Right To Repair, Rising

By: Pat Garofalo — June 12^th 2023 at 18:00

At the end of the day, people just want to be able to fix their stuff....

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How Minnesota Took on Hospital Monopolies and Won

By: Pat Garofalo — May 31^st 2023 at 15:55

Across the country, health care workers have seen both their pay and their working conditions head down a slope thanks to the increasing power of the large health systems that employ them....

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Health Care Monopolies Strike Back

By: Pat Garofalo — May 15^th 2023 at 12:00

It looks to me like a case of UNC Health is reading the writing on the wall and trying to get ahead of either court cases that could harm its future power....

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Taking on Ticketmaster

By: Pat Garofalo — May 8^th 2023 at 15:00

Pat Garofalo writes about a California bill that would eliminate a key tactic Ticketmaster uses to rip you off....

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The High Cost of Cheap Corporate Utilities

By: Pat Garofalo — March 30^th 2023 at 12:00

Make any utility discounts for “economic development” transparent and debatable before public bodies, if they have to be allowed at all...

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Job Creation by Merger Is for Suckers

By: Pat Garofalo — March 27^th 2023 at 16:08

The history here...is clear: mergers kill jobs....

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Camden Got Answers—And They Revealed A Lot

By: Pat Garofalo — March 9^th 2023 at 17:35

disclosure can be a powerful tool for uncovering exactly how flawed particular subsidy deals really are. We never would have known how few local residents these heavily subsidized corporations were hiring without a committed group of activists using the available legal tools to implement a new disclosure regime....

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The Car Rental Sales Tax Swap Scam

By: Pat Garofalo — February 21^st 2023 at 14:17

Big car rental corporations did a very good job sweeping across the country collecting what is a massive backdoor tax subsidy on the purchase of their main business asset....

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The National, Bipartisan Loathing of Hospital Monopolies

By: Pat Garofalo — February 16^th 2023 at 18:00

The United States, rather famously, has the highest health care prices in the developed world. And one of the chief drivers behind that is high hospital prices: hospitals receive $1 in $3 spent in the United States on health care, and they're more profitable than other notorious health care sectors such as insurers or pharmacy benefit managers....

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“The Commonwealth of Amazon”

By: Pat Garofalo — January 26^th 2023 at 18:00

As one Virginia resident put it, “Northern Virginia is being overwhelmed by these things. … We may as well start calling ourselves the Commonwealth of Amazon.”...

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Non-Competes, Banned

By: Pat Garofalo — January 23^rd 2023 at 15:44

Getting rid of non-competes is a big deal and is a big win for economic freedom for all workers...