ICYMI: Debating local pension control in the Lone Star State
Public pension debt continues to soar, but community stakeholders in some of Texas’ biggest cities can’t do anything to bring down the swelling.
Public pension debt continues to soar, but community stakeholders in some of Texas’ biggest cities can’t do anything to bring down the swelling.
The railroad company CSX reported this week that its fourth-quarter revenue fell again by 13% as a result of the 32% drop in coal volume.
This month, 67 percent of likely United States voters answered 'wrong track' when asked the simple question: 'Do you think the country is heading in the right direction or on the wrong track?'
A recent Gallup poll reveals that 61 percent of Americans report 'not very much' or no trust in the federal government's ability to solve domestic problems.
The city’s allegedly profitable recycling program has actually cost taxpayers approximately $2.7 million over the last two years.
If we move past the rhetoric and look at their actions, it becomes clear that the left’s vision is one in which we become those who support rampant growth in the size and scope of government, the abolition of the private-sector health care market, and the end of free speech on university campuses.
The solution for a more prosperous nation is to facilitate the ingenuity of entrepreneurs.
In this issue of Veritas you'll find: Taking on Forced Annexation, 26th Anniversary Gala wrap-up, 2016 Policy Orientation in Review, Liberty or Economic Growth, and more.
The recent rash of campus protests has caught the national eye, causing some to ask, 'What exactly are students taught in college today?' and 'What are senior university administrators doing to enforce—or not enforce—rigorous instruction, the instruction needed to ensure that American college graduates are able to survive in the intensely competitive, 21st-century world marketplace?'
It is estimated that each American commits three felonies a day without ever knowing it.
Thus we have the Orwellian named 'Clean Power Plan' that everyone agrees will have virtually no impact on temperature, sea level, or the climate. But it will have an impact on individual prosperity.
Instead of making IMDs Medicaid-reimbursable, the federal government should give states more flexibility to use Medicaid dollars more effectively.