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SACRAMENTO — California’s state budget has been awash in cash, as lawmakers this year enjoyed a $97.5 billion budget surplus — an excess amount that’s larger than the entire general-fund…
The R Street Institute’s Jonathan Bydlak discussed Ron DeSantis, elections and all things Florida politics on the Ed Dean Morning Show on WBOB Jacksonville.
From The New York Times:
…Under fusion voting, multiple parties can nominate the same candidate, who then appears more than once on the ballot. Proponents say it allows voters who don’t feel…
November 21, 2022
U.S. Department of Labor
Wage and Hour Division
200 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20210
Re: Employee or Independent Contractor Classification Under the Fair Labor…
The upcoming 2023 legislative session was always going to be a bit of a wild card.
Legislative turnover was high—around 50 incumbent legislators did not run for re-election—which…
Last week’s election results contained many surprises, including the failure of the much-ballyhooed “red wave.” Another surprising result was the unexpected difficulty that alcohol-related ballot…
From RTO Insider:
Texas regulators threw another curveball at ERCOT market participants last week, backing away from a market design they seemed to favor a year ago and moving toward a hybrid…
A long-standing proverb of tech politics is that it’s hard for a legislator to vote against kids. Little wonder, then, that California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC), AB-2273, was voted…
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Submitted Statement of
Jillian E. Snider
Policy Director, Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
R Street Institute
Before the
Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil…
Nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “What does not kill me makes me stronger.”[1] Those who lived through Winter Storm Uri in February 2021, however, may…
