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  • Oregon’s Minimum Wage Bill image

    Oregon’s Minimum Wage Bill

    With Governor Kate Brown’s signature, Oregon will likely soon rank as having the highest state-set minimum wage in the nation. Currently, the minimum wage in Oregon is $9.25 an…

  • Natural Gas: Promoting Safe, Affordable and Reliable Energy image

    Natural Gas: Promoting Safe, Affordable and Reliable Energy

    Recently, the American Gas Association released its 2016 Playbook, a concise description of the tremendous role the natural gas industry currently plays and is poised to continue playing in…

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    Federal Term Limits and the Article V Amendments Convention

    Congressional term limits are a priority for the American people. If you live in the United States, you live under a term-limited President, and your Governor is probably term-limited as…

  • Supreme Court Outlook: Energy and Environment image

    Supreme Court Outlook: Energy and Environment

    With the recent passing of Justice Antonin Scalia, the current 4-4 ideological split on the U.S. Supreme Court could ultimately help benefit President Obama’s energy and environmental policy agenda.  Any…

  • Medical Innovation and the Business of Cures image

    Medical Innovation and the Business of Cures

    By bringing cures that will eradicate diseases such as Hepatitis C to market, people are healthier, which leads to less doctor visits, reduces costly hospital stays, and helps patients avoid expensive surgeries such as liver transplants.

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    Making the Internet of Things a Safer Place

    The Internet of Things (IoT) is an exciting “place.” Innovators are developing revolutionary technologies that will reshape cars, workplaces, homes and lives. Some of these technologies are even now commonplace.

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    Transfer of Public Lands Is Becoming the Issue du Jour among Presidential Candidates

    During the first weeks of the 2016 presidential primary season, presidential hopefuls are offering their views on the topic of transfer of public lands (TPL) giving the issue a higher…

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    Federal Decision Threatens Apple Smartphone Encryption

    A decision from a federal United States Magistrate Judge seriously threatens smartphone encryption by requiring Apple to build a “backdoor” to the iPhone for the Federal Bureau of Investigation…

  • Like Beyoncé, San Francisco Is Right To Embrace Innovative Technologies Such As AirBnB image

    Like Beyoncé, San Francisco Is Right To Embrace Innovative Technologies Such As AirBnB

    Beyoncé’s Super Bowl halftime show delighted her supporters and football fans alike, and also ignited something of a firestorm in the tech world by posting pictures of her lodging for…

  • A Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act image

    A Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act

    It only took 18 painstaking years, but the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) is close to becoming a permanent reality. By an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 75-20, the U.S. Senate…

  • Nevada PUC Upholds Net Metering Changes image

    Nevada PUC Upholds Net Metering Changes

    An article that ran last week described what three states – Hawaii, Nevada and California – have done over the past few months to update their net metering programs.

  • Education and Workforce Director Testifies in Missouri about Education Savings Accounts image

    Education and Workforce Director Testifies in Missouri about Education Savings Accounts

    Putting parents back in charge of the direction of their children’s educations allows parents not only to send their students to the schools – public or private – that work best for them, but to actually design customized and flexible education experiences, including tuition, online classes, curricula, textbooks and workbooks, tutoring, and special education therapies, that are as varied as the children themselves. Instead of feeding a child into a system that must, necessarily, be designed around the “average” student, through an ESA program, parents can and have constructed individualized education pathways for their children which capitalize on their unique strengths and shore up their particular weaknesses. But although they are cutting-edge, ESAs are not brand-new or unstudied. As of today, five states – Arizona, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Nevada – have passed education savings account programs. If 2011 was labeled the “Year of School Choice”[i] by the Wall Street Journal, 2016 is likely to be the “Year of Education Savings Accounts.”

  • West Virginia Becomes the 26th Right-to-Work State image

    West Virginia Becomes the 26th Right-to-Work State

    Today, the West Virginia Legislature overrode Governor Tomblin’s veto to enact the state’s Right-to-Work law, making West Virginia the 26th state in the nation to do so. Because West…

  • More Evidence Raising the Minimum Wage Could Hurt More Than it Helps image

    More Evidence Raising the Minimum Wage Could Hurt More Than it Helps

    Broken promises are nothing new in politics, but the worst are those promises that actual hurt the very people whom the promises were intended to help. Increasing minimum wage is…

  • FDA Wants to Force You to Know How Many Calories You Eat image

    FDA Wants to Force You to Know How Many Calories You Eat

    Congress is considering legislation, the “Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act”, that would ease costly menu labeling requirements and give restaurants and other food retailers some much needed flexibility.

  • Robust IP Protections Enhance Competitiveness image

    Robust IP Protections Enhance Competitiveness

    The most prosperous nations in the world are also the ones that prioritize the protection of intellectual property (IP) the most. Here are the facts. Nations that protect ideas lead the world…

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    The Zika Threat

    While only 20 percent of those infected will experience symptoms from the Zika virus, there are serious consequences from contracting this infection for pregnant mothers and unborn children. It is known to cause birth defects, including microcephaly, which causes small heads and brain damage in infants.

  • ALEC Reaffirms Support for Article V Initiatives image

    ALEC Reaffirms Support for Article V Initiatives

    ALEC leadership reached out to both the U.S. House and Senate Committees on the Judiciary to reaffirm support for an Article V convention for proposing amendments as a way to…

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    Testimony before the Federal Lands Action Group

    The Environmental Implications of Federally Managed Lands in the West and Canadian Devolution Prepared by Karla Jones Director of the Task Force on International Relations and…

  • Net Metering State Updates image

    Net Metering State Updates

    One energy-related issue area that has seen particularly significant play in the states over the past few years is net metering reform. For the uninitiated, net metering is a billing system…