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Pension Reform Newsletter: North Carolina Pension Analysis, Cost-of-Living Adjustment Freeze in Ohio, and More
Plus: the impacts of proposed changes to Georgia’s Teacher Retirement System, proposed changes to improve New Mexico’s Pension Board, and more.
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Amicus Brief: Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard
Harvard’s discrimination against Asian American applicants prolongs a long history of discrimination against Asian Americans in the United States. The judgment of the district court should be reversed.
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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Has a Unique Opportunity To Make School Choice a Non-Partisan Issue
AOC seems to understand the value of public charter schools and could be a true leader by fighting for expanding educational options for everyone.
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These Proposed Vaping and Smoking Restrictions Are Neither Necessary Nor Fair
Congress is poised to eliminate half of the tobacco industry.
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Rep. Frank Pallone’s Anti-Vaping Bill Would Be a Win for Cigarettes
The legislation would decimate small businesses in the vaping space—to the benefit of the cigarette industry.
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A Roadmap to Fix Arizona’s School Finance System
Arizona needs to adopt a system that more effectively attaches dollars to individual students based on their needs—regardless of property wealth and district boundaries.
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Congress’ Proposed Tobacco Ban Would Represent Most Far-Reaching Prohibition Bill Since Ban on Alcohol
Flavored e-cigarettes, menthol cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and cigars, would all be made illegal.
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13 Frequently Asked Questions About Mileage-Based User Fees
With the gas tax becoming increasingly unsustainable, mileage-based user fees offer a fair, reliable and sustainable funding mechanism for roadways.
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Corporations, Politicians Shouldn’t Harm Low-Income and Minority Kids by Pulling Scholarship Funding
The Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program serves over 100,000 disadvantaged students in the state.
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Surgeon General’s Report: Not Enough Evidence to Support a Menthol Ban
One of the report's less-publicized conclusions is that there is not enough evidence to conclude that banning menthol cigarettes would reduce smoking.
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Amicus Brief: West v. Winfield
The reasoning embraced by the Ninth and Second Circuits—requiring a Section 1983 plaintiff to point to a decided case with identical, or nearly so, factual allegations in order to defeat qualified immunity—sets an impossible standard
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On the California Ballot: A $15 Billion School Bond, Plus Another $17 Billion in Borrowing at the Local Level
California's school and community college districts issued $125 billion in general obligation bonds from 1984 to 2019.
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States Handing Out Economic Development Incentives Aren’t Getting Results
Taxpayers deserve to know exactly how much is being spent by governments on incentive and tax break programs and what the return on that public investment exactly is.
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Debate Over Local Control and State Preemption Heats Up on Short-Term Rentals
With local governments restricting short-term rentals due to complaints from some of their residents, some homeowners are looking to the state to protect their property rights.
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What States Can Learn From California’s Expensive Financial Information System Failures
States possess vast amounts of financial and non-financial data, and the best way forward to manage all types of data would be to implement an Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) data policy.
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Working Paper — School Sector and Climate: Evidence from New York
Public charter schools tended to report fewer school climate problems than district-run public schools in New York state in the 2017-18 school year.
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Aviation Policy News: Attack on Space-Based ADS-B Service, Challenges to Urban Air Mobility, and More
Plus: The shift from a public to commercial airport model, aviation’s other climate change problem, and more.
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Detroit Continues to Drag Its Feet on Legalized Marijuana
The Detroit City Council should lean heavily on the already extensive regulation developed by state authorities and seek to pass a simple regulatory framework to license adult-use marijuana.
