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2018 Policy Orientation Panel:

Renewables in the Lone Star State: Benefits, Risks, and the Texas model

$100 Billion in the Wrong Direction

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Software glitches. Human errors. Poor record-keeping. Liberal strongholds have developed a habit of treating election administration failures as isolated technical problems instead of examining the process that allowed them to happen. Something goes wrong. A technical explanation follows. Officials announce that the problem has been addressed and assure voters that the system worked. Fixing the...

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