There are few topics in 2025 that have drawn as much attention in the U.S. as immigration enforcement. In Minnesota the topic rose to the top of mind for many…
Last week, I wrote about the U.S. Department of Education’s newest student protection initiative — a low earnings indicator that alerts prospective students when a school chosen on their FAFSA…
When Gross Domestic Product (GDP) shrank in the first quarter, many commentators were quick to blame the Trump administration. When GDP surged in the second quarter, many other commentators were…
A call to resign Minnesota’s 87 elected sheriffs met on December 8 for their annual Minnesota Sheriff’s Association (MSA) business meeting. In dramatic fashion, these law enforcement leaders issued a…
Earlier this month, a student at Horizon Middle School in Moorhead alerted school officials that a 13-year-old male student was in possession of a large bag of blue pills at…
The debate over how much fraud has been committed against Minnesota social welfare programs has now gone national. Joe Thompson, the First Assistant U.S. Attorney and lead prosector of the…
In December 2022, I sounded an alarm over the threat the open border policies of the Biden Administration posed to our national security. In the piece Border (In)security — one…
By all signs, the Minnesota state budget is in trouble. While the state ends the current two-year budget period — 2026-27 biennium — with a surplus, estimates show an imbalance in…
With the epidemic of fraud perpetrated against Minnesota’s taxpayers making national news and prominent DFLers like Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison under fire for their roles in…
When the Star Tribune announced that a sitting member of the state governor’s cabinet would be taking over as its publisher in February 2023, there was disappointment among those who…
Stop the fraud or win elections. This is the choice now facing Democrats in Minnesota. Want to guess which one will prevail? The ethnic-Somali population in Minnesota (including refugees and…
Convictions in federal court now exceed 60 defendants. Millions of dollars in property seized by the feds have already been sold off. But the Star Tribune says there is only…
Former Star Tribune editor Patricia Lopez wrote on Bloomberg November 26, under the headline, We can stop fraud in Minnesota without attacking Somalis In a perfect world, Lopez is absolutely…
This week, the House Committee on Natural Resources announced that it would take a closer look at the role that three national environmental groups played in opposing Minnesota mining projects.…
Yesterday, we learned that Minnesota’s state government was forecast to run a budget surplus for the 2026-2027 biennium of $2.5 billion but a deficit for the 2028-2029 biennium of $3.0…
Three (3) items published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal touch on different aspects of the fraud crisis gripping Minnesota. From the Editorial Board, The Great Entitlement State Grift:The giant Minnesota fraud shows…
Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) released the budget forecast on Thursday, showing a $2.4 billion surplus in the current biennium (2026-27) and a $2.9 billion deficit in the next biennium…
Back in March, Minnesota Management & Budget (MMB) released its February Budget and Economic Forecast. As we reported at the time: The forecast budget surplus for the 2026-2027 biennium is…
During the federal government shutdown, Gov. Walz tweeted that “Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity.” This sounds too good to be true. With SNAP costing an…
Casual Minnesota consumers of the news or social media are being, not so subtly, influenced to believe that enforcement efforts by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are creating “chaos” and…
Welcome back to the American Experiment Podcast! This week, Grace and Kathryn take a behind-the-scenes look at the breaking news of the week: Minnesota taxpayers have been funding terrorism abroad.…
This month, Xcel Energy asked state regulators in Colorado to extend the operating life of the coal-fired Comanche Unit 2 for another year. Xcel Energy seems to understand the importance…
This summer, Congress passed The Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA) as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The ECCA allows every taxpayer nationwide to gain up to $1700…
From the Minneapolis Star Tribune, ‘Panic’ in Minnesota’s Somali community after Trump’s pledge to end deportation protections. When Pres. Trump first posted his intentions on Friday night, we were told it was…