The Minnesota State Senate held two much-needed oversight hearings this week of the state Department of Education’s handling of the Feeding Our Future free-food scandal. Unfortunately, we learned that the…
Are people greedier here? Recently, I had an op-ed in the Star Tribune arguing that the high housing costs we face in Minnesota are not a problem, but rather a…
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) has released three drafts of state K-12 social studies standards and benchmarks since beginning the formal revision process in 2020. The third draft, released…
American Experiment policy fellow Isaac Orr discussed the European Union’s decision to place sanctions on Russian coal on NDT News.
A St. Cloud man was recently sentenced to prison and ordered to pay back more than $4 million for defrauding the federal government. Hared Nur Jabril was the owner and…
St. Paul’s rent control ordinance is set to take effect beginning May 1. Yet there is no shortage of evidence showing how disastrous the ordinance has been. Housing permits are…
The Minnesota Twins have canceled the opening game of the 2022 Major League Baseball season due to bad weather. Accordingly, Metro Transit canceled Northstar commuter rail service to the stadium…
In March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the Consumer Price Index had risen by 7.9% over the previous year, the fastest year-on-year rate since January 1982. Stripping out volatile…
In 2021, Center of the American Experiment partnered with energy journalist Robert Bryce to publish Not in Our Backyard, a report that catalogs the growing pushback against wind and solar…
Minnesota spends a lot on education. According to the Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB), our state government is poised to spend nearly $52 billion in the 2022-2023 biennium. This is…
The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office charged a 15-year-old male late last month with murder for the apparently random, fatal shooting of a 34-year-old businesswoman in her car. Police were called…
Rochester officials must be fans of the “if you build it, they will come” way of doing things. They’re racing to fill in the blanks on a vaguely defined $65…
The Minneapolis teachers’ union went on a 14-day strike in March over stalled contract negotiations, with “smaller class sizes” listed as a bargaining priority. Smaller class sizes in schools are…
The state Department of Education (MDE) testified in front of the state Senate earlier this week, and blamed their failure to halt the free-food money flows on “local judges.” Not…
The Dairyland Power Cooperative in Wisconsin is exploring its options for building new nuclear power facilities. According to a press release issued last month, the co-op signed a memorandum of…
Econ 101 has been getting bad rap the last few years. The time when Freakonomics was the book to be seen reading if you wanted to look smart is long past, and…
If there’s anywhere in the country you’d expect the Pledge of Allegiance to be a slam dunk, it’s Fargo. But the hand-wringing and heated rhetoric over whether the pledge should…
Liberal members of the DFL House of Representatives held an informational hearing on HF 2083 last week, which, if passed, would establish a California fuel standard (CFS) in Minnesota. You…
Census Bureau data show that, in 2021, Minnesota lost 13,453 residents to other states, its biggest net loss of domestic migrants to other states in at least 30 years. Data…
A really bad bill that gives rights to plants and trees Rep. Kaohly Her (DFL-St. Paul) introduced a bill that gives constitutional rights to plants and animals. You read that…
A third report about the 2020 riots released this week revealed once again that Tim Walz’s stated reason for not immediately deploying the National Guard is not supported by the…
Recent news headlines from Iowa confirm another Minnesota neighbor is prioritizing students over systems by expanding the types of school choice available to K-12 students and their families. Notice I…
They say that the children are our future. Based on the names of the nonprofits involved, that cliche was never more true than when applied to Minnesota’s free-food scandal. Of…
Labor market Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal: State hits lowest unemployment rate in 20 years as more Minnesotans go back to work MPR News: Unemployment rate falls, labor market tightens Duluth…