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An Overview of Using Public-Private Partnerships to Build or Modernize Highways
Outlining five significant advantages of using P3s to build and operate transportation infrastructure.
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Telehealth Reforms Could Expand Access to Health Care in Louisiana
Eliminate disparities between physician and non-physician providers, reduce barriers for out-of-state providers and expand telepharmacy services.
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Streamline the TIFIA Process to Fund Key Infrastructure Projects
The Department of Transportation should approve all projects that meet TIFIA criteria.
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FDA and USDA Should Eliminate All Food ‘Standards of Identity’
Standards of identity often make the foods consumers buy subject to politicized meanings proffered by food industry lobbyists and regulators.
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Analysis of Proposed Marijuana Regulations in Montana
House Bill 701 would significantly restrict certain provisions of Montana's 2020 marijuana legalization ballot initiative in ways that may unnecessarily slow market development and hurt state revenue prospects.
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How to Refocus the Federal Share of Transit Funding So Maintenance Is Prioritized
Many of the mass transit systems across the country are in poor shape, in part because they direct money to costly new capital projects rather than needed maintenance.
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Examining Student Transfer Data in Texas
Three percent of Texas students transferred to a school outside of their home district in the 2018-19 school year.
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Pension Plan Investments in Alternative Assets Pose Serious Risk to Taxpayers and Members
Alternative investments are the most challenging investments to value because they require assumptions about complex future cash flows and valuation multiples from future sales.
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Why Texas Conservatives Should Support Private Investment in Transportation
Private investment funds are ready, willing, and able to invest in U.S. infrastructure.
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Connecticut’s Infrastructure Problems Require Private Sector Help
Public-private partnerships would help the state build new infrastructure and ensure infrastructure assets stay in good condition.
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Florida’s $36 Billion Problem
Florida's growing pension debt is particularly bad news for other state spending areas like education and transportation.
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Right Now, Infrastructure Policy Should Focus on Fixing and Maintaining What We Have
Congress should focus on maintaining and modernizing existing infrastructure under a “fix it first” strategy.
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Why Congress Should Expand the Use of Private Activity Bonds For Infrastructure
For megaprojects, $12 billion in private activity bonds led to $45 billion in infrastructure project activity over the past 15 years.
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How to Effectively Fund Infrastructure Projects in the United States
Open the door to hundreds of billions in private capital from investors like public pension funds. That will help build infrastructure back better.
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The Beltway, I-270 Toll Projects Protect Taxpayers In Ways the Purple Line Deal Did Not
Maryland legislation could cause private infrastructure funds to shift their focus—and much-needed money for transportation megaprojects— to other states.
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Cannabis Freedom Alliance Launches, Aims to Spur Federal Legalization of Marijuana
The new organization will advocate for federal marijuana policy that helps all Americans achieve their full potential and limit the number of barriers that inhibit innovation and entrepreneurship in a free and open market.
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Addressing the Retirement Risks Facing Today’s Public Workers
Most public retirement plans do not account for the many major financial risks that their members could face in retirement.
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The Texas Power Fiasco Shows Need to Find a Balance With Wind Power and Other Renewables
We have to stop pretending it’s all one way or the other, renewable or conventional, and strive to find the proper balance that keeps the system working and from failing its customers in deadly ways as it did in Texas.
