Starting April 1, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) will hold a three-day series of hearings in St. Paul on the proposed acquisition of the electric utility Minnesota Power (MP). Then, the MPUC will take their show on the road, visiting Cloquet,...
The CEO of the Minnesota-based free-food behemoth Second Harvest Heartland announced that she will be stepping down from her position. Allison O’Toole will be leaving the organization after leading it for the past six years. You may recall that, years ago,...
The upcoming municipal elections in Minneapolis will be a referendum on the city’s future. At the moment, the future is not bright. Yesterday, the city’s hometown newspaper, the Star Tribune, delivered some more bad news, Minneapolis’ total property value falls...
The ‘stop-arm’ law Last September, as kids across Minnesota prepared to start or return to school, Kare 11 ran an article titled “Back-to-school reminder: Minnesota’s stop-arm law means stopping for buses.” “We’re right around 280 vehicles on the road compared...
The Cato Institute released a new report this month estimating the staggering costs of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. The 2022 law could cost a staggering $1.97 trillion by 2034, and could cost $4.67 trillion by 2050. Recall that the Congressional Budget...
Shaping policy The common argument from progressive criminal justice system academics and policy makers is that incarceration is a costly and ineffective tool to control crime. In Minnesota, progressive academics have controlled this narrative and our state...
There are lots of proposals swirling around the state capitol aimed at stopping the fraud rampant throughout state government. Will any of them work? Will any of them gain enough votes to become law? Yesterday, the House of Representatives’ Fraud Prevention and...
Governor Walz continues to boast about how many Minnesotan kids are on Medicaid, but is that REALLY something to BOAST about?! Later Grace, Bill, and Kathryn react to House DFL members looking for an excuse to RAISE taxes, this time manipulating facts about...
The Minnesota Legislature is currently considering H.F. 29, a bill that does two important things: It repeals Minnesota’s K-12 liberated Ethnic Studies mandates enacted in 2023, and It suspends implementation of the Minnesota Department of Education’s new...
In American Experiment’s 2021 report “The State of Minnesota’s Economy: 2020 — A focus on economic growth,” we wrote: What matters for economic welfare is per capita income. This is a general measure of welfare, telling us how much per person is available to be...