At its height, about 1,800 men and women were on the job building the new Vikings stadium in Downtown Minneapolis. A truly remarkable number when you think about it. In…
American Experiment has exposed the Met Council’s plan to introduce onerous race-based attendance goals that critics view as de facto racial quotas at Twin Cities regional parks. But you’d never know it…
Frustrated Dakota County Commissioner fights the unfitted power of the Met Council.
Hinderaker predicts major CAE study will prompt vigorous debate about the future of "blue state" policies.
Set aside the hype: Minnesota lags national averages in a wide range of economic indicators, exposing deep vulnerabilities for the future.
It’s a train that only state and county bureaucrats from the Twin Cities to Duluth have been riding for more than a decade now. Northern Lights Express, NLX for short,…
Yesterday the White House released a “Fact Sheet” touting growing incomes, falling poverty, and rising health coverage in Minnesota. The fact sheet clearly aims to bolster the perception that all…
You no doubt have noticed that our website says Center of the American Experiment is “Minnesota’s Think Tank.” We use that phrase a lot–on t-shirts, on the radio, and elsewhere.…
It is no secret that the crime rate has been rising in Minneapolis, as it has in many cities in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, the war…
The Metropolitan Council—the Twin Cities area’s regional government—has been telling us for years that we’ve got to change the way we live. “Thrive MSP 2040,” the council’s 30-year development plan,…
We Minnesotans have a habit of patting ourselves on the back for performance that is, at best, average. Our local press, especially the Minneapolis Star Tribune, encourages this form of…
Update: Minnesota Public Radio covered the event, listen to its report here: “How would $15 minimum wage affect workers?” Thanks to the Center for the American Experiment for the opportunity…
American Experiment flagged this issue a few months ago in response to news accounts about the Met Council’s latest harebrained scheme of racial quotas for parks. The Metropolitan Council never…
Today, the St. Cloud Times published this op-ed by American Experiment Senior Policy Fellow Kathy Kersten: If you’re like most Minnesotans, you may believe our state is doing great economically.…
This is the op-ed that I had in the St.Paul Pioneer Press this morning. It is based on the groundbreaking paper by Dr. Joseph Kennedy titled “Minnesota’s Economy: Mediocre Performance…
This year there was strong bipartisan support for a special session to do two things: pass a bonding bill, and correct tax legislation that contained an error that, according to…
On Monday, the Center will release a comprehensive report on Minnesota’s economy by PhD economist Joseph Kennedy. The report will be announced at press conferences at the Capitol in St.…
As Minnesota road congestion grows, great sums of public dollars are being committed to an expensive and slow fixed rail system that moves few people and no freight. New transit…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune highlights a report on highway congestion from the Minnesota Department of Transportation: A report from the Minnesota Department of Transportation out Tuesday found that congestion on…
The era of race-based busing of Minneapolis schoolchildren—1974 to 1995—marks one of the greatest debacles in the city’s history. Busing tore apart neighborhoods and cost taxpayers millions of dollars. Black…
A lot of ink has been spilled on the subject of race, crime and policing over the last few months, but rarely to so little purpose as in this article…
This morning at rush hour, around 7:50, several dozen protesters climbed onto Highway 35W South at around University Avenue and shut the highway down for around an hour and a…
Minnesotans continue to pay through the nose for one of the nation’s most expensive renewable energy programs. Electric prices rose by 12.5 percent here from 2007 to 2014, versus a…
Under the guidance of the Metropolitan Council, billions of dollars have been spent in recent years on public transit, most notably on a handful of light rail lines. The Met…