The across-the-board free breakfast and lunch program initiated during the pandemic was sold as being all about students and families. But a last-ditch effort in Washington by educators from Minnesota…
When it comes to politics in Minnesota, the Democrats are the professionals, and Republicans are the amateurs. I don’t say that to disparage my Republican friends. Politics is supposed to…
Thursday, Gov. Tim Walz unveiled his latest budget proposal. Never mind that a budget for the current biennium was actually passed last summer and that it provided for more state…
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz took the opportunity to announce a slight increase in the size of the “Walz checks” families would receive under his plan at a gas station. The…
Support for education freedom continues to grow across party lines and demographics, according to a February poll by OnMessage Inc. and reported on by the American Federation for Children. Education…
As reported by the Star Tribune, St. Paul city officials on Wednesday unveiled a proposal that would provide five full-time employees and funding to administer the rent-control ordinance passed by…
Telsa has announced it will increase the cost of all its electric vehicle models for the second time in the last several days. According to Inside EVs, the price hikes…
Free speech and journalistic integrity both took a hit this week in Rochester, Minnesota as American Experiment attempted to host an event on public safety. As a think tank, that’s…
Starting today, businesses in Minnesota will start paying higher Unemployment Insurance taxes after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on replenishing the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Trust Fund. As the Minnesota…
The average high school graduate in 2019 earned higher average grades and was more likely to complete at least one relatively rigorous course of study than any graduating class in…
On Monday, I wrote about how Minnesota’s businesses were about to be hit with a steep hike in taxes if legislators didn’t vote by Tuesday to pay back the money…
The rate of year-over-year inflation in the United States hit a 40 year high in February. The rate of increase was higher in the Midwest than it was for the…
In 2017, the Minnesota Legislature established the Minnesota Premium Security Plan (MPSP), a reinsurance program that lowered premiums in the individual health insurance market by over 20 percent. Set to…
Generally, compared to most states, Minnesota licenses fewer occupations. However, we also license occupations that are rarely licensed in other states, and we do so much more onerously. Not to…
To be sure, it’s not official until next month. But after two years of keeping their distance from the public like so many other elected officials, the Duluth City Council…
An American Experiment event on the Crime Crisis was abruptly cancelled today by the Rochester Country Club after leftist activists pressured the venue with an online petition signed by 90…
The rent control ordinance passed in St. Paul last November is having exactly the consequences that were predicted before it was passed. If you set a price below a market…
Over 30,000 Minneapolis students have been shut out of their classrooms for five days now, as the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers went on strike on March 10. The union and…
The consequences of St. Paul’s rent control policy continue to pile up. While Mayor Melvin Carter is looking for a way to amend the policy, numbers show that construction has…
Despite a major initiative by state education officials, the number of high school seniors filling out college aid applications, a key predictor of interest in college, continues to decline. The…
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Minnesota last year, the virus and the state government’s response to it wrought havoc with our state’s economy. The unemployment rate rocketed from 3.5 percent in…
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has instructed the Department of Transportation and the Department of Agriculture to release a report detailing how Minnesota would adopt California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard. California’s…
State and local taxes and spending St. Cloud Times: Minnesota needs to end tax on Social Security: Letter The Center Square: How Much Minnesota Homeowners Pay in Property Taxes Each…
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Linnea Lueken, and the Center of the American Experiment’s Isaac Orr present episode 336 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode,…