A recent downward departure in the sentencing of a mass shooting defendant in Minneapolis illustrates how woefully inadequate our criminal justice system is at following through with meaningful terms of…
Welcome back! This week on the American Experiment Podcast… This week, we discuss whether Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison lied to Congress about his connection to the Feeding Our Future…
Feeding Our Future defendant Zamzam Jama was sentenced this morning to six months in jail for her role in the free-food scandal. Prosecutors had requested a sentence of 16 months…
Yesterday, I asked “What would a genuine ‘affordability’ agenda look like?” I noted that “the most direct way possible” for Minnesota’s state government to ease affordability concerns for its citizens…
For the fourth year in a row, Minnesota’s third-grade reading scores have declined. While COVID didn’t create this crisis, it exposed and exacerbated it. And Minnesota is finally being forced…
This morning, at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, Judge Nancy Brasel handed down just the 7th sentence in the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud scandal. [The related juror bribery…
The two parties in St. Paul have very different priorities this session. For Republicans, the focus is “affordability;” for the DFL, it is gun control and immigration. But, as we found in our…
After 1,385 bill introductions, two-dozen press conferences, hundreds of committee meetings and 17 days of floor session, the 2026 Minnesota legislature has passed a grand total of three bills. The first…
From KARE-11, After weeks of gridlock, Inspector General bill to fight fraud finally advances in Minnesota House. You may recall that a similar bill, to create an office of inspector…
Will progress be made on repealing the ban on new nuclear power plants? Fox-9 reported earlier this week, MN lawmakers look to expand nuclear power in push for carbon-free energy.…
On February 11, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest Budget and Economic Outlook. It made for grim reading. Deficits are historically high, totaling $1.9 trillion in 2026 and…
State and local tax and spending St. Cloud Times: Walz proposes new taxes, budget changes for Minnesota MPR News: Walz unveils tech tax in budget; bipartisan support emerges at Capitol…
It’s been two days since the 8th circuit court of appeals dropped its bombshell decision overturning the basis used for releasing more than a thousand illegal aliens in Minnesota under…
Since it launched, as and when the data have become available, I have been tracking the performance of Minnesota’s Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) scheme against the forecasts on…
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison appears to have lied to the United States Senate in testimony he gave last month before the Senate’s Homeland Security committee. The occasion was a…
There are many different measures used to determine how a student is doing academically — teacher observations, in-class assignments, quizzes and tests, report cards, benchmark exams, and standardized assessments, to…
How the DFL “trifecta” made Minnesota less affordable One of the ways the DFL’s “historic” trifecta of 2023 hit Minnesotans in the pocket was by hiking car tab fees. This…
On Tuesday, the Senate Health and Human Services Committee heard SF 4324, a bill that would revise childcare licensing standards in Minnesota. I testified in favor of several provisions in…
Center of the American Experiment public safety policy fellow David Zimmer testified Tuesday in support of SF 3347, where it received a hearing in the Senate State and Local Government…
The case, decided by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, originated out of the Minnesota federal district. It was one of many such habeas corpus cases seeking the release of…
A relatively new, Gaza-relief charity, with close Minnesota ties, is generating headlines for its worldwide impact. The nonprofit Human Development Fund (HDF), incorporated in Pennsylvania, received its tax-exempt status from…
Welcome back! This week on the American Experiment Podcast… This week we’re breaking down Governor Walz’s supplemental budget proposal, the truth behind Steve Simon’s voter registration claims, and a new lawsuit challenging Paid Family Leave. On the back…
Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) belatedly released its migration data for 2022-2023. The data showed a net loss of 7,561 individuals from Minnesota to other parts of the United…
A couple of weeks ago, I submitted testimony to the House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee in support of HF 4111. Below is an edited version of my remarks. The…