Monthly Archives: May 2012

Tax Restructuring Can Benefit Every Virginian

Posted on May 10, 2012 by matt ohern

What if you could improve Virginia’s economy by eliminating state income taxes on the working poor (and cutting taxes for everyone else) while creating thousands of new jobs? And what if, at the same time, you stimulated hundreds of millions … Continue reading →

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Technology Revolutionizes Road Construction

Posted on May 10, 2012 by matt ohern

New technology is taking cost, time and uncertainty out of highway design. For Virginians, this quiet revolution means less traffic disruption, lower costs and faster turn-around times on big projects. Last fall Fluor Transurban was negotiating a contract with the … Continue reading →

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Activists' Case is True-Life Three Ring Circus

Posted on May 10, 2012 by matt ohern

Producers involved in animal agriculture may soon owe Feld Entertainment Inc., the parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, a deep debt of gratitude. The parent company of Ringling Bros. has been engaged in its own three … Continue reading →

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Urban Highway Tunnels Coming of Age

Posted on May 10, 2012 by matt ohern

(This article is reprinted from Surface Transportation Innovations, a publication by the Reason Foundation that Bob Poole authors each month.) For the past two decades, the United States has missed out on one of the most significant advances in urban … Continue reading →

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Anti-hydrocarbon policies subsidize crony capitalists

Posted on May 10, 2012 by matt ohern

The Obama Administration’s anti-hydrocarbon ideology and “renewable” energy mythology continues to subsidize crony capitalists and the politicians they help keep in office – on the backs of American taxpayers, ratepayers and motorists. The latest chapter in the sorry ethanol saga … Continue reading →

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