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Use Priorities, Metrics, Partnerships to Fix Roads
California needs a metric-driven approach to transportation spending to improve conditions of roadways.
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Using Property Taxes to Fund Public Schools Prompts Inequities
The most glaring problem with relying on property tax revenues to fund schools is that a child’s ZIP code can determine a school's resources.
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FDA Delays Rules That Would Cripple E-Cigarette Industry
Absent meaningful change to the deeming regulations, many believe that thousands of vapor products will be effectively banned, shuttering tens of thousands of small businesses.
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It’s Time to Allow Tolling on All Federal-aid Highways
With limited gas tax proceeds, states should be allowed to build new highways and rebuild existing highways with toll revenue.
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The Case to Raise the Smoking Age In Texas Doesn’t Make Sense
Researchers recently found youth smoking rates have plummeted to record lows.
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Don’t Let Special Interests Hijack the Reconstruction of I-70 in Colorado
Two lawmakers in Colorado's House have proposed a new environmental study of project approved by mayors.
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New York Times Editorial Shoots at Big Tobacco, Hits Innocent Vapers Instead
The editorial board of the New York Times found itself in the curious position Wednesday of attacking Big Tobacco by supporting regulations that wipe out the industry's main competitors in the e-cigarette/vaping industry.
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Congress Has an Opportunity to Repeal Durbin’s Debit Card Price Controls
In February, the White House issued a set of “Core Principles" for financial services reform and a good place to start would be for Congress to repeal the so-called Durbin Amendment of the Dodd-Frank Act.
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How Asset Recycling Could Solve Trumps Infrastructure Problem
A path to generating private investment in infrastructure.
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Congress Can Avoid a Government Shutdown and Save Thousands of E-Cigarette Businesses
'Regulations prevent these much safer products from competing with cigarettes - the deadliest consumer product on the market.'
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Discrimination, Bad Science, and Spying Neighbors Plague Unprecedented California Tobacco Law
Back in January, the city council passed an unprecedented anti-smoking ordinance that hands landlords arbitrary power over their tenants, targets the poor, and could actually harm public health.
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Ohio State University Approves $1.165B Energy Management PPP
$1+ billion upfront payment will support university's endowment, academic mission.
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Arizona Reforms Second Public Safety Pension Plan
Reform of corrections, probation officer pension plan follows on heels of 2016 police & fire pension reform, using similar collaborative process.
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