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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
For Safety’s Sake, We Should Encourage Uber and Lyft
by Jesse Hathaway May 23, 2016Austin voters have approved a ballot referendum to regulate peer-to-peer transportation network companies such as Lyft and Uber, forcing the companies to suspend service in a city otherwise known for its forward thinking and friendliness toward innovation.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Obama’s Attorney General Says She’s Considered Using An Old Law To Silence Global Warming Critics
by H. Sterling Burnett April 11, 2016President Barack Obama is downright hostile to the free flow of information, open debate, and research contradicting his opinions and the policies he uses to support them.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
FCC Targets Cable Set-Top Boxes — Why Now?
by Steven Titch February 4, 2016With great fanfare, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Thomas Wheeler is calling for sweeping changes to the way cable television set-top boxes work. In an essay published Jan. 27 by Re/Code, Wheeler began by citing the high prices consumers pay for set-top box rentals and bemoaning the fact that alternatives are not easily available.
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Dangerous manmade global cooling, global warming, climate change and extreme weather claims continue to justify what has become a $1.5-trillion-per-year industry: tens of billions spent annually on one-sided research and hundreds of billions sent to crony corporatists to subsidize replacing dependable, affordable carbon-based fuels with unreliable, expensive “renewable” energy.