I’m guessing that most Minnesotans aren’t even aware that the state House of Representatives is nonfunctioning. I don’t blame them. People have to live their lives, work their jobs, get…
They say that the world is run by the people who show up. All week long it has been just the 67 Republicans who have shown up to attend the…
A few minutes late, but shortly after noon on the appointed day (today), MN Secretary of State Steve Simon gaveled into session the House of Representatives of the 94th Minnesota…
We are less than a day away from a potential constitutional crisis in Minnesota. And national media are beginning to pick up on it. Fox News ran a piece this…
Welcome to Capitol Watch 2025 Happy New Year and welcome to Capitol Watch 2025! Hold onto your wallets because the Minnesota Legislature returns to St. Paul on Tuesday, January 14,…
The 94th Minnesota Legislature will convene on Tuesday, January 14, 2025. And when that happens, it appears that Republicans will hold a slight, if temporary, advantage in both houses. Two…
The radical and unrealistic 2040 deadline for utilities to meet Minnesota’s mandate for 100 percent of electricity to be generated from carbon-free sources remains 15 years away. But alarm bells…
Minnesota utilities face a state deadline to provide 100 percent of power from carbon-free sources by 2040, just 15 years from now. It’s a pipe dream, given the unreliability of…
Center of the American Experiment has been sounding the alarm about St. Paul’s economy and fiscal prospects for some time. Now, a group of “fiscal watchdogs” have added their weight…
A majority of Minnesotans favor a school choice policy where parents can use state funding (tax dollars) for tuition and transportation at a private or parochial school, according to an…
Fourteen states have committed to cutting their chronic absenteeism rates in half in five years, accepting the challenge to do so from a group of education advocates. Attendance Works, EdTrust,…
Last year’s legislative session in Minnesota, which concluded in May 2023, has been described as “historic.” And it was. For the first time in eight years, the state’s Democratic party…
Minnesota’s education ranking drops again.
In a federal courtroom in Minneapolis in early June, a jury found five of seven defendants guilty of fraud and other charges in the first trial of the “Feeding Our…
Following last year’s spending spree and tax money giveaways, there wasn’t much in the legislative tills to spend at the Capitol this year. And with DFL-majority lawmakers railroading through their…
Gov. Tim Walz’s office released a press statement recently touting Minnesota’s ranking as 6th best state in the nation for business by CNBC. (A ranking which, as my colleague John…
Bold new plans for expanding universal basic income (UBI) programs are threatened by Minnesota’s slow-growth economy. St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter was posting just yesterday on Twitter (X) about the…
Back in January, I wrote about Lance Nistler, a Northern Minnesota farmer who was challenging an explicitly racist DFL policy. The Center Square reported: In 2023, The Minnesota Legislature appropriated $500,000…
In May last year, I wrote that nobody really knows how much Minnesota’s Paid Family and Medical leave (PFML) scheme is going to cost, with the estimated costs of the…
There is a persistent disconnect between the rosy picture of Minnesota painted by state leaders such as Gov. Tim Walz and the cold, hard data from respondents to this quarter’s…
The modern coach-style tour bus parked in front of a south metro suburban hotel gave little hint as to the epic journey it had just completed. The blue and white…
Regulation MPR News: ‘Look what you made me do’: Minnesota lawmakers pass proposals to crack down on ticket, junk fees Minnesota Reformer: Legislature votes to eliminate carve-outs to state minimum…
The ideological divide between the two main parties in the state legislature is increasingly stark. This means that we actually see some rather profound debates up at the state capitol…
The so-called North Star Act would prohibit cooperation on the part of local, county and state law enforcement agencies with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. American Experiment’s latest Thinking…