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Maryland and Virginia’s Congestion-Busting Mega-Project
The governors of Maryland and Virginia announced an agreement to rebuild the American Legion Bridge, enabling the completion of America’s largest region-wide network of express toll lanes.
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Using Incentives In Contracts Can Help Reduce the Health Care Problems In Jails
Well-designed private prison contracts can be used to reduce prison populations, provide quality health care to inmates, and produce education and training programs to help people re-enter society.
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New Mexico Needs Pension Reforms, Shared Sacrifice to Pay for Promised Retirement Benefits
The changes should provide $700 million in immediate savings and are projected to eliminate over $6 billion in unfunded liabilities.
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Evidence Shows Soda Taxes Have Not Reduced Obesity
As Washington, DC, proposes a soda tax, it is hard to overstate the abject failure of soda taxes to deliver on their promised benefits.
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CDC Started a Vaping Panic, Now It’s Admitting Vitamin E Acetate In Illegal Products Is to Blame
The deaths and lung illnesses being associated with vaping have nothing to do with legal nicotine e-cigarettes.
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Liberty University: A Cautionary Tale From a School Receiving $770 Million Annually From Government Sources
Reforming Liberty University doesn’t mean compromising its mission.
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Education Funding Should Follow Students to Their Schools
There is nearly $700 billion being spent on public education each year and parents, principals and teachers are best equipped to know what students need.
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Florida’s Highway Performance Shows Good Results at Very High Costs
Pavement and bridge conditions are good but in most of the spending categories, Florida tends to spend three to five times as much money as other states.
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San Francisco’s Latest Affordable Housing Bond Isn’t the Answer to the City’s Housing Crisis
Proposition A would spend $600 million to build 2,800 units of subsidized housing, which wouldn't make a dent in the problem.