Jose Alberto Arroyo-Sotelo is our Minnesota Man of the Day. Dramatic scenes played out up in Fridley and Brooklyn Park earlier this month, when Arroyo was taken into custody by…
There is cause for celebration! A federal tax credit for contributions to Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs) was included in the federal budget bill that was signed into law on July 4,…
Cut the waste, save the budget. Eight years ago, American Experiment asked Minnesotans in our quarterly Thinking Minnesota Poll if they thought state government spends too much, not enough, or…
That was then… Back in 2023, there was much excitement among Minnesota’s political leaders and journalists when our state placed fifth on CNBC’s annual ranking of “America’s Top States for Business.” Some…
Mehran Makari Saheli arrested by ICE. The press release from DHS reads: ICE Arrests 11 Iranian Nationals Illegally in the U.S. Over the Weekend What were the odds that one…
Net domestic migration — whether more people are moving to Minnesota from other parts of the United States than are moving from it to other parts of the United States…
It’s a tale as old as time itself: a last-minute ticket purchased to Dubai, another airport arrest. Lou Raguse of KARE-11 TV reported on the 6 p.m. news this evening…
Media reports indicate that another nonprofit was searched by the FBI yesterday in connection with the sprawling Feeding Our Future scandal. Please note that no person or company named below…
The New York Post dispatched a reporter to spend a week in Minneapolis to see how the city’s recovered five years after the summer of George Floyd. The Post headline:…
I’m sure you’ve seen that famous June 2021 video of Feeding Our Future CEO Aimee Bock being serenaded with singing and dancing while being presented with an award. The occasion…
The second Feeding Our Future trial resumed this morning at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Your correspondent was there. Salim Said, co-owner of the Safari Restaurant of south Minneapolis,…
On Wednesday, March 12, Public Safety Policy Fellow David Zimmer testified in the Minnesota House Public Safety Committee in support of HF 16. You can see a write-up of the hearing…
That’s “billion, with a “b.” Minnesota has much experience with brand-new nonprofits getting multi-million-dollar grants from the state government. The Feds have managed to go over the top in this…
Yes, Minnesota, there is now a new state agency that goes by the unwieldy name: MN Climate Innovation Finance Authority. The Center’s Sarah Montalbano wrote about this new entity yesterday.…
In the Winter 2024 issue of our magazine Thinking Minnesota, I wrote about the “Minnesota Miracle” of 1978 which saw, among other outcomes, the election of a tied state House,…
Two videos, both produced in 2021, show the Minneapolis mayoral candidate speaking about his advocacy work on behalf of private companies providing social services funded by state government (taxpayers). Here…
The St. Cloud Times published a bizarre story yesterday under the headline: St. Cloud politician, community educator suspected of helping drug traffickers sell a gun The politician in question is…
I write occasional articles about Minnesota’s history for our magazine, Thinking Minnesota. In the course of doing so, I often write more material than I have room for, as was…
The headline from a press release issued today by the office of state attorney general Keith Ellison: Attorney General Ellison requires charity to dissolve over governance violations File this under…
The Cato Institute opens its 2024 Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors with the words: State government budgets have grown substantially in recent years with the influx of federal…
It was a near run thing, but, eventually, the Vikings put the Packers to bed at Lambeau Field last Sunday. But depressed cheese heads can find comfort in the results…
Max Nesterak of MN Reformer was the first to report on the lawsuit filed by some local rideshare drivers against their own nonprofit advocacy group Minnesota Uber/Lyft Drivers Association (MULDA).…
What America needs to know about Tim Walz.
State and local taxes and spending Wall Street Journal: The Minnesota Tax-and-Spend Model Cato Institute: Governor Tim Walz’s Fiscal Record Washington Times: While other governors were lowering taxes, Walz socked…