By James M. Taylor Newly elected New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez is making good on preelection promises to eliminate job-killing environmental regulations whose costs outweigh their benefits. Martinez announced on January 5 that she will block carbon dioxide restrictions imposed by the state Environmental Improvement Board (EIB), is replacing all EIB members, and will keep…
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Keith Best
Inauguration Day
By Keith Best As we arrived in Madison for the first event we noticed an extremely heavy contingent of security. City of Madison police and Dane County sheriff deputies were everywhere in groups of two or three. From the walkway that led from the neighboring hotel, to every entrance to the Prayer Breakfast at Monona…
General
What Can States Do?
Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute wrote a useful paper on the nine things states can do to resist Obamacare. I would like to add a few that the new Republican majorities in the states should do immediately to improve their own markets: Reform Medical Liability. Congress never took up this issue, but tort law…