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Surface Transportation News #164
Interstate tolling: new support—and old misconceptions
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Time to Get U.S. Air Traffic Control Out of the 1960s
The U.S. air traffic system is the world’s largest, but technologically it lags behind other countries that have implemented digital messaging, GPS flight tracking and newer alternatives to the 1960s-era systems still found in U.S. air traffic facilities.
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Unions Try to Make It Harder for Local Governments to Make Pension Payments
As unfunded pension liabilities mount, California’s cities and counties are bracing for the additional contributions they’ll have to make to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System.
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Michigan Adopts Most Innovative Teacher Pension Reform in the Nation
Changes to MPSERS reduce risk, provide choice, stabilize long-term costs, and keep promises.
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Corporatizing Air Traffic Control Fixes Key Problems
Air traffic control is a high-tech service business currently embedded in a tax-funded government bureaucracy, which leads to a number of predictable consequences.
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The Tennessee Health Department’s E-Cigarette Advice Is Dangerous and Misleading
Smokers should know that switching to vaping can dramatically reduce exposure to dangerous chemicals.
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New Tough-on-Crime Federal Legislation Would be Devastating for California
After a couple of years of convincing federal lawmakers to reduce incarceration rates and reform mandatory minimum sentences, Congress Republicans are drafting a new border security bill that goes in the opposite, and wrong, direction.
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How and Why to Toll the Interstates that Need Reconstruction
Replacing aging Interstate highways with toll-financed new ones.
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Privatization & Government Reform Newsletter #31 (June 2017 edition)
June 2017 edition: Trump budget & privatization proposals, ATC corporatization, Arizona public safety pension reform #2, and much more.
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Air Traffic Control Newsletter #144
Assessing the White House ATC Reform Principles
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Air Traffic Control FAQs
21 Answers to Air Traffic Control Questions