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Reason Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to advancing free minds and free markets. @ReasonFdn produces respected public policy research and publishes @reason.
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The deaths and lung illnesses being associated with #vaping have nothing to do with legal nicotine e-cigarettes.
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"No commercial e-cigarettes have been associated with these illnesses in the U.S. or anywhere else in the world." .
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Research shows "if every conventional cigarette smoker in the U.S. switched to e-cigarettes, 6.6 million fewer current smokers would die premature deaths," writes @jacobjamesrich.
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"E-cigarettes, on the other hand, have proven, beyond any reasonable doubt, to be safer than cigarettes and assisted millions in quitting smoking for good.".
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Legal e-cigarettes are 95 percent safer than combustible cigarettes and are the most popular tool used by Americans to quit smoking, writes @gbentley1.
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"The Food and Drug Administration is likely to move ahead with wrongheaded and unconstitutional plans to prohibit producers of non-dairy milks—including almond milk and soy milk—from using the term 'milk' to describe their milks.".— @baylenlinnekin.
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The study originally claimed “e-cigarettes and cigarettes are significant underlying risk factors for COVID-19.” But after receiving numerous scientific critiques of the study’s methods, the authors finally conceded “our study does not imply causality.”
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"No one did more to mainstream libertarian ideas about peace, love, and understanding over the past half-century than P.J. O'Rourke," writes @nickgillespie in @reason.
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As the Trump administration moves to ban almost all flavored #vape products, research shows 6.6 million fewer current smokers would die premature deaths if every conventional cigarette smoker in the U.S. switched to e-cigarettes. #vapingsaveslives .
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The U.S. spends $15,424 per child per year in the public school system. Just imagine if a substantial portion of those dollars followed the child to the school of his or her choice.
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According to researchers at Yale University’s School of Public Health, banning e-cigarette flavors while keeping cigarettes on the market would increase smoking.
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“I do not blame Alex one bit for attending a private school in 5th grade. Good for him,” said @DeAngelisCorey, who first found this information. “This is about Warren exercising #SchoolChoice for her own kids while fighting hard to prevent other families from having that option.”.
Elizabeth Warren Pledges To Crack Down On School Choice, Despite Sending Her Own Son To Elite Private School
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"The problem isn’t that Pittsburgh lacks the funding to fix bridges. Rather, the problem is the way the city spends so much of its annual budget on other things and chooses to spend so little of its money maintaining its roads and bridges.".
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"Whenever the evidence suggests e-cigarettes may benefit public health, it is treated with extreme skepticism, it requires further research, and it is never quite good enough to merit a word of recommendation from the Surgeon General." — @gbentley1 .
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"Legislators in at least 23 states have introduced bills in the past two months to fund students instead of systems." — @DeAngelisCorey .
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The public school system is "a massive government monopoly that gets more money for each student it retains and lashes out at any alternative that might attract students and parents," writes @DeAngelisCorey.
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"E-cigarettes aren’t just safer than combustible cigarettes, they’re more effective in helping smokers quit than FDA-approved therapies like nicotine gum and patches.".
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"The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine concluded that e-cigarette use is likely far less hazardous than smoking.".
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“We need more plumbers, more electricians, more welders, and an unrelated criminal past shouldn’t stop qualified applicants from filling these roles.” — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem.
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Nearly two decades of research on e-cigarettes has repeatedly vindicated e-cigarettes as a lower-risk alternative to combustible smoking.
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"Education funding should not belong to any particular institution. It is meant for educating children.".
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The study originally claimed that “e-cigarettes and cigarettes are significant underlying risk factors for COVID-19.” But after numerous experts highlighted the study’s flaws, its authors backtracked and conceded “our study does not imply causality.”.
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Research in the peer-reviewed medical journal The BMJ shows that if every cigarette smoker switched to vaping, 6.6 million fewer current smokers would die premature deaths.
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“Up to 6.6 million cigarette smokers will live substantially longer if cigarette smoking is replaced by vaping over a 10-year period.”
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren's campaign has now confirmed @DeAngelisCorey's reporting that her son attended private school. As he wrote, "it’s hypocritical for the senator to deny less advantaged families educational choice after exercising it for her own kid."
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"Taxpayers should not be put at financial risk by lending their money to poorly-run businesses," @ReasonFdn and @reason co-founder Robert Poole writes of proposed bailouts for airlines and Boeing.
