From the Minnesota Star Tribune this morning, Playing both sides on fraud: Omar Jamal allegedly promised to protect Feeding Our Future participants, took their money, then turned some of them…
NIMBY stands for “Not In My back Yard.” This is a truly bipartisan phenomenon that helps block all sorts of economic development at the local level, and sometimes state and…
Early voting began last week, and a KSTP poll shows what might be motivating Minnesota’s voters. When asked what the most important issue is, 37% of respondents said, “Inflation/Cost of…
Minnesota continues to make national headlines for its refusal to stop the fraud. From Fox News, Minnesota’s anti-ICE aid fund becomes latest casualty of state’s embarrassing fraud problem. Only 82 of…
State and local taxes and spending Duluth News Tribune: Mayor’s View: Asking more of city leaders means being able to ask less of Duluth taxpayers The Ely Echo: City council…
Three published polls by the Pew Research Center, two in 2026 and one in 2025, show that: renewables popularity is waning (April 3, 2026); nuclear power support is expanding (October…
Fahad Mohamed Nur remains as the sole Minnesota representative on the FBI’s 10 most wanted fraudster list. With a flurry of Minnesota fraud fugitives returning to America in recent months,…
…just keeps happening in Minnesota. The U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) announced last week, Indian National Charged with Making False Claim of U.S. Citizenship to Vote in 2024 Election The…
The New York Times interviews Minnesota-based federal judges on Operation Metro Surge and the habeas corpus phenomenon: sanctimoniousness ensues. Yesterday, the Times wrote (paywall), Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns.…
In economics, a “sunk cost” is one “incurred in the past which is irretrievable and which is therefore irrelevant to any future decision-making.” A brewer, for example, might print up…
The top ten stories for the week: Energy & Public Utilities Cato Institute => The Case for Consumer-Regulated Electricity: Private Electricity Grids Offer a Parallel Path to Energy Abundance PowerLines => PowerLines…
The Big 3 measures for electricity reliability in Minnesota (MN), as well as around the country and world, are SAIFI, SAIDI and CAIDI. The MN Public Utilities Commission (PUC) defines…
Minnesota’s state budget is heading in a troubling direction, with spending growing faster than taxpayers can sustain. Here are five critical details every Minnesotan needs to know. The budget share…
Microsoft recently joined forces with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), America’s second-largest teachers’ union, to release a “National AI Safety & Privacy Standard.” The “first-of-its-kind agreement” ensures that “tech…
Image courtesy of KSTP-TV / ABC 5 Eyewitness News The Washington Policy Center (WPC) has uncovered “widespread and systematic factual errors” in the outcomes reporting of the Seattle based drug…
Earlier this week, the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) district school board met to hear three proposals from Superintendent Dr. Lisa Sayles-Adams and her team, each outlining a pathway to right-size…
Join Opportunity for All Kids and Center of the American Experiment for the second annual 7k for Kids Fun Run on Saturday, October 11th in Plymouth. There will be a…
Minnesota’s fraud problem made national headlines as criminals took advantage of our state’s generous welfare programs and lax oversight to steal billions of taxpayer dollars. Join American Experiment’s fraud expert…
As part of American Experiment’s Minnesota School Board Toolkit, this video walks through how to access reading and math proficiency results for a school or district.
Amidst mounting frustration with the state and national teachers’ union, a small group of teachers in Becker, Minnesota decided to try something different. They successfully petitioned the state to call…