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Energy, Tourism and Entrepreneurship Drive Success for Top-Performing Small...
This week, Heartland Forward published the newest installment of its annual report, "Most Dynamic Micropolitan Regions," which ranks 515 micropolitans–regions whose populations range from 10,000 to...
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Will the Cultural Revolution be Canceled?
It’s an article of faith among many conservatives, and some liberals, that we’re being swept by a Maoist cultural revolution destined to transform American society into a woke collective. Yet before...
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Federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits Aren't Helping Low-Income People
Tax credits provided by the federal government to developers of low-income housing are poorly monitored and have suffered from mission creep. Instead of providing housing to households whose incomes...
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Reality TV and Real Work in the Fishing Industry
Fishing may be the world’s second oldest profession, but the industry is about as visible as a quiet cousin at a family reunion. Unassuming, keeping to itself, it is largely ignored in talk about work...
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Washington State Blows Away Wind Fantasies
The Northwest has spoken loudly as the Benton Public Utility District (BPUD) has documented their actual battleground experiences with intermittent electricity from wind farms that should be a wake-up...
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U.S. Commuting 2019: The Last Normal Year
Last year may be the last “normal” year in commuting (work trip travel and access) data. After decades of relative stability in the drive alone and transit market shares, it seems likely autos and...
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The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump — by Fred Siegel, with a Forward...
In his recently released book, The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump, Fred Siegel leverages New York City to uncover the key political conflicts and social contradictions in American liberalism...
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The Riot Ideology, Reborn — excerpted from 'The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude...
In the summer of 1966, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach warned that there would be riots by angry, poor minority residents in “30 or 40” American cities if Congress didn’t pass President Lyndon...
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Democratic Civil War
The three heads of the Democrat Hydra will soon start biting at each other.Donald Trump may still sit in the White House, but America seems increasingly submissive to the rule of the Democrats. The...
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Joe Biden's Tired Old Infrastructure Plan
The infrastructure plan recently released by the Biden campaign is a collection of tired ideas that have consistently failed in the past. Too much of the plan is based on last year’s groupthink and not...
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The Coming Post-COVID Global Order
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated economics in the West, but the harshest impacts may yet be felt in the developing world. After decades of improvement in poorer countries, a regression threatens...
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Trump Finally Slaps Google with Anti-Trust Suit, and Protects Democracy
Sometimes Donald Trump does the right thing, even if it may be for the wrong reasons. His Justice Department’s late-term assault on Google for its monopolistic tyranny over search and digital...
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Urban Reform Institute Releases Report on Upward Mobility
In a new report, Upward Mobility, Charles Blain, Wendell Cox and Joel Kotkin examine examine housing costs, patterns of domestic migration and how they affect upward mobility for middle and...
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Escape from New York?
Reports continue to mount on the decline of New York City through the pandemic months. In a July 2020 post, we summarized the situation:A “real estate frenzy” has been noted in Connecticut, New Jersey,...
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The Roots of California's Tattered Economy Were Planted Long Before the...
California is in far worse shape economically than the great majority of other states also struggling through the pandemic. COVID-19 may be the primary cause of our current distress, but the evolving...
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Biden's Quote: "We're Not Getting rid of fossil fules for a long time,...
Former V.P. Joe Biden’s climate policies and the litigation and regulation grandiloquence are toward the energy industry that was virtually non-existent before 1900. Today, America has only about four...
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Democrats' Energy Dilemma
The biggest challenge facing a putative first-term Joe Biden administration and the Democratic Party may lie with energy policy, where gentry and green wishful thinking confront the daily realities of...
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America's Center Needs to Make Itself Heard
The intensity surrounding the coming election, the nastiness of the debates and general rhetoric, and the unending protests and rallies and even regattas in support of President Trump paint a picture...
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America After COVID: What Demographics Tell Us
“When there is a general change in conditions, it is as if the entire creation had changed, and the whole world altered.” —Ibn Khaldun, 14th century Arab historianThe Covid-19 pandemic, it’s clear,...
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The "Other America": The Poverty and Peril of Domestic Workers
America is mired in a crisis of unprecedented scope and depth. The disruption of the pandemic is draining for all of us, but for many, its consequences are dire.For the millions of people who’ve had...
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