Two years ago, Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) forecast a state government budget surplus of $18 billion for the 2024-2025 biennium. In the event, not only was every penny of…
The United Kingdom is experiencing record curtailment costs for wind power in 2024. Curtailment costs are the costs associated with reducing electricity supply when demand is lower. Because wind and…
Today, the state’s Department of Management and Budget (MMB) released its latest budget forecast. The news was not good. But before we dig deep into the horrific numbers, some background…
A recent national survey of more than 20,000 U.S. parents and guardians of K-12 children found that those who send their kids to nonpublic schools or who homeschool are significantly…
The long-time, forthcoming mayoral candidacy of state Sen. Omar Fateh finally came forth on Monday, with the posting of a 1 min. 35 sec. introductory video on social media. The…
Minnesota needs to update its obsolete budget forecast schedule and replace it with one more closely aligned with their fiscal year.
As expected, Republican Aaron Paul, the challenger in the House 54A (Shakopee-area) election last month, filed a court challenge to the published result. Officially, the Democratic incumbent state Rep. Brad…
Multiple media outlets have reported that United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, of Maple Grove, Minnesota, was shot and killed this morning outside a Manhattan hotel in what authorities are…
The battle over St. Paul’s budget is coming to a climax. KSTP reports: Nearly 200 people filled St. Paul City Council chambers on Monday night to express concern and some…
The U.S. District Court of Appeals for North Dakota has heard Iowa v. Council on Environmental Quality, which challenges a new rule that transforms permitting “into a substantive set of…
The radical and unrealistic 2040 deadline for utilities to meet Minnesota’s mandate for 100 percent of electricity to be generated from carbon-free sources remains 15 years away. But alarm bells…
The state house of representatives Rules Committee voted today to pay private lawyers more than $10,000 to represent a sitting member in a private employment dispute. In a lame-duck, virtual…
Over 60 days ago, American Experiment submitted straightforward public data requests for access to deliverables written by the Minnesota Department of Education’s (MDE) Ethnic Studies Working Group that will guide…
Data center construction mean running natural gas plants longer for Xcel Energy, according to remarks by Ryan Long, president of Xcel Energy’s Minnesota and Dakotas division, at an MPUC conference…
In what turned out to be a two-project race, the new state flag defeated Tim Walz’s DEI staff to win American Experiment’s 2024 Golden Turkey Award. The Golden Turkey Award…
Some three years after the Biden administration announced the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program for rural America, not one household has been connected to high speed…
LIVE from the American Experiment Podcast Studio with Bill Walsh and Bill Glahn! Even as prison sentences from the first Feeding Our Future trial are still being handed down, the…
Minnesota’s bloodiest single day of the Civil War was December 16, 1864, with 87 men killed taking Shy’s Hill in the Battle of Nashville. Total casualties from four regiments of…
American Experiment Economist Martha Njolomole tells her story of coming to America in a video with PragerU. “Martha Njolomole grew up in a village in Malawi, Africa. Her laundromat was…