A lawsuit aimed at overriding local control by directing Gov. Tim Walz to order Minnesota schools to adopt a statewide mask mandate, whether districts object or not, has lost round…
Call me skeptical. Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat and former teacher, announced a new Council on Economic Expansion for Minnesota. Economic expansion means business, right? So, the council will be…
England’s acceleration toward electric vehicles (EVs) is putting its electric grid at risk of blackouts. According to the Daily Mail, England will automatically shut off new electric vehicle charging stations…
Gov. Tim Walz has proclaimed this week as Small Business Week in Minnesota. The press release reads: From September 13 – 15th of this week, Commissioner Grove will be visiting…
Center of the American Experiment’s “Think About It” radio campaign won the State Policy Network’s Communication Excellence Award in the Bold Brand Boost Category last week at SPN’s annual meeting…
Three unions that always have DFL Gov. Tim Walz’s political back have left the governor out on a limb when it comes to rank-and-file support for his vaccine mandate for…
State and local taxes and spending KAAL TV: Gov. Walz announces allocation of $103 million of federal money Brainerd Dispatch: Area cities receive DEED grants Star Tribune: Minnesota keeps top…
Minnesotans who participated in the 2021 House of Representatives State Fair Poll support funding students over systems. Polltakers were asked: “Should a school voucher system be established whereby the state…
In a little-noticed development recently the Biden administration signaled it will not challenge one of Donald Trump’s signature environmental policies announced days before the 2020 election — the removal of…
In June, a bill passed in St. Paul waiving taxes owed on 2020 unemployment benefits and, something we argued for, payroll loans. Incredibly for a state government that is so…
You know it’s bad when even the Minnesota Reformer acknowledges that electric vehicles (EVs) have been too unreliable for use in Minnesota, but that’s exactly what they did in a…
Two Macalester College economists took to the pages of MinnPost to discuss the Walz administration’s decision to impose deeply unpopular California car mandates on Minnesota drivers. The professors said that…
Our friends at the group Better in Our Back Yard (BIOBY) are circulating a petition urging Gov. Tim Walz to publicly support the PolyMet mining project, which is the first-ever…
Millions of students across 18 states became eligible for access to new and expanded educational choice options during 2021. Unfortunately, Minnesota students were denied a similar opportunity when the DFL-controlled…
The Walz administration is seeking to unilaterally impose new regulations that will add more bureaucratic red tape for Minnesota iron ore and copper-nickel mining operations. You can tell the administration…
A new report reveals U.S. elementary school students were four to five months behind their expected level of academic achievement at the end of the 2020 school year, writes Axios.…
Last week, my colleague Bill Walsh noted the resolute refusal of Governor Tim Walz to address the explosion of violent crime in Minneapolis, the biggest city in his state. In…
Center of the American Experiment had to react quickly to the Walz administration’s release of the second draft of social studies standards on Friday, July 30, 2021. Despite missing their…
Increasing crime rates and a growing sense of lawlessness are the biggest challenges facing our state, but Gov. Tim Walz is doing everything in his power to ignore, deflect and…
Minnesotans oppose the Walz administration’s attempt to impose more red tape on businesses, according to the administration’s own survey. The new regulations would force project proposers to spend $13,000 to…
A recent national poll by Rasmussen Reports shows that American voters oppose Critical Race Theory by large margins. According to the survey, 73 percent of American adults are following the…
The California car mandates enacted by Governor Tim Walz were deeply unpopular at Farmfest this last week, which is exactly what Center of the American Experiment found last summer when…
Minnesotans trust the police, avoid Minneapolis, and increasingly blame Gov. Tim Walz for rising crime.
The ‘surge’ in cases of the ‘Delta Variant’ of COVID-19 is prompting a clamor for the return of so-called ‘Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions’ (NPIs) — mask mandates, shutdowns and the like —…