The Pitch A recent Star Tribune article about auto theft in Hennepin County highlighted an initiative out of the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office (HCAO) called the Youth Auto Theft Early…
It has been nearly three years since Winter Storm Uri caused more than 24 million Texans to suffer through four days of rolling power outages due to inadequate electricity supplies. …
Taxes disincentivize people from doing or consuming whatever it is that is being taxed, whether it is investment or smoking. Indeed, much government policy, from cigarette taxes to carbon taxes,…
But you already knew that. Although he has not yet been charged in the Thanksgiving-eve fatal stabbing at an Edina bus stop, KSTP-5 has named the 32-year-old suspect in the…
State and local taxes and spending KFGO: Preliminary numbers show an average of a 7.3% property tax increase in Minnesota next year Wadena Pioneer Journal: County board receives update on…
A friend passed along a recent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on the importance of thanking our teachers (with a focus on doing so before it’s too late). I…
In June I highlighted our criminal justice system’s apparent apathy in connecting the dots and incapacitating a man responsible for the gruesome death of a man crushed by a train…
The Minnesota Legislature is about to build another new office building for themselves and once again, they’re doing it without ever taking a vote on the floor of the House…
There has been a fair amount of effort to characterize our crime problem as improving. These efforts typically cite a handful of crimes that have decreased slightly when compared to last…
All politics are global. Our story so far: Twin Cities’ native Tyeastia Green worked for a spell as the City of Burlington, VT’s Director of Racial Equity, Inclusion and Belonging.…
Newly released data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) show that new wind installations fell in 2022, relative to 2021 and 2020, for Minnesota and the United States as…
College enrollment continues to decline in most institutions of higher education on both sides of the Red River in the Fargo-Moorhead region. The steady erosion of enrollment on college campuses…
Intent Minnesotans frequently ask Center of the American Experiment how they can find information to help evaluate the performance of judges in their district. Unfortunately, information on judicial performance is traditionally…
Last Friday, the Star Tribune reported that the cost of Xcel Energy’s proposed transmission line from Becker, Minnesota, to Lyon County, has more than doubled, leaping from $528 million to…
The regional electric grid operator in Texas, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), sent a request to stakeholders earlier this year asking for more reserve generating capacity for the…
You may recall our February visit to these southwest Minneapolis icons of the early motoring age. These turn out to be two of six aging motels purchased by Hennepin County…
State and local taxes and spending Brainerd Dispatch: Beltrami County passes local sales tax to fund new jail by huge margin Pioneer Press: Progressives continue notching victories in St. Paul…
When we talk about taxes and regulations, and how they affect the economy, it is easy to get caught up in the numbers on things like GDP and overlook the…
Minnesota’s media is cock-a-hoop over the latest jobs numbers: WCCO: Minnesota reached record 3 million jobs in October Star Tribune: More than 3 million Minnesotans worked in October, the highest total ever…
Minnesotans are constantly told that their annual electricity bills are at or near the national average, but this is only the case because we use far less electricity than southern…
Last week, the Fraser Institute published its annual Economic Freedom of North America report. The new edition, which looks at data from 2021, ranked Minnesota among the least free states…
No doubt Winona residents were basking in the unseasonably warm weather enjoyed by Minnesotans yesterday across much of the state. With a high of 61 degrees in southeastern Minnesota, the…
In the last legislative session, the Minnesota state government, led by the DFL trifecta, voted to give $225 million taxpayer dollars direct to nonprofits. We don't get a penny of…
Today is Give to the Max Day, an annual event for Minnesotans to support nonprofit organizations through donations. Thanks to our supporters, any donation we receive today will be doubled!…