Yearly Archives: 2024
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Pension Reform News: Impact of pensions on recruiting and retaining public workers
Plus: Surprisingly few public employees qualify for pensions and workers say they'd prioritize more pay over retirement benefits.
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Alaska pension proposal would impose big costs but have little impact on recruitment
Senate Bill 88 could ultimately cost the state an additional $9.6 billion without improving recruitment or retainment of public workers.
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Aviation Policy News: Airport and air traffic privatization and P3 trends
Plus: NextGen's incredible shrinking benefits, reality check for eVTOL startups, and more.
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California should legalize psychedelics and learn from its marijuana regulation mistakes
The state’s high cannabis taxes and burdensome regulations make legal marijuana products expensive and keep the illicit market thriving.
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TikTok bans passed by Congress and Montana are unconstitutional
The Montana ban, and now the federal one, trample all over the First Amendment in their zeal to stop a made-up threat of the Chinese government allegedly spying via TikTok.
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Public pension funds should avoid local economically targeted investments
While some politicians may be tempted by calls for public pensions to invest in local economies, a pension board's duty is to maximize investment returns to fully fund plan members’ benefits.
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A Supreme Court ruling that jawboning is unconstitutional would bolster free speech
Attempts to censor speech, either by intimidation or threatened legal action, should be prohibited as violations of the First Amendment.
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Massachusetts should allow psychedelic therapy
A Massachusetts ballot initiative would create a regulated framework for legal, professionally facilitated psychedelic services and therapy.
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The Key Bridge collapse shows we must do a better job protecting bridges and ports
Lessons to learn from the Key Bridge collapse and policy recommendations to protect bridges, ports, drivers and the economy.
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Nearly half of public employees in defined benefit pension plans will never receive a payout
Defined contribution and cash balance plans can do a better job of providing retirement benefits to more employees.
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Florida zoning reforms are a flawed but promising step
While far from ideal, the Live Local Act protects developers from mandatory municipal inclusionary zoning.
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Surface Transportation News: Trends in infrastructure finance and public-private partnerships
Plus: Mileage-based user fees proposal, California's locomotive emissions regulation misfire, and more.
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Annual Privatization Report 2024 — Transportation Finance
This report reviews 2023 developments in infrastructure investment, focusing on transportation infrastructure.
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Annual Privatization Report 2024 — Aviation
Reviewing developments in the United States and worldwide regarding private-sector participation in airports and air traffic control.
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Annual Privatization Report 2024 — Surface Transportation
Of the top 10 worldwide surface transportation public-private partnerships that reached financial close in 2023, seven used availability payments.
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Alario v. Knudsen: Montana’s TikTok ban is unconstitutional
Montana Senate Bill 419 is an unconstitutional ban on free expression that triggers the most exacting scrutiny under the First Amendment.
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Colorado’s rejection of Senate Bill 24-158 is good for privacy, free speech
For now, the defeat of Colorado Senate Bill 24-158 was a win for consumers, privacy and free speech.
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The DOJ’s Apple antitrust suit doesn’t add up
Practices labeled ‘exclusionary’ by the DOJ created the iPhone ecosystem many consumers prefer.
