The Minnesota legislative session starts next Monday. In anticipation, Governor Tim Walz has unveiled his full supplemental spending plan for the surplus. Here is the full breakdown of Walz’s spending…
These were some of the headlines in Minnesota’s media last week: Kare 11: Minnesota’s unemployment rate is lower than it was before the pandemic Pioneer Press: Minnesota unemployment drops to lowest level…
This year’s celebration of effective K-12 education options available to students across the country holds new meaning for many families who are for the first time able to access the…
Collections of a hospitality-specific city tax were down by 81 percent last spring. No doubt, hotels, bars, restaurants, and entertainment venues in the City of Minneapolis have suffered in the…
In 2020, American Experiment warned that a Biden administration would likely cancel the mineral leases for the proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota. Yesterday, President Biden did exactly…
It’s been nearly a week since the FBI raided the offices of the Minnesota nonprofit Feeding Our Future. Since then, there have been no further developments in the case. Could…
In 2020, American Experiment published a report urging Minnesota lawmakers to cut spending instead of raising taxes to solve what was then forecast to be a $4.7 billion deficit for…
Not one person has been arrested or charged in the scandal as of yet. But the seriousness of the allegations is complicating efforts to launch ambitious new spending programs in…
On Jan. 15, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey announced a mandate requiring proof of vaccinations or negative tests for entry into food or drink establishments in the city beginning Jan. 19.…
Yesterday, American Experiment policy fellow Isaac Orr appeared in front of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to testify on Xcel Energy’s plan to prematurely retire their coal fleet and build…
Emails obtained through a public data request by Parents Defending Education assert that U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona requested the controversial National School Board Association letter that likened participants at…
Four migrants are found dead in a blizzard. The suspected human smuggler is released without bond. The southwestern U.S. border gets all the attention, but Minnesota’s northern border is also…
Rent control policies nowadays follow a certain formula. To control for some of the negative effects on housing supply, lawmakers usually exempt new construction, allow vacancy decontrol — whereby landlords…
The United States is currently experiencing its fastest rate of inflation, year over year, since mid-1982. Those of you who are old enough to remember that might also remember the…
Nebraska, again, lowers its own record for America’s lowest unemployment rate. Minnesota’s rate returns to pre-pandemic level, but lags neighboring states. In data released for December, Nebraska again recorded the…
It didn’t take long into 2022 to see that serious crime in the Twin Cities isn’t relenting. In early January, Kashwan Wertman, 18, and Nautica Argue, 19, terrorized 27 vehicle…
The 2022 Minnesota Student Survey, provided by the Minnesota Department of Education to schools to administer, uses valuable classroom time to ask students inappropriate and personal questions about gender, sex,…
St. Paul’s Mayor Melvin Carter has expressed some concerns regarding the city’s rent control proposal even before it was passed. Specifically, he noted that the proposal was too strict and…
The Minnesota House Commerce Finance Policy committee is currently deciding which of 26 proposed liquor bills will be included in an omnibus package to go to a vote. These decisions…
However, the labor force participation rate is stuck at Jimmy Carter levels. This week, unemployment figures were released for the state of Minnesota, showing that the December unemployment rate fell…
It’s coming down to the wire for small businesses to change the minds of Minneapolis planners bent on eliminating 92 percent of parking spots in favor of bikes and busses…
West Virginia is famous for its coal-mining heritage, but legislation is progressing in the Mountain State to lift its ban on building nuclear power plants. This begs the question: if…
Labor market KSTP: Minnesota recruits teens to health care jobs amid workforce crisis Kare 11: Record-high job vacancies in Minnesota as pandemic worker shortages continue WJON: Central Minnesota to Experience…
With a projected $7.7 billion surplus as well as $1.1 billion unspent federal funds, the biggest question in Minnesota’s upcoming legislative session will be how to spend those funds. Yesterday,…