The mass shooting On June 1, a mass shooting occurred at Boom Island Park in Northeast Minneapolis. Shots were fired into a crowd during a drive-by shooting, and multiple people…
Photo by Matias J. Ocner ([email protected]) Every year, in either December or January, I post something along the lines of “Did the Vikings suck this year because of Minnesota’s high…
Capitol Watch is taking a break from all the negativity and polarization in state government to bring you four positive developments we’ve observed in St. Paul. Next week we will…
It has been nearly four years since the Columbus statue was torn from its pedestal near the State Capitol as protestors continued destroying property after the murder of George Floyd,…
Can the Vikings’ persistent woes be traced back to bad economic policies?
Earlier this year, the Boston Celtics offered forward Grant Williams $48 million to continue playing for them for another four years. He turned them down. Why? Taxes. Massachusetts used to…
50 years after its TIME cover story, does Minnesota still work?
23 of America’s richest billionaire families donated to Minnesota Democrats (DFL) in the past three years. Collectively, they donated over $6.2 million to the MN DFL in that time. These…
When U.S. Bank Stadium was constructed between 2013 and 2016, it cost Minnesota taxpayers $348 million, and the city of Minneapolis $150 million. And according to the Star Tribune, Minnesota…
It’s Super Bowl Sunday this weekend and, once again, the Vikings will be watching it at home. It is also budget season at the state Capitol, with Gov. Tim Walz…
Corporations are prohibited from donating money directly to a political candidate. An exception to the rule involves the candidate-adjacent inaugural committees. We are just eight months away from the next…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this week that inflation rose by 8.5 percent in the year to March. This is the fastest annual rate of increase since December 1981.…
The growing crime wave in the suburban Twin Cities metro area has pushed area leaders into alternating bouts of finger-pointing and pledges of cooperation. In the past two weeks, Minnesota’s…
As the latest variant of COVID hits home, the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul have moved in lockstep to slap another open-ended mask mandate on citizens this week. The…
On May 14, 2020, Minneapolis Star Tribune Cartoonist Steve Sack drew a cartoon in response to the conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Governor Tony Evers (D) stay-at-home…
Minnesotans remember Alan Page as one of the Purple People Eaters who helped lead the Vikings football team to four Super Bowls back in the 1970s. After his football career,…
AKA Do the Vikings lose because of Minnesota's high taxes?
The Minneapolis Star Tribune recently reported that Governor Tim Walz will be the one making the decision whether to allow limited in-person attendance of Vikings games this season. The question…
More research shows that high state income taxes have a negative impact on the performance of sports teams from those states .
We all accept that Minnesota imposes high taxes. Some argue that that's a fair price to pay for all the absolutely necessary stuff the state government does for us in…
Research finds "a significant negative relation between the amount of the net (after-tax) salary cap represented by the personal income tax rate of the teams’ home states and the success…
Tomorrow the Minnesota Vikings take on the heavily favored San Francisco 49ers in an NFC playoff game. In anticipation of the clash, Center of the American Experiment has challenged the…
It appears receiving approximately half a billion dollars in taxpayer dollars wasn’t enough to put the Vikings over the Green Bay Packers at Unethically Subsidized (U.S.) Bank Stadium in downtown…
It has been a long and winding road from the back streets of medieval London via 17th century Boston to the U.S. Bank Stadium this weekend. But, when the Vikings'…