Yesterday, my colleague Bill Walsh asked: “Are state tax cuts possible with new federal stimulus bill?” Senate amendments to the American Rescue Plan Act prohibit the use of any of the $350 billion in…
The article below was written by Isaac Orr, and it was originally published in the Duluth News Tribune. In late 2018, Metro Transit in the Twin Cities boldly proclaimed it…
While Target's decision to reduce space is potentially rooted solely in less need for office space, it nevertheless makes downtown less appealing to other businesses– both in and outside the…
Gov. Tim Walz will release a revised budget this week, reacting to the updated state budget forecast that changed its outlook from a $1.3 billion deficit to a $1.6 billion…
Researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) found that reading skills among young students are lagging what would be expected in a typical school year. Their study analyzed…
Minnesota politicians have long touted the state’s commitment to transparency in government. Yet from the very beginning the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, the state version of the federal Freedom…
Center of the American Experiment continues to lead the charge against the Walz administration’s attempt to impose California car mandates on Minnesota drivers. Our organization submitted 46 pages of comments…
On Wednesday, a Minnesota House division approved a bill that would raise taxes on cigarettes, cigars, and tobacco products. Indeed, if it becomes law, this bill would increase the tax…
The Biden Administration has just announced $51/ton “Social Cost of Carbon.” On this week’s Power Hour, Alex Epstein interviews David Kreutzer, Senior Economist at the Institute for Energy Research, about…
While Minnesota has gained almost all jobs lost in December, long term job losses are still high. Additionally, our unemployment rate is down yet again due to people leaving the…
As we celebrate Women’s History Month, we must not only reflect on how far women have come but work to ensure that progress isn’t reversed. Unfortunately, legislators in the U.S.…
Despite no proven correlation between spending and student achievement, Big Education relentlessly demands—and gets—more and more money.
The United States contains some of the largest untapped reserves of essential metals in the world, but we aren’t producing them domestically. The video below from Kite and Key Media…
On Wednesday, the United States Congress approved ‘The American Rescue Plan.’ The bill is, purportedly, intended to help people suffering from the economic effects of Covid-19 and federal and state…
Despite the evidence showing how disastrous raising the minimum wage is, a bill proposed in the Minnesota senate seeks to drastically raise Minnesota's minimum wage effective August 2021.
Governor Walz’s expectation that all k-12 students be offered “some form of in-person learning” by March 8 wasn’t quite met. According to the Minnesota Department of Education, about nine percent…
How the Met Council and local governments deny affordable housing to the working poor.
This week, it was announced that US News had ranked Minnesota the 2nd best state in America. State policymakers were quick to crow. Gov. Walz put out this press release:…
In the hearts of many Americans, there is nothing more futuristic than space exploration. It is interesting to note, then, that the Mars rover Perseverance runs on nuclear fuel, not…
Last month, I noted that business leaders in St. Paul were pleading with the city government to act to halt the rise in violent crime in the city. Minneapolis, too, is also…
The following article was written by Kevin Dayaratna and appeared in the Daily Signal. On his very first day in office, President Joe Biden issued an executive order resurrecting the Obama-era social…
Sen. Jason Isaacson's comments in a Senate committee showed a disregard for minority students trapped in failing public schools.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2020, the minimum wage workforce was mostly made up of young, low-skilled workers with low levels of education. Additionally, most minimum wage workers…
I’ve written before about the damage that the Covid-19 pandemic and misguided government policy responses to it are having on Minnesota’s thriving brewing and distilling industry. The Minnesota Craft Beverage Council (MCBC) reports…