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1) Policy Focus of the Week: Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group Report
2) The David Strom Show
3) Sign up for our Action eLists
4) Recent Writing
5) Free Market Institute co-sponsors P.J. ORourke appearance with CFact
1) Policy Focus of the Week: Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group Report
Last Thursday, the Minnesota Free Market Institute, Minnesota Majority, The American Property Coalition held a press conference critical of the Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group (MCCAG) recommendations. David Strom, president of the Minnesota Free Market Institute, says that analysis shows the climate change group's report is seriously flawed. It doesn't provide a cost-benefit analysis of proposed actions, and doesn't back up estimates of costs and savings with real data.
"Essentially, their proposal is a fantasy. It has no correlation to the trends that we actually see,. They assume electricity consumption's going to go down when it's going up, 1.5 percent a year. They assume that our biofuel use will go up 35 percent. They did no study that indicated that we even have the capacity in terms of agricultural production to do that, and they don't know whether that's going to ruin the soil. Looking at this report, we came to the conclusion that it simply ignored reality."
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To learn more about the Minnesota Free Market Institute's analysis of the MCCAG report, we recommend you read our analysis (http://www.mnfmi.org//images/pdfs/mccag.pdf)
2) The David Strom Show
The David Strom Show sponsored by the Minnesota Free Market Institute is broadcast weekly on AM 1280 The Patriot Saturdays 9-11 A.M. Podcasts of the show are available at Townhall.com and also directly via iTunes. (See our radio show page for details). The show is now downloaded over 11,000 times a month!
Last weekend, Phil Krinkie, President of the Taxpayers Leaguegave us a report previewing the 2008 Taxpayer rally at the capitol later that day; Bob DeBoer, Director of Policy Development at the Citizens League explained a tax mechanism meant to keep local governments from competing for development with taxpayer subsidies that is being exploited by Mall of America Developers in a proposal currently before the legislature. In the second hour, Brian C. Anderson of the Manhattan Institute and Editor of City Journal discussed his new book Democratic Capitalism and its Discontents.
Click here for audio highlights of last weekend's show.
Upcoming shows: 4/19 Don Eberly, author of The Rise of Global Civil Society: Building Communities and Nations from the Bottom Up; 4/26 Robert P. Murphy author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism; 5/3 Our monthly Econ 101 with Prof. King Banaian
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4) Recent Writing
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5) Free Market Institute co-sponsors P.J. O'Rourke appearance with CFact
On Tuesday April 29th, at 7:00 P.M., Best Selling Author and America's leading Political Satirist P.J. O'Rourke will be appearing at The University of Minnesota's Northrop Auditorium. The Event will be Free and open to the public. For more information visit http://www.cfact-umn.blogspot.com/.
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