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DC bar sues over city’s pandemic overreach

Robert Alt, The Buckeye Institute’s president and chief executive officer, and our client Eric Flannery, owner of The Big Board, joined Laura Ingraham on The Ingraham Angle to discuss Buckeye’s case against the District of Columbia challenging D.C.’s unconstitutional emergency acts and orders, which were used to shut down The Big Board. “It’s a lawsuit for everybody who’s out there who's had their rights violated and stripped by government overreach — it’s time we hold our officials to account.”

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Robert Alt and Eric Flannery Join O’Connor and Company to Discuss the Case Against the DC Government

The Big Board restaurant owner Eric Flannery and The Buckeye Institute president and CEO Robert Alt joined WMAL’s O’Connor and Company radio program to discuss their win in court against the D.C. government and the new case that was filed challenging the D.C. Council’s and Mayor Muriel Bowser’s unconstitutional emergency acts and orders, which D.C. used to force the closure of The Big Board.

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D.C. COVID Lockdowns Were Unconstitutional and Illegal

Robert Alt, president and chief executive officer of The Buckeye Institute, and Buckeye’s client, Eric Flannery, owner of The Big Board, joined Matt Kibbe on the tremendously popular and always edifying Kibbe on Liberty podcast to celebrate the filing of their constitutional challenge against the District of Columbia—Flannery v. D.C. Department of Health.

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Computer science teachers need better pay to avert crisis

In Crain’s Cleveland Business, The Buckeye Institute outlines how Ohio can better prepare students for the 21st century economy. Logan Kolas, an economic policy analyst with The Buckeye Institute’s Economic Research Center, writes, “Taking bold preemptive action now to help our schools hire the teachers they need to teach will help our businesses hire employees with the knowledge and skills they need to do the job. Computer science in school today really will determine the Ohio we have tomorrow.”

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Is collecting 2020 income taxes by Ohio cities an illegal seizure under the 4th Amendment?

In a Buckeye Institute case a judge last week ordered Cleveland to refund income taxes for a doctor working remotely during the pandemic, leaving many other Ohioans who worked from home in 2020 wondering what it means for them. Cleveland.com’s Today on Ohio podcast asks if taxing people who don’t work or live in your city could qualify as unconstitutional. Editor Chris Quinn hosts the daily half-hour news podcast, with impact editor Leila Atassi, editorial board member Lisa Garvin, and content director Laura Johnston.;  

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College isn’t for everyone. Flawed Pell grants program should help skilled labors

“Like most states around the country, Ohio has posted a ‘Help Wanted” sign on its door. Getting quality labor has become its own national crisis as the U.S. workforce has roughly 600,000 fewer workers than it did before the pandemic.” In The Columbus Dispatch, The Buckeye Institute offers solutions to Ohio’s worker shortage crisis, writing, “Ohio businesses need help. They need workers willing to learn a trade, practice a profession, and build a career. And they need public policies that will help them get that job done.”

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It’s looking likely that Ohio cities must refund your 2020 income taxes

The Buckeye Institute challenged Ohio’s pandemic municipal tax rules to permit taxing people where they were neither working nor living. And now it’s won a case against Cleveland. Cleveland.com’s Today on Ohio podcast talks about what this means for Ohioans who paid taxes in their office cities while working at home during the pandemic. Editor Chris Quinn hosts the daily half-hour news podcast, with impact editor Leila Atassi, editorial board member Lisa Garvin, and content director Laura Johnston.

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