The Free State Foundation

There were constant references to the sorry economy we're living in as the Appropriations Committee of the Maryland House of Delegates c...

In Wednesday’s (March 11) latest round of revenue write-downs, Maryland tax officials predicted the state will have $716 million less to spe...

It has been interesting to watch the recent struggles of Sirius XM Radio and look back at the concerns raised when the Sirius – XM merger wa...

For a while it was conventional wisdom to discount all the talk about reinstating the Fairness Doctrine as just so much campaign rhetoric. A...

In my view, the spending side of the House-passed stimulus bill is too large. Be that as it may, appropriating some funds targeted for furth...

Although all of the details of the economic stimulus package have yet to surface, it seems likely to target billions of dollars of governmen...

The mere suggestion by President-elect Obama's transition team that the February 17 DTV transition date be postponed has already made th...

My late mother and I had this riff about think tanks. It began ten years ago the day I told her that I was resigning my law partnership to w...

Some broadband bits and pieces. First, I was struck by Rick Whitt's blog post trying to explain what Google means by net neutrality in ...

On discovery of the news that an anti-tax ballot measure is leading -- but apparently not definitively resolved -- in liberal Montgomery Cou...

First things first. To Barack Obama, go congratulations on an historic victory. I grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina at a time when schoo...

In a newly-released report entitled "Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors: 2008" authored by Chris Edwards of the...

With the FCC facing its own important November 4 vote on proposals to reform the archaic intercarrier compensation and universal service reg...

With the FCC poised in early November to consider proposals to reform the outdated intercarrier compensation and universal service fund regi...

In early 2001, the FCC initiated a proceeding to examine whether it should adopt new regulations to govern the developing technology of what...

Absent clear-headedness, the financial crisis facing the U. S. threatens more than the financial institutions that made, packaged, and resol...

The Federal Communications Commission is considering whether to revise the policy it adopted – unanimously – to exclude from its automatic r...

Last Friday, I moderated a panel entitled, "Net Neutrality Regulation: Perspectives on What It Means and Whether It Is Necessary,"...

The FCC's website contains the following statement: "The FCC does not regulate the Internet or Internet Service Providers (ISP)....

Back on July 17, when I first became aware that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wanted to get a Commission majority to issue an order holding unla...