Digging into the Medicaid fraud charges filed against award-winning entrepreneur Salman Elmi reveals an alleged scheme of breathtaking scope, combining a sophisticated sex-trafficking network with a fully integrated taxpayer fraud machine. Alleged Medicaid pimp...
Minnesotans need to put a stop to the Orwellian plan known as the “Natural Gas Innovation Act” or NGIA, which became law in 2021. It is aimed at forcing most homes and workplaces onto an electricity grid, that is increasingly unaffordable and unreliable due to...
I never expected to feel thankful for losing over $6,000 in need-based aid, but I am. My Minnesota State Grant scholarship was originally $10,000; I’m one of the lucky ones who got to keep any of it at all. That’s because one of Minnesota’s largest need-based...
Ask most taxpayers what local government is for, and they will list the fundamentals: roads, public safety, utilities, trash collection, and zoning. But in Minneapolis and St. Paul, City Hall’s scope has broadened dramatically. From housing investments and...
We at Center of the American Experiment have long tracked the collapse of commercial real estate values in Minneapolis and St. Paul, the resulting squeeze on city budgets, and the consequent hikes in residential property taxes to plug the gaps. A common reply...
The former senior aide to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Feeding Our Future defendant No. 6 has now picked up a new felony drug charge. He had already pled guilty in the free-food fraud case back in January 2025. The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad...
Takeaways from this article: State spending on Medicaid has nearly doubled since 2019 250,000 MN enrollees predicted to be removed from Medicaid as a result of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill did not happen in 2026, in fact spending and enrollment grew. Per capita...
Judges try keeping the State Fair from turning into a Somali gang battleground… Check out the American Experiment Podcast A Liberian government official has been using group homes to make millions off taxpayers, a viral video exposing election vulnerabilities...
A federal judge has dismissed most of the claims Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison brought against the Trump administration over its interpretation of Title IX. According to Politico, Minnesota is currently the only state challenging in court the Trump...
Abdinasir Mohamed Abshir is scheduled to be sentenced this afternoon in federal court in downtown Minneapolis. KSTP-5 reports, Feeding Our Future defendant facing more jail time for witness tampering. Abshir is defendant No. 10 (out of 80, overall) in the case,...