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  • The latest health care decision0

    • January 31, 2011

    The score is now 2-2: Two U.S. district courts have found that the individual mandates in last year’s federal health care act are authorized by the power of Congress to “regulate Commerce . . . among the several States,” while two have found the contrary.  This latest decision – arising from a case brought by

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  • Don’t Make Parents Choose Between Finding a Better School & Obeying the Law0

    • January 31, 2011

    During last week’s National School Choice Week emerged a sad, dramatic story that made the case for school choice better than many policy papers could. I’m finally getting around to commenting on the case of Ohio’s Kelley Williams-Bolar, who was charged with a felony for falsifying papers to enroll her daughter in a different school district. She has been called a modern-day Rosa Parks for the school choice movement.

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  • Colorado HB11-1025 Repeal Hospital Provider Fee Tax0

    • January 31, 2011

    Colorado state Rep. Janak Joshi and Senator Kevin Lundberg are sponsoring HB11-1025, which would repeal the hospital provider “fee” instituted in 2009. Linda Gorman explains how the so-called “fee” is really a tax, and hence violates the Colorado Constitution

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  • Is It Real or Is It Portlandia?0

    • January 31, 2011

    If you buy more than $50 worth of stuff, Office Depot will deliver for free. But they might deliver it in a carbon-spewing truck, so the city of Portland has given a $6 million, five-year contract to a delivery company that promises to deliver office supplies by electric-powered tricycles. B-Line’s slogan is “sustainable urban delivery”–but […]

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  • Wrapping Up School Choice Week: Andrew Coulson Touts Tax Credits… and More!0

    • January 28, 2011

    Aren’t there any child labor laws in effect here? This National School Choice Week phenomenon is great, but the good folks of the Education Policy Center have me blogging overtime. I talked about going on strike, but they just laughed and patted me on the head. How condescending!*
    Anyway, rather than write any more, I wanted […]

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  • Xcel getting even fatter off Colorado ratepayers0

    • January 28, 2011

    Xcel Energy just announced its 2010 earnings and the Minnesota based energy company did very well this year: We had another very successful year in 2010, said Richard C. Kelly, chairman and chief executive officer. We delivered earnings in the upper half of our guidance range. This represents the sixth consecutive year in which we

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