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Bartow County, Georgia Exits Medical Transport Business
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Bartow County, Georgia commissioners have privatized their public ambulance service. -
Domino’s Pizza Delivers Infrastructure Grant for Fitchburg, MA
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Domino’s Pizza is donating $5,000 to the City of Fitchburg, Massachusetts to fund pothole and road infrastructure repairs in the city. -
Trump Revokes Obama Ocean Policy
Opinion -environment-climate-news -President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) scrapping his predecessor’s ocean policy and replacing it with one de-emphasizing federal bureaucratic control of coastal waterways and adjacent lands. -
Florida Voters to Consider Tax Hike Supermajority Question
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Florida voters will decide in November whether to approve the creation of a constitutional requirement making it more difficult to raise taxes. -
Mountain View, California Voters to Consider ‘Jobs Tax’
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Voters in Mountain View, California will consider whether to increase the local business license tax in this November’s election. -
Chicago Alderman Proposes UBI Experiment
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Chicago alderman Ameya Pawar (D–Ward 47) is calling for the city government to study the idea of a government-administered universal basic income (UBI) pilot program to provide 1,000 families with a $500 payment every month. -
California Gov. Brown Signs Grocery Tax Moratorium
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed a law temporarily prohibiting cities and counties in the state from enacting new grocery taxes or increasing existing levies on groceries, including sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). -
Ohio Lawmakers Consider Online Travel Tax Change
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Ohio House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee is considering a bill that would raise taxes on online travel vendors. -
New York City Puts New Regulations on Housesharing
Opinion -budget-tax-news -An ordinance targeting peer-to-peer short-term housing arrangements has taken effect in New York City. -
South Boston, Virginia Proposes Cig Tax to Fund Government Pay Hikes
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The South Boston, Virginia City Council is considering levying a tax on tobacco sales in the city to fund pay hikes for city government employees and pad general revenue. -
The Walter Lippmann Colloquium and the Meaning of Liberalism
Opinion -Editorial -After the collapse of communism in the 1990s, there was confidence that democracy had won and the market economy had shown its superiority to government planning. -
Rubio Introduces Taxpayer-Financed Parental Paid-Leave Bill
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The U.S. Senate is considering a bill that would use Social Security to finance a new paid parental-leave benefit for couples with new children. -
Pro-Net Neutrality Big Tech – Is with Conservatives as Anti-Neutrality as You Can Get
Opinion -Editorial -Network Neutrality is absolutely awful policy. It is a huge government imposition on the entirety of the Internet. It has zero business being even considered - by any nation laying even the remotest claim to being a free market economy. -
National Labor Trends Continue Upward Trajectory
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Americans are continuing to return to work and stay employed in 2018 as the American economic machine continues to roar, according to new statistics released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). -
Colorado House Misses Chance to Break the Government-School Monopoly
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -As Colorado parents prepared to send their children back to school this fall, they faced yet another school year without a comprehensive educational tax credit system for those who wish to choose options other than the government-run school paradigm. -
CFPB Lawsuits Could Create ‘Circuit Split’
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Two cases challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) may require the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve conflicts between earlier decisions reached by judges in lower courts. -
Congress Approves Agricultural Subsidy Bill, Though Differences Remain
Opinion -budget-tax-news -With both chambers of Congress having approved House Resolution 2 (H.R. 2), also known as the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 or the “farm bill,” a congressional conference committee will reconcile differences between the two versions. -
New Book Examines Debate over American Government Principles
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Review of The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy, by Jay Cost (Basic Books, 2018), 256 pages, ISBN-13 978-1541697461, $16.20 on Amazon.com. -
Fracking Is Not Harming Groundwater in Pennsylvania, Studies Show
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Two new peer-reviewed studies show hydraulic fracturing to produce oil and natural gas is not contaminating groundwater in the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania. -
Tesla Shutters a Dozen Solar Facilities
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Tesla announced it is laying off 9 percent of its solar workforce and shuttering a dozen U.S. installation facilities. -
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Heartland Weekly: Watch All of AFEC 2018
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of August 6, 2018 -
$1 Trillion Deficits and the Crisis of the Entitlement State
Opinion -Editorial -In case you have missed them since the early years of the Obama administration, the $1 trillion-a-year federal budget deficits are coming back, beginning with Uncle Sam’s new fiscal year for 2019, which starts on October 1, 2018. -
Government Must Put Innovation First in Communications Innovation, Including 5G
Opinion -Editorial -T-Mobile's CEO John Legere and Sprint’s Executive Chairman Marcelo Claure discussed at length their combined company’s plans for 5G deployment if the government approves their merger. -
New California Laws Restrict Residential Water Use
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Californians new water-efficiency standards mean residents accustomed to showering and doing laundry on the same day may have to change their ways.
