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influence
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Big Government, Foundations Undermine Scientific Integrity
by Ron Arnold April 6, 2015Democrats’ attempts to paralyze climate skeptics in academia, think tanks, and companies, using intimidating letters threatening a federal investigation into their funding connections, backfired. They opened a Pandora’s Box of questions concerning where climate alarmists get their money. Now Democrat Senators Barbara Boxer (CA), Ed Markey (MA), and Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) and Democrat Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva have egg on their faces.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Public-Sector Unions Shrinking, But Influence Remains Strong
by Jesse Hathaway February 4, 2015Despite decades of contraction, organized labor still has a disproportionately large voice in the government sector. Its influence presents real fiscal problems for states.