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Alaska Governor Bill Walker Signs Justice Reinvestment Bill
Alaskan Governor Bill Walker recently signed Senate Bill 91 into law, beginning the process of reform for the state’s…
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The Williams Report
A look at fiscal headlines from statehouses nationwide
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California Senate Bill Set to Close the Civil Asset Forfeiture Loophole
California law currently requires a criminal conviction before property under $25,000 can be forfeited in favor of the state, but…
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Cloud Storage and the Sharing Economy: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship
The future of the internet is decentralization. Centralized cloud storage is when a “cloud storage provider has one or…
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Player Beware: Pokemon Go Can Place Your Personal Data at Risk
With great popularity comes great responsibility. Niantic and Nintendo have created an instantly successful smart phone app. With that instant…
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Intellectual Property: The Key that Unlocks Access to Medicines
It is widely acknowledged that IP rights contribute to the vitality of global economies—but what about the well-being of the…
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Free Market Groups Speak Out to Defend Free Speech
The delicate balance of our democracy is preserved when all groups are free to speak in the public square, and ALL Americans should be concerned when agents of the government use their official offices to marginalize political foes...We hear you. Your threat is clear: There is a heavy and inconvenient cost to disagreeing with you. Calls for debate will be met with political retribution. That’s called tyranny. And, we reject it.
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U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Conviction of Defendant Prosecuted Under the Hobbs Act
There has been growing bipartisan support for criminal justice reforms. However, the recent Supreme Court ruling of Taylor v.
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Missouri Governor Jay Nixon Vetoes Lawsuit Reform Proposals
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon last week vetoed two reforms that would have helped the state get a handle on its frivolous lawsuit problem.
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Florida’s Big Economy Should Be No Big Surprise
Florida’s economy is anything but retired. According to the latest in a series of economic forecasts from the University of…
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What Happened to Minimal Regulations?
As food sharing becomes wildly popular, government is once again finding itself operating in a 1970’s construct of regulations and refusing to change with the times.
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Government is Giving Desalination a Salty Reception
As droughts sweep the nation, leaving economic destruction and growing uncertainty in their wake, new solutions are desperately needed to…
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Checking the Facts of Minimum Wage Hikes
The case for minimum wage has been made ad nauseum: people are not earning enough money, so the legislature should give them a pay increase. The unintended consequences of drastic increases to the minimum wage, however, are hardly ever examined.
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An Increased Burden: Too Expensive and Less Work
These regulations will also make doing business in any industry much more expensive. A study by the American Action Forum concluded that the new overtime rule would cost employers about $3 billion in compliance costs and nearly 2.5 million hours of paperwork related to the regulations.
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Vermont GMO Labeling Law to Go Into Effect on July 1st
The very predictable consequences of states creating complicated, unnecessary patchworks of regulations are about to come to fruition in Vermont.
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Recent Bureaucratic Activities Fly in the Face of Congressional Intent
A frequent criticism of the current federal regulatory process is that federal departments and agencies (while oftentimes citing the…
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Maine Must Chip Away at Granite State’s Advantage
While Maine is moving in the right direction, the “New Hampshire Advantage” persists, as reflected in a recent report in the Bangor Daily News.
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New Hampshire Becomes Latest State to Overhaul Civil Asset Forfeiture Process
New Hampshire recently joined a growing number of states that have reformed their civil asset forfeiture laws in 2016. These…
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A Balanced Approach
Maryland Senate Bill 1005, colloquially known as the Justice Reinvestment Act, became law on May 18 with Governor Larry Hogan’s signature…
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Kentucky To Examine Ways to Reform Their Criminal Justice System
Governor Matt Bevin of Kentucky recently launched a bipartisan 23-member Criminal Justice Policy Assessment Council to take a look at…
