Melvin Carter doesn’t have enough tools in his box to avert the coming havoc of rent control.
In our new policy briefing “Minnesota should join the national Nurse Licensure Compact,” we explain why state policymakers should sign our state up to this arrangement. When the COVID-19 pandemic…
Schools received $130 billion in supplementary funding from the Biden administration to help them safely reopen, but a review of funding applications shows states allocated some of those dollars for…
President Biden’s controversial vaccine mandate for employers with more than 100 workers was supposed to take effect on Monday. But you’d never know it by the response of some Minnesota…
In November, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a request for comment to gather input on whether the state of Georgia’s waiver from certain requirements of the…
Last week, Hennepin County law enforcement leaders sent a letter to Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman asking for immediate assistance and increased partnership across a range of criminal justice issues.…
As the legislature convenes at the end of the month, one of their priorities will be figuring out how to pay back Minnesota’s unemployment insurance debt. The debt, which now…
Letter to Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell outlines illegal grass roots lobbying Center of the American Experiment sent a letter to the head of the Federal Reserve Board in…
Tesla has reportedly signed a deal worth $1.5 billion to purchase the nickel produced at the proposed Tamarack mine, located in Aitkin County, Minnesota. According to Mining.com: Under the terms…
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that inflation rose by 7.0 percent in the year to November. This is the fastest annual rate of increase since June 1982. Stripping…
Teaching students that policing is oppression.
Since the announcement of Minnesota’s projected $7.7 billion surplus, Democrats and Gov. Tim Walz have announced numerous spending proposals that they will consider once the legislative session convenes. And while…
No one doubts the Omicron variant of COVID-19 will continue to spread across the state, including central Minnesota. But the mayors of St. Cloud and three neighboring cities do have…
Center of the American Experiment this week launched a statewide radio campaign with ads in Spanish, Somali and English educating Minnesotans on how alternative energy sources such as wind and…
On Dec. 7, Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) released its budget forecast for Fiscal Year 2022-23 which foresaw a $7.746 billion projected surplus. This immediately sparked a debate about what should be…
Advocates of wind and solar power often tell us that these energy sources will result in lower energy prices, but the facts on the ground do not support this claim.…
Minneapolis is still on the hook to replenish its police force.
With an estimated $7.7 billion surplus projected for the next biennium (over $3 billion of which is already in the bank) and $1.1 billion in unspent federal COVID funds, the…
From the time of our founding, George Washington observed that “[t]he administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.” Of course, it is the people who work within the…
The cost, size and scope of Minnesota state and local government continues to balloon year after year, with no end in sight. Indeed, DFL legislators stand ready to further expand…
Attempts to justify the high costs of President Biden’s Build Back Better plan have engendered a string of creative economic arguments advocating for so-called investments by the government to drive a…
Progressives write racial discrimination into the law of the land.
On Dec. 7, Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) released its budget forecast for Fiscal Year 2022-23 which foresaw a $7.746 billion projected surplus. This immediately sparked a debate about what should be…
The vaunted political clout of the teachers’ unions might be collapsing under the weight of their own arrogance