On Monday, we got the news that Minnesota Court of Appeals dealt a setback to the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine in northern Minnesota by sending two crucial permits, the permit…
The study, compiled at the request of at the request of the City Council, recommends adding 78 sworn personnel, including 33 sergeants. It runs contrary to Mayor Carter's desire to…
Just over two years ago, sexual misconduct accusations rocked Hollywood and fueled the #MeToo movement’s drive against sexual impropriety. But predators aren’t just in Hollywood. The Center for Union Facts…
According to the state Tax Foundation, Minnesota has the 3rd highest excise tax on champagne in the nation.
Yesterday the Minnesota Court of Appeals dealt a setback to the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine in northern Minnesota. In the ruling, the Court sent two crucial permits, the permit to…
In the third quarter of 2019 Minnesota's economy grew at an annualized rate of 2.0% compared to a national rate of 2.1%. It was the fourth consecutive quarter that our…
I was pleased to read a Star Tribune counterpoint written by a parent who pushed back against the claims by Steve Marchese, a St. Paul school board member, that school…
Research finds "a significant negative relation between the amount of the net (after-tax) salary cap represented by the personal income tax rate of the teams’ home states and the success…
Minnesota had more wind turbines and solar panels in 2018 than in any year prior, but carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity generation sector increased compared to 2017 and 2016…
Heartland’s Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins, and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr in episode 225 of the In The Tank Podcast. One Child Nation, a documentary now available on…
There is a reason most people fail at keeping their New Year’s resolutions—breaking habits or creating new ones takes time and consistency. But when it comes to our public education…
American Experiment’s John Hinderaker interviews attorney and policy analyst Andrew McCarthy about the slippery slope of presidential investigations.
Tomorrow the Minnesota Vikings take on the heavily favored San Francisco 49ers in an NFC playoff game. In anticipation of the clash, Center of the American Experiment has challenged the…
Somewhere along the line providing bicycles to the public evidently became an essential city service. What better vehicle for politicians to display their allegiance to carbon neutrality and healthy urban…
You can talk to people about the weather-driven variation in electricity output from wind and solar power until you’re blue in the face, but it will never be as effective…
Even in French, taxes are incentives and if you change the incentives you change behavior.
This column, by American Experiment Chairman Ron Eibensteiner, appears in the new Winter 2020 Issue of Thinking Minnesota. Progressives these days like to disparage American business owners—the job-creating heroes who…
I respect that the conversation on how to solve the gap is at least started by this proposal, but I don't believe it will result in the lasting change our…
A new study on the effects of the minimum wage can be read one of two ways thanks to a questionable methodology.
In a recent AgriNews editorial entitled “Significant Environmental Impacts Must Be Identified,” Vance and Bonnie Haugen claimed my article detailing how regulating greenhouse gas emissions from a dairy farm in…
Contrary to expected lower foreign prices, recent US tariffs have been passed on to importers and consumers almost entirely.
John Hinderaker, President at Center of the American Experiment, released the following statement in response to House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler’s threat via Twitter to withhold state aid from Beltrami County: “This threat to…
When policymakers impose regulations in the name of something like fighting climate change, they are sacrificing affordable housing in pursuit of that goal. Too often, rather than admitting this, they…
A solar thermal plant in Nevada is the latest in the long list of Obama administration energy failures. The Crescent Dunes solar facility remains on the hook to repay $737…