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Vote ‘yes’ on Issue 1 to ‘fend off the Californication of Ohio’

In The Columbus Dispatch, Robert Alt, president and chief executive officer of The Buckeye Institute, makes the non-partisan case for voting YES on Issue 1. “Tell your friends, family, and neighbors: voting ‘yes’ on August 8 will align Ohio’s constitutional amendment process with the wise supermajority requirements enshrined in our beloved U.S. constitution and simultaneously ensure that Ohio does not become beholden to special interests on either side.”

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The Buckeye Institute’s Rea Hederman Joins Columbus Perspective to Discuss Ohio’s New Two-Year Budget

On this edition of Columbus Perspective, The Buckeye Institute’s Rea S. Hederman Jr, executive director of the Economic Research Center and vice president of policy, joined Dave James to discuss Ohio’s new two-year budget. Also on the show is Donovan O’Neil, state director of Americans for Prosperity-Ohio, discussing AFP’s Prosperity is Possible tour across Ohio, which started July 17.

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End the federal immigration monopoly

On Cleveland.com, The Buckeye Institute calls on Congress to end the failed federal immigration monopoly, writing, “Instead of a one-size-fits-all immigration scheme drafted inside the Beltway, the United States should design a collaborative state and federal visa program that gives states a say in admitting high-skilled workers to fill local labor market needs. This commonsense, state-based visa idea is gaining bipartisan traction across the country and here in Ohio.”

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ESG and net-zero policies make July 4th more expensive

July 4th is almost here, and next year our Independence Day cookouts could be a whole lot more expensive. Rules proposed by the Biden Administration will hit families at the grocery store and increase the cost of our summer cookouts by 77 percent. In The Center Square, The Buckeye Institute writes, “Ironically, just as Americans gather to remember our declared independence from King George’s overreach, the Biden administration will be embracing new European-style climate-control rules that have proven just as tyrannical.”

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Don’t look to Ohio to justify NCInnovation spending spree

In The Carolina Journal, The Buckeye Institute urges North Carolina’s General Assembly to avoid Ohio’s mistakes as it considers “funding a private nonprofit organization to invest taxpayer dollars in risky for-profit startups.” “Some advocating this plan point to two Ohio programs with similar missions and public funding structures for support. But those programs—Third Frontier and JobsOhio—should give North Carolina policymakers pause, not something to emulate.”

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Taxation Without Representation Meets the 21st Century

On RealClear, The Buckeye Institute’s Robert Alt asks, “Who is authorized to tax the income of a commuter who doesn’t commute?” Buckeye challenged a half dozen cities across Ohio in court—most recently Cincinnati in Schaad v. Alder, which had its oral arguments before the Ohio Supreme Court on March 1—for taxing the income of workers who do not live in, and were legally prohibited from working in, those same municipalities under Ohio’s pandemic-era stay-at-home order.  

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State-Based Visas for High-Skilled Immigration Needed to Reverse Population Loss

Ohio is locked into an international fight to attract the world’s best and brightest. A recent report from The Buckeye Institute details how a well-designed system of state-based visas can attract more talent to Ohio, ease strains in industries critical to national security, keep semiconductor investments on track, complement efforts to train its existing workforce, and help reverse worrisome demographic trends. States across the country deserve more say in the fight to attract international talent. They should join the chorus of voices asking for commonsense state-based visas.

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Father’s conviction in daughter’s death shows Columbus doesn’t need more gun laws

In The Columbus Dispatch, The Buckeye Institute urges Columbus to spend its resources educating firearms owners about safe storage and children to avoid guns. “It is tragic when a child dies. It is even more tragic when that death was preventable. But perhaps the worst is when the child dies because of a parent’s negligence. … Columbus does not need additional gun laws to prosecute individuals who recklessly store their firearms around children. Mr. Johnson’s plea agreement and upcoming sentencing are testament to that fact.”;  

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How Much More Will You Pay for Electricity Under Revived Clean Power

The Biden Administration has revived the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, another costly green mandate on electricity production in the U.S. The Buckeye Institute’s Rea S. Hederman Jr. joined the PRI Next Round podcast to discuss Buckeye’s report showing how much more Californians and Ohioans could pay for electricity if the plan takes effect and how it would subject the rest of the country to the type of green energy mandates that Californians have been struggling to afford for years.;  

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The EPA’s California Dreamin’ would be a nightmare for the country

In The Orange County Register, The Buckeye Institute and Pacific Research Institute expose the harm that the Biden Administration’s new Clean Power Plan would have on California, Ohio, and the rest of the country. “Whether federal- or state-imposed, misguided efforts to push President Biden’s new emissions standards and California’s green energy mandates across Ohio and other cloudy industrial states will shrink their economies, reduce their wages, squeeze their profit-margins, and raise their prices.”

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