It’s hard to believe the threat to passenger safety on Twin Cities light rail and bus lines could get any worse than the 50 percent increase in crime on Metro…
Back in 2018, Finance & Commerce wrote: A concrete fortress of a parking ramp appeared to be the former Macy’s future after its 2013 exit from downtown St. Paul. What…
…After avoiding an early brush with the Feeding Our Future scandal. In some rare good news for the economy of Minneapolis and St. Paul, local entrepreneur Abdirahman Kahin won the…
Discussing his new book and upcoming event next Wednesday in St. Paul, national school choice expert Corey DeAngelis joined the Jon Justice show Monday morning to discuss how government schools…
Another momentous week at the State Capitol ended with the Senate passing a bill legalizing recreational marijuana. A similar bill already passed the House so now a conference committee will…
Catch up on the latest American Experiment events, initiatives, and policy work.
There isn’t space in the newsletter to write about all the bad things that passed this week, so here are just ten things that happened this week in St. Paul…
When both Minneapolis and St. Paul proposed rent control on their ballots in 2021, American Experiment recommended voting against those proposals, citing the harmful consequences of rent control. Specifically, our…
Since Minnesota Management and Budget’s (MMB) announcement in November 2021, Minnesota’s historic $7.7 billion surplus has only grown. According to the most recent update from MMB, Minnesota’s net general fund…
Most Minnesotans likely know that taxes and abortion are major topics of debate at the State Capitol this session. But it’s a good bet fewer know that, out of the…
Last week I wrote about new data that showed that businesses are fleeing downtown Minneapolis. Twin Cities Business reported: With over 21.2 million square feet of vacant office space in the…
The legislature started putting together the state budget this week, passing several omnibus bills off the Senate and House floor. So far, they are sticking to the budget targets agreed…
Lawmakers in St. Paul are busy scheming new ways to spend the state’s $17 billion surplus and finding new ways to raise your taxes, to boot. Sadly, liberal lawmakers are…
A recent dust-up between the Capitol press corps and House DFL leadership exposes a much larger trend of complacency and incuriosity of the media covering the governor and legislature in…
The biggest urban areas are leading the way. Today, the Minnesota House of Representatives will be taking up HF3, the omnibus elections bill. The bill is a grab-bag of bad…
As a staffer for the Minnesota House Republican Caucus during the 1996 session, the first thing I did each session day was check the hand-written list of absentee members held…
In the spirit of Easter, Capitol Watch would like to highlight three proposals likely to pass this session that will help Minnesotans and make the state a better place to…
Economic growth Star Tribune: Minnesota’s economy slowed but remained resilient in last months of 2022 Star Tribune: Many women 65 and older struggle to stay above Minnesota’s poverty line Regulation…
Wanda Patsche’s profile on social media refers to her as a commonsense corn, soybean and hog farmer who hopes to “bridge the disconnect consumers have with where their food comes…
We document more than $30 million flowing into Minnesota last year to support Democrats. If you’ve wondered why state Democrats are pursuing such a radical policy agenda, more befitting California…
Regulation CBS News: Push at State Capitol to end subminimum wage for people with disabilities Star Tribune: Counterpoint: Real equality recognizes differences InForum: Letter: By eliminating wages for the disabled,…
St. Paul needs to fix its roads. However, the city does not have the money for that. So in January of this year, the St. Paul City Council and Mayor…
As my colleague Kathy Kersten and I have written, the push for ethnic studies at the Minnesota Capitol is rooted in narrow, harmful ideologies. It’s being framed as “a curriculum…
Center of the American Experiment announced today they will host a Freedom Rally at the Minnesota State Capitol on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, at 11:00 am. The rally theme is…