Center of the American Experiment’s Public Safety Policy Fellow David Zimmer testified before the Minnesota Senate’s Judiciary and Public Safety Committee yesterday. Zimmer presented the findings of his 2024 analysis…
Minnesota student performance on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows that average test scores are not significantly different from two years prior and are still below pre-COVID…
I’m guessing that most Minnesotans aren’t even aware that the state House of Representatives is nonfunctioning. I don’t blame them. People have to live their lives, work their jobs, get…
HAPPY NATIONAL SCHOOL CHOICE WEEK! To celebrate, on this special edition of the American Experiment Podcast, Education Policy Fellow Catrin Wigfall hosts nationally renowned school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis! Corey…
Part 2 of reporter Jay Kolls’ series looking into fraud in the state’s child care assistance program (CCAP) aired last night on KSTP-TV’s 10 o’clock news. Kolls interviews state Rep.…
Over the weekend, a Chinese artificial intelligence company announced that its open-source AI model, DeepSeek-R1, required only a small fraction of the investment that U.S. tech companies are pouring into…
Today, at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, the 27th guilty plea was entered in the Feeding Our Future case. Sharmake Jama, Defendant No. 39, became conviction No. 32 in…
With the House at a standstill, how the rest of the legislative session progresses is uncertain. Despite the chaos, current proposals do offer some reason for hope in some areas.…
DFL State Rep. Kristin Bahner of Maple Grove claimed in a constituent email this week that she essentially works for free at the legislature because of all the time she…
This afternoon, the state senate Energy committee took up two bills to repeal the ban on new nuclear power plants. Today’s meeting was only possible because, under the current Senate…
Jay Kolls of KSTP-5 TV performs a public service in his report last night on the 10 o’clock news. His headline: 62 investigations underway involving federally-funded Minnesota child care centers…
Happy National School Choice Week! New survey results reveal that 60 percent of U.S. parents said they considered new or different schools for at least one of their kids last…
Minnesota’s House Democrats still refuse to show up for work, grinding the work of the entire government to a halt. Bill Walsh joins Grace and Kathryn to go over all the…
Residents of St. Croix County across the river from the Alan S. King power plant in Oak Park Heights turned out in force at a town hall Monday to oppose…
The executive branch has seized control of both the floor of the Minnesota House of Representatives along with control of the chamber website and media operation. Moving far beyond any…
Last week U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland, a Minnesota native, was shot and killed while conducting an investigative traffic stop in Vermont. It marked the first time in ten…
Minnesotans’ hopes that House DFLers would bank their Supreme Court win and show up to work yesterday were disappointed. All 67 Republicans were in the chamber at 3:30 p.m. when…
It’s shaping up to be a big week in the Feeding Our Future scandal, with four guilty pleas expected to be entered. Ahead of their federal trial scheduled to begin…
The shenanigans in the Minnesota House of Representatives have tended to obscure the fact that the legislature’s other house, the Senate, has been functioning smoothly. Until today. You may recall…
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Fix Our Forests Act on January 23. The bill, if passed by the Senate, would serve as a means of expediting review of…
Gov. Tim Walz’s budget proposal cuts funding intended to “promote equal educational opportunity for every student in Minnesota.” Nonpublic pupil education aid and nonpublic pupil transportation aid, established under state…
A frequent question/comment I get from readers regarding Constitutional Crisis 2025TM (now in Day 14) concerns elections for Supreme Court justices. Under the Minnesota system, justices are appointed by the…
On Friday, Minnesota’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of the DFL’s position that a quorum in the state House requires 68 Representatives to be present. What happens now? The House…
Minnesota House Democrats, with fresh permission from the Supreme Court, have put the state into a government shutdown. Government shutdowns usually happen at the end of session when the two…