American Experiment recently cautioned that the imposition of a local sales tax to generate a new revolving stream of funding provides a more tempting option than ever for communities across…
State and local taxes and spending St. Cloud Times: Don’t forget: Vote on 1.5% food and beverage tax in Sartell on Tuesday Brainerd Dispatch: Ruud works to phase out Social…
After years of declining violent crime rates in Minnesota, 2021 was a bad year. Homicides, gun violence, and carjackings escalated to numbers not seen in nearly twenty years. Experts and…
On Thursday, the Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) released the numbers for January revenue collections. And according to the new data, tax collections were $649 million higher than was predicted…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration released a graph today showing Europe is mainly dependent upon imports for its natural gas. According to EIA: Imports of natural gas by both pipeline…
On Jan. 13, Mayors Melvin Carter of St. Paul and Jacob Frey of Minneapolis announced that, to fight the spread of COVID-19, as of Jan. 19, patrons at restaurants, bars,…
This week, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) voted to allow Xcel Energy to shut down their coal-fired power plants a decade before the end of their useful lifetimes and…
What questions haven’t been answered? What questions haven’t even been asked? It’s been exactly three weeks since 200 FBI agents raided the offices of a Minnesota free food nonprofit and…
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that inflation was 0.6 percent in January and 7.5 percent over the year (the increase was 7.9 percent in the Midwest). This is the fastest…
Under criticism for collecting a $184,000 paycheck from Hennepin County taxpayers from his condo in Los Angeles, the director of the county library system has taken a pause from his…
Nonprofits behind the Feeding Our Future alleged scandal argued that Minnesota children were going hungry for lack of free food distribution sites. A look at one Bloomington address suggests otherwise.…
Minnesotans will see the price of gasoline increase by about 15 cents per gallon in the coming months as oil refineries switch from winter-blend gasoline to summer-blend gasoline in March…
Yesterday, we released our new Policy Briefing, ‘Reducing Tax Complexity for Minnesotans.’ Today, we release another, ‘Reducing tax complexity for Minnesota’s businesses.’ Minnesota ranked 45th out of 50 states in…
Proponents of licensing — and other forms of regulation –– proclaim that customers usually lack sufficient information to measure the quality or safety of products. In this case, licensing signals a…
The University of Minnesota is seeking an assistant professor of elementary literacy education who has “knowledge of and commitment to” Critical Race Theory. The assistant professor will work in the…
There’s growing momentum and pressure on the Met Council to not just audit what went wrong with the scandal-plagued Southwest Light Rail Transit, Line but to flat-out stop construction and…
Today, we release our new Policy Briefing, ‘Reducing Tax Complexity for Minnesotans.’ This starts by noting that Minnesotans are some of the most heavily taxed citizens in the United States.…
Regular readers of American Experiment know that I’ve been very concerned about the skyrocketing price of fertilizer. There’s a very personal reason for this worry; my dad still operates the…
Although the USDA’s Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) is having its difficulties in Minnesota, the rest of the country is seeking more nonprofits to tap a higher federal reimbursement rate…
Calls for banning no-knock search warrants in the wake of Amir Locke’s shooting death last week in downtown Minneapolis are reverberating at both the state and local levels. Of great…
American Experiment will pursue an aggressive education agenda in the 2022 legislative session. A primary goal will be enhanced academic and financial transparency to arm parents with the information they…
Beyond the usual dangers that go with the job, Ramsey County Sheriff’s deputies now face a new threat to their livelihood, not from the streets but rather from their own…
In the Feeding Our Future alleged scandal, the numbers can be staggering. So, let’s focus on a single city as a case study in bureaucratic bloat to make the figures…
I’ve noted recently how the vaccine and testing regime imposed on Minneapolis by Mayor Jacob Frey last month has hit businesses in the city that were already hurting. I have…