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New Jersey Announces Lottery Privatization Contract Award

By Leonard Gilroy
April 12, 2013

Obama’s Cigarette Tax Will Hurt the Poor While Enriching Politicians’ Friends

By Cathy Reisenwitz
April 12, 2013

New Year, Same Old Transportation Budget from the White House

By Baruch Feigenbaum
April 12, 2013

Alexander’s Concerns Over Tolling are Bogus

By Baruch Feigenbaum
April 11, 2013

The GAO Didn’t Endorse the California High-Speed Rail Project

GAO says "there is increased risk of such things as cost overruns, missed deadlines, and unmet performance targets"

By Wendell Cox and Joseph Vranich
April 11, 2013

Study: California High-Speed Rail System Would Lose $124 Million to $373 Million a Year

The California High-Speed Rail Authority's current ridership estimates are exaggerated by 65 percent to 77 percent

April 11, 2013

California High-Speed Rail: An Updated Due Diligence Report

The California high-speed rail project cannot be delivered at the cost promised to taxpayers, is based upon a business plan incapable of delivering on its legal requirements and is justified by proponents based upon unachievable benefits

By Joseph Vranich, Wendell Cox and Adrian Moore
April 11, 2013

Leave It to California

Furloughs Lead to Higher Leave Payouts to State Workers

By Adam Summers
April 9, 2013

Margaret Thatcher was the Master of the Free Market

April 9, 2013

Innovators in Action: Swampscott, MA Selectman Barry Greenfield on Breaking the State’s Control of Municipal Pensions in Massachusetts

By Leonard Gilroy
April 8, 2013

Airport Policy and Security News #89

Major airports offer to give up federal grants, Pocket knives on planes, Airglades Airport moves toward privatization, Industry fights contract tower shutdown, Airport privatization news from Europe

By Robert Poole
April 8, 2013