Monthly Archives: July 2012

Will Global Warming Flood Coastal United States?

Posted on July 26, 2012 by matt ohern

Two new studies are predicting accelerated sea-level rises on the East and West coasts of the United States, primarily due to global warming. Major media outlets—and in some ways the studies themselves—have painted a distorted picture of past, current, and … Continue reading →

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Overtaxed Marylanders Flee to Virginia

Posted on July 12, 2012 by matt ohern

Our high-tax neighbor Maryland is hemorrhaging residents as it struggles to maintain funding for its big-spending government. As Change Maryland’s chairman Larry Hogan noted recently in Reason magazine, the state experienced a net out-migration of 31,000 residents between 2007 and … Continue reading →

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Virginia's Retirement System – Mid-Year Review

Posted on July 12, 2012 by matt ohern

“I would say that the San Jose vote is a harbinger of things to come” reminded Alicia H. Munnell, director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Referencing San Jose’s overwhelming vote -70 percent, to cut pension benefits … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Marks: How Virginia Keeps Healthcare Costs Needlessly High

Posted on July 12, 2012 by matt ohern

This column originally ran in the Washington Times.) Nearly one billion people worldwide now use Facebook, less than ten years after its founding.  But what if, before Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, he had been forced to obtain a government permission … Continue reading →

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Gabriel Roth Betrays Transportation Conservatives

Posted on July 12, 2012 by matt ohern

(Authors’ Note: While the Jefferson Institute Journal published Mr. Gabriel Roth’s essay, “A Better Way to Improve Transit to Dulles,” before the Loudoun County, Virginia Board of Supervisors approved the county’s participation in the Washington Metrorail Silver Line by a … Continue reading →

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