Shortage of housing is one of the biggest issues facing most metros. But according to the Star Tribune, the Twin Cities have it worse than all regions in the nation.…
A poll carried out for the Star Tribune, MPR News, KARE 11, FRONTLINE and the PBS series sheds some fascinating light on the ongoing debate on policing in Minneapolis. Some…
‘The war on cops,’ which American Experiment has been talking about since 2016, is only one part of a much broader war on the safety of Minnesotans, which is being…
Violent crime is up 19 percent in Minneapolis in 2021 in large part due to a decline in the quantity of policing in the city. 90 percent of the gunfire…
This week is National Small Business Week. And to celebrate small businesses, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) has planned several events. From September 13 – 15th of…
Call me skeptical. Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat and former teacher, announced a new Council on Economic Expansion for Minnesota. Economic expansion means business, right? So, the council will be…
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…
The Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) published a study in February this year estimating how Rent Stabilization (RS) — a form of rent control that allows landlords to raise…
A little over a year ago, research suggested Minneapolis was in for a rise in violent crime. Sadly, that has come to pass. Figure 1 shows the percentage change in…
Center of the American Experiment’s “Think About It” radio campaign won the State Policy Network’s Communication Excellence Award in the Bold Brand Boost Category last week at SPN’s annual meeting…
Even though both theory and evidence show that rent control is bad public policy, Minneapolis’ city council continues to pursue it as a solution to the city’s shortage of affordable…
As the new school year starts, schools are facing what has been a familiar issue to most businesses over the last couple of months — a worker shortage. School districts in…
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…
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) released test results Friday from the state’s Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs), showing steep drops in student proficiency in reading and mathematics, as first reported…
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…
It’s now a given among educators that schools must resume and continue providing in-person learning in the classroom this fall at all costs. The damage to students’ education and socialization…
Last week, my colleague Bill Walsh noted the resolute refusal of Governor Tim Walz to address the explosion of violent crime in Minneapolis, the biggest city in his state. In…
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…
Increasing crime rates and a growing sense of lawlessness are the biggest challenges facing our state, but Gov. Tim Walz is doing everything in his power to ignore, deflect and…
There goes another one. The organizers of the Minneapolis Greek Festival scheduled for September 9-11 in Uptown Minneapolis have cancelled the popular celebration due to the continuing violent crime and…
A tale of two Starbucks Downtown Minneapolis has been a strange place to go for more than a year now. First, COVID-19 hit in March last year. Businesses were closed…
Last Friday, the Minneapolis city council voted on two rent control proposals. The first proposal gives the city council legal authority to enact a rent control policy. Minneapolis residents will…
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…
Minnesotans trust the police, avoid Minneapolis, and increasingly blame Gov. Tim Walz for rising crime.