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  • Electronic Toll Lanes are a Market-Based Solution to Southern California’s Gridlock
    Electronic Toll Lanes are a Market-Based Solution to Southern California’s Gridlock

    By Baruch Feigenbaum and Chad Lonski
    January 20, 2017

  • Will Trump, Congress Try to Make the Federal Government Compete Again?
    Will Trump, Congress Try to Make the Federal Government Compete Again?

    Expanding competitive sourcing could benefit taxpayers

    January 20, 2017

  • Putin’s War on Tobacco Would Be a Gift To Terrorists
    Putin’s War on Tobacco Would Be a Gift To Terrorists

    More than 30 percent of Russian adults smoke, which is apparently so objectionable to a government reviled for human rights abuses and attacks on press freedom that total tobacco prohibition may now be on the cards.

    By Guy Bentley
    January 18, 2017

  • Thanks To Years of Misreporting, Public Mistrust of E-Cigarettes Jumps
    Thanks To Years of Misreporting, Public Mistrust of E-Cigarettes Jumps

    An increasing number of people believe e-cigarettes are just as harmful as tobacco cigarettes, according to an alarming study

    By Guy Bentley
    January 17, 2017

  • Public Pensions and OPEBs Impose Heavy Costs on Some State and Local Governments
    Public Pensions and OPEBs Impose Heavy Costs on Some State and Local Governments

    By Truong Bui
    January 13, 2017

  • Michelle Obama Partners With Left-Wing Food Activists
    Michelle Obama Partners With Left-Wing Food Activists

    "By partnering with a radically left-wing activist group, rather than an organization focused on feeding hungry people, the First Lady further politicizes an issue that should be above partisan politics."

    By Guy Bentley
    January 9, 2017

  • The Media’s Uncritical Approach To E-Cigarettes Harms Public Health
    The Media’s Uncritical Approach To E-Cigarettes Harms Public Health

    If Americans needed any more reason to be skeptical of the media establishment they need look no further than the coverage given to the Surgeon General’s first-ever report into youth e-cigarette use.

    By Guy Bentley
    January 6, 2017

  • Surgeon General Abandons Public Health For E-Cigarette Hysteria
    Surgeon General Abandons Public Health For E-Cigarette Hysteria

    It is flat out wrong to describe vaping as a "form of tobacco use."

    By Guy Bentley
    January 6, 2017

  • Paving the Way for P3 Infrastructure
    Paving the Way for P3 Infrastructure

    There are two important opportunities that the P3 community should pursue with the new Congress and the new leadership at the U.S. DOT.

    By Robert Poole
    January 5, 2017

  • California’s Regulations and High Taxes Hurt Its Health Care Rankings
    California’s Regulations and High Taxes Hurt Its Health Care Rankings

    The state levies heavy taxes on doctors and medical service providers, raising their costs and thus the costs to all health care consumers.

    By Adrian Moore
    December 28, 2016

  • Can Kentucky Teachers Hold the Commonwealth to its Promises?
    Can Kentucky Teachers Hold the Commonwealth to its Promises?

    By Daniel Takash
    December 27, 2016

  • Study Identifies Enormous Risk in Public Pension Investments
    Study Identifies Enormous Risk in Public Pension Investments

    By Truong Bui
    December 27, 2016

  • 2016 Pension Litigation Year-In-Review
    2016 Pension Litigation Year-In-Review

    December 27, 2016

  • Dallas Pension Crisis Prompts Another Credit Rating Downgrade and Ban on DROP Withdrawals
    Dallas Pension Crisis Prompts Another Credit Rating Downgrade and Ban on DROP Withdrawals

    By Leonard Gilroy and Anil Niraula
    December 26, 2016

  • California Chooses Feel Good Metrics Over Meaningful Education Measures
    California Chooses Feel Good Metrics Over Meaningful Education Measures

    Parents and taxpayers deserve to know how education dollars are spent at the classroom level across grade levels and subject areas in per-pupil terms.

    By Aaron Garth Smith
    December 23, 2016

  • Report: Tax-Hungry States Targeting E-Cigarettes Will Harm Public Health
    Report: Tax-Hungry States Targeting E-Cigarettes Will Harm Public Health

    Legislators pushing taxes on e-cigarettes could hurt smokers’ long-term health and state budgets.

    By Guy Bentley
    December 23, 2016

  • PECG Union Boss Writes Laughable Letter on P3s
    PECG Union Boss Writes Laughable Letter on P3s

    By Baruch Feigenbaum
    December 22, 2016

  • One chart that shows the distortion/failure of economic development incentives
    One chart that shows the distortion/failure of economic development incentives

    By Spence Purnell
    December 21, 2016

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