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Three reasons why public pensions still need reform
Despite realizing excellent investment returns in 2021, public pension plans are still in need of reforms to prevent future debt and ensure they can pay out promised benefits.
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Putting a year of good investment returns for public pension plans in perspective
This year's exceptionally high investment returns are good news for struggling pension plans, but they do not mean all is right in the public pension world.
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California passes EMS bill but doesn’t address anti-competitive landscape
If fire agencies want to fully take over emergency medical services, they should face a competitive landscape that ensures they are tested against the best competition in the EMS industry.
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The FDA has decimated the e-cigarette market
The FDA has not authorized a single e-cigarette for sale and denied more than a million vape products from the market.
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California’s failed mandates offer some lessons for President Biden’s vaccine mandate
The Biden administration could save America from a lot of regulatory, legal and political fighting over its proposed COVID-19 vaccine mandate by recognizing how this mandate approach failed in California in the past.
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Ohio’s teacher retirement system lacks investment transparency
For the 2020 fiscal year, STRS reported paying $175 million in fees to alternative investment managers.
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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, three counties, and 57 municipalities.
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Comments on the proposed pesticide experimental use permit for Oxitec
The EPA should move forward as quickly as possible in approving Oxitec’s request for an experimental use permit to undertake additional field trials in Florida and California.
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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.
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Setting the record straight on heated tobacco products
The FDA says heated tobacco products are safer than traditional cigarettes.
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California needs to focus more on finding—and paying—effective teachers
With the pandemic changing education options, whoever wins the recall election, along with the state’s school leaders, should recognize California needs to reform the way it funds students and pays its best teachers.
