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Taxpayers Should Call Foul on Sports-Stadium Subsidy Handouts

by Jesse Hathaway July 2, 2016

Lawmakers in Salt Lake City recently approved giving the city’s NBA team, the Utah Jazz, $22.7 million in tax revenue collected from businesses in the basketball arena’s zoning district. The subsidy will be doled out over the next 25 years. The “reimbursement,” as lawmakers on the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City termed the gift, is expected to be used to help pay for the planned construction and renovation of the Vivint Arena, where the Jazz play ball.

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Heartland Daily Podcast – Tim Bishop: EPA Taking Authority Over Land Using Clean Water Act

by H. Sterling Burnett February 8, 2016

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Tim Bishop, a partner in the Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Practice at MayerBrown LLP, who is serving as counsel for the American Farm Bureau Federation, joins Host H. Sterling Burnett to discuss new EPA regulations that give it authority over land that is part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

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The ‘Other Side’ Is Not Dumb February 16, 2020
In psychology, the idea that everyone is like us is called the “false-consensus bias.”
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After Attending a Trump Rally, I Realized Democrats Are Not Ready For 2020 February 14, 2020
The more voices outside the left that I listened to, the more I realized that these were not bad people.
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The movement to bring back classical architecture in both Britain and the United States is long overdue.
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Instapundit » “SMELLING THE COFFEE IS ABLEIST” February 12, 2020
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