An analysis of school district data reveals the dramatic rise in homeschooling prompted by COVID-19 and school closure decisions “has largely sustained itself through the 2022-23 academic year, defying predictions…
Minneapolis isn’t the only core Metro city with an election next week. All seven of St. Paul’s city council seats are up for election on November 7 and there are…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune committed an act of journalism this week with Maya Rao‘s lengthy piece on the growing migrant crisis in the state’s largest county. Scott Johnson at PowerLine…
Back in April, I wrote that the cost of the DFL’s paid family and medical leave (PFML) scheme had risen by 30% in just one year, from an estimated $781…
Last fall I wrote about how average English, math, and composite American College Test (ACT) scores among Minnesota’s high school graduating class of 2022 were the lowest they had been…
Next Tuesday, residents in St. Paul will vote on whether to approve a 1 percent sales tax hike whose revenue will be used for the city’s streets and parks. If…
(And no, they are not using the non-pejorative British definition of scheme, which means a plan or system for doing or organizing something.) In a new attack on educational freedom…
It’s a little over a week until the city council election in the state’s largest city. Local socialists are making a bid for functional control of the council, in opposition…
Heritage Foundation economist Peter St Onge produces daily videos about the economy and freedom. This week, he discussed a recent poll that found young people are more concerned about rising…
Irina Slav wrote a great piece about how we arrived at our current energy crisis at her Substack. I highly recommend you check out her work from time to time.…
State and local taxes and spending KNSI: Minnesota’s budget surplus grows to a projected $2.4 billion, fueling debate over spending Kare 11: Minnesota budget surplus estimate tops $2 billion Rochester…
Last week, Xcel Energy announced it is seeking to install 1,200 megawatts (MW) of new wind capacity in southwest Minnesota by 2027, which would constitute a 25 percent increase in…
The Minneapolis City Council demonstrated once again this week why seating activists in government is counterproductive. This Council makeup is widely viewed as dysfunctional, and its rejection of a…
Historians essentially agree the bloody Dakota uprising of 1862 still stands as the most consequential event in Minnesota history. The media’s attention generally focuses on the December anniversary of the…
An administrative law judge (ALJ) is considering proposed changes to Minnesota’s K-12 academic standards in social studies. He will weigh the changes against statutory requirements for revising academic standards and…
It turns out that giving away free food to poor hungry children was an extremely lucrative enterprise in 2021. I’ve mentioned before how hundreds of nonprofits sprung up overnight (or…
A recent K-12 student enrollment forecast published by Statista, a data gathering and visualization platform, projects Minnesota K-12 public school enrollment will decline nearly two percent (1.8 percent) from 2021…
Earlier this month, I was invited to present on the results of American Experiment’s modeling on the impact of the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations on carbon dioxide emissions on new…
As proposed changes to Minnesota’s K-12 social studies standards await review by an administrative law judge, I think it’s important to reiterate why American Experiment is opposed to the revisions,…
In a recent update, Minnesota Management and Budget announced that Minnesota’s budget surplus for the 2022-23 biennium jumped $820 million, up from the $1.6 billion estimated at the end of…
Those of you with a heated school board election in your area better buckle up for the next two weeks because it’s going to be a wild ride. With help…
These were some of the headlines in local media in July, when CNBC released its annual “America’s Top States for Business” ranking: On closer investigation it turned out that these…
There is finally some good news on the inflation front: your home heating bill should be lower this year thanks to lower natural gas prices, according to a new forecast…
On October 18, the St. Paul City Council approved a major overhaul of the city’s zoning code, effectively ending single-family zoning in St. Paul. Specifically, zoning changes will consolidate the…