Welcome back to the American Experiment Podcast! This week, Grace and Kathryn break down the latest Minnesota news, starting with a judge striking down the state’s “trigger ban” and blasting…
Perhaps it is convenient for the teachers’ union to use a word with a negative connotation to label all choice policies, but school choice programs don’t function the same way,…
The state of Minnesota once again appears on an official list of illegal alien sanctuary states, along with eleven (11) other states and the District of Columbia. This latest list…
Support for a choice policy that would allow families to direct a portion of the education dollars allocated by the state for their child toward a variety of educational services…
Alpha News reports: Minnesota DHS takes a step to improve background checks. It’s about time. The requirement will also apply to contractors, interns, volunteers, and existing employees with Criminal Justice…
Minnesota Advanced Placement pass rates have recovered after their dramatic drop to 60.4 percent during the deeply challenging 2020-2021 school year. Schools made strong efforts to regain these losses due…
The fraud-ridden Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) program at the state Dept. of Human Services (DHS) was shut down late last month and payments to all program providers were stopped. When…
Welcome back to the American Experiment Podcast! This week, Grace and Kathryn are once again joined by Bill Walsh for a lively discussion. First up: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s latest…
Back in May, I wrote about the proposed hike in Minnesota’s cannabis tax from 10% to 15%. That wasn’t all: Another change which has been less noted is the proposal…
The White House announced a “crime emergency” today in Washington, D.C. and laid out a plan “to protect public servants, citizens, and tourists, and ensure the safe functioning of the Federal…
When the Walz administration allowed illegal aliens into the Minnesota taxpayer-supported healthcare system, a bulletin was provided by the Minnesota Department of Human Services that basically provided a roadmap for…
Applying the DOGE lens to the state budget. Which do you want first, the good news or the bad news about the state budget? How about the bad news: We…
Gerrymandering — the practice where politicians choose their voters rather than the other way around — is much in the news at present. Faced with moves to redistrict, Democrats in…
Joe Thompson gets results. The acting United States Attorney for Minnesota launched an investigation into the fraud-riddled Medicaid program Housing Stabilization Services (HSS). Don’t be confused. HSS doesn’t provide actual…
Despite being pigeonholed as a “voucher” or a “diversion” of funds from public schools, the recently passed federal tax-credit scholarship provision created under the Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA)…
In this special edition of Stop the Tape we continue to counter the arguments of Tim Walz and company about the impact of the Big Beautiful Bill in Minnesota. Walz…
Cut the waste, save the budget. Eight years ago, American Experiment asked Minnesotans in our quarterly Thinking Minnesota Poll if they thought state government spends too much, not enough, or…
If he wins, Tim Walz will be the first Minnesota governor elected to a third four-year term.
From the Minnesota Star Tribune this evening (Monday): Minnesota halts payments to housing program providers amid fraud investigation. The Star Tribune quotes the governor: The payments that were scheduled to…
How much fraud is there in Minnesota state government? Many people, mostly taxpayers, including me, want an answer to that question. Two people who do not want an answer to…
Jay Kolls of KSTP-TV 5 has the scoop. In an interview that aired tonight (Tuesday), Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson tells KSTP: that when current investigations are prosecuted and finished,…
In a case captioned as Mohamed et. al. vs. Walz et. al., two former operators of childcare businesses located in Hennepin County have sued the state of Minnesota in federal…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently completed a study of 2024 enrollment data and found $14 billion wasted on Medicaid enrollees who were already covered by another…
The Acting U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, Joseph Thompson, flanked by state and federal law enforcement officials, held a press conference this afternoon to announce a six-count criminal indictment against Vance…