Week in Review: November 11, 2022

Announcements

The Foundation for Government Accountability unveiled a new look for their website.
Ellen Weaver, president and CEO of Palmetto Promise Institute, was elected as South Carolina’s State Superintendent of Education. Palmetto Promise Institute congratulated Weaver and announced they are launching a national search for the organization’s next president and CEO.
Steamboat Institute recently hosted three Campus Liberty Tour debates on climate and energy policy at the University of Maryland, College Park, University of Dallas, and Oklahoma State University. The debates featured Steven Koonin, former undersecretary of energy in the Obama administration, against a series of climate experts. Watch the debates here.
Texas Public Policy Foundation released a new database tool that helps individuals see earnings and student debt for recent college graduates. It’s designed to give students a resource for making informed decisions about which degrees, schools, or job fields to choose.

Alaska Policy Forum re-launched a report that examines factors driving up healthcare costs in Alaska and what reforms would help control the increase.
Anticipating more conversation about implementing a new income state-wide sales tax, Alaska Policy Forum published a new brief to answer a key policy question: Would these taxes actually lead to a more stable revenue stream for the state?
Frontier Institute released a Healthcare Policy Playbook with five specific reforms that Montana can adopt to make the state a place where professionals want to practice and where patients feel confident seeking medical care.
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs published Three Dozen Good Ideas for Oklahoma Lawmakers on the heels of the 2022 election.
A new report from Reason Foundation evaluates every state’s open enrollment policies and tallies the number of schools that have implemented best practices for public schools (hint: it’s not many).

The Buckeye Institute filed its amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, urging the court to make it clear that union vandalism and destruction of property are never “protected activit[ies]” in labor disputes.
The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief in Texas v. Yellen with the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The Buckeye Institute previously filed briefs in similar cases (Ohio v. Yellen, West Virginia v. Yellen, and Arizona v. Yellen), which urged those respective courts to rule that the Biden Administration’s tax mandate—included in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)—is ambiguous and therefore unenforceable and that the treasury secretary cannot fix Congress’s error through regulatory action.
Kansas Justice Institute is representing a Cowley County bird dog trainer and handler who has filed a property rights suit against Kansas Animal Health Commissioner Justin Smith, D. V. M., in his capacity as Animal Health Commissioner with the state Department of Agriculture, citing the state’s unconstitutional licensing and warrantless searches of private property.

Supermajority in West Virginia: Now What?
Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy

Election Recap (Iowa)
Iowans for Tax Relief

The Hypocrisy of Democrats on Crime
Commonwealth Foundation in The Philadelphia Inquirer

The future is on today’s ballot. Kind of.
The James Madison Institute cited in Politico

Michigan’s Education Failure
Mackinac Center in The Wall Street Journal

Opinion: Why we need the power to recall mayors
Mississippi Center for Public Policy in Y’all Politics