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In a little-noticed decision on July 20, 2007, the Maryland Public Service Commission took what appears to be an important step in improvin...

With Maryland’s looming $1.5 billion so-called structural deficit, there is much talk in the air about tax increases of various kinds. For e...

In today's Communications Daily [subscription required], FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein is quoted to the effect that we need to ge...

There are press reports that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is going to propose that a sizeable chunk of the 700 MHz spectrum be set aside as a m...

As we celebrate Independence Day 2007, I am reminded of Abraham Lincoln’s remarks eulogizing Henry Clay: “He loved his country partly becaus...

A few weeks ago, shortly after the FCC released its most recent report on TV violence, I wrote an essay arguing that any government-mandated...

With ever-present concerns about the exposure of children to indecent and violent television programming and online material, I have used th...

I have written a lot in this space, and others as well, about why it would be wrong as a matter of policy for the government to mandate an a...

Earlier I had heard some reports that the Maine legislature was considering passing a state net neutrality law containing a nondiscriminatio...

It's no secret that Maryland faces a looming $1.5 billion structural deficit that will require some tough decisions from Governor Martin...

Forrester Research has released a new report entitled, "Cable A La Carte Pricing Creates More Problems Than It Solves." The entir...

I published the piece below in the Baltimore Sun almost twelve years ago now. I hadn't re-read it for many years, but when I did so toda...

National Cable & Telecommunications President and CEO Kyle McSlarrow spoke yesterday at the Media Institute, and his speech represented...

My former colleague Adam Thierer, a Senior Fellow with the Progress and Freedom Foundation, has just issued a marvelous paper, The Right Way...

Yesterday Mark Cuban, who owns the high-def TV network HDNet, along with other enterprises too numerous to mention, told the House Energy an...

The NAB and other opponents of the Sirius-XM satellite merger contend that satellite radio constitutes a separate market for purposes of com...

The predictable laments from those who cite the latest OECD broadband penetration statistics are getting tiresome. Quite simply, those here ...

My former colleague, Adam Thierer , has a new article in the City Journal entitled, " The Media Cornucopia. " Adam is one of the m...

According to Communications Daily [subscription required], Hewlett Packard CTO Shane Robison told the National Association of Broadcasters ...

Here at the Free State Foundation, we were touting the notion of Maryland creating an easily searchable Internet website to track state spen...