Many people have asked me to comment on the civil litigation in state court between the state Department of Education (MDE) and the now-defunct free-food charity Feeding Our Future and…
Minnesota and its neighbors operate a range of different economic policies. Our state imposes some of the highest income taxes in the United States, ranking 43rd on the Tax Foundation’s…
Yesterday, we discussed the negative consequences of the Walz administration’s proposed California Transportation Standard (CTS). Today, we will discuss how it works. How the California Transportation Standard works The CTS…
Value of Incapacitation As conservatives, we strongly believe that a lack of accountability for crime only begets more crime. We put value in a swift, sure, and stern response to crime,…
With news that the St. Paul Federation of Educators has authorized a strike vote, I wanted to write (again) about how salary increases work under the union’s salary schedule within…
Thinking Minnesota magazine conducted our very first poll back in August 2018, asking national polling firm Meeting Street Insights to survey 500 Minnesotans with 25 questions about education, crime, and…
Governor Tim Walz and his liberal allies in the legislature are proposing a new stealth gas tax that will be worse than California’s crazy low-carbon fuel standards. The Walz administration…
In part 2 of my video series, I dig into the Minnesota political contributions of George Soros, his network, and his extended family. The five-minute video covers the period through…
At a time when legitimate concerns exist regarding whether Minnesota is doing enough to hold criminal offenders accountable...
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a new study which found that working from home is here to stay. I concluded by noting that: If this holds for…
Last week, I was invited to testify on grid reliability in front of a joint panel of Ohio and Pennsylvania legislators in Columbus, Ohio. This panel was a big deal,…
Despite the record amount of money that lawmakers poured into child care last legislative session to make it more affordable, signs are appearing that it wasn’t enough to make a…
The outlook was bleak for the Republicans arriving at St. Cloud State University in November 1975 for their state party convention. The DFL governor, Wendell Anderson, had been elected five…
Last week, KSTP released the results of its KSTP-TV/SurveyUSA poll conducted in late January. In the area of fiscal policy, its main findings relating to the last session were: Source: KSTP-TV/SurveyUSA So,…
The Minnesota Legislature is about to build another new office building for themselves, and the Golden Turkey committee is here for it. Without a single vote on the floor of…
We are now up to 70 defendants in the free-food program scandal. The always alert Lou Raguse of KARE 11 was out with a story this afternoon. The U.S. Attorney…
On Friday, American Experiment submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Human Services (HHS) in opposition to federal rules dictating how states must unwind continuous Medicaid coverage related to the…
Minneapolis officials announced last week that a monitor had been selected to manage the consent decrees the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) will go through with both the U.S. Department of…
Over the last few weeks, I’ve written about how Minnesota and its neighbors have very different economic policies but very similar employment outcomes and how they have similarly high levels of what is…
Have you ever wanted to steal from the less fortunate without going to jail? Have we got a deal for you! Affluent households in California siphoned nearly $3.4 billion in 2021 from the pockets…
Honor the Earth settles lawsuit with the state attorney general. The Star Tribune reports. Winona LaDuke, a native-American environmental activist and two-time Green Party Vice-Presidential candidate (1996, 2000) incorporated Honor…
Labor market Minnesota Reformer: Why did unionization decline in Minnesota? KROC: SE Minnesota experienced higher unemployment in December NFIB: The DFL’s $20 Billion Spending Spree Put Minnesota on Thin Ice…
Yesterday, the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota indicted Defendant No. 61 in the free-food scandal. The indictment of Hoda Ali Abdi of Burnsville, proprietress of the Alif Halal grocery store, can…
I was recently on Hawaii Today with Joe Kent of the Grassroot Institute to discuss the rolling blackouts that occurred in early January. As Mitch and I wrote in our…