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‘Fiscal Cliff’ Tax Avoidance Boosted States’ 4th Quarter Tax Receipts

Rockefeller Institute
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April 24, 2013
Overall state tax revenues increased by 5.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government's latest quarterly report on taxes.

Washington State Dems Drop Beer Tax

Shelby Sebens
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April 24, 2013
Brew masters in Washington State are raising a cup to Olympia as House Democrats have decided to drop a proposed special tax on beer.

‘State-Led’ Common Core Pushed by Federally Funded Nonprofit

Joy Pullmann
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April 24, 2013
A central defense of the new national education standards, now generating spirited public debates, is that the federal government did not mandate or create them.

What Goes Around ...

David L. Applegate
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April 23, 2013
Former Lodi, California mayor James McCarty, 86, and his brother, Robert, 78, have sued Lodi attorney Russe

California High-Speed Rail Could Lose Hundreds of Millions Annually

Reason Foundation
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April 23, 2013
The California High-Speed Rail Authority is overestimating ridership by 65 to 77 percent and will need $124 million to $373 million a year from taxpayers to cover its operating costs and financial

Oklahoma Considers Medicaid Alternatives

Patrick B. McGuigan
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April 23, 2013
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin remains determined to avoid entanglement in President Obama’s health care law.

How Tennessee Voucher Momentum Splintered

Ashley Bateman
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April 23, 2013
Years of voucher proposals, polls showing parent support for vouchers, and a governor-sponsored voucher bill did not culminate in a new Tennessee voucher law this spring.

Colorado House Considers More Renewable Power Mandates

James M. Taylor, J.D.
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April 23, 2013
The Colorado House of Representatives Transportation and Energy Committee is holding hearings tomorrow on legislation to dramatically increase the amount of expensive renewable power consumers are

Google Goes Shopping at a Dollar Store

Randolph J. May
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April 22, 2013
Last week Google went shopping at a dollar store — and came away with a fiber system.

States Respond to Common Core Science Standards

Joy Pullmann
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April 22, 2013
States have begun to take sides on the new Common Core science standards released last week.
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