From the Minnesota Star Tribune, North Dakota wants to block Minnesota power lines in fight over clean energy. The fight is in front of a national energy regulator, North Dakota,…
Mississippi’s rise in reading literacy has drawn national attention — not as a one-off success, but as evidence of sustained, systemic change that other states are now studying closely. Over…
American Experiment Update: Center events, initiatives, and policy work Summer tour American Experiment’s summer tour returned this year in June and July. The “Minnesota DOGE: Cut the waste, save the…
Center of the American Experiment announced today the hiring of Josiah Padley as a policy fellow covering education. Padley joins an already-robust education policy team that includes nationally renowned writer…
A beautiful mid-summer day in Minnesota. But where is the wind? 3:00 p.m., 84 degrees, low humidity and no wind in my neck of the woods, so I thought it…
Honoring the sacrifice of Minnesota’s Civil War soldiers. EDITOR’S NOTE: On the 160th anniversary of Minnesota’s contribution to the victory at the Battle of Nashville during the Civil War, Ken…
The Province of Ontario wages a trade war against Minnesota, but without any ammunition. The putatively Conservative premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, launched a trade war of his own against…
Minnesota student performance on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows that average test scores are not significantly different from two years prior and are still below pre-COVID…
Merry Christmas! Those in good favor this year didn’t include a number of union bosses who found themselves caught up in illegal shenanigans. Perhaps their New Year’s resolutions will include…
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) examined Minnesota’s permitting woes in a new study, “Feeling Minnesota: A cautionary tale for permitting reformers.” While the federal permitting process is a severe obstacle…
Last week I wrote about new Census Bureau data which show that Minnesota lost 8,700 residents net in 2023. To put that in context, as Figure 1 shows, Minnesota’s net…
The Wall Street Journal published an article last week titled “Renewables, and Good Luck, Prop Up Power Grid Through Extreme Heat.” The authors are right that ‘good luck’ is propping…
In June last year, I wrote that data show that families with children are fleeing the Twin Cities. Sadly, that is not all. Writing for the Institute for Family Studies,…
Solar power in Minnesota hopes to transform the landscape, both figuratively and literally, over the next decade. The Minnesota Star Tribune ran a piece last week touting the growth of…
Coal and natural gas power are currently supplying more than 76 percent of the region’s electricity. Both fuels will be banned in Minnesota. Here was the fuel mix for the…