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"We do know that e-cigarettes — as a general class — have markedly less risk than a combustible cigarette product," admitted Brian King, drector of the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products.
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. @justinamash summed up the libertarian message as one of the richness and wonders of peaceful cooperation, in markets and all human relations, and said the @LPNational must be the party of "democracy, of diversity, of tolerance, of humility," writes @brianmdoherty.
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Research shows e-cigarettes are substantially safer than combustible cigarettes and more effective than nicotine replacement therapies at helping smokers quit smoking, writes @gbentley1.
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We should change the school finance system so that funding follows students and parents can choose the best options for their children.
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"If the school system is going to work better for all children, more families need to be empowered to vote with their feet and attend a school that works best for them—whether they have the ability to buy a house in another district or not." —@CBarnard33.
At a Bernie Sanders rally this weekend, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez inadvertently made the case for school choice.
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“High-speed rail typically is used by business travelers. If work is going to see more substitution with Zoom, more remote meetings, and fewer in-person trips, that's going to make high-speed rail even less viable than it already is.” — Baruch Feigenbaum.
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To reduce smoking and maximize the benefits e-cigarettes can bring to public health efforts, legislators should not ban flavored vaping products.
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Occupational Licensing policies aren’t just unnecessary; they impose considerable costs on workers and consumers. A recent report estimated licensing costs Florida 129,000 jobs and over $459 million annually.
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Sen. Warren sent her son to expensive private schools so maybe she "shouldn't fight tooth and nail against extending similar opportunities to poor families," writes @DeAngelisCorey.
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"The reality is that families are generally more likely to have the information and incentives necessary to spend money in ways that will benefit their children than bureaucrats sitting in offices hundreds of miles away." — @DeAngelisCorey in @reason .
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There’s no research supporting the claims being used to try to ban e-cigarettes amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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New Hampshire Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut has pioneered a program that allows high school students to earn credit for learning that happens in their communities. @AaronGarthSmith recently sat down with the Commissioner to discuss the program:.
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Seven states—Iowa, Arizona, Missouri, Indiana, Kansas, South Dakota & West Virginia—have passed school choice legislation out of a chamber and five others—Florida, Georgia, Montana, Idaho & Oklahoma—have passed bills out of committee. — @DeAngelisCorey .
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In California, legal marijuana is struggling to compete with the black market because total taxes on legal cannabis range from $677 per pound to $1,441 a pound, depending on the local jurisdiction.
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Many will wonder how much more evidence is needed to conclude that e-cigarettes play a role in reducing smoking. After all, millions of American smokers and tens of millions of smokers worldwide have already switched from traditional cigarettes to #vaping.
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The national debt is over $30 trillion. Going back to 1965, the federal government has run an annual budget deficit in 52 of the last 57 years.
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Wyoming gets $2,160 per capita and Vermont gets $2,003 per capita from the state aid package in the coronavirus relief bill. New York and Washington, two of the states hardest hit by the pandemic, look like they’ll receive $389 per capita.
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"E-cigarettes aren’t just safer than combustible cigarettes, they’re more effective in helping smokers quit than FDA-approved therapies like nicotine gum and patches." — @gbentley1 .
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Anti-choice myths disproportionately prevent the least advantaged from having educational options. The most advantaged families already have school choice.
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"Public Health England also concluded that e-cigarettes are about 95 percent safer than conventional cigarettes. The evidence is clear: Public health officials should support e-cigarettes in making conventional cigarettes obsolete." — @jacobjamesrich .
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"Scrapping online sales bans would help keep vape shops in business and prevent unnecessary trips outside of the home, assisting with social distancing and preventing former smokers who use e-cigarettes from relapsing back to smoking." — @gbentley1 .
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"The U.S. spends $15,424 per child per year in the public school system. Just imagine if a substantial portion of those dollars followed the child to the school of his or her choice." .
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"In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, several states have taken actions to allow out-of-state physicians to practice without seeking an additional license. More states should follow suit,'' writes @VittorioNastasi.
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"It’s hard to overstate the abject failure of soda taxes to deliver on their promised benefits. Nowhere in the world, let alone the United States, have soda taxes reduced obesity.".
