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A new parents’ advocacy organization aims to take back Minnesota’s schools.

The deadline for Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Jim Mortenson’s rule report on proposed changes to teacher licensure and required pedagogical standards has been extended to Wednesday, November 23, according to…

Center of the American Experiment continues its nation-leading efforts to educate Americans about the high cost of weather-dependent energy sources. In our latest report, we calculate the high costs of…

Digging deeper into the Feeding Our Future scandal.

Allegedly, a Feeding Our Future defendant double-dipped with a Medicaid fraud. Somehow, I missed this MPR News article when it came out last month. I’ve frequently speculated on the possible…

Outrage grows over escalating violence at the U of M.

When North Dakota Department of Transportation officials were figuring out ways to use up some $4 million in federal pandemic funds, they invited more than “2,000 diverse stakeholders for input…

Hopkins school board member Steve Adams — who was named to the 2022 All-State School Board, which is the Minnesota School Boards Association’s (MSBA) most prestigious award — recently called…

Respondents in the latest Thinking Minnesota Poll have traded their normally sunny disposition for feelings of uncertainty and concern about the future of Minnesota and the nation. Minnesotans are particularly…

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 reported…

Gov. Walz’s new energy proposal is untenable and irresponsible.

According to the Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB), Minnesota’s net general fund receipts for the first quarter of FY 2023 are now estimated to total $7.024 billion, $289 million (4.3…

We’ve heard it all before from Met Council chairman Charles Zelle, who oversees Metro Transit and the Twin Cities’ light rail lines. Promises and plans to crack down on the…

Thinking Minnesota helps extend the influence of American Experiment in ways that matter.

Evaluating the Fed’s post-COVID policies.

I’m often asked the question, “How much more is there to the free-food scandal in Minnesota”? I’m tempted to quote Churchill’s line, we’re at “the end of the beginning.” In…

If teachers and other educators would like to protect their constitutional right to not fund the union’s PAC, the process to get the forced $25 contribution refunded is not easy.…

Sizing up the issues before Minnesotans head to the polls

Educators continue to leave the teachers’ union.

In July, the Mankato Free Press ran an op-ed titled ‘Minnesota economy doing well.’ It was, in this writer’s view, the sort of fact-free boosterism that too often passes for…

Should Minnesotans believe politicians, or their own eyes?

There have been 49 people (and counting) charged in the Feeding Our Future fraud. Of those, twelve were associated with Safari Restaurant of Minneapolis, including all three co-owners. Combing through…

New law will raise health care costs on some, result in fewer new life-saving cures and more lives lost for others Rep. Angie Craig recently led off a commentary in…

Mayo Clinic nurses vote the union out.