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Personalized pricing benefits consumers when markets function well
Depending on how and where it is employed, personalized pricing has the potential to enhance competition and consumer welfare.
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Massachusetts Ballot Question 8 seeks to reverse marijuana legalization
Question 8 on the state’s Nov. 3 ballot would repeal provisions of the 2016 cannabis legalization, ending legal adult-use sales and criminalizing home grows.
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Property tax cuts must come with government spending cuts
As states pursue property tax relief, policymakers must confront how local governments will fund services with less revenue.
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Colorado Proposition 132’s proposed drastic penalties for fentanyl: A dangerous overreaction
Colorado Proposition 132 is unlikely to reduce addiction or prevent overdoses, but would criminalize more people and amp up punitive, muscular sentencing.
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State and local governments have $6 trillion in total debt, including over $1 trillion in California
Five states—New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois and Hawaii—have more than $30,000 per capita in state and local debt, and five more states have over $20,000 per capita.
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Study of all 50 state governments finds Connecticut, New Jersey, Hawaii and Illinois have the most per capita debt
Fourteen states have more than $10,000 in per capita debt, and seven have more than $100 billion in total debt.
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Webinar: How state and local finances have changed since 2020
The past five years have been unusually volatile for state and local finances.
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RFK Jr. is right to expand consumer access to peptides
Allowing pharmacies to compound experimental peptides would give consumers a more accountable alternative to unregulated sellers.
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The Jones Act is suppressing demand for American shipping
The current waiver has opened new routes and boosted fuel shipments to Puerto Rico. Congress should create a permanent waiver process for cargoes no U.S. vessel can carry.
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Accept treatment or lose access: Ontario’s new opioid rules undermine harm reduction
Restricting access to pharmaceutical opioids risks driving patients back to the dangerous illicit market these programs seek to help them avoid.
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A new generation of the same old nicotine policy mistakes
Ultimately, generational nicotine bans undermine adult freedom and ignore prohibition's failures.
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The successes and failures of New York City’s cordon pricing
The evidence to date suggests that congestion pricing has reduced vehicle entries and improved travel speeds in and around Manhattan’s central business district.
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How to improve public schools and give tens of millions of families school choice
If policymakers and education reformers want to give families real school choice, they should let students attend any public school with an open seat.
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States that suspend the gas tax provide drivers with little savings but cause real harm to highway systems
Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, and Ohio are among the states that have either suspended state gas taxes or paused planned increases to their fuel taxes.
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How policymakers can improve transit operations
Improving transit performance depends less on building new infrastructure than on aligning service technology, operating models, network design, and roadway management with the way people travel today.
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Gavin Newsom vetoes pension increase for California police and fire
Plus: North Dakota's reform is showing early signs of success, flexible benefits can stabilize pension funding, and more.
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Abolish the Surgeon General’s office and its 6,000-person bureaucracy
The federal government needs public health professionals, not a separate uniformed bureaucracy to employ them.
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The $30 billion air traffic control modernization plan that isn’t
Plus: Airport slots vs. runway pricing, NASA's rocket-launch shortfalls, and more.
