People love comparing the economic performance of Scott Walker’s Wisconsin to Mark Dayton’s Minnesota. Both governors were elected in 2010 and took their states in dramatically different policy directions. Walker…
We have more than once debunked the claim–often asserted by liberals–that Minnesota’s recent economic performance under Governor Dayton has been better than Wisconsin’s performance under Governor Walker. This is alleged…
Thorman engaged experiences in the Senate, at Heritage, and in a classroom (teaching Latin, no less) to prepare for her new role at American Experiment
According to the Strib, Roe “helped engineer the DFL gains that resulted in 1972 in full DFL control of the Legislature and the governor’s office for the first time in…
A forthcoming article in American Experiment’s magazine, Thinking Minnesota, will reveal the grass is growing greener on the other side of Minnesota’s border. For the article, I analyzed job growth…
Minnesota’s economy no victory for Dayton.
The other week I brought two basic facts to bear on the debate over whether Dayton’s liberal, high tax policies are beating Scott Walker’s lower tax approach to the economy. First, Minnesota’s…
There’s a border battle going on between Minnesota and Wisconsin, a battle between the policies advanced by Gov. Mark Dayton and Gov. Scott Walker. The two states have long shared…
We now have an idea of how three of the seventeen or so Republican candidates would move beyond Obamacare. Gov. Bobby Jindal, Sen. Marco Rubio and, most recently, Gov. Scott Walker have all outlined in…
In a famous Time magazine story in 1973, Minnesota was epitomized, not just as a particularly well-run state, but as the “State that Works.” Other states might have been close…