Regulation Duluth News Tribune: Our View: Minnesota’s wild rice standard demands compromise Grand Forks Herald: At Iron Range hearing, miners warn of closures if wild rice rule enforced St. Cloud…
Did you know that the 2023 DFL-controlled legislature decided that Minnesota school boards can bypass their residents and renew local school levies (taxes)? During the legislature’s 2025 special session, a…
Last week, investigators from a federal law enforcement task force that included local detectives from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office conducted high-risk search warrants at eight locations around the Twin…
This month’s dramatic court verdicts in the Feeding Our Future {FOF} case (“guilty on all counts”) don’t mark the end of the saga. In Churchillian terms, it’s more like “the…
In 2024, people visited AmericanExperiment.org an incredible 3.2 million times — a new record! But what exactly were they reading? These are American Experiment’s Top 10 Most Read Stories of…
Minnesotans elected 80 achievement-focused candidates to 47 school boards across the state on Tuesday, reports the Minnesota Parents Alliance (MPA). School boards in over 13 districts, including Elk River, Lakeville,…
Nolosha is still hoping to acquire Feeding Our Future-linked property next month. State attorney general Keith Ellison announced a lawsuit on Wednesday against a controversial housing developer with plans for…
A beloved local artist is shot down in the street in a seemingly random attack. Carrie Shobe Kwok, aged 66, was shot outside of her Lowertown St. Paul home while…
No. 20, Haji Salad, has ties to a controversial Lakeville housing development. It was a busy week for the Feeding Our Future case at the Federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis.…
Center of the American Experiment announced a summer tour of events based on exclusive polling showing young people in Minnesota dissatisfied with the direction of the state and pessimistic about…
Amazingly, state and local governments continue to promote people and places linked to the free-food scandal. Lots of names have come up during the ongoing Feeding Our Future trial underway…
A former supervisor at the nonprofit Feeding Our Future was the star witness this week at the Federal trial of the first batch of defendants. The seven currently on trial…
News of note in Minnesota: Center events, initiatives, and policy work.
A residential development has been proposed for a 36-acre plot of undeveloped land linked to the Feeding Our Future scandal. A development company located in Eden Prairie is eying a…
There’s probably nothing off-limits when it comes to state government’s insatiable appetite for ever more influence over Minnesotans’ daily lives. But local control over city residential zoning laws and land…
House Democrats heard a bill in the Elections Committee this week to address what they think is a disturbing trend in Minnesota: people actually paying attention to local school board elections. Life…
The Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) recently fined Dakota County United Educators, a local chapter of the state teacher’s union, for failing to report campaign expenditures in a timely fashion.…
Connecting more dots between Feeding Our Future defendants and political figures in Minnesota. Back in March, the U.S. Attorney announced the latest batch of Feeding Our Future indictments. The batch…
Talk about voter suppression. The whole idea behind holding an operating levy referendum is to leave the decision up to local taxpayers on whether to raise their property taxes to…
The saying used to go, “All politics is local.” Not anymore. To be competitive in Minnesota politics, at least within the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party, you need to have a…
Abdullah Arif, 48, of Stillwater was shot and killed last Thursday outside his tobacco shop in St. Paul. Arif’s murder is in part the result of a broken court system that…
A murder in Lakeville on Sunday evening further demonstrated the inability of our criminal justice system to ensure public safety under its current self-imposed sentencing limitations. Donte R. McCray, 32,…
Edina Public Schools appears set on shelling out around $150,000 to keep district elections during “off-cycle” (odd-numbered) years. The City of Edina offered to continue administrating elections for the district…
The pandemic may be over but the quest to continue the seemingly unlimited amounts of federal cash doled out to state and local governments the last two years has only…