Yesterday, American Experiment policy fellow Isaac Orr appeared in front of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to testify on Xcel Energy’s plan to prematurely retire their coal fleet and build…
Emails obtained through a public data request by Parents Defending Education assert that U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona requested the controversial National School Board Association letter that likened participants at…
Four migrants are found dead in a blizzard. The suspected human smuggler is released without bond. The southwestern U.S. border gets all the attention, but Minnesota’s northern border is also…
Rent control policies nowadays follow a certain formula. To control for some of the negative effects on housing supply, lawmakers usually exempt new construction, allow vacancy decontrol — whereby landlords…
The United States is currently experiencing its fastest rate of inflation, year over year, since mid-1982. Those of you who are old enough to remember that might also remember the…
Nebraska, again, lowers its own record for America’s lowest unemployment rate. Minnesota’s rate returns to pre-pandemic level, but lags neighboring states. In data released for December, Nebraska again recorded the…
It didn’t take long into 2022 to see that serious crime in the Twin Cities isn’t relenting. In early January, Kashwan Wertman, 18, and Nautica Argue, 19, terrorized 27 vehicle…
The 2022 Minnesota Student Survey, provided by the Minnesota Department of Education to schools to administer, uses valuable classroom time to ask students inappropriate and personal questions about gender, sex,…
St. Paul’s Mayor Melvin Carter has expressed some concerns regarding the city’s rent control proposal even before it was passed. Specifically, he noted that the proposal was too strict and…
The Minnesota House Commerce Finance Policy committee is currently deciding which of 26 proposed liquor bills will be included in an omnibus package to go to a vote. These decisions…
However, the labor force participation rate is stuck at Jimmy Carter levels. This week, unemployment figures were released for the state of Minnesota, showing that the December unemployment rate fell…
It’s coming down to the wire for small businesses to change the minds of Minneapolis planners bent on eliminating 92 percent of parking spots in favor of bikes and busses…
West Virginia is famous for its coal-mining heritage, but legislation is progressing in the Mountain State to lift its ban on building nuclear power plants. This begs the question: if…
Labor market KSTP: Minnesota recruits teens to health care jobs amid workforce crisis Kare 11: Record-high job vacancies in Minnesota as pandemic worker shortages continue WJON: Central Minnesota to Experience…
With a projected $7.7 billion surplus as well as $1.1 billion unspent federal funds, the biggest question in Minnesota’s upcoming legislative session will be how to spend those funds. Yesterday,…
On Thursday, some 200 law enforcement officers raided the offices of the St. Anthony, Minnesota-based nonprofit Feeding Our Future and related organizations at more than a dozen locations. Records available…
Minnesotans are having their incomes and living standards squeezed by inflation. The national figures get the headlines, but less known is the fact that the situation is especially bad here.…
Isaac Orr joins The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Linnea Lueken on episode 329 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode, the ITT crew talks about…
In March 2020 Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as CARES Act. The $2.2 trillion spending program contained spending programs to provide relief to…
Minneapolis has designated some 200 structures within the city as historic landmarks worthy of preservation and protection. But there’s about to be one fewer landmark on that list before long,…
With renewed calls for Hennepin County Sheriff Dave Hutchinson to resign because of his dangerous DWI incident last month, let’s take a look back at how he ascended into the…
Podcaster Joe Soucheray takes the Center’s John Hinderaker on a tour of Gumption County.
American Experiment policy fellow Isaac Orr was interviewed by the Epoch Times. The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA’s) latest short-term energy outlook (pdf) reveals that coal inventories in the electric power sector…
In 1985, Amtrak ended all passenger rail service to Duluth. It did so because hardly anyone was using the service anymore. Now, nearly 40 years on, there are proposals to…