesota’s net general fund receipts for the first quarter of FY 2023 are now estimated to total $7.024 billion, $289 million (4.3…
We’ve heard it all before from Met Council chairman Charles Zelle, who oversees Metro Transit and the Twin Cities’ light rail lines. Promises and plans to crack down on the…
Thinking Minnesota helps extend the influence of American Experiment in ways that matter.
Evaluating the Fed’s post-COVID policies.
I’m often asked the question, “How much more is there to the free-food scandal in Minnesota”? I’m tempted to quote Churchill’s line, we’re at “the end of the beginning.” In…
If teachers and other educators would like to protect their constitutional right to not fund the union’s PAC, the process to get the forced $25 contribution refunded is not easy.…
Sizing up the issues before Minnesotans head to the polls
Educators continue to leave the teachers’ union.
In July, the Mankato Free Press ran an op-ed titled ‘Minnesota economy doing well.’ It was, in this writer’s view, the sort of fact-free boosterism that too often passes for…
Should Minnesotans believe politicians, or their own eyes?
There have been 49 people (and counting) charged in the Feeding Our Future fraud. Of those, twelve were associated with Safari Restaurant of Minneapolis, including all three co-owners. Combing through…
New law will raise health care costs on some, result in fewer new life-saving cures and more lives lost for others Rep. Angie Craig recently led off a commentary in…
Mayo Clinic nurses vote the union out.
Minnesotans could be paying the price for California’s green policies.
The following article was written by Emmet Penney in Compact Magazine: Is Vladmir Putin Europe’s secret savior? Has his invasion of Ukraine finally forced Europe to make the transition to…
An update on the Rush Line Bus Rapid Transit project.
Minnesota’s reinsurance program keeps health insurance premiums at a national low.
A born-again Republican? His name is included in the third indictment issued in this case, as part of the S&S Catering network of Minneapolis. This network has already produced the…
In 2019, California passed Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) — a law that limited businesses’ ability to classify workers as independent contractors. This was in an effort to ensure that workers…