Commentator Blois Olson noted the following in his political newsletter, Morning Take, this election-eve morning, In ads CAIR Action Midwest calls out its endorsements for Minneapolis races to “Invest in…
As the core cities continue their collapse into oblivion, surrounding suburbs step up to fill the void. From the Minnesota Star Tribune, Twin Cities suburbs seek destination status with new…
In our visit to the Federal Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis today, we encountered the rare illegal alien from outside of Latin America. Asongafack Derick Mewoabi, age 34, hails from Cameroon,…
Current state Sen. Omar Fateh (DFL-Minneapolis) appears to have won the Democratic-party endorsement for Mayor of Minneapolis last night at the city’s party convention for 2025. I say “appears” because…
Does middle-class America need unions?
Back in April 2023, I started tracking data from the University of Toronto’s School of Cities which was “looking at cell phone activity at points of interest (POI) in the downtowns…
Minnesota socialists are flexing their muscles, both at the ballot box and in the streets. Yesterday was Super Tuesday, primary election day for Minnesota and more than a dozen other…
Despite the constant reassurances from local media and elected officials, activity in the inner core of the state’s largest city is not returning to pre-pandemic levels. We were told in…
Five years after a landmark SCOTUS decision, public employees continue exercising their restored freedom of association.
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In this fourth part of our series on ethnic studies nonprofits in Minnesota, we Follow the Money™ flowing to a group called Education Evolving. As we pointed out earlier, Education…
In this edition of Follow the Money™, we begin what ultimately will be a deep dive into the state’s ethnic studies industrial complex. One of the more controversial bills passed…
MN Reformer calls attention to this new Gallup poll (scroll down) about American opinions on crime in various cities. The Reformer‘s headline reads, Americans think Minneapolis is less safe than…
At a time when reliability concerns are plaguing most regional power grids in America, it helps to remember one of the largest blackouts in the country’s history — the 2003…
From tomorrow, recreational marijuana will be legal in Minnesota. Center of the American Experiment has never taken a position on the legalization of marijuana — we neither support the measure,…
50 years after its TIME cover story, does Minnesota still work?
Bob Dylan’s newest book speaks to the present through the songs of the past.
Last week I wrote about new data that showed that businesses are fleeing downtown Minneapolis. Twin Cities Business reported: With over 21.2 million square feet of vacant office space in the…
Compared to many other metropolitan areas in the country, the Twin Cities metro — or rather the Minneapolis-St. Paul- Blooming Statistical Area (MSA) area as defined by the Bureau of…
Nowadays, private companies like Zillow produce data which can help inform policymakers as much as data produced by more traditional, mostly government, sources. LinkedIn is an example. The social network…
We tour the growing ruins of this once great Midwestern city. Yesterday, my colleague David Zimmer and I took our third trip this month to see the sights in the…
Documenting the decline and fall of a once great Midwestern city. Your correspondent drove through George Floyd Square this morning, my first trip to the site since the unfortunate events…
Every year American Experiment produces a report on Minnesota’s economy. The report analyzes how Minnesota’s economy is doing both in historical terms and compared with other states. In recent years,…
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