Abdiwahab Ahmed Mohamud, now aged 35, was taken into custody today at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Mohamud is Defendant No. 25 in the Feeding Our Future scandal and…
Massive taxpayer subsidies are paid out to nonprofits for “free” lawyers for illegal aliens. The Minnesota Star Tribune reports, ‘Up to our eyeballs’: Immigration lawyers struggle to keep up during…
Perusing the platform of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), you should believe them when they tell you who they are. I recommend that you watch the entire 59-minute Rick…
While the economic benefits of mining are often the most visible — through job creation and revenue generation — the impact extends further, as a portion of that revenue funds…
The era of the ubiquitous yellow school bus is running out of gas. Although Minnesota schools have full budgets for bus drivers, and sometimes even extra cash for bus upgrades…
Minneapolis Sometime between 2017 and 2020, I was walking north up Hennepin Avenue at about 5:00 PM. I had just navigated the cluster of citizens who spread out across the…
Center of the American Experiment (CAE) joined the Minnesota Justice Research Center (MJRC) for a presentation to the Minneapolis City Council’s Public Health and Safety Committee on October 1. The joint…
Federal prosecutors filed a motion yesterday to revoke the pre-trial release of Abdiwahab Ahmed Mohamud. He is Defendant No. 25, overall, in the sprawling free-food scandal. Mohamud, now aged 35,…
Housing and zoning “Overly restrictive local zoning is the fundamental cause of America’s housing shortage,” according to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. “Cities and counties have employed their…
For data center developers, Minnesota piles on the red tape Data centers, the factories of the computing age and enablers of artificial intelligence (AI), are dominating panic-stricken headlines about growing…
How the One Big Beautiful Bill Act forces the state to confront spending Like every state, Minnesota relies on the federal government for a substantial portion of its funding. According…
Minneapolis resurrects camera-based traffic citations On July 15, the City of Minneapolis announced the implementation of a new $12 million camera-based traffic citation system near five intersections this fall, with…
Criminal justice officials in Hennepin County are failing to use the new state statute and enhanced penalty specifically designed to help reduce violent carjackings. Given that 81 percent of all…
At 4:00 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, the USS Ward, crewed by men of the 47th Naval Reserve Division of the 11th Battalion, 9th Naval District from St. Paul, was…
People are voting for the same policies that caused New York City to declare bankruptcy 50 years ago — why? On one level, the story of New York City’s bankruptcy…
Minnesota’s politicians are playing politics with our lives. What happens after an unspeakable tragedy? One that comes on an idyllic late August day in Minneapolis that signaled the end of…
The murder of Charlie Kirk has raised awareness of the danger that politicized anger and resentment pose to American society. Attention has largely focused on the internet’s role in radicalizing…
There’s a new, disturbing epidemic sweeping through Minnesota. It has shown up on the government radar, infecting state agency social benefit programs and siphoning taxpayer money by the millions: fraud.…
There’s no free lunch The dollar figure for providing the controversial free school meal program to every K-12 student in the state so closely mirrors what it would cost to…
Welcome back to the American Experiment Podcast! Grace and Kathryn sit down to discuss the latest news from Minnesota. First up: the Department of Justice is suing the State of…
The U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) is suing the state of Minnesota over its sanctuary state policies. From the DOJ press release. Today, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Minnesota, the…
Francisco Estrada-Deltaro was sentenced today in federal court in downtown Minneapolis. We’ve written about Estrada several times now. He’s that restaurateur whose Lake Street eatery was at the epicenter of…
State and local taxes and spending The Ely Echo: Ely school levy uncertain KROC: Minnesota Tax Revenues Exceed Forecast by 4.2% in August CNHI News: North Mankato to set preliminary…
Friday morning in Minneapolis City Hall, police chiefs from across the county joined Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt to condemn the announcement from Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty that her…