Independence Institute

Two Local Iowa Teachers Unions Secede from NEA, State Affiliate in One Week’s Time 0
- EDUCATION - Blogs, EDUCATION - Labor, EDUCATION - Teachers
- February 9, 2011
The Education Intelligence Agency’s Mike Antonucci
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High-Speed Pork 0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- February 9, 2011
President Obama proposes to spend $53 billion on high-speed rail over the next six years, or nearly $9 billion a year. No one knows where this money will come from, especially in view of Obama’s proposed spending freeze. Some speculate that the administration will propose to take it out of gasoline taxes, but the nation’s […]
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Are Earmarks Dead?0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- February 8, 2011
Congressional leaders have promised a two-year moratorium on earmarks. Some in Congress are even trying to get the money back for orphaned earmarks, i.e., earmarks that have not yet been spent. There are usually lots of orphaned transportation projects because the states are not really interested in doing earmarks that override their own priorities. It […]
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Have an Opinion? You’re Violating the Law!0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- February 7, 2011
A group of neighbors asked state highway officials to install traffic signals on a road near their Raleigh, North Carolina suburb. They buttressed their request with an eight-page analysis of the highway complete with maps and traffic projections. View Larger Map The state was so impressed that it agreed to install the traffic signals, right? […]
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