Almost all rural infrastructure is subsidized, from railroads to highways to telephone and Internet service to airline service to water projects to electricity projects. And that's just the start.
As Montgomery County’s school board parted ways with former Superintendent Joshua P. Starr in February, it launched a national search for a new leader, aiming to find a top-flight successor by July.
Hoover Institution fellow Richard Epstein gives his insight on the recent Supreme Court ruling on Maryland’s double taxation and the “dormant” commerce clause.
Senator John Hoeven discusses the Keystone pipeline, energy policy, the Middle East, and politics, noting that our country moves forward with investments that make our energy secure and environmentally sound.
The Nevada law, signed by the governor Tuesday, allows virtually all parents of K-12 students to opt out of public school but use their children’s state education dollars for a customized education.
Not that housing in California defies logic but consider this tale of a home that went on the market in San Francisco back in February 2015. Located in the city’s Outer Sunset District, the four-bedroom home was listed at $799,000 – a bargain by local standards (in April, the median asking price for a San Francisco property was a shade under $1.01 million). Why the discount?
Podcast: The Eureka Podcast: “California’s Affordable Housing Crisis”
Victor Davis Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Hoover, presents a brief history and geography of California before launching into his talk about California droughts. Hanson notes that people in California live where there is no precipitation and that droughts are not unusual.
Former California Republican Party chairman Tom Del Beccaro announced his candidacy Sunday for California's open U.S. Senate seat. Del Beccaro, 53, of Lafayette, is the second prominent Republican to enter the 2016 race to succeed U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer. The first was Assemblyman Rocky Chávez, R-Oceanside, in early March.
The blistering drought that has Californians timing their showers, driving dirty cars and staring at brown lawns and empty swimming pools is a “man-made disaster,” according to critics, who say the Golden State’s misguided environmental policies allow much-needed freshwater to flow straight into the Pacific.