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At the last #DemDebate former San Antonio Mayor @JulianCastro said it's a "myth" #charterschools are better than public schools. @ReasonFdn's @DeAngelisCorey finds San Antonio's public charters are 41% more cost-effective than traditional public schools.
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"States that permit recreational marijuana sales tend to have lower rates of vaping-related hospitalizations," find @CatoInstitute's @jeffreyamiron and @ReasonFdn's @jacobjamesrich in their examination of CDC data published in @reason.
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"@AOC correctly identified the problem: A better education shouldn't only be an option for families that can buy property in other districts. And she's right to call out a school system that has historically shortchanged minority communities." —@CBarnard33.
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Instead of conducting a reasonable investigation and giving consumers useful advice, CDC has been deliberately ambiguous and helped prompt a national #vaping panic, explains @gbentley1.
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Vaping is beyond doubt safer than smoking and has proved incredibly effective at helping people quit smoking traditional cigarettes. Getting more people to switch from cigarettes to e-cigarettes would be beneficial for public health. — @gbentley1 .
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The current national debt of more than $30 trillion translates to each American individual owing about $89,052 based on the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis estimate that there are 333 million Americans.
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The Mississippi River is dangerously low, and an outdated federal law is blocking cost-effective solutions from being utilized, writes @jayderrbr.
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The most remarkable thing about SoFi Stadium, the site of today's Super Bowl, is it "was built without public subsidies. In terms of public policy, SoFi Stadium might be one of the most important stadiums in American history," says @reason's @EricBoehm87.
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"The researchers estimated that 450,000 life years will be lost as a result of fewer smokers switching to e-cigarettes due to the information shock surrounding EVALI.".
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Jim 'Mattress Mack' McIngvale bet millions on the Bengals but he had to drive two hours from Houston to cross the Louisiana border to do it because "despite its reputation as a do-as-you-please, leave-us-alone state, Texans have not been allowed to gamble as they please.".
But he still had to drive two hours to do it in a legal state.
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"The industrial era is long gone. Maybe we should put the factory model school system behind us too." .
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A "vaping ban would disastrously force legal adult vapers to buy products on the dangerous black market, increase vaping-related deaths and drive up traditional cigarette smoking rates — all trade-offs state leaders should be unwilling to make.".
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"Extensive research shows e-cigarettes are dramatically safer substitutes for traditional cigarettes and effective in helping smokers quit.".
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"Education funding is supposed to be for educating children—not funding a particular institution." .
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"The scientific case for the prohibition of all tobacco products in response to the coronavirus pandemic remains weak, and for e-cigarettes, it is non-existent," writes @gbentley1.
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“They are also switching back to traditional cigarettes from vaping devices in the wake of federal restrictions on e-cigarette flavors.”
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"Pennsylvania could decide to instead put families first by allowing education dollars to follow children to the school that works best for them — whether that be a traditional district-run public school, charter school, or private school." @DeAngelisCorey.
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"Amtrak's primary customers aren't the riders, they're the politicians in Congress," @marcscribner says.
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"Money should go directly to students, and families should be able to use it on the provider of educational services that works best for their children," writes @DeAngelisCorey in @reason.
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Six states—AZ, FL, ID, KS, OK and UT—have implemented four of five best practices for open enrollment, which allows kids to choose any public school with open seats. While 19 states, including TX, MI, NY and VA, have not implemented any best practices.
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The lesson learned is that the US shouldn't insert itself into foreign conflicts, shouldn't engage in nation-building, and should limit its interventions to defensive measures that actually protect our nation and its interests.— @StevenGreenhut in @reason .
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The Drug Legalization Handbook shows prohibition has failed and how legalizing, regulating, testing, and taxing drugs could produce better outcomes for all involved. @PoliceForReform @ssdpofficial @ncdl_legalize @CatoInstitute.
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The traditional cigarette will receive the greatest boost it has gotten in many years thanks to federal law and a federal agency that is supposed to be focused on the protection of public health.
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Rather than looking at homeschooling as a way to help children make the best of the current moment, some opponents are seeking to tear it down. It's a sad continuation of an education system that doesn't view success through the eyes of individual students.
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Instead of clamping down on teen vaping, a vape flavor ban would shut down more than 14,000 small businesses and put at least 166,000 people out of work while denying millions of Americans access to the tools they used to quit smoking.
