How Keystone XL is already creating jobs and bringing us more energy
Tthe Keystone pipeline system is already pumping nearly 600,000 barrels a day of Canadian oil sands to Illinois refineries—and much to enviromentalists' dismay, doomsday still hasn’t come.
WTO Should End Sugar Subsidies to Create Freer, Global Market of Treats, Not Tricks
The global sugar market has become a distorted maze of tricks, rather than treats, with more than 100 countries producing and subsidizing sugar production and exports. A new IPI publication says it’s time for the Obama administration to commit to eliminating subsidies and trade barriers for sugar and other agricultural commodities by pushing for such an agreement at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The Administration That Coordinated The Obamacare Website Will Soon Coordinate Your Health Care, Too
If you thought the Obamacare website rollout was a disaster, wait until these same people start coordinating your health care. And when that implodes as badly as the website, we’ll get to see a replay of all those responsible running for cover and claiming it was everybody else’s fault.
Bipartisan House Bill Attempts To Limit FDA's HIT Oversight
A bipartisan House bill introduced Oct. 22 aims to clarify FDA's authority over health information technology. Joel White of Health IT Now praised the bill during an IPI event, saying it created a "bright line" that made it clear that apps like health information technology management tools were beyond FDA's purview.
Your share of the national debt is now $1.1 million
Each US taxpayer now has a federal-debt liability of $1.1 million, and rising.
Comcast exec: Cable operators may deploy 500,000 Wi-Fi hotspots
It is no secret that U.S. cable TV operators are jumping into Wi-Fi big time, and one industry executive is forecasting they could collectively deploy and run half a million Wi-Fi hotspots in the near future. The prediction came from David Don, Comcast's executive director-regulatory and public affairs, at the IPI Communications Summit.
500,000 WiFi Sites on Cable's Agenda
Cable operators collectively could run at least 500,000 WiFi hotspots nationwide in the very near future, according to David Don, Comcast’s executive director-regulatory and public affairs at the fifth annual Institute for Policy Innovation Communications (IPI) Summit in Washington.
Industry Seeks Certainty on Spectrum Auction Plans from Incoming FCC Chairman
Obama's nominee for FCC Chairman, Tom Wheeler, should provide industry participants with greater certainty as to how the commission will structure its upcoming spectrum incentive auction, lawyers representing carriers and broadcasters said at an event hosted by the Institute for Policy Innovation.
John Boehner's critics want to show him the door
House Speaker John Boehner's public image has been badly tarnished. It's mostly been by his own doing.
IPI panel highlights bipartisan support for wireless service tax reform
Online sales tax reform may get all the attention, but there is another complex network of Internet-centric taxes that backers of reform say should be re-examined as well.
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