A controversial new video game that industry critics claim supports eco-terrorism by directing players to destroy pipelines, oil trucks and other industry infrastructure was developed with $3,290 in taxpayer support…
Why are taxpayers forced to pay for government radio? Here is one example, of many, why taxpayer funding should be declared unconstitutional. This exchange about Obamacare was not reporting; it…
Fiscal policymakers have accepted for centuries that taxes act as a negative incentive on whatever is being taxed. That doesn’t always keep them from taxing.
The Met Council admits it has not won the argument.
After string of IT disasters, have state agencies learned any lessons?
The Dayton administration has added another benefit apparently without identifying the cost or source of funds to pay for it. Ironically, one of the reforms that Dayton vetoed in SF…
The special legislative session wrapped up before dawn last Friday with a flurry of bills on their way to Gov. Dayton; K-12 Education, Transportation, Health and Human Services, Taxes, among…
The ordinance banning plastic bags for many commercial uses in Minneapolis takes effect June 1. So close and yet so far for the environmental special interests determined to make the…
The politically-connected former head of non-profit Community Action of Minneapolis will be doing hard time in federal prison. DFL-insider Bill Davis was sentenced today to 4 years in the penitentiary…
It’s coming down to the wire again at the state legislature with Gov. Dayton going all-out once more for expanding Pre-K funding. But American Experiment’s Kim Crockett points out in…
Duluth News Tribune The governor’s office and the statewide teachers’ union Education Minnesota have made it clear that, once again, one of the top DFL priorities is universal pre-kindergarten classes.…
The Governor’s office, DFL leaders and the teachers union, Education Minnesota, have made it clear that once again, one of their top priorities remains “Universal Pre-K” in Minnesota. Unless Senators…
It’s the closest thing to handing government a blank check. The passage of a three-eighths cent statewide sales tax increase in the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment in 2008…
MPR reports that Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority chair Michele Kelm-Helgen has resigned in the face of a mounting public backlash over luxury suites and other perks at US Bank Stadium.…
Funding for public broadcasting may be on the chopping block in Washington again. Maybe that explains why Minnesota Public Radio went before state lawmakers this week to ask for a…
Dear Friends, Thanks to friends like you the Center is finishing our best year yet! But we both know the stakes are high and there’s much more work to be done, so the…
Dear Friends, As always, we have much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. In the tumult of the moment, especially in an election season, it is easy to forget that…
You’d think trained journalists would use their reason and investigative skills to dig and uncover “the real story” instead of jumping quickly and uncritically to the “cops are biased” narrative. …
Three election judges have lost their bid to withhold ballots from felons and others known to be ineligible to vote in an election eve ruling in Ramsey County District Court…
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…
On Tuesday, hundreds of teachers attending the American Federation of Teachers convention in Minneapolis joined a Black Lives Matter march through the city’s downtown. They said they were protesting the…
According to MPR, “Minnesota’s largest health insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has decided to stop selling health plans to individuals and families in Minnesota starting next year.…
I participated on a panel earlier this week on the stubborn persistence of achievement gaps, and as you might guess, at the first opening I jumped in and started talking…
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