Isaac Orr Discusses NY Fracking Ban on Pennsylvania Farm Country Radio
While the ban is considered to be a political success for Governor Cuomo, Orr explains how the state is going to miss out on economic opportunity and tax revenue.
Tagged: New York
Andrew Cuomo’s Fracking Psuedo-Science
What do Bigfoot and New York’s ban on fracking ban have in common? The evidence supporting the existence of both is equally (un)credible.
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Environment/Energy · Featured · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – David Quast: Hydraulic Fracturing Ban in New York
Research Fellow Isaac Orr and his special guest David Quast from Energy In Depth discuss the flaws in the “science” used to justify the ban, the economic impact it will have for the citizens of New York, and the broader implications this ban could potentially have on the industry in other states.
Three Reasons to Dismiss the Biased Report on New York ‘Charter School Fraud’
According to some activists, charter schools are the villain in the nation’s current education narrative.
Elections Have Consequences for Hydraulic Fracturing
The ballots have been counted and the winners declared, but perhaps most important of all, the campaign ads are over. Ads for candidates, ballot measures, and specific issues monopolized commercial slots over the past few months. One of the most important issues this election cycle was energy development, especially as it pertains to hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking.”
Some States’ Tax Policies Are Frightful, Others Are Treats
Just in time for Halloween, the nonpartisan Tax Foundation has released its annual “State Business Tax Climate Index,” finding some states treat businesses in a rather beastly manner, while others give their local employers the fiscal equivalent of a king-sized candy bar.
Council’s New Bill to Boost Smoking
New York City was the first major city to ban vaping, the use of e-cigarettes, wherever cigarette smoking is banned. Cities around the country have followed suit.
EPA Antics on Sea Level Rise–Gina McCarthy’s Miami Trip
EPA Administrator McCarthy is going to be in Miami October 8 during or close to a King Tide and I suspect call the high tide of the year due to global warming. The reason for the name of King Tide is given by Wikipedia that follows this paragraph. If global warming is blamed on King Tide’s, this will be another example of EPA distorting science to promote their damaging policies for the nation.
Featured · Government · Legal Affairs · Politics
Cuomo’s Corrupted Corruption Commission
When Andrew Cuomo was elected governor of New York in 2010, he promised to root out corruption in the New York state government. He began belatedly to act on that promise in 2013 when he set up the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption. The commission quickly set about investigating corruption and government malfeasance. In one year, they had discovered evidence of potentially criminal actions by as many as 12 state lawmakers. The commission made a number of criminal referrals to federal prosecutors.
The Evolving Urban Form: Philadelphia
Philadelphia was America’s first large city and served as the nation’s capital for all but nine months between the inauguration of George Washington is the first president in 1789 and the capital transferred to Washington, DC in 1800. Before the early 1900s, the United States Census Bureau had not developed a metropolitan area (labor market area) concept. However, the website peakbagger.com has attempted to define earlier metropolitan areas based on concepts similar to those used today. In the case of Philadelphia, this is important, because it was somewhat unique in having virtually adjacent, highly populated suburbs that make comparisons of municipal populations (the only population data available) misleading.
Largest World Cities: 2014
The recently released 10th edition of Demographia World Urban Areas provides estimated population, land area and population density for the 922 identified urban areas with more than 500,000 population. With a total population of 1.92 billion residents, these cities comprise approximately 51 percent of the world urban population. The world’s largest cities are increasingly concentrated in Asia, where 56 percent are located.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · FIRE
Special Report: 2013 Metropolitan Area Population Estimates
The 2013 annual metropolitan area population estimates by the US Census Bureau indicate a continuing and persistent dominance of population growth and domestic migration by the South. Between 2010 and 2013, 51 percent of the population increase in the 52 major metropolitan areas (over 1 million population) was in the South. The West accounted for 30 percent of the increase, followed by the Northeast at 11 percent and eight percent in the North Central (Midwest).
Education · Featured · Government · Politics
New York’s War on Charter Schools
Charter schools offer many cities a palatable mechanism for offering greater choice to families in the field of education. They do take some public funding, and they often rely on state infrastructure to operate, but these qualities ought to be weighed against the alternative, which is incompetent and corrupt state monopoly of education, especially in cities with greater levels of low-income households. The choice alone has helped revitalize competition in one of the most sclerotic and venal arms of the government apparatus. With the proven enhanced performance, wide popularity, and general social improvements charter schools provide it would seem like a no-brainer for city government to support.
Yet in New York City, the new mayor, Bill de Blasio, has been waging all-out war against the burgeoning charter school movement in his city.
Too Much Snow and Ice
From 1955 until I graduated in 1959, I was a student at the University of Miami. Those were halcyon years for me, enhanced by Florida’s famed bounty of sunshine and warmth. Born and raised in New Jersey, it was a respite from the Garden State’s winters, shoveling snow, and enduring the chill.
Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics · Regulation
The Unceasing Political Thuggery of Obama’s Gangster Government
The Obama administration has done its part fulfill the promise to “punish our enemies.” It is the only promise this president has kept, and is a grave danger to our liberty.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: Mike LaFaive- Illinois Could Be Number One in Cigarette Smuggling
In this podcast, Mike LaFaive of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy discusses in greater detail his article on the Heartlander titled “A Tax Hike Al Capone Could Have Loved”. In[…]
Common Core: The Biggest Election Issue Washington Prefers to Ignore
Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s recent comments disparaging “white suburban moms” for protesting new national tests and curriculum mandates are not the isolated remarks of an out-of-touch elitist. His attitude is typical among bureaucrats from both parties regarding Common Core, but politicians who ignore this sleeper topic endanger themselves in 2014 and 2016.
Featured · Politics · Regulation
Screaming Murder
As we have come to learn, the facts never stop President Obama from using every murder to advance his agenda to strip Americans of their guns.
Wasting Away in an Obamaville
With the collapse of the real estate bubble, many normally self-sufficient individuals and families found themselves not only out of work, but homeless. This caused a surge in the number of “tent cities” in the United States. To really help our fellow man, we should shift from enabling others to not work to insisting that they do.
Driving Alone Dominates 2007-2012 Commuting Trend
New data from the American Community Survey makes it possible to review the trend in mode of access to employment in the United States over the past five years. This[…]
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