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| May 11, 2026 | The Empty Office Podcast – Season 4, Episode 17 | This episode of The Empty Office Podcast features a wide-ranging conversation with Alaska State Representative Andrew Gray from Anchorage. He was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 2022, representing the UMED District of Anch... |
| Sep 9, 2025 | More states guarantee students the right to school-day religious instruction off campus | By Robbie Sequeira, Stateline.org
In the past month or so, federal courts have dealt a string of blows to conservatives’ push for the biblical Ten Commandments to be posted in public schools. Related Articles
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Opinion: Title insurance pilot program could undermine state-based regulatory system | For the millions of Americans looking to purchase their first home, housing affordability remains a difficult hurdle to overcome. Home prices rose 6.3% in April, compared to the same month a year ago, and are 47% higher than just four years... |
| Jul 8, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Peter Certo: Extreme inequality is the real threat to free speech | Consider this spring’s campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza and U.S. support for it.
Conservative politicians who’d thrown fits over free speech on campus cheered as police officers roughed up and arrested student protesters. Some e... |
| May 25, 2024 | Business | As a key labor union pushes into the South, red states push back | Mercedes-Benz workers outside of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Friday voted against joining a union at their plant, in a setback for the labor movement. But more organizing drives are underway in Alabama and South Carolina, as well as in Californ... |
| Mar 12, 2023 | Values-Driven 2V TrueESG™: A Right-Wing ESG Rating Methodology For Taking Down ESG | There is a surreal snake eating its tail ethereal ambience to this story. So let me start by saying I’m not making any of this up. You can verify every fact in this piece (unlike the WSJ op-ed piece I’ll be discussing below). Let me also sa... |
| Mar 7, 2023 | Israel boycott bans are threatening our First Amendment rights | After days of deadlock that saw far-right Republicans hold governance hostage in their effort to spoil Kevin McCarthy’s bid to be elected speaker, the US House of Representatives is finally back in session. Republicans, who gained control o... |
| Nov 30, 2022 | Governor Ducey Receives Thomas Jefferson Freedom Award | Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush Among Past Recipients
PHOENIX — Governor Doug Ducey received the Thomas Jefferson Freedom Award for his historic success in tax relief and universal access to a high-quality education.
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| Nov 19, 2022 | My Personal Thanks To SFOF For Their Commitment To DE&I | Glossary |
| Nov 13, 2022 | BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU: ALEC’s Doublethink Attack On America’s Free Markets | Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing t... |
| Oct 13, 2022 | Rare Massachusetts Tax Refund Raises Interesting Question About Surplus Revenue | George Washington Monument at Public Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.getty |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 2021 Saw Two States Enact A New Plastic Packaging Fee Program, A Proposal That Will Be Debated In More State Capitals In 2022 | Two states enacted Extended Producer Responsibility legislation in 2021. Lawmakers in at least six ... [+] other states hope to follow suit in 2022. getty |
| May 12, 2021 | New 2021 State Economic Competitiveness Rankings Reveal the Success Formula for Prosperity After COVID-19 | |
| Aug 13, 2020 | New York’s economic outlook ranked worst in the nation | Sign up for our special edition newsletter to get a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Aug 12, 2020 | New 2020 Economic Competitiveness Rankings Reveal the Reforms that Win for Taxpayers | |
| Apr 7, 2020 | Does Multi-Employer Pension Reform Belong In A ‘Phase Four’ Coronavirus Bill? | WASHINGTON, D.C. - APRIL 14: Jan Kacher of Deerfield, Michigan, adjusts a sign as he rallies on the ... [+] West Front of the U.S. Capitol building with fellow Teamsters Union retirees who traveled from across the country to voice their opp... |
| May 8, 2019 | Business Owners (And Wealthy Nonresidents): California Has Its Crosshairs On Your Back | |
| Apr 19, 2019 | FCC Under Fire For Putting ALEC Rep On 'Consumer' Advisory Board | In 2017, FCC head Ajit Pai came under fire for filling a new “Broadband Deployment Advisory Council” (BDAC) task force with oodles of industry representatives, but few if any consumer representatives or local town or city officials. Not too... |
| Mar 4, 2019 | Tech-neutral energy standards emerge as bipartisan climate policy | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes.
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| Sep 18, 2017 | Clash of the coalitions: Pro-petition alliance adds new member | Another pro-manufacturing alliance is trumpeting its support of the Suniva/SolarWorld Section 201 trade petition, whose injury phase will close this week with the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) announces its decision on Friday.... |
| Jul 25, 2017 | Coalition coalesces around fighting Suniva’s Section 201 trade case | It’s nice to know (Sir Issac) Newton’s First and Third Laws of Motion are still operable nearly four centuries after his death.
The world-renowned scientist, known to most children as the man who discovered the theory of gravity after being... |
| Jul 18, 2017 | Researchers Push Back As Betsy DeVos, ALEC Advance Virtual School Expansion | Education Secretary Betsy DeVos could have lines out the door for her upcoming appearance at the American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) annual meeting—but not for reasons she may like. In preparation for the gathering in Denver, Col... |
| May 4, 2017 | Maine The Latest State To Try And Let Giant Broadband Providers Write Shitty, Protectionist State Law | One of (several) reasons why American broadband is so uncompetitive is the fact that we continue to let giant broadband mono/duopolies quite literally write awful state telecom law. As we’ve long noted, more than twenty different states hav... |
| May 4, 2017 | Plan to kill municipal broadband fails in state legislature | Enlarge
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Cities and towns in Maine that want to provide their own broadband service just helped defea... |
| Feb 23, 2017 | Missouri The Latest State To Let Telecom Monopolies Write Awful, Protectionist State Law | 21 states have passed laws hamstringing the rights of local communities when it comes to improving broadband infrastructure. Usually dressed up as breathless concern about the taxpayer — these bills have one purpose: protect the telecom mon... |
| Feb 7, 2017 | New Mexico exhibits cognitive dissonance on solar policy | Let’s hope New Mexico’s residents learn from the Florida battle last year and prevent the legislature from imposing new onerous responsibilities on solar installers in an attempt to snuff out the rooftop solar industry.
House Bill (HB) 199,... |
| Jan 11, 2017 | Sheriff's Office Raids Home, Seizes All The Furniture, Ultimately Returns Everything But The Couch | The joke about asset forfeiture is that it’s actually not a joke. Advisors to law enforcement have actually said it’s a great way for cops to go shopping for things they want. It’s not just cash being taken, although it’s primarily that. It... |
| Jan 5, 2017 | Solar neophytes join ACC as its new leaders | So what does the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) do for an encore after effectively destroying net-metering in December?
Add two men whose long history of public service include minimal – if any – experience dealing with solar – or any... |
| Dec 7, 2016 | At least five more cold winters for Ohio’s RES | The Ohio House of Representatives today voted 54-40 to devastate the state’s solar industry by increasing its renewable portfolio standards (RPS) — and the miniscule solar carve-out contained therein — at a snail’s pace through 2021.
