GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, March 30 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 28, 2025: * * * Written by John Phelan DFL deficit: DFLers push second highest top rate of income and top rate of business tax in America The DFL deficit In February 2023, Minnesota Management & Budget (MMB) forecast a state government budget surplus of $17 billion for the 2024-2025 biennium.   more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, March 30 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 27, 2025: * * * Written by Sarah Montalbano EPA's house cleaning scraps unworkable GHG emissions standards This month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did some spring cleaning and took steps toward 31 significant deregulatory actions. Utilities and American electricity consumers will b  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, March 30 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 30, 2025: * * * Written by Bill Glahn Feeding Our Future: back from the dead This month's dramatic court verdicts in the Feeding Our Future {FOF} case ("guilty on all counts") doesn't mark the end of the saga. In Churchillian terms, it's more like "the end of the beginning." The action continue  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, March 30 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 27, 2025: * * * Written by Martha Njolomole No taxpayer money for Xcel Energy Center On Tuesday, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and Minnesota Wild owner Craig Leopold addressed the Senate Capital Investment Committee, seeking state funding for renovations to the Xcel Energy Center. The project is   more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, March 30 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 28, 2025: * * * Written by Sarah Montalbano Op-ed: 'Historic action' on critical minerals may reduce reliance on China During President Trump's joint address to Congress, he promised "historic action to dramatically expand production of critical minerals and rare earths here in the U.S.A." Prior  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, March 30 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 27, 2025: * * * Written by John Phelan Tanking commercial property values in downtown Minneapolis push up residential property taxes We at Center of the American Experiment have long warned of looming budget squeezes in Minneapolis and St. Paul as a result of collapsing commercial property value  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, March 30 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 27, 2025: * * * Written by Bill Glahn The money well runs dry Suddenly, the "wrong" people are doing the "right" thing. The full quote from Nobel-prize-winning economist Milton Friedman goes as follows: I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The i  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, March 30 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on March 28, 2025: * * * Written by Bill Glahn Tim Walz shadow government Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz continued his national "town hall" tour yesterday in Houston, TX. Local affiliate Fox 26 reported beforehand: * Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke will hold a town hall in Fo  more