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"It’s good that the Trump administration, at least for now, has reconsidered clamping down on legal vaping and that adults will continue to have access to life-saving products that reduce cigarette smoking," writes @gbentley1.
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. @ReasonFdn shows 155 local governments lost a combined $61 million by running golf courses during their 2020 fiscal years. One of the biggest losers was Thousand Oaks, CA, which lost $800,023 on a single city-owned golf course. — @EricBoehm87 in @reason.
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"Supervised injection facilities reduce the number of overdose deaths, reduce transmission rates of infectious disease, and increase the number of individuals initiating treatment for substance abuse disorders without increasing drug trafficking or crime."
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The educational situation in Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s family is vivid proof of the need for school choice. In the same year, she sent one of her children to a private school and the other to a public school. One size does not fit all, says @DeAngelisCorey.
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"Religious liberty, parental rights and educational freedom all won at the court. But the real winners are America’s children." — @DeAngelisCorey .
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s education plan "is radically anti-choice. She promises to end private-school vouchers and tax credits. She’d block new programs that give families choices and work to shut down existing ones." —@DeAngelisCorey in @NYPostOpinion.
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"The airlines don't have a significant claim that they are a more vital business than railroads, trucking, all sorts of things that make the economy go. All the others don't have a special program," @ReasonFdn's Robert Poole tells @christianbrits @reason.
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"Menthol prohibition will create illicit markets and more police interactions, especially in minority communities." — @gbentley1 .
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Sen. @RandPaul and @DeAngelisCorey discuss the Support Children Having Open Opportunities for Learning (SCHOOL) Act that would allow funding "to follow a child, whether learning in person or remotely, to the public school, private school, or homeschool of the family’s choice.".
The full video can also be found on YouTube here:.
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The proposed criminalization of menthol cigarettes would hurt communities of color, spur the growth of black markets, lead to more policing and incarceration, and undermine important criminal justice reforms made in recent years.
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The British Medical Journal published a study that found a flavor ban would reduce adult #vaping by 11 percent while increasing adult smoking by 8 percent — creating about 1.6 million additional adult smokers, writes @jacobjamesrich.
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"With many of the state’s politicians warning of worsening climate change and severe droughts, California shouldn’t be rejecting a sustainable opportunity to buy water for a penny per gallon." .
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Consumer advocacy groups, vape store owners, tax-reform activists, and run-of-the-mill vapers turned out in force in the country's capital with a clear message: "Vaping isn't a lifestyle. It's life or death."
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"Patients who used only e-cigarettes were no more likely to have a COVID-19 diagnosis than those who don't smoke or vape. Those who smoked only cigarettes, on the other hand, were 57 percent less likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19." @gbentley1 in @reason.
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"Existing studies suggest homeschoolers generally fare better academically and socially than their peers in conventional schools." .
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A new @ReasonFdn study by @jacobjamesrich and @rcapodilupo33 finds prescription drug monitoring programs reduced opioid distribution by 7.7%, but increased total opioid overdoses by 17.5% by driving people away from doctors and to the black market.
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"The AHA claims it is a lie to say 'vaping isn’t smoking.' By no reasonable definition can vaping be classified as smoking. E-cigarettes do not contain tobacco and there is no combustion when an e-cigarette is used, hence no smoke." — @gbentley1.
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Analysis: 34 cities in Georgia collected at least 20 percent of their total revenue from fines and forfeitures.
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We need a genuine exchange of ideas based on the evidence rather than sensationalism and dark assumptions. And we should always discuss the merits of homeschooling relative to a realistic alternative—public schools—rather than perfection.—@DeAngelisCorey .
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The FDA's rejection of e-cigarettes and vaping products is likely to lead to an increase in smoking.
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Unfortunately, our current system of funding schools rather than students encourages school districts to protect the status quo and to fight changes that would give parents more choices.
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"Given the state of the Afghan government and army, it's clear there was never going to be a 'right' time" for America's withdrawal from Afghanistan, @justinamash tells @reason.
President Biden badly botched the withdrawal and deserves the scorn he’s getting. He’s also the first president who seems determined to get America out of Afghanistan during his presidency, politics be damned. For that, he deserves credit and thanks.
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"The Trump administration’s decision to pull back from a total flavor ban of all vapor products, which it previously considered, is good news. Unfortunately, the administration’s new policy is still harmful to public health." — @gbentley1 #vaping .
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