I’ve applied to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC). To be clear, there is zero chance I will be appointed by Governor Walz, but here…
When lawmakers legalized marijuana last session, they also set aside tens of millions of tax dollars to subsidize the marijuana industry. The bill that legalized marijuana, HF 100, instructed the…
Isaac Orr was on the Jon Justice show yesterday to discuss why Texas is growing increasingly vulnerable to winter blackouts and talk about how the failure of Minnesota electric buses…
Bail was set at $1 million on the single charge of 2nd-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of Christian Hans Lundegaard on Thanksgiving Eve. His next court appearance on the…
The New York Times Editorial Board recently published an op-ed on how school closures during COVID-19 “may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American education”…
As we’ve documented on video, the situation at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in south Minneapolis hasn’t improved in 3 1/2 years. A group of businesses located in and near…
Back in 2020, my colleague Tom Steward and I described how Minnesotans — and residents of the Twin Cities specifically — were failed so miserably that summer by their state and…
WCCO reports that the 32-year-old Garcia has been charged with a single count, 2nd-degree (felony) murder in the Thanksgiving-eve stabbing death of 62-year-old Christian Hans Lundegaard. Garcia remains in custody…
For a few months now, a common theme in the local media is that the inflation rate in the Twin Cities is lower than in comparable metropolitan areas. In October,…
Evan Ramstad at the Star Tribune wrote a great story highlighting the multitude of entirely foreseeable potholes that electric buses are hitting in towns across Minnesota. The piece is solid…
The legislature appropriates more money, the unions grab it for salaries, the school board cuts middle school band, and everyone blames the legislature for underfunding. Rinse and repeat.
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…