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Delaware tries to improve transparency on state spending
Delaware's Gray Fox will contain ARPA spending data from the state, 19 K-12 school districts, 23 charter schools, four counties, and up to 51 municipalities.
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Federal legalization of marijuana and the Commerce Clause
The most expeditious method of legalizing marijuana at the federal level is to deem any state-approved marijuana product acceptable for trade in interstate commerce.
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New Hampshire’s innovative program to let students learn everywhere
Education is more than just direct instruction and textbooks—learning can happen everywhere.
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New York wisely lowers the state’s assumed rate of return for public pension investments
The plan’s new assumed rate of investment return of 5.9 percent will be the second-lowest investment return assumption among the country’s 130 largest state and local pension plans.
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Infrastructure funds are ready to invest in US airports
This public-private partnership airport lease model has about a 30-year track record worldwide. It’s overdue to start getting adopted in the United States.
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School choice needs to be more than an escape hatch for kids in failing public schools
The next step in school choice is to embrace education funding models that appeal to families looking for a way to customize and have more control over their student’s education wherever they are at.
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Paying down its debt should be a priority for California
California’s flush financial situation was an opportunity to use the surplus to pay down some of the wall of debt.
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FDA needs to embrace vaping’s potential to improve public health
Vaping is beyond doubt safer than smoking and has proved incredibly effective at helping people quit smoking traditional cigarettes.
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Federal ban on commercial rest areas hurts drivers, truckers, and the future of electric vehicles
State transportation departments and the private sector are ready, willing, and able to meet the needs of electric vehicles, drivers, truckers and to provide much better services on the Interstates.