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COVID-19 Exposes TSETs Uselessness: Lets Get Rid of It

4/29/2020

After more than a month of COVID-19 house arrest, Oklahoma is reopening. However, the government-created economic disaster that shutdown orders have caused will be studied by epidemiologists, economists, and other social scientists for decades to come. In the meantime, we have to deal with the consequences as they occur, everything from a lack of toilet paper on store shelves (hopefully, that’s...

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COVID-19 Exposes TSET’s Uselessness: Let’s Get Rid of It
April 29, 2020 at 08:57AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Liability In the Time of Covid: When Should Businesses Be Sued for the Spread of Infectious Disease?

4/27/2020

When businesses reopen, what liability should they face related to the spread of Covid? Can businesses who remained open during the pandemic, or those who were open before the lockdowns began, be held liable if their customers caught the virus within the businesses’ walls? If so, what would a customer-plaintiff need to prove? Defending even a meritless lawsuit can be prohibitively...

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Liability In the Time of Covid: When Should Businesses Be Sued for the Spread of Infectious Disease?
April 27, 2020 at 10:47AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

More on Why Oklahoma Should Have Already Fully Opened

4/23/2020

Governor Stitt has declared that some businesses can open on Friday. By May 1, all enterprises in the state will be able to operate more or less normally. Eventually, at some unspecified date, Oklahoma will be fully operating again. But the question remains, and must be asked, “Was the shutdown and extreme social distancing even necessary?” For several reasons, the answer is a clear and...

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More on Why Oklahoma Should Have Already Fully Opened
April 23, 2020 at 12:20PM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Introducing a New Plan for Public Education: Put Educational Practitioners (Teachers) in Charge

4/22/2020

The author, Kent Grusendorf, served as a member of the Texas House of Representatives for 20 years (1987-2007), all but two as a member of Public Education Committee, which he chaired for four years (2003-2007). His prior elected experience was as a member of the Texas State Board of Education for three years (1982-1984). In addition to this blog, Grusendorf is author of an 1889 Institute report...

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Introducing a New Plan for Public Education: Put Educational Practitioners (Teachers) in Charge
April 22, 2020 at 09:04AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

If Data is Supposed to be our Guide the Great