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Price Controls Are Not a Free-Market Solution
By Austin Dillon The Lower Health Care Costs Act (LHCCA) has recently gained new attention as a result of efforts to combat surprise...
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Aug 27, 20202 min read


New Analysis Shows that Increases in Self-Initiated Police Activity Reduce Homicides
In Louisville, Kentucky, we could see 1.16 fewer homicides a month for every 1,000 additional instances of SIPA.
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Aug 26, 20203 min read


Business Protection is Critical for COVID Relief
By Erinn Broadus COVID has shocked the global economy and forced thousands of business owners to close their doors. A pivotal element of...
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Aug 13, 20203 min read


Senator Rand Paul Discusses the SCHOOL Act on the Pegasus Podcast
This fall, we must make getting all of our kids back into in-person schooling a priority. Schools in Denmark, Austria, Norway, Finland,...
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Aug 12, 20202 min read


Continuing to Inflate Unemployment Checks Will Further Deplete Businesses
By Erinn Broadus The end of July signaled the end of the weekly $600 unemployment checks many have been receiving. This deadline has been...
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Aug 4, 20203 min read


Podcast: Relief for American's Justice System
The last few months presented America’s justice system with many unprecedented challenges. As our public safety officials worked to...
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Jul 30, 20201 min read


Don’t Defund The Police; Fund And Defend Them
By Josh Crawford Despite the media’s constant attention to the “defund the police” campaign, the movement remains extremely unpopular. A...
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Jul 21, 20201 min read


Podcast: Amid Calls to 'Defund Police', Record Breaking Violence Plagues America's Cities
For many years, America's largest cities saw decreasing crime rates. Places that once suffered from thousands of homicides, like New York...
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Jul 20, 20201 min read


Kentucky Started a National Movement to Treat Female Prisoners Better, but More Work is Needed
By Courtney Spencer On May 14th of this year South Carolina was the 43rd state to pass a ban on shackling of pregnant women in prison...
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Jul 16, 20203 min read


Podcast: Louisville on Pace for Most Violent Summer and Year Ever
Across the country, a number of cities, especially Louisville, are dealing with some of their most violent months in history. As of July...
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Jul 15, 20202 min read


Kentucky State Budget Grew 12 Times More Than Population Growth From 2000 to 2018
By Austin Dillon New data compiled by Americans for Tax Reform shows drastic growth in Kentucky’s state budget in the past eighteen...
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Jul 13, 20202 min read


Nearly Half of Kentucky’s Workforce Has Filed for Unemployment
Even as states begin to loosen restrictions, KY is 2nd in the nation for the percentage of the labor force that has filed for unemployment.
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Jun 24, 20202 min read


The remarkable folly of ‘defund the police’
On September 9, 1919, after an overwhelming vote by officers in favor of striking the day before, nearly 80% of the Boston Police...
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Jun 16, 20201 min read


NEW REPORT: Declaring an Emergency: Cross-State Comparisons and Recommendations for Reform
The American system of government is a calculated structure of limited and separate governmental powers. In times of emergency, however,...
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Jun 10, 20201 min read


Private Industry, Not Government, is the Key to Solving Covid-19
There have been ample callbacks throughout the coronavirus pandemic to the Greatest Generation. Though working from home is hardly...
Jordan Harris
May 28, 20203 min read


Stay-at-Home Order May Have Increased Domestic Violence in Louisville
As Kentucky begins its gradual reopening from the COVID-19 shutdown, many of the consequences of sheltering in place become more...
Austin Dillon
May 19, 20203 min read


Tennessee Continues to Test nearly 2x as Many Residents per Capita as Kentucky, Still has Fewer Deat
Three weeks ago, Tennessee seemed to be weathering COVID-19 better than Kentucky – with greater numbers of tests administered and fewer...
Erinn Broadus and Dasha Kolyaskina
May 15, 20203 min read


Policies for a Coronavirus Shut-down Recovery
As states begin to reopen and policymakers begin to shift their focus from solely fighting COVID-19 to also fighting the economic and...
Josh Crawford
May 11, 20204 min read


As COVID-19 Lockdowns Persist, So Does Deadly Violence
As we approach the end of the second month of the Great Pause, a clearer picture has emerged of violent crime during this period....
Josh Crawford
May 1, 20203 min read


There is Very Little Consistency or Apparent Coordination Between 7 State Reopen Pact ; Here's W
Despite being a southern state in every way imaginable, with a culture completely consistent with that of the Upper South, a shared...
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May 1, 20204 min read
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