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The Williams Report
Budget: Alaska: Alaska Legislature Will Likely quit for the Summer Without a Fiscal Plan, or Even a Capital Budget Connecticut: Malloy Details How He Would Manage the State…
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Pension Obligation Bonds Could Unravel Pension Reform Victory
Issuance of POBs will negate the recent pension reform victory by shifting current pension costs to future taxpayers and gambling the commonwealth’s fiscal health on risky arbitrage.
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Federalism is the answer to political violence
About a month ago, on the way back to Texas after a week hiking in New Mexico, some friends and I stopped at an isolated convenient store to stretch our…
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Without Title II, is the Internet the new ‘Wild West’?
Without government regulation, some have argued, the Internet is like the Wild West. The idea is to paint the Internet and the innovators who provide access to it,…
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ALEC-FreedomWorks Legislator of the Week
Representative Elijah Haahr grew up on a farm in southwest Missouri. He graduated cum laude in 2005 from Missouri Western State University (MWSU) with degrees in history and government &…
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ALEC Applauds Michigan’s MPSPERS Pension Reform Efforts
This reform package preserves retirement security for existing and future employees while putting in place a more fiscally sustainable benefit for new workers. Both teachers and taxpayers win.
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SCOTUS Decision in Trinity Lutheran Sets the Stage for Expanded School Choice
Trinity Lutheran has the potential to set the stage for an even brighter future for education reform in the United States.
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VIDEO: Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentencing Explained
Federal mandatory minimum sentences provide that if someone is convicted of selling or conspiring to sell over a certain quantity of a particular drug, a judge must sentence the offender…
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Delaware could learn an economic lesson from North Carolina
When it comes to state budget problems, Delaware is not alone as it faces a nearly $350 million gap. In fact, more than 30 states faced budget shortfalls this fiscal year. Why…
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EPA strikes blow against federal overreach
It’s not often that the statement “EPA strikes a blow against federal overreach” can be accurately used, but today is finally one of those days. Today the Environmental Protection Agency…
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North Carolina Accelerates Broad-Based Tax Relief
By further lowering economically destructive taxes on productivity, North Carolina lawmakers are giving the state’s economy yet another long-term boost, further magnetizing its draw for individuals and businesses alike.
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Join the Center to Protect Free Speech “First Fridays” Conference Calls
The Center to Protect Free Speech offers “First Fridays” teleconference calls as a resource to discussed donor privacy and why legislation designed to disclose donors to 501(c)(3) organizations is harmful…
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The Time for Pension Reform is Now
Over the past month, Michigan and Pennsylvania lawmakers joined a handful of other states in passing meaningful pension reform. It’s high time for the rest of the nation to follow…
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The Importance of Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility
Raising the age for criminal responsibility of juveniles is an issue on the front lines of criminal justice reform. Raise the age bills have been passed at some point in…
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The Canadian Dairy Model: Milking Consumers
They’re in President Trump’s crosshairs. They live just beyond the border, and the President believes they’re hurting America. You guessed it: Canadian dairy farmers. President Trump made headlines…
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Peter H. Coors
Peter H. Coors is Chairman and Chief Customer Relations Officer of Molson Coors Brewing Company. He is an engineering graduate of Cornell University and a business graduate of the University…
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Travis H. Brown
Travis Brown is the Founder and CEO of First Rule, whose core mission is to recruit and serve as “happy warriors,” spreading the fundamental truths that need to be told—through…
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Matthew G. Bevin
Matthew Griswold Bevin was elected as the 62nd Governor of Kentucky on Tuesday, November 3, 2015. He is a loving husband, a father of nine children, a military veteran, a…
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William J. Bennett
William J. Bennett is one of America’s most important, influential, and respected voices on cultural, political, and education issues. He has written or co-authored more than 25 books including two…