Jon Sanders studies regulatory policy, a veritable kudzu of invasive government and unintended consequences. As director of regulatory studies at the John Locke Foundation, Jon gets into the weeds in all kinds of policy areas, including electricity, occupational licensing, hydraulic fracturing, the minimum wage, poverty and opportunity, state rulemaking, film and other incentives programs, certificates of need, and cronyism.
My new Policy Report examines how state officials reacted to the public health crisis in 2017, from when they first learned of it to when they began to take decisive actions.
I'd hate to see this smart business model quashed by the government because of bad and dishonest (users lying to the companies providing them the service) consumption.
Meanwhile, media are reporting on shortages in Florida as if those are solely the result of the storm and not from bad state policies that dissuade outsiders from taking any unusual step to bring essential supplies in.
Two new research papers from Harvard University scientists find that wind power contributes to global warming. But think of how better things will be in a thousand years.
Two-thirds of stations reported to the Attorney General for alleged gasoline "price gouging" had raised their prices by a quarter or less. One-fourth, by a dime or less.
With Gov. Susana Martinez's October 3 Executive Order, New Mexico has now solidly joined the de-licensing revolution. Martinez's EO contains several provisions that should all sound familiar to JLF readers.
