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The Carolina Journal: Let nurses fix NC’s health care shortage

A series of new billboard messages along I-77 outside Statesville both call attention to the problem of declining access to health care across North Carolina and propose a solution:Rural America is Dy...

2026-01-07

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Rhode Island court protects homeowner from unconstitutional permit demands

A coastal Rhode Island property owner secured a major victory last month when a judge entered final orders granting a preliminary injunction preventing the State's Coastal Resources Management Council...

2026-01-07

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Washington Post: The law that is trapping America in the past

Enacted in 1969 — before the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act — the National Environmental Policy Act was meant to ensure that federal agencies consider environmental effects before appr...

2026-01-07

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Tennessee town celebrates swift legal victory

A small town in Tennessee rang in the new year by celebrating a legal victory after a private group rapidly withdrew its lawsuit rather than defend its claims in court.In November 2025, the Alabama-ba...

2026-01-06

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Ninth Circuit rejects campus censorship after PLF amicus brief

In January 2022, longtime computer science professor at the University of Washington, Stuart Reges, posted his course syllabus. Buried among the usual course policies was a parody of the university's ...

2026-01-06

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Federalism 240 years after the Constitutional Convention: Federalist 32

Does the federal government have the power to regulate an animal species that lives exclusively in one state? According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, it does. Somehow, what is otherwise Congr...

2026-01-02

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Kansas City Star: Kansas Nursing Board punished me for speaking about dementia. That’s unjust

As a licensed geriatric nurse practitioner and former tenured professor, I have served Kansans for more than three decades. I have seen thousands of patients and have never had a complaint filed again...

2025-12-22

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Real Clear Energy: To Create an Abundant America, Congress Should Pass the SPEED Act

With energy and housing costs climbing, the need to construct more power infrastructure and housing is urgent. However, that straightforward mission is often thwarted by layers of red tape, including ...

2025-12-22

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California’s last nuclear power plant will remain open—for now

There's only one nuclear power plant left in California: the Diablo Canyon plant, which sits near Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County and provides almost 10% of California's energy. The California C...

2025-12-16