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Trump supports this proven and safe technology to develop America’s enormous oil and natural gas deposits, create millions of jobs and generate billions in revenues. However, his stance on local veto power is the same as Hillary Clinton’s, though she would also try to regulate fracking into oblivion.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast (Best of) – Adam Andrzejewski: Weapons, Ammo, & Armor – Opening the EPA’s Books
by H. Sterling Burnett December 24, 2015In today’s best of edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Adam Andrzejewski, founder of OpenTheBooks.com joins Environment & Climate News managing editor H. Sterling Burnett to discuss the new oversight report on the spending of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Adam Andrzejewski: Weapons, Ammo, & Armor – Opening the EPA’s Books
by H. Sterling Burnett October 28, 2015In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Adam Andrzejewski, founder of OpenTheBooks.com joins Environment & Climate News managing editor H. Sterling Burnett to discuss the new oversight report on the spending of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Chicago faces a significant and growing public pension problem. Instead of tackling the problem head-on by holding down cost increases, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel proposes several new or expanded taxes, which he says will slow down the debt growth from the revenue end. Emanuel’s half-billion-dollar property tax hike is getting most of the headlines, but he has also been pushing for taxes on e-cigarettes, ridesharing, and cloud computing.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
(At Least) Three Reasons Why Government Being in the Broadband Business is a Terrible Idea
by Seton Motley April 28, 2015Likely the least regulated private economic sector going into the Age of the Barack Obama Administration – at least at the federal level – was the Internet. Which is largely why the Web has become an ever-evolving, free speech-free market Xanadu.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
“Buy locally”: Horse and Buggy Advice From the Green Movement
by Steve Goreham April 22, 2015“Buy locally” is among the most foolish edicts in the long list of commandments from today’s environmental movement. Local sourcing is proposed by our universities as the solution for saving the rain forests, reducing pollution and halting global warming. We’d expect such advice from an out-of-touch grandparent, but not from our intellectual leaders.
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Unless local and state governments act now, a tsunami of underfunded public pension plan obligations will soon rush ashore and drown taxpayers with tax hikes and crippling debt.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Reevaluating Eminent Domain’s Benefits Necessary for Economic Success
by Jesse Hathaway January 8, 2015A recent study of eminent domain takings and their associated state and local government tax revenues suggests buying grandma’s farmhouse to make room for a strip mall isn’t the automatic economic boon it’s claimed to be, leaving some wondering if the use of eminent domain as an economic booster is ethical.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Net Metering Gives Big Advantage to the Wealthy
by Isaac Orr October 27, 2014Champagne wishes and caviar dreams are coming true thanks to a government policy called net metering, which allows wealthy environmentalists who have installed solar panels on their roofs to profit unfairly at the expense of economically-disadvantaged people who can’t afford the technology themselves.
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Budgets/Taxes
Predictions of Doom Caused by Tax Relief Measures Ring Hollow
by Jesse Hathaway October 24, 2014In 2011, numerous local-government special-interest groups and elected officials fought against Gov. John Kasich’s proposed reduction to the Local Government Fund, a pool of taxpayers’ money collected by the state government and redistributed to local governments’ general revenue funds.
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As the topic of severance taxes heats up in Pennsylvania and Ohio, it’s worth investigating exactly what severances taxes are and why they are implemented.
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In rural areas, there is often a heated debate over economic development that essentially boils down to a choice between industrial jobs and tourism jobs. Both come with advantages and disadvantages, but to pit these two sectors against each other in an either-or discussion is a false dichotomy. My hometown provides a good example of how industry and tourism can coexist.