Minnesota's workforce is shrinking. Between June and December 2022, the number of people employed in Minnesota fell by 38,724.
There’s another threat to U.S. border security that continues to fly under the radar. With the focus largely on millions illegally crossing into the U.S. on the southern border under…
Xcel Energy is seeking to increase your electric bills to pay for electric vehicle charging stations. You can sign American Experiment’s petition below to tell the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission…
HF 2486 was submitted by Rep. Cedric Frazier (DFL-New Hope) at the Minnesota legislature yesterday. The bill would implement ranked-choice voting (RCV) for all state and federal offices in time…
According to the latest Thinking Minnesota poll (February 26-28), an overwhelming majority (60%) of Minnesotans oppose restoring the right to vote for convicted felons. The poll results were released by…
Catching up with news from last month. On Feb. 7, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that the state Dept. of Human Services (DHS) had moved to shut down two adult…
Unnerved by the velocity of firearms-related bills moving forward in the DFL-controlled legislature, the Crow Wing County Board of Commissioners elected to fire off a sort of warning shot of…
State Representative Athena Hollins, DFL-St. Paul has introduced legislation that would require Minnesota to build 3,000 megawatts (MW) of energy storage in the state by 2034. Assuming lithium-ion batteries are…
The inaugural City of Minneapolis’ Black History Month Expo was held at the city convention center last Saturday. Officially billed as the “I Am My Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams Expo” the…
Earlier today the Minnesota Senate Taxes Committee held a hearing on bill SF 0009 which proposes to expand Minnesota’s child care and dependent care credit. Currently, families with incomes less…
In 19 public schools across the state, not a single student tested could do grade-level math during the 2021-2022 school year, according to an American Experiment analysis of state assessment…
Several Southern States experienced rolling blackouts during the week of Christmas as Winter Storm Elliot caused electricity demand in some areas, such as the Tennesee Valley Authority (TVA), to surge…
Long after the lockdowns and mask mandates, local governments are still searching for somebody, anybody, to award hundreds of thousands of dollars in unspent taxpayer funds received during the pandemic…
Back in 2017 when she was Federal Reserve Chair, Janet Yellen said the following to what was then a $20 trillion national debt. I would simply say that I am…
Four free-food nonprofits are suing the Dept. of Education. Free-food lawsuits may be Minnesota’s biggest growth industry. Last week, the always alert Lou Raguse of KARE-11 noticed that the state…
Yesterday, leaders of the Republican minority at the Minnesota Legislature rolled out their $13 billion “Give It Back” plan. This would dedicate most of the state’s $17.5 billion forecast budget surplus for…
New teacher licensure requirements from Gov. Tim Walz’s Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) that include requiring aspiring educators to “demonstrate” ideologically driven content risk exacerbating the teacher shortage.…
Nishad Singh, Director Engineering for failed cryptocurrency firm FTX, pled guilty in New York today to criminal charges arising out of the firm’s collapse late last year. The counts included…
In December of last year, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter proposed raising the city’s sales tax rate by one percent in order to pay for street maintenance and parks. The…
Center of the American Experiment and the Upper Midwest Law Center (UMLC) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request today with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis asking for information…
Wisconsinites around the state are experiencing sticker shock when they open their electric bills because monopoly utility companies like We Energies have been raising their prices of electricity like crazy.…
From mid-2021 to mid-2022, a net 19,400 Minnesota residents left for other states, by far the highest number in at least three decades. When you point this out, a common response is…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released its December 2022 electricity generation data, which means we get our first complete look at how different electricity sources performed last year.…
DFL legislators and political activists are moving at the Capitol to entrench Ethnic Studies in Minnesota’s K-12 schools. This is one of the biggest stories out of the legislature, but…