In digging into the free food scandal, one address not in the news sticks out. It’s a sprawling office complex in the Hamline neighborhood of St. Paul, MN. It has…
St. Paul’s rent control ballot is yet to come into effect, but the residents of the city are already seeing the consequences of the terrible policy. According to Pioneer Press,…
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For those following at home, the links, key dates, and key events included below provide a road map to the story, as it has unfolded. Not one person has been…
It’s been nearly a week since the FBI raided the offices of the Minnesota nonprofit Feeding Our Future. Since then, there have been no further developments in the case. Could…
Rent control policies nowadays follow a certain formula. To control for some of the negative effects on housing supply, lawmakers usually exempt new construction, allow vacancy decontrol — whereby landlords…
St. Paul’s Mayor Melvin Carter has expressed some concerns regarding the city’s rent control proposal even before it was passed. Specifically, he noted that the proposal was too strict and…
Last week, 13 Minneapolis City Council members, as well as Mayor Jacob Frey, were sworn into their new term. Among other things, the new city council will be responsible for…
With trouble brewing in St. Paul over the city’s rent control ordinance, members of the Minneapolis City Council are taking notice and trying to avoid the neighboring city’s mistakes as…
In the wake of George Floyd’s death in May 2020, Minneapolis became a center for the movement to ‘defund the police.’ Last week, Fox 9 reports: Minneapolis City Council mostly…
In early November, residents of St. Paul and Minneapolis chose to approve rent control ballot measures. Unlike Minneapolis, St. Paul’s ballot measure already included a specific proposal that caps annual…
Minneapolis candidates swept into office with ranked-choice voting are swept out again. The off-year election of 2021 may have been tough on incumbents, but advocates for Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) were…
A poorly planned park and ride facility in Newport that cost $6.45 million to build and sits empty just five years after opening won the third Golden Turkey Award, given…
Violent crime in Minneapolis is up 19 percent so far in 2021. Why is this happening? One part of the answer is less policing in the city. Economists Tanaya Devi and…
Back in December of 2016, American Experiment hosted an event with Heather Mac Donald titled “The War on Cops.” Since then, things have escalated. We’ve continued to stay on top…
On August 20, Minnpost reported, The Minneapolis Planning Commission this week supported a proposed ordinance that would further regulate the types of materials developers of residential and commercial buildings put…
When California passed a law to require space for some farm animals in 2018, the effort was lauded as necessary. At the beginning of next year, California will enforce a…
As violent crime has soared in Minneapolis in 2020 and still further in 2021, a point we have made persistently is that the victims are disproportionately from the city’s black…
In an effort to address the housing crisis, the Minneapolis City Council made it legal to build rooming houses. According to the Star Tribune, The City Council last week approved…
Dictionary.com offers several definitions of the word ‘frequency,’ one of which is: Also frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence Bear this definition in mind when you consider what…
The head of the Minneapolis Police Federation confirms what many residents already know and fear. There aren’t enough police on the job citywide with the shortage in staffing affecting the…
On July 1, 2021, the Hennepin County District Court issued a Writ of Mandamus that orders the Minneapolis City Council and Mayor Jacob Frey to “immediately take any and all…
A six year old girl named Aniya died today after being shot in the head in Minneapolis on Monday evening. WCCO reports: She was riding in her family’s car as…
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