Back in January, the Tax Foundation published their ranking of state corporate income taxes for 2026. As Figure 1 shows, with a corporate income tax rate of 9.8%, Minnesota ranked second after only New Jersey with its rate of 11.5%. Figure 1 But New Jersey only...
Hugo Cardona-Jiminez will be returning to his native Guatemala on his third deportation following a hearing this morning at the federal courthouse in downtown St. Paul. Your correspondent was there. Cardona, now aged 31, entered a guilty plea to a federal...
Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), Minnesota’s premier safety-net hospital and Level I trauma center, stands particularly exposed to the risks of the state’s heavy dependence on volatile supplemental funding. Rather than relying on stable general fund...
A new report has found that the largest teachers’ union spent roughly 10 cents on the dollar for activities directly representing its members over the last year, while larger portions went to politics. Produced by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)...
The resignation Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) Chief Brian O’Hara resigned his position late yesterday following an investigation into allegations of an inappropriate relationship with another city employee. Mayor Frey issued a letter of reprimand to...
Back in February, I warned against the budgetary impact of passing a massive bonding bill. Governor Walz’s bonding budget proposal was then $907 million. But in the 2026 session, the legislature passed a $1.2 billion bonding bill — $300 million above Walz’s...
In January 2025, Center of the American Experiment partnered with Opportunity for All Kids (OAK) to raise awareness and support for legislation to create a $7,000 Education Savings Account (ESA) for kids and families tired of the status quo of Minnesota’s...
In a decision a long time in the making, nearly 70 percent of Harvard’s faculty has just voted to limit A grades in every course to roughly the top 20 percent of students. The slow, devastating creep of grade inflation has lately swept its way across every tier...
What was in the Feds’ latest Minnesota fraud update (and does it validate Nick Shirley)? What do Minnesotans think of the state of the state as we head into midterm elections? And why is the Minneapolis Public School district building a brand-new $105 million...
More news outlets are reporting what many of us have been pointing out for years — the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t actually what caused academic achievement to plummet; it was occurring long before then. Take, for instance, an NPR News article titled, “Kids’ test...