The Star Tribune reports that Minnesota’s Attorney General, Lori Swanson, will join several other states in suing to try to force the Trump administration to resume making “cost-sharing reduction” payments…
Lots of people look at sports stars multi-million dollar contracts and say "Nobody is worth that much money". But some of them are. The trouble is, you only know that…
About 25 years ago, not for the first time and not nearly for the last time, Kathy Kersten wrote something that made a lot of people on the left mad…
On Saturday, October 7, the Star Tribune ran my op-ed piece on the Edina Public Schools (“Racial Identity Politics are ruining Edina’s fabled schools”). Today the paper features two commentaries…
Yesterday’s Star Tribune headlined: “Solutions sought with Twin Cities traffic at its most congested since 1993.” The Minnesota Department of Transportation released its annual Twin Cities congestion report last week,…
Instead of striving for academic excellence, jackboot methods are being used to force students to think “correctly” on social issues. This op-ed originally appeared October 7, 2017 in the Star…
Kathy Kersten’s column in today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune is titled “Racial identity policies are ruining Edina’s fabled schools.” The column is drawn from Kathy’s much longer article in the current…
Can you even for a second imagine Minneapolis–or any other city for that matter–without cops? Not a lowered presence for cops on the beat but no police patrolling the streets,…
“Metropolitan Council staff told us they use one set of assumptions (based on historical state and local funding) when preparing their federal transportation financial plans, and different assumptions (based on…
American Experiment plans an aggressive fall of new and worthwhile efforts.
Keith Ellison pays his interns $0.
Kudos to the environmental activists plotting to turn the Enbridge 3 pipeline replacement project into the next Keystone XL or Dakota Access fiasco. They’ve managed to bring together two groups…
The Met Council admits it has not won the argument.
Minnesota has its eye set on becoming home to Amazon’s second corporate headquarters and efforts to lure the online retail giant seem to be picking up steam, according to a…
American Experiment posted this headline on September 12: Prominent DFL Donor, Key Figure in Corruption Scandal Commits Suicide in L.A. The piece focused on the abrupt rise and fall of…
Gov. Mark Dayton hit the panic button this week. He expressed “serious concerns” and apologized for MnDOT’s untimely closure of 35W into downtown Minneapolis this weekend on game days. The…
If you are a young teacher or in the middle of your career, I hope you are putting money away in a 403(b). If you are retired, think about how…
My American Experiment colleague Catrin Thorman was on-target when she concluded her recent blog about a three-part series in the Star Tribune regarding public school choice in the Twin Cities. …
How much of an issue will public safety be in the upcoming Minneapolis mayoral election? The Star Tribune raised the stakes with an editorial a week ago headlined “Downtown’s dilemma:…
Look on the bright side Minneapolis: the wall could be passed off as an expansion of the nearby Walker Art Museum’s Sculpture Garden. Think of the wall as a giant…
Despite education spending increases year after year, Minnesota remains home to one of the largest academic achievement gaps in the country. Not all students are getting the education they need…
Minnesota has been violating the First Commandment of a defined pension benefit plan for years: you must put aside enough money each year to cover the benefit promised. And if…
It’s not your imagination. It’s not your fault. There’s a deliberate campaign by city, county and state transportation planners to get more cars off our freeways and streets. See “Twin…
Minnesota's rate of job growth has been ahead of the national average over the last year. But those new jobs have been concentrated in less productive sectors of the economy.