From the New York Post, Labor Department watchdog concerned Minnesota employment agency ‘misspent’ $210M That’s million, with an “m.” The Post reports on efforts by the U.S. Department of Labor to check up on more than a quarter-billion dollars in grants sent...
U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon visits Minnesota, briefed by policy fellows
U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s visit to Minnesota on Oct. 14 was the 44th stop on her “Returning Education to the States Tour.” American Experiment education policy fellows Catrin Wigfall and Josiah Padley were honored to be part of Secretary...
Somali immigration: the backstory
Now it can be told. From the New York Post, Two Christian groups were paid $62M to resettle tens of thousands of Somalis in Minnesota. The Post reports, Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services were at the forefront of reshaping the frigid Land of 10,000...
What is MEA weekend?
If your child’s school is closed Thursday (Oct. 15) and Friday (Oct. 16) for “MEA,” you might just think of it as fall break without knowing what the letters stand for. MEA stands for Minnesota Educator Academy and is an annual conference put on by Education...
have your say by today
The wind power image, at the top of the home page for the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC), sadly says it all, when it comes to their current investigation into the affordability of regulated electricity and natural gas in this state. This is...
More taxpayers’ money is not the answer for Minnesota’s Somali community
“For the last year, the local Somali community has been in the political spotlight, facing pressure from state and federal officials over fraud allegations,” MPR News reported last week. “In recent weeks, families and leaders in the Somali community are worried...
CMS Stops $1.5 billion for health insurance on dead people and dual enrollees
On October 14, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced it has ended Advance Premium Tax Credits for roughly 189,000 people enrolled in subsidized Federal Marketplace plans who also had Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP coverage, or who were...
Blue New York committed to the Federal Tax Credit Scholarship. Minnesota can too
In May, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced her intent for the Empire State to opt into the Education Freedom Tax Credit (EFTC) program, provided that there were no “poison pills” in the eventual rules. Those proposed rules were published earlier this month...
Eden Prairie homecoming shooting update
On Friday October 2nd two men were shot in the parking lot of the Eden Prairie High School homecoming football game. In the two weeks since the shooting, authorities have identified at least six of the men involved in the violence and charged five of those men...
All-suburban, all-Somali gang war
An arrest was made in a late-September drive-by shooting on Highway 100. From FOX-9, Man arrested in connection to St. Louis Park Highway 100 shooting. When I attended Edina’s “community conversation” on “gun violence” last week, this freeway shootout was...








