June 19, 2013

More op eds Articles

  • Op-Ed: Don't kill D.C.'s vibrant food trucks

    By Baylen J. Linnekin | 05/10/13 06:20 AM

    Today, the District of Columbia Council's Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs Committee will hear testimony on proposed regulations that could spell doom for the District's popular food trucks. In my testimony before the committee this morning, I will urge council members to reject this...

  • Op-Ed: Save the D.C. food trucks

    By Julie Borowski | 05/09/13 02:05 PM

    D.C.'s food truck craze first hit the streets a few years ago and has not slowed down since. Small business entrepreneurs are thriving and customers have more food choices than ever before. New trucks offering the most unique food imaginable continue to pop up thanks to the demands of hungry...

  • Manhattan Moment: Medicaid decision gives states a bargaining chip with feds

    By Yevgeniy Feyman | 05/09/13 01:40 PM

    As the most recent in a string of states making decisions about their Medicaid programs, Missouri has tabled the Obamacare expansion of its Medicaid program for at least a year. Four other states -- Florida, Montana, Idaho and South Dakota -- have taken a similar "wait-and-see" approach....

  • Op-Ed: 'Life of Julius' shows how unions kill jobs, hurt workers

    By Matt Patterson | 05/08/13 01:45 PM

    Many people realize that unions can hurt the workers they claim to represent. For example, the United Auto Workers union drove labor costs up for the Big Three automakers, a major factor in driving General Motors into bankruptcy and leaving Detroit a shadow of its former glory. But what many...

  • Op-Ed: Raising minimum wage will kill jobs for young Millennials

    By Evan Feinberg | 05/07/13 03:35 PM

    Young Americans looking for work could receive another crushing blow this week as the U.S. Senate will decide Thursday whether to confirm Thomas Perez as the next secretary of labor. Perez has been touted as President Obama's point man for a national minimum wage increase that will...

  • Jed Babbin: Obama is not done cutting defense just yet

    By Jed Babbin | 05/07/13 02:35 PM

    April was a pretty awful month for President Obama, but it's too early for Republicans to start celebrating his political demise. People keep trying to compress the political calendar, wanting to convince us that time is running out for Obama, even though he's barely past 100 days in his...

  • Op-Ed: NRA may have taken premature victory lap

    By Neil W. McCabe | 05/06/13 04:45 PM

    By most any measure, the 142th annual meeting of the National Rifle Association in Houston was a success, but the victory lap mood in the room could set up gun owners for a huge disappointment. Coming five months after the Dec. 17, 2012, Sandy Hook School Massacre in Newtown, Conn., there was...

  • Op-Ed: How to end secret money without passing a law

    By Daniel G. Newman | 05/06/13 03:10 PM

    April 30. 2013, marked the day that the term of the last Federal Elections Commission member expired. Now, out of six seats on the FEC, one is vacant and every remaining commissioner is serving an expired term. And we're not talking about weeks or months: FEC Chairman Ellen Weintraub's term,...



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