Dec. 5, 2012 — Last month, California voters gave Democrats a two-thirds majority in both houses of the state legislature for the first time in 70 years. That enhanced margin theoretically gave...view
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Environment
Nov. 1, 2012 — Environmental groups have long warned that America’s ravenous consumption of fossil fuels is not sustainable as a matter of public health or economic health — either on a national or...view
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Government services, Role of government
Nov. 1, 2012 — What does a business that has perennially been short of funds do in the happy circumstance where it begins to have surpluses available? Well, it might pay off some of its debt and put...view
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Advertising, Health care, Insurance
Oct. 24, 2012 — In late September, the Wall Street Journal reported that two large corporations — Sears Holding Corp. and Darden Restaurants Inc. — will soon dramatically change the way that they...view
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Corporate influence, Open government
Oct. 10, 2012 — This past January, Brian Cronin, Democratic caucus chair in the Republican-controlled Idaho state legislature, introduced the Idaho Corporate Tax Incentive Accountability Act, which...view
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Government services, Law, State government
Oct. 3, 2012 — Across the United States, “business uses the courts far more than anyone else,” explained Frank B. Cross, a professor of business law at the University of Texas at Austin. And among...view
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Corporate influence, Open government
Sept. 26, 2012 — In the early 1990’s, while Robert Lynch was teaching economics at the State University of New York at Cortlandt, he became interested in one of the state’s most-touted economic...view
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Elections, Voting rights
Sept. 13, 2012 — While recent “voter ID” measures have received considerable press attention, and though structural barriers to voter registration have long been noted, less attention has been paid...view
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Corporate influence, Open government
Sept. 12, 2012 — When executives from the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus announced their plans to build a new $600 million factory in Mobile, Alabama in early July, local politicians wasted no...view
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Food, Food safety
Sept. 10, 2012 — The press release sent out last week by Stanford University detailing its researchers’ findings on organic food versus “non-organic” food (that is, food farmed by conventional means...view