Austin ISD would be well-advised to drop its public-relations program and instead redouble its efforts to improve its educational offering to students.
This commentary originally appeared in The Federalist on April 28, 2017. The age of cell phone video ubiquity treats us with daily outrages over people in authority behaving badly towards the powerless. Unreasoned passion leads to a thirst for justice, or at least the appearance of justice. In 1991, there were no cell-phone cameras and...
Organizations with authority over others are vulnerable to any suggestion that they are abusing their power. Further, while corporations must correct bad behavior or risk going out of business, government often just continues with business as usual.
To continue to attract entrepreneurs and workers from all across America, Texas policymakers need to build on the Lone Star State’s competitive advantages in taxation—the Tax Foundation puts Texas’ state and local tax burden as the 46th-lowest in the nation—and light and predictable regulation.
For the fourth time in a row California’s cap-and-trade auction for greenhouse gas emissions fell flat, raising only $8.2 million out of a hoped for $600 million, leaving revenues $1.9 billion short over the past 12 months.
In Northern Arizona, the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) and a coal mine team to produce reliable, affordable electricity while providing 755 good-paying jobs, about 90 percent of whom are Native Americans. A federal report now threatens these jobs.
Manufacturing as a share of real GDP in America has hovered around 12 percent since 1960, even as manufacturing’s share of employment has dropped by about a quarter due to a steady increase in productivity. But, what if corporate America brings even half of the more than $2 trillion it has stashed overseas and invests it at home under more favorable tax treatment?
The bigger issue is that of a systemic lack of government accountability, especially at the federal level with what amounts to virtually inexhaustible supplies of “free” money.
Transportation and infrastructure policy hasn’t gotten much attention so far in the 2016 election cycle, but the two major party candidates have put forth plans.
Beware of liberal politicians demanding your money to help you—it will only end badly.
“And we was fined fifty dollars and had to pick up the garbage… in the snow.” Arlo Guthrie – Alice’s Restaurant
Why is it that the liberal politicians in the states with the worst record of overpromising and underfunding their government employee retirement systems are so eager to force average citizens into a state-run retirement system?