October 30, 2012
R Street Outreach Director and Senior Fellow Andrew Moylan recently sat down with the Heartland Institute’s Steve Stanek to record a podcast on the ironically titled “Taxpayer Protection Act,” the latest in a long line of bills that look to put federal taxpayers on the hook for risky property insurance claims. photo by: ^riza^
October 29, 2012
Some tips from a Florida veteran of several storms: Charge all your electronic devices fully (mobile telephones, laptops, etc.). If you’re lucky, you may have a cell signal even though you don’t have power. Put your refrigerators to maximum and fill them up with as much stuff as you can, including canned goods that don’t [...]
October 26, 2012
Even in the middle of the college football season, a lifelong Buckeye has to look at the proposed “economic death warrant” that could be signed by the voters of Michigan in a couple of weeks with alarm and sadness. It is certainly not the only terrible proposal on the Michigan ballot in November but, if [...]
October 25, 2012
An internal email sent back in July by Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman is keeping lawmakers from focusing on productive steps to reforming the troubled Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA). The Austin American-Statesman wrote this week that it obtained the document, which might suggest a mandate for private insurers to write coastal policies and permission to [...]
October 24, 2012
Despite headlines being dominated by the ever-tightening presidential election, Citizens Property Insurance Corp. continues to make news in Florida. Last week, Citizens announced that it was eliminating its so-called “Corporate Integrity Office,” which serves as a kind of inspector general’s office within the state-run insurer to investigate claims of misuse of funds, employee sexual harassment [...]
October 19, 2012
A 21-year-old Bangladeshi man tried to blow up the building next to where my children live yesterday. He was sent to our country on a student visa by his family to give him a shot, as the vice president might say, because he was reportedly not doing well in college at home. Fortunately, it is [...]
October 19, 2012
R Street President Eli Lehrer takes part in a panel discussion at HuffPost Live on the 2012 Farm Bill, which Congress failed to pass before the existing bill’s statutory authority expired Sept. 30.
October 18, 2012
The multi-billionaire owner of minor league baseball’s Reno Aces (everyone’s heard of them, right?) wants city and county taxpayers to fork over $1.5 million per year to pay off construction costs for their $55 million stadium. Let’s repeat that: a man worth $2 billion wants taxpayers in Reno (where unemployment is 12%) to pay $1.5 [...]
October 12, 2012
R Street Outreach Director Andrew Moylan joins Michael Ostrolenk in a discussion on the misallocation of resources at the Pentagon and how free-market supporters need to support cuts. The fuzzy math of so-called Pentagon spending cuts is also discussed.
October 10, 2012
Hats off to Columbus for celebrating its 200th anniversary! There are perhaps dozens of different ways to do a birthday party, and part of the festivity for the last couple of weeks has been a wide-ranging look at the creative aspects of the community I call home. Looking around us in the early part of [...]
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