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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.
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California Gov. Newsom’s veto saves taxpayers billions, preserves previous pension reforms
Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected AB 1383, which would've increased pension benefits for police and firefighters at a high cost to taxpayers.
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Bang for the buck: Bus systems should prioritize serving transit-dependent riders
With limited resources and unmet needs, transit agencies need to become more creative in their service.
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Kratom use by students does not mean kratom caused deaths at Ole Miss
Outlawing more products will not prevent deaths like those at Ole Miss. But regulating them and enforcing those rules might.
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How your state’s open enrollment laws rank
Open enrollment policies are often only effective at maximizing students’ schooling options when they are well designed.
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How local governments force short-term rental platforms to turn over user data
State lawmakers should act to make clear that online platforms are not supplements to aid in the administration of overly burdensome local requirements.
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Rent-setting algorithms require targeted regulation, not new laws
Fragmented, vague legislation creates unnecessary risk and uncertainty about how platforms and users can operate without triggering legal penalties.
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Arkansas’ proposed economic development amendment is fatally flawed
Policymakers in Arkansas and across the country must understand that states and cities cannot subsidize their way to prosperity.
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Huge expansion plan for Virginia I-95 express toll lanes
Plus: Brightline Florida bankruptcy filing, Mobile River Bridge under way in Alabama, and more.
