Yearly Archives: 2023
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Analyzing Nebraska’s proposed legislation impacting school finance and property taxes
State policymakers shouldn’t pass up this opportunity to decrease the education funding formula’s overreliance on property taxes and to make the formula more transparent and student-centered.
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Florida should abolish capital punishment, not make it easier
In Florida, 30 people have been exonerated while they were awaiting execution since 1972.
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Federal judge: Restrictions on gun ownership violate medical marijuana patients’ Second Amendment rights
Federal firearm policy should not discriminate against users of medical marijuana.
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Sustainable highway funding requires charging the drivers who use them
The true costs of building and maintaining highways and bridges should be paid for by those who use them.
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Surface Transportation News: Ohio train derailment, induced demand and urban freeway expansion, and more
Plus: Hyperloop startups losing ground, fixing major truck bottlenecks, and more.
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Examining day-to-day crypto volatility and why it’s important
Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies frequently exhibit daily price drops during bull markets and increases during bear markets far in excess of traditional assets.
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Amicus Brief: Memmer v. United States
The government’s argument would put landowners in a Trails Act-limbo where the government has denied them use and possession of their land but the owners are not entitled to compensation unless and until the railroad and trail-sponsor reach a trail-use agreement.
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Testimony on Alaska House Bill 22
Reason Foundation’s initial modeling suggests that HB 22 could cost Alaska upwards of $800 million in the coming decades.
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Chicago wants to open a casino to help pay down its public pension debt
Pursuing inadequate solutions with highly politicized taxes or through a brand-new casino is a futile way to dodge the city’s public pension debt and fiscal challenges head-on.
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Tolling value proposition for trucking and state departments of transportation
The question addressed in this paper is whether toll-financed interstate highway modernization could overcome the long-standing objections of the trucking industry, as well as concerns of state DOTs about the coming decline in fuel tax revenues.
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FHWA administrators want to stop humorous traffic safety messages
Researchers are still trying to evaluate the effectiveness of direct message signs on highways.
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The current status of Texas Central’s proposed high-speed rail line linking Dallas and Houston
The high-speed rail vision Texas Central outlined in 2013 of easy land acquisition, quick construction, minimal opposition, and low costs is vastly different from the grim reality that caused the company to abandon its project in 2022.
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Reason Foundation’s amicus brief in Gonzalez v. Google answers many of the questions raised by Supreme Court justices
Congress originally made clear that Section 230 is part of a law intended not to limit free speech but to allow the internet to grow “with a minimum of government regulation.”
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Massachusetts menthol ban increased smoking among black women, research finds
It seems clear that menthol prohibitions are ineffective mechanisms for improving public health in the black community.
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Survey finds pensions are not a high priority for young government workers
Given a list of eight benefits to public sector employment, personal satisfaction from the job and salary were ranked highest, and life insurance and retirement benefits ranked lowest.
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Clearing up definitions of backpack funding
Without strong funding portability mechanisms, school districts have weak financial incentives to welcome transfer students.
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Comments and analysis of legal marijuana proposals and regulation in Hawaii’s SB 375 and SB 669
Reason Foundation recently offered testimony in Hawaii on how Senate Bill 375 and Senate Bill 669 would impact the cannabis industry.
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With EMS takeover attempts, California’s fire departments seek more taxpayer funding to do less
Municipal fire departments are seeking to control EMS so they can draw more federal money and strongarm private ambulance contractors into accepting less money for the same work.
