As Minnesota Senators and staff begin moving into the new Senate office building this week, here’s a tally of some costs of the building: Building and parking ramp construction: $90…
American Experiment plans aggressive innovative plan to promote free-market policies.
The November Budget and Economic Forecast projects a $1.871 billion surplus for the current FY 2016-17 budget, which is about $1 billion more than was projected last February. State law…
Center of the American Experiment holds Met Council accountable.
If you had asked us which of the many proposals in the Minnesota Policy Blueprint would be taken up by bipartisan leadership in both the House and the Senate, we…
Minnesota’s health care system struggles with many of the same problems as the rest of the country. In particular, high and...
Keeping The Promise: Securing Retirement Benefits for Current and Future Public Employees | Minnesota’s public employee pension system is broken. The state’s...
In a famous Time magazine story in 1973, Minnesota was epitomized, not just as a particularly well-run state, but as the “State that Works.” Other states might have been close…
Minnesota can and must support and build a world class transportation system that...
Minnesota’s state budget continues to grow and grow, even after adjusting for inflation and population. Total spending in...
This piece originally appeared in the Pioneer Press on April 7, 2013. Gov. Dayton recently signed legislation passed on a party-line vote to require Minnesota to establish and operate a…
Gov.-elect Mark Dayton has announced that he will expand the state’s federally funded Medicaid program to poor adults without children as soon as Jan. 3. He plans to do so…
Minnesota owes it to the world to do more mining here.The Star Tribune addressed the mining issue -- and its importance to the next governor and Department of Natural Resources…
Gov. Tim Pawlenty's decision in 2009 to balance the state budget through unallotment made for a yearlong political drama. Folks divided along ideological and partisan lines, making hay out of…
Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s use of the ‘unallotment’ statute to balance the budget stirred up more acrimony than possibly anything else in his tenure. State law allows the governor to reduce…
A substantial effort is under way to save Minnesota’s General Assistance Medical Care program (GAMC) from expiring on March 1. As someone who wholly supports the reinstatement of GAMC, I’m…