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| Dec 2, 2016 | Environment America issues Block The Sun report | Many utilities, often feeling under siege from a fast-growing solar industry, are trying to slow its growth through front groups and coordinated attacks. Yesterday, the Environment America Research & Policy Center released a report that... |
| Feb 9, 2016 | States Wake Up, Realize AT&T Lobbyists Have Been Writing Awful Protectionist State Broadband Laws | For more than fifteen years now, companies like Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner Cable and CenturyLink have quite literally paid state legislatures to write protectionist broadband laws. These laws, passed in around 20 states, protect the inc... |
| Jan 12, 2016 | AT&T Whines That FCC Report Highlights Broadband Coverage Gaps Company Helped Create | The FCC’s recent broadband progress report (pdf) highlighted the telecom industry’s continued failure with not only getting any broadband to rural areas, but with getting next-generation speeds to existing broadband customers. The FCC has n... |
| Dec 17, 2015 | Presidential Hopeful Marco Rubio Defends AT&T's Right To Write Bad State Broadband Law | While it was overshadowed by the net neutrality debate, the FCC’s decision last February to attack state protectionist broadband laws was notably more important. For fifteen years, companies like AT&T, Comcast and Time Warner Cable have... |
| May 19, 2015 | North Carolina's Broadband Policy: Wasting Tax Dollars Pretending To Care About Wasting Tax Dollars | We’ve long argued that one way to help improve broadband competition is to stop letting incumbent ISPs write protectionist state telecom law. For decades now, these laws have been rushed through campaign-contribution-soaked state legislatur... |
| Apr 16, 2015 | ALEC Threatens To Sue Critics That Point Out It Helps Keep Broadband Uncompetitive | As you might have read, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been losing some major clients lately, including Google, T-Mobile and Microsoft. Those companies have been quietly distancing themselves from ALEC, after critics h... |
| Apr 15, 2015 | Anti-municipal broadband group tries to silence a critic | Oriol Salvador reader comments 103 with 56 posters participating
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An organization that tries to convince state legislatures to impose limits on municipal broadband sent a ce... |
| Apr 3, 2015 | AT&T Publicly Promises Tennessee A Broadband Revolution, Privately Fights To Keep It A Broadband Backwater | As we’ve covered repeatedly, AT&T’s busy backing away from countless DSL markets it doesn’t want to upgrade, promising states that if they gut all consumer protections, those states will magically be awash in numerous broadband options.... |
| Mar 16, 2015 | FCC Outlines Plan To Crush Awful State Protectionist Broadband Laws | On the same day the FCC voted to approve new net neutrality rules, we noted that the agency took steps on an issue that might actually be more important: municipal broadband. While net neutrality rules are designed to protect consumers from... |
| Feb 27, 2015 | Education Is Answer To Income Inequality: Part One | In an op-ed entitled “Knowledge Isn’t Power,” in the February 23 New York Times, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman argued that “soaring inequality isn’t about education; it’s about power.” Because of my own “preference for diversit... |
| Feb 26, 2015 | The FCC's Historic Day: Voting Yes For Net Neutrality, Voting No On Protectionist State Telecom Law | Today was, no hyperbole intended, probably one of the more historic — albeit at times one of the dullest — days in FCC history. The agency, led by a former lobbyist for the cable and wireless industries few expected anything from, bucked a ... |
| Nov 10, 2014 | AOL Drops ALEC, The State Lobbying Group ‘Lying’ About Climate Change | Sometimes, some days, I get to be proud of the company that pays my checks. Today is one of those days, as AOL joins the ranks of the sane and dropped its support for the American Legislative Exchange Council, an industry lobbying group tha... |
| Oct 13, 2014 | California Wants to Reduce Prison Overcrowding, Yet Keeps Women Locked Up | Nonviolent female prisoners. Image courtesy of Last Gasp
In 2011, under mounting pressure to decrease the prison population, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) implemented the Alternative Custody Program (ACP... |
| Sep 24, 2014 | Yelp dumps climate denying lobby group — are Yahoo & eBay next? | Update Sep 25 at 7:34 a.m. PT: As expected, Yahoo has reportedly dumped ALEC one day after Yelp.
Yelp joined a growing roster of tech giants that have cut ties with the ALEC over the right-wing lobby group’s views on climate change.
“Yelp i... |
| Sep 5, 2014 | Google silent on support for group opposing net neutrality and muni broadband | Network neutrality protest at Google headquarters.
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| Feb 12, 2014 | ISP lobby has already won limits on public broadband in 20 states | We must stop the proliferation of Internet!
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| Feb 4, 2014 | Cable co. blames “misinformation” for failure of municipal Internet ban | reader comments 181 with 96 posters participating
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