This month’s dramatic court verdicts in the Feeding Our Future {FOF} case (“guilty on all counts”) don’t mark the end of the saga. In Churchillian terms, it’s more like “the…
State and local taxes and spending Star Tribune: Gov. Tim Walz proposes additional spending cuts in revised budget plan KAAL TV: Governor Walz releases revised Minnesota budget Grand Rapids Herald…
During President Trump’s joint address to Congress, he promised “historic action to dramatically expand production of critical minerals and rare earths here in the U.S.A.” Prioritizing domestic critical minerals exploration and development…
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz continued his national “town hall” tour yesterday in Houston, TX. Local affiliate Fox 26 reported beforehand: You may recall that Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke’s most recent…
The DFL deficit In February 2023, Minnesota Management & Budget (MMB) forecast a state government budget surplus of $17 billion for the 2024-2025 biennium. In that “historic” session, the DFL trifecta blew…
On Tuesday, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and Minnesota Wild owner Craig Leopold addressed the Senate Capital Investment Committee, seeking state funding for renovations to the Xcel Energy Center. The project…
Suddenly, the “wrong” people are doing the “right” thing. The full quote from Nobel-prize-winning economist Milton Friedman goes as follows: I do not believe that the solution to our problem…
This month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did some spring cleaning and took steps toward 31 significant deregulatory actions. Utilities and American electricity consumers will benefit from averted blackouts and billions of dollars of…
We at Center of the American Experiment have long warned of looming budget squeezes in Minneapolis and St. Paul as a result of collapsing commercial property values. Simply put, declining values means declining property tax valuations, which means declining…
Starting April 1, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) will hold a three-day series of hearings in St. Paul on the proposed acquisition of the electric utility Minnesota Power (MP).…
The CEO of the Minnesota-based free-food behemoth Second Harvest Heartland announced that she will be stepping down from her position. Allison O’Toole will be leaving the organization after leading it…
The upcoming municipal elections in Minneapolis will be a referendum on the city’s future. At the moment, the future is not bright. Yesterday, the city’s hometown newspaper, the Star Tribune,…
The ‘stop-arm’ law Last September, as kids across Minnesota prepared to start or return to school, Kare 11 ran an article titled “Back-to-school reminder: Minnesota’s stop-arm law means stopping for…
The Cato Institute released a new report this month estimating the staggering costs of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. The 2022 law could cost a staggering $1.97 trillion by 2034,…
Shaping policy The common argument from progressive criminal justice system academics and policy makers is that incarceration is a costly and ineffective tool to control crime. In Minnesota, progressive academics…
There are lots of proposals swirling around the state capitol aimed at stopping the fraud rampant throughout state government. Will any of them work? Will any of them gain enough…
Governor Walz continues to boast about how many Minnesotan kids are on Medicaid, but is that REALLY something to BOAST about?! Later Grace, Bill, and Kathryn react to House DFL…
The Minnesota Legislature is currently considering H.F. 29, a bill that does two important things: Here’s how American Experiment Senior Policy Fellow Katherine Kersten explained why we need H.F. 29…
In American Experiment’s 2021 report “The State of Minnesota’s Economy: 2020 — A focus on economic growth,” we wrote: What matters for economic welfare is per capita income. This is…
Gov. Tim Walz continues to take aim at nonpublic schools, as his revised budget proposal for the next biennium still eliminates all funding for nonpublic school students. The cuts are…
Owing to the growing budget deficit, Gov. Tim Walz has called for more spending cuts in addition to what he initially proposed in January. Overall, Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB)…
The steady decline in the quality of mail service in recent years has been well documented by MinnPost and other media outlets across the country. The saga over unreliable mail…
Abdihakim Ahmed entered the 38th guilty plea, overall, in the Feeding Our Future case this morning. In a 35-minute hearing before Judge Nancy Brasel at the federal courthouse in downtown…
Governor Walz made news last week traveling around the Midwest holding tightly controlled town meetings in front of friendly audiences. It feels like he’s searching for the meaning of life…