Does the academic achievement of students increase when they have teachers of the same race and ethnicity? Not that much. Access to school choice delivers far larger student achievement gains.…
In this fourth edition of our Minnesota For Sale series, we dive into the dark money supporting Democratic candidates in Minnesota. Democrats in Minnesota and elsewhere are famously opposed to…
Employees at Center of the American Experiment, a conservative think tank in Golden Valley, Minnesota, have unanimously voted to unionize for better wages, health insurance, and for greater influence in…
Regulation CBS News: Push at State Capitol to end subminimum wage for people with disabilities Star Tribune: Counterpoint: Real equality recognizes differences InForum: Letter: By eliminating wages for the disabled,…
In a case currently on trial, Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison is seeking $100 million in damages from Juul for unlawfully targeting young people to get a new generation addicted to nicotine…
Earlier this week, the Biden Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it plans to deny a permit for a liner for the Rainbow Energy Center, formerly known as the…
Yesterday the MN Senate held a hearing on their omnibus commerce finance bill. This bill starts to show a clearer picture of where the DFL wants to take Minnesota’s health…
Census Bureau data released late last year showed that: From mid-2021 to mid-2022, 19,400 Minnesota residents left for other states, by far the highest number in at least three decades.…
While in Target the other day, I happened to notice the baby formula section was once again sparse. Noticing this didn’t give me the same nervous and panicky feelings it…
St. Paul needs to fix its roads. However, the city does not have the money for that. So in January of this year, the St. Paul City Council and Mayor…
The Upper Sioux Agency State Park draws more than 30,000 visitors annually to Yellow Medicine County in southwestern Minnesota. But probably not for much longer, given the Walz administration’s plan…
A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) entitled Energy Technology Perspectives 2023 shows that China is the largest producer of wind and solar components, and it isn’t close.…
Thousands of special education teachers, career-technical instructors, and educators of color would be negatively impacted by a DFL bill introduced in both the Minnesota House and Senate. Nearly five years…
Yesterday, Gov. Walz announced the appointment of Dr. Stephanie Burrage as Minnesota’s first Chief Equity Officer. She will: “…use her expertise to advance equity and opportunity in communities across the…
I have written frequently this past year on the role the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission (MSGC) plays in our overall public safety. Current legislative efforts to stack the MSGC (including adding…
It’s surprisingly cheap to purchase the politics of a mid-sized state in flyover country. Now that all the campaign finance reports are in for 2022, we can add up the…
On March 17, American Experiment detailed the water leak from Xcel Energy’s Monticello nuclear power plant that contained tritium, a mildly radioactive isotope of hydrogen that occurs naturally in the environment. The…
As my colleague Kathy Kersten and I have written, the push for ethnic studies at the Minnesota Capitol is rooted in narrow, harmful ideologies. It’s being framed as “a curriculum…
Governor Tim Walz wants to end childhood poverty. Citing the significant impact that expanding the federal child tax credit has had on child poverty in the country, Walz touted his…
With the 2022 election behind us, we can now total up the money. In this Part 2 of Minnesota For Sale, we focus on the state Democratic party. Minnesota Democrats…
Center of the American Experiment announced today they will host a Freedom Rally at the Minnesota State Capitol on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, at 11:00 am. The rally theme is…
Former city department head Tyeastia Green published a 14-page memo earlier this month defending her work for the city and accusing her co-workers of antiblack racism. The memo can be…
The pandemic ended in 2021 for all practical purposes, with most Minnesotans eager to get back to life as usual. So many citizens may be surprised to learn that some…
A video of African miners narrowly escaping death as a mine shaft collapsed went viral on Twitter over the weekend. The video below shows miners leaping out of a tunnel…