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The 2021 Texas Power Crisis: What Happened and What Can Be Done to Avoid Another One?
This report focuses on ERCOT and the electric power system because the power outages were the proximate cause of many hardships suffered during the failures.
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How To Prevent Another Texas Power Failure
The severity of the failures, the lives lost to the cold, and the significant costs imposed on the state demand a careful look at the range of possible alternatives.
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Improve Efficiency in Transportation Funding By Using a Metric-Driven Process
A national metric could be modeled after North Carolina and Virginia, which utilize effective, objective project selection processes.
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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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Testimony: Texas Considers Report on Assumed Rate of Return
According to ERS reporting, deviations from investment return assumptions have added $8.43 billion in debt to the pension system since 2001.
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Congressional Testimony: How Federal Transit Policy Needs to Change
Recommendations for adjusting mass transit policy to reflect long-term ridership trends and the COVID-19 pandemic's impact.
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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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Congressional Testimony: The Long-Term Solvency of the Highway Trust Fund
Restoring the users-pay/users-benefit nature of the Highway Trust Fund would lead to a greater willingness by highway users to consider paying more for highways.
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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.
