February, 2016 - Independence Institute

Energy Policy Center Report: Electricity rates skyrocket across all Colorado sectors 0
- February 15, 2016
Across all sectors of Colorado the cost of electricity has skyrocketed more than 67 percent between 2001 and 2014, easily exceeding median income growth and the expected rate of inflation for the same period, an extended analysis of government energy records by the Independence Institute has revealed. For all sectors between 2001 and 2014, the cost
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Colorado’s Safety Clause 0
- February 15, 2016
There’s a clause that the Colorado legislature can add to bills when a piece of legislation is “necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.” Would it surprise you that over half of bills passed contain this urgent language?
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Antonin Scalia, RIP 0
- February 13, 2016
Justice Antonin Scalia was one of the most eloquent opinion writers in the history of the United States Supreme Court–perhaps the greatest of all. His dissents may have been the most powerful ever written. Justice Scalia was more than an outstanding lawyer: He was an perceptive social commentator. In tribute, I reproduce below his
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We Opened the Door with Prop 104 0
- February 12, 2016
After several failed attempts by the Colorado General Assembly to bring transparency to collective bargaining negotiations between Colorado school boards and teachers unions, the Independence Institute stepped in and used the citizen initiative process to bring the matter to the ballot. The result was a huge victory for transparency, taxpayers, and rank-and-file teachers. The idea
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Victory for II Legal Action 0
- February 12, 2016
Validation for Attorney General Cynthia Coffman and relief for ratepayers. We applaud the SCOTUS decision.
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February 11 Colorado Energy Cheat Sheet: SCOTUS stay on Clean Power Plan edition 0
- February 11, 2016
Join us Tuesday, February 16 at noon as the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Independence Institute discuss the latest on the EPA’s Clean Power Plan/111d rule, including the SCOTUS stay issued this week. Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment, and Raymond Gifford, a partner at the law firm Wilkinson, Barker, Knauer, LLP and a
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