Independence Institute

Live Blogging the Megabus 0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- February 16, 2011
As has been widely reported, the Antiplanner is taking the Megabus to New York City today. I’ve been on the Megabus before from New York to Washington, but this is my first trip in the other direction. Taking Megabus at a cost of $8 cost the Antiplanner an extra hour of sleep but saved Fox […]
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Thank the Internal Combustion Engine 0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- February 16, 2011
American forests are growing 42 percent faster than they are being cut and 380 percent faster than they were growing back in 1920. At least, that was true in 2000 when this report evaluating the state of forests in the United States was published by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Though the report is […]
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From ACORN to Working America: AFT Spends $2.6 Million in 2009-10 Dues on Advocacy Groups 0
- EDUCATION - Blogs, EDUCATION - Labor, EDUCATION - Teachers
- February 15, 2011
Most teachers union members in Colorado are affiliated with the National Education Association, but a smaller (though significant) number belong to the American Federation of Teachers. Some of that AFT dues money goes to national headquarters. How is some of that money spent?
Well, union organizations under federal oversight annually have to post a financial disclosure […]
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Obama’s 2012 Transportation Budget 0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- February 15, 2011
“The Obama administration’s embrace of high-speed rail . . . ignores history, evidence and logic,” argues Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson. “The case against it is overwhelming. The case in favor rests on fashionable platitudes. High-speed rail,” he concludes, “is not an ‘investment in the future’; it’s mostly a waste of money.” Yet Obama’s 2012 […]
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