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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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Surface Transportation News: Problems with electric vehicles, freight rail innovation in jeopardy, and more
Plus: Virginia embraces per-mile charging, the return on investment for passenger rail systems, and more.
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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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Pathways and policy for 21st-century freight rail
The successful development and deployment of automation technologies in the future is key to ensuring freight rail’s ongoing success.
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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.
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Pension Reform Newsletter: Leveraging airports to improve pension solvency, the future of reform in Pennsylvania, and more
Plus: Solutions to Montana’s pension challenges, comparing U.S. and Canadian public pensions, and more.
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Competition improves outcomes, even in government contracting
Contracts should go to the most capable contractor, whether for-profit or nonprofit.
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The Senate’s infrastructure bill largely ignores automated vehicles
Congress should act quickly to pass narrowly tailored automated vehicles legislation to ensure U.S.-based AV developers are not at a disadvantage in the increasingly competitive global AV marketplace.
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Horizon survey predicts bleak future for public pension investment returns
Major survey by Horizon Actuarial Services says the short- and long-term investment outlook for public pension plans is getting worse.
