The city of Baltimore’s schools are badly failing, despite spending more per capita than almost anywhere in the country. To understand why, one needs only to look where the money is going: into the pockets of crooked public education administrators. Baltimore pays its administrators more than anywhere else in the nation, ranking first among all […]
On June 19, 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo indicated he would be willing to sign the Climate and Community Protection Act into law. The long-term goal of the plan is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 85 percent by 2050, with benchmark goals including renewable energy powering 70 percent of the state by 2030 […]
The Los Angeles Times’s June 24 editorial, “San Francisco’s E-cigarette Ban Isn’t Just Bad Policy, it’s Bad for Public Health” is right on target. Today, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote on banning the sales of electronic tobacco products, or e-cigarettes, within the city until the Food and Drug Administration adopts regulations […]
While a potential pay raise for members of Congress seems to have been tabled for now, an equally atrocious attempt to abuse taxpayer funds is occuring in the Empire State. On June 7, 2019, New York Supreme Court Judge Christine Ryba upheld a December 2018 law providing legislators with a $50,500 pay raise. Judge […]
After 32 consecutive victories on the TV game show “Jeopardy,” James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada, saw his incredible winning streak come to an end. Finishing with $2,462,216 in total prize money, James fell just $58,484 short of the all-time record set by Ken Jennings in 2004 (it took Jennings 74 […]
In Seattle, free college, youth education programs, and job training are the latest “soda tax” battle cries. Unfortunately for consumers, these are promises that are made to be broken. In the city, a case of Gatorade used to cost a Seattleites $15.99 in 2017 but now costs $26.33. While this would appear to be a […]
Like a giant pink bat signal, an inflatable pig owned by Bowling Green protestors drew attention back on Ohio’s proposal to bailout failing nuclear companies. House Bill 6, introduced by Reps. Jamie Callender (R-Concord Township) and Shane Wilkin (R-Hillsboro) in April 2019 would provide taxpayer money to bail out FirstEnergy Corp., an Akron-based electrical utilities […]
On June 11, 2019, 10 state attorneys general (AGs), in California, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, Virginia and Wisconsin filed a lawsuit opposing the T-Mobile/Sprint merger, claiming that its approval would lead to increased consumer prices and decreased competition. In six of those states, the public utility commission (PUC) […]
On the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision to legalize sports betting, the Hawkeye State has delivered another exciting reason to celebrate. Yesterday, Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-Iowa) signed SF 617 into law, making Iowa the ninth state to fully legalize sports gambling. In comparison to other proposals weighed by the legislature, this law provides […]
California state legislators have a solution to fulfill Gov. Gavin Newsom’s bloated $209 billion budget: tax anything and everything under the sun. Taking more money from taxpayers should not be a surprise from the state with the highest income tax in the country. Just last year, California lawmakers proposed to reverse the positive economic gains […]
