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When Outsourcing Public Services to Private Companies Goes Wrong
By Mike Ludwig The point of carpooling is to save some gas money while reducing traffic congestion and air pollution, but in Virginia, taxpayers could be on the hook when commuters try to do just that. The Australian company Transurban recently teamed up with a...
Will Your Tax Dollars Fund a Highway That’s a Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine in Disguise?
by Mary Anne Hitt Today, Appalachian community leaders are in Washington, D.C., to protest a Virginia coal boondoggle that has set its sights on $2 billion of your federal tax dollars. Mountaintop removal coal mining is already a shocking, devastating, and destructive...
Lynwood Lewis for Senate
Lynwood Lewis, a lawyer and Democratic state delegate from Accomack County, makes an economic pitch in his television spot that begins airing Wednesday in Hampton Roads. The ad highlights his work with lawmakers in both parties to promote space launches from NASA's...
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How ALEC Serves As A ‘Dating Service’ For Politicians And Corporations
via NPR ALEC is sort of almost a dating service between politicians at the state level, local elected politicians, and many of America's biggest companies. It brings them...
Everything they say about SNAP is wrong
by Paul Rosenberg Hilary Hoynes is a University of California at Berkeley economist who wrote a particularly notable paper last year. Instead of increasing dependency, as conservative critics have repeatedly claimed, Hoyen’s paper showed that, for women at least, food...
ALEC Stands Its Ground
By Dana Milbank “What you fundamentally need to know about this organization is it’s completely legislator driven,” said senior director of public affairs Bill Meierling. Uh-huh. And ALEC is proving that by keeping reporters from the rooms where the legislators are...
How much is that congressman in the window?
ALEC is the American Legislative Exchange Council, a business-casual matchmaker service between corporate interests and sympathetic lawmakers. They operate mostly in state legislatures, where they have used “model legislation” to enact such beneficial statutes...
The World According to ALEC
http://youtu.be/NfXb7cDGEVo The strategy for the state-level organisations, which describe themselves as "free-market think tanks", includes proposals from six different states for cuts in public sector pensions, campaigns to reduce the wages of government workers and...
Coordinated Assault
Conservative Think Tank Network Plotting "Coordinated Assault" on Medicaid, Education, Workers' Rights By Andy Kroll The State Policy Network, an umbrella group overseeing a constellation of right-leaning think tanks in all 50 states, is plotting a nationwide...
