by Jane Richey | Jul 18, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded a $149,074 grant to study food shopping patterns that may form the basis of future shopping “interventions.” The USDA award went to the University of Kentucky in April for the study titled, “Adolescent and...
by Jane Richey | May 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
A top official at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) told a Republican congressman that the agency is still considering ways to save LightSquared’s plan for a high-speed wireless network. The company invested billions of dollars in plans for a...
by Jane Richey | Mar 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The U.S. Forest Service plans to outfit six bald eagles with GPS devices to track their “interactions with wind farms.” The problem: Eagles and many other birds are smacking into wind turbines and dying. “Despite the many benefits which come from...
by Jane Richey | Feb 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved to reject LightSquared’s planned wireless network on Tuesday after the president’s top adviser on telecom issues said there is “no practical way” to prevent the network from disrupting GPS...