Latest
-
Courts allow border agents to freely search Americans’ cell phones
“Americans’ rights shouldn’t evaporate when we’re near the border,” said Sen. Ron Wyden.
-
Arizona’s kids need expanded transportation options to get to the schools of their choice
Some of Arizona’s highest-quality schools are unable to offer student transportation thanks to outdated state laws.
-
Laserweeding could eventually eliminate the need for many chemical herbicides
Technological advancements could largely negate the future need for chemical herbicides.
-
-
Despite historic 2021 returns, many public pension plans are wisely preparing for lower investment returns
Public pension plans also need to resist the temptation to use last year's one-off, one-year investment return windfalls to fund new benefits like higher cost-of-living adjustments.
-
Rating states on telehealth best practices
This toolkit aims to help policymakers move towards quality-oriented, affordable, and innovative health systems by ensuring that their state telehealth laws remove barriers that prevent access to care.
-
Testimony: Florida House Bill 971 would allow more investment in alternative assets
Florida House Bill 917 would allow the State Board of Administration to expand investment in the alternative asset market.
-
States need permanent reforms to achieve the full benefits of telehealth services
The rapid rise in telehealth adoption during the pandemic was enabled, in part, by emergency regulatory suspensions at the federal level and in nearly all 50 states.
-
Surface Transportation News: Backlash to highway guidance, new federal bridge program, and more
Plus: Privacy concerns over mileage-based user fees, House committee disappoints on automated vehicle innovation, and more.
-
California financial audit arrives a year late and raises flags about unemployment benefits paid
California's 2020 annual comprehensive financial report took 583 days to produce.
-
The needed push to reform Tennessee’s outdated school finance system
Tennessee has an outdated school funding formula that is poorly suited to serve the needs of the state’s public-school students in 2022.
-
A guide to customer-friendly tolling policies to help states rebuild highways and bridges
How states can implement customer-friendly tolling policies that address worries like double taxation and create genuine value for drivers and truckers.
-
Making Tennessee’s school finance system more transparent, flexible and fair
Only three percent of Tennessee's education funding was allocated based on student characteristics like being in a low income family, being in foster care, or needing special education services.
-
FAA and FCC failures played key roles 5G rollout problems
Full cooperation between aviation safety regulators and telecommunications regulators enabled 5G towers to be placed with adequate distance from runways in Europe.
-
The use and future of artificial intelligence monitoring in prisons
Ultimately, legislators should be very wary of artificial intelligence's current shortcomings before authorizing expansions of its use.
-
Modeling how public pension investments may perform over the next 30 years
This tool runs a simulation of the investment performance of a hypothetical public pension portfolio over 30 years.
-
Pension Reform Newsletter: Alaska and Florida consider retirement reforms, Arizona looks to pay down debt, and more
Plus: Analysis of Milwaukee's struggling public pension plans, reform options for Mississippi, and more.
-
Pittsburgh bridge collapse highlights how governments put off infrastructure repairs and maintenance
Consistently deferring repairs and maintenance can lead to disaster.
