Ed Siedle on MN pension scandal
American Experiment interviewed Edward Siedle, public pension warrior, for our podcast yesterday. The full 32-minute video of the interview: A former lawyer for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),…
American Experiment interviewed Edward Siedle, public pension warrior, for our podcast yesterday. The full 32-minute video of the interview: A former lawyer for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),…
State and local taxes and spending USA Today: Opinion: ‘Knucklehead’ Tim Walz stinks at grammar. He also gets an ‘F’ in state governance Minn Post: Why is most of the…
Constellation Energy and Microsoft announced an agreement last Friday to restart Three Mile Island, a nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It’s a victory for reliable energy and shows the…
The end of Monday’s free-food trial session was as dramatic as its early morning beginning. Monday morning, I wrote about the revelation that Sunday night, a Somali woman visited the…
That’s the extraordinary proposal made by the state’s largest electric utility, Xcel Energy, to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC). Last month, Xcel proposed a two-year pilot project to provide…
Claims of widespread “book banning” in school libraries continue to work their way into comments and articles, despite the fact such rhetoric is not reality. Most notably, Gov. Tim Walz…
The full House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on HF 146, a bill to confirm the state’s status as a “Trans Sanctuary.” Sponsored by first-term Rep. Leigh Finke (DFL-St.…
As part of its Women of the Year project, USA Today is choosing one person from each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico to honor during March’s…
Wind and solar advocates recently celebrated California reaching 100 percent “renewable” energy for an entire 15 minutes, marking the first time this has ever happened after decades of investing tens…
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Linnea Lueken, and the Center of the American Experiment’s Isaac Orr present episode 336 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode,…
On Thursday, February 3, American Experiment reported on a new study by economists at Johns Hopkins University that finds the body of empirical evidence shows lockdowns had “little to no…
The more Minnesotans know about CRT, the less they support it According to the latest Thinking Minnesota poll, Minnesotans are becoming familiar with Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the more they learn about it,…
American Experiment’s John Hinderaker interviews journalist Mollie Hemingway about the irregularities of the 2020 election.
According to an Education Week survey conducted in July, one-third of teachers said they were "somewhat likely" or "very likely" to leave their job this year given the coronavirus and…
Last night, a substantial portion of the debate revolved around energy and environmental policy, particularly fracking and the Green New Deal. You can watch the segment by clicking the picture…
There is, at present, a broad consensus in America that policing reform is needed. That consensus will shatter if extremists, like those at City Pages, succeed in hijacking the cause…
Gov. Walz tells us that he needs to keep his emergency powers to protect us from Covid-19. How, then, is he managing to produce outcomes so much worse than in…
The trials of those arrested and charged will hopefully shed more light on the motives of those who have ravaged our cities and pushed George Floyd's name off the top…
(St. Paul, MN) – The Trump Administration released its finalized Affordable Clean Energy Rule (ACE) to replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan. Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment, released the following…
(St. Paul, MN) – Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment, released the following statement in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day: “Today we remember the heroism of more than…
(St. Paul, MN) – Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment, released the following statement in response to the MN Court of Appeals reversal of the Minnesota PUC’s…
(St. Paul, MN) – Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment, released the following statement in response to the newly posted budget agreement for Jobs, Energy, and Commerce,…
(St. Paul, MN) – Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment, released the following statement in response to Xcel Energy’s plans to close two more coal-fired power plants…
(St. Paul, MN) – Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment, released the following statement in response to the renewal of Twin Metals hardrock mineral leases in…