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Nearly a year has passed since the Florida legislature passed H.B. 7117, handing over $100 million in subsidies to the renewable energy industry, and Gov. Rick Scott is seeking proof the taxpayer dollars are actually benefiting Florida’s economy. Putnam Claims Economic Benefits In April 2013, Scott, a Republican, appeared poised ...

Since the housing crisis began five years ago, much of the focus has been on the hundreds of thousands of delinquent borrowers and the banks that have foreclosed on them. However, some banks are now seeing themselves threatened with foreclosures. The threats are coming from hundreds of homeowners and condo associations that ...

Hundreds of parents, grandparents, and children packed a January Indiana Senate hearing on a bill to remove the state from the Common Core, a national list detailing what K-12 students should know in every grade. State senators’ sentiments seemed mixed, but the audience leaned toward supporting Senate Bill 193. Approximately ...

Something has orchestrated the ebbing and flowing of global TC activity over the last 5,000 years, but that something has most certainly not been changes in the atmosphere’s CO2 concentration... Read More Free-Air CO2-Enrichment May Not Be All It’s Cracked Up to Be (15 Jan 2013) A new study suggests that the long-used ...

United Nations officials have repeatedly predicted more warming than has occurred in the real world, according to a leaked copy of a draft United Nations climate report. Warming Predictions in Doubt The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is preparing to issue its Fifth Assessment Report in 2013. An IPCC ...

North Carolina . . . Nebraska . . . Louisiana . . . governors and top lawmakers in these and other states have recently announced their desire to roll back and even end personal and corporate income taxes. Brian Balfour of the Civitas Institute in North Carolina explains why this is happening now, and how such moves ...

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