Events in Portland are one more warning for those who push for higher taxes on businesses: Be careful what you wish for.
The non-profit car sharing service HOURCAR claims to be about more than just making a buck like ordinary car rental companies–much more. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit, everything we do is…
The article below was originally printed in The Blaze and details the spectacular failure of the “test of humanity” conducted by the founder of Panera. It turns out people won’t…
Frustration over MnDOT’s clumsy management of the I-35W construction project in Minneapolis has driven some motorists over the line. The Star Tribune’s coverage of drivers’ misdeeds amounts to the equivalent…
In the last two weeks, our ever-expanding Metropolitan Council announced that it intends to become the owner of a rail corridor in order to facilitate the construction and operation of…
American Experiment’s Newest Policy Fellow.
In light of the most recent developments, legislators and others are asking, is the Met Council even qualified to safely operate both freight and passenger light rail trains adjacent to…
The fatal derailment of the debut trip of Amtrak’s new Seattle to Portland “high-speed” route this week prompted national transit expert and critic Randal O’Toole to post the following commentary on…
The deadly crash of the Amtrak Cascades line passenger train south of Seattle this week shines the spotlight on the government agency’s fatal ineptitude–again. Amtrak’s new CEO Richard Anderson, well…
Minneapolis city officials’ mania for bike lanes could be an emergency. That’s the diagnosis by Dr. Geoffrey Emerson in the Star Tribune in the latest cry for help from…
As price of labor went up, people bought less of it — as standard economic theory predicts. This op-ed appeared June 29, 2017 in the Star Tribune. The Minneapolis City…
Minneapolis has 400 empty lots on the North Side. In the Star Tribune, Neeraj Mehta advocates state government spending to build affordable housing. But the problem isn't that people cannot…
The backlash against bicyclists took long enough to get here. But it broke out full force today in an unlikely place–the Star Tribune’s op-ed page. Minneapolis resident Barbara Nylen rips…
Relying on fads, pseudoscientific planning and an enormous budget, the council has actually increased the cost of housing and created even greater traffic congestion.