State and local taxes and spending Kare 11: With property taxes rising in Minneapolis, taxation board president urges new ideas KSTP: Roseville homeowner sounds alarm over 35% property tax increase…
Carlos Guillermo Aragon-Baez is our Minnesota Man of the Day. He has been charged in federal court with one count of illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien. Aragon, aged…
Welcome back to the American Experiment Podcast! This week, Grace and Kathryn are once again joined by Bill Walsh for a lively discussion. First up: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s latest…
Every decade or so, state transportation bureaucrats dust off their pie-in-the-sky plan to resurrect passenger rail service around Minnesota some day and way. But the Free Press found a funny…
The Minnesota Department of Transportation is preparing to award grant funding for 13 electric vehicle charging station sites. The sites will receive a combined total of $7.8 million, with individual…
When a member of the Governor of Minnesota’s cabinet was named publisher of the state’s biggest newspaper in February 2023, eyebrows were raised from International Falls to Albert Lea. What…
As new markets open up, entrepreneurs rush in to fill the demand. An alert reader sent me this picture taken Friday, March 1, of a bus parked at a south…
State and local taxes and spending Kittson County Enterprise: Governor Walz Announces Payments of up to $1,300 Will Begin This Week Minn Post: Downtowns, including St. Paul and Minneapolis, turning…
Most Minnesotans likely know that taxes and abortion are major topics of debate at the State Capitol this session. But it’s a good bet fewer know that, out of the…
Governor Tim Walz’s fishing opener has always been a public relations bonanza for the state’s top elected official, particularly in an election year. It’s one of the few must-cover media…
On Sunday, Alpha News reported: Lisa Hanson owns The Interchange Wine and Coffee Bistro in Albert Lea, Minnesota. When Walz issued an executive order last year demanding that all bars…
Labor market Kare 11: Retailers ramp up hiring for the holiday shopping season KEYC: Childcare shortage impacts southern Minnesota families, economy Bemidji Pioneer: Minimum wage set to increase 2.5% as…
Today is the day! Nationally renowned energy journalist appears in Minnesota to discuss the findings of his new report Not in Our Backyard, published by Center of the American Experiment.…
On Thursday, August 12, 2021, Center of the American Experiment will be hosting two events with nationally renowned energy journalist Robert Bryce, and American Experiment policy fellow Isaac Orr. The…
From 2020 to 2021, Iowa saw its State Business Tax Climate Index ranking rise from 45th to 40th. Policymakers in Saint Paul should take note.
Gov. Tim Walz and his administration finally have to come to terms with the somber new fiscal reality for state government given the newly announced forecast of a $2.4 billion…
Rock n' roll pioneer Eddie Cochran, one of Minnesota's great musicians, died 60 years ago today.
Residents of Freeborn County in southern Minnesota could be facing more than a 5 percent hike in their property tax levy next year. But a portion of the tax hike–roughly…
American Experiment has been a leader in exposing the fact that wind turbines only last for twenty years, and after that time the turbines must be torn down as part…
It is possible that Gov. Newsom really did think that gas taxes could be hiked without driving up prices, there are many people for whom economics is just something that…
Minnesota's Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved permits for a wind farm planned in Southern Minnesota despite opposition from local residents and property owners.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Wind turbines at a Freeborn County wind farm were shut down this week, due to safety concerns. A longtime American Experiment source got wind of an incident on Thursday involving a…