New teacher licensure requirements from Gov. Tim Walz’s Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) that include requiring aspiring educators to “demonstrate” ideologically driven content risk exacerbating the teacher shortage.…
Nishad Singh, Director Engineering for failed cryptocurrency firm FTX, pled guilty in New York today to criminal charges arising out of the firm’s collapse late last year. The counts included…
In December of last year, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter proposed raising the city’s sales tax rate by one percent in order to pay for street maintenance and parks. The…
Center of the American Experiment and the Upper Midwest Law Center (UMLC) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request today with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis asking for information…
Wisconsinites around the state are experiencing sticker shock when they open their electric bills because monopoly utility companies like We Energies have been raising their prices of electricity like crazy.…
From mid-2021 to mid-2022, a net 19,400 Minnesota residents left for other states, by far the highest number in at least three decades. When you point this out, a common response is…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released its December 2022 electricity generation data, which means we get our first complete look at how different electricity sources performed last year.…
DFL legislators and political activists are moving at the Capitol to entrench Ethnic Studies in Minnesota’s K-12 schools. This is one of the biggest stories out of the legislature, but…
Several of our readers have reached out to me over the last week as they received their latest electric bill that contained an insert explaining how Xcel Energy is seeking…
Last week, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported on the ongoing business disputes between a prominent DFL politico and a group of South Dakota cannabis entrepreneurs. It turns out that the…
Grade retention remains a controversial policy, with the debate focusing on whether or not it is effective over time and actually results in positive achievement and adjustment outcomes. In Mississippi,…
In the follow-up to the recent murder inside St. Paul Harding High School, we are learning from students, teachers, and parents how a focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)…
On housing and child care, Minnesotans face higher costs than many other Americans. In 2019, the average Minnesota family paid over $16,000 to keep a child at a day care…
You read that correctly. Earlier this month, state Rep. Sydney Jordon (DFL-Minneapolis) introduced HF 1857 (SF 2791), which would ban the sale of bottled water in the state of Minnesota.…
In one of the most blatant (and profitable) pay-to-play arrangements in state history, Democrats in Minnesota are about to provide a huge return-on-investment to Minnesota’s American Indian tribes for their…
After decades of growth and generous taxpayer funding, more colleges and universities suddenly face declining enrollment, budget deficits and cutbacks. The pressure’s on to find efficiencies, consolidate departments and provide…
As I have written before, school rankings should be viewed with a grain of salt. Looking into what measures the ranking includes — and doesn’t include — is an important…
Usually, people who advocate for spending money on childcare are reluctant to consider free-market solutions to the childcare crisis. This is because such people believe that the childcare market exhibits…
Liberal lawmakers in St. Paul have introduced legislation that would force Minnesota to follow in California’s footsteps by prohibiting the sale of gas-powered lawn equipment in Minnesota by January 1,…
The number of students enrolled in Minnesota’s traditional public schools is down, while private school and charter school enrollment has increased, according to data recently released by the Minnesota Department…
A firm connected to Ilhan Omar’s current husband, Tim Mynett, is being sued in Hennepin County district court over a business dispute involving South Dakota cannabis start-up companies. South Dakota…
The latest snow storm to hit the state dropped an impressive 13 inches of snow on the Metro area. But, somehow managed to fall well short of expectations. As the…
House File 772, the bill that would potentially ban natural gas furnaces, was heard in the House Labor Committee on Tuesday. American Experiment policy fellow Isaac Orr testified on the…
Payday or short-term loans have a bad reputation — and for an understandable reason. Interest on payday loans tends to be high. Additionally, it is usually low-income, credit-crunched individuals that…