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Paving The Way For Innovation: Increasing Available 5GHz Unlicensed Spectrum
In the 21st century, a significant amount of our personal and professional lives are spent using Wi-Fi enabled technology. Smartphones, tablets, and computers allow us to become more productive and…
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Krugman: Wrong on Taxes, Wrong on Kansas
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently used his weekly column to take aim at pro-growth tax reform and the Rich States, Poor States ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness…
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Will Texas’s ‘Impossible’ $10K Degree Lead the Nation?
By Thomas K. Lindsay, Texas Public Policy Foundation In Rick Perry’s 2011 state of the state address, Perry challenged Texas’s public universities to craft four-year degrees costing no more than…
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State wireless facility reforms promise jobs and economic benefits | The Hill
As states look to balance budgets and inspire local economic investment, lawmakers should consider adopting wireless facilities siting reforms as a way to encourage economic growth. So far this year,…
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Margin Tax is the Epitome of Bad Tax Policy
With most legislative sessions for 2014 adjourned, many states are now looking forward to November. Other than elections, various ballot initiatives will be voted on later this year. Perhaps the…
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Michigan vs. Minnesota Radio Interview
Tony Conley of the Tony Conley Show in Lansing, Michigan featured Jonathan Williams of the ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force on his show to talk about a Michigan…
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Intellectual property entitled to protection | Cincinnati Enquirer
What do Coca-Cola, Whole Foods and 5-Hour Energy have in common? They all maintain trade secrets to protect their brands and market their products. Trade secrets are integral…
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Intellectual property entitled to protection
This appeared on Cincinnati.com on July 4, 2014. What do Coca-Cola, Whole Foods and 5-Hour Energy have in common? They all maintain trade secrets…
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Electric Transmission Line Siting Compact
Electric Transmission Line Siting Compact ARTICLE I: PURPOSE Siting electric transmissions lines across state borders and federal lands is an issue for states, the federal government, transmission utilities,…
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Minnesota vs. Michigan: A Case For Larger Government?
A recent report published by Michigan Future Inc. attempts to defy economics 101, arguing that high taxes and larger government have caused economic success in Minnesota. The report used…
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Recidivism Reduction Act
Model Policy Section 1. {Definitions.} In this title, the following words have the meanings indicated. (A) “Agency” means: (1) The Department of Corrections or the state agency responsible for supervising…
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Resolution on DNA Testing Standards
Resolution on DNA Testing Standards Summary A Resolution supporting the FBI effort to “re-evaluate existing policies, standards, and protocols, including requirements for outsourcing DNA analysis to private laboratories and…
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Swift and Certain Sanctions Act
Model Policy Section 1. {Definitions.} In this title: (A) “Agency” means: (1) The Department of Corrections or the state agency responsible for supervising individuals placed on probation by the courts…
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Resolution in Support of Justice Reinvestment
WHEREAS, justice reinvestment is a data-driven strategy for policy-makers to lower corrections spending, lower recidivism, and improve public safety for citizens; and WHEREAS, the American Legislative Exchange…
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Community Corrections Performance Incentive Act
Model Policy Section 1. {Intent} The provisions of this act are intended to reduce crimes committed by probationers and the number of probationers revoked to prison by giving probation departments…
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Resolution in Support of H.O.P.E.
Resolution WHEREAS, Hawaii’s Circuit Judge Steve Alm started the Hawaii Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) program in 2004 in an effort to reduce drug use and crime among those probationers…
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Community Corrections Performance Measurement Act
Model Policy Section 1. {Definitions.} In this title: (A) “Agency” means: (1) The Department of Corrections or the state agency responsible for supervising individuals placed on probation by the courts…
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Earned Compliance Credit Act
Model Policy {Title, enacting clause, etc} Section 1. {Intent} The act creates an “earned compliance credit” that would reduce the time that low-risk, non-violent offenders are on active supervision by…
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Resolution on the Release of Inmates Directly from Solitary Confinement
Model Resolution WHEREAS, tens of thousands of prison inmates in the U.S. are in solitary confinement; WHEREAS, thousands of inmates are released every year directly from solitary confinement to the…
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Resolution Concerning Oil and Gas Production on Federal Lands
Resolution Concerning Oil and Gas Production on Federal Lands WHEREAS, the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 and the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands of 1947 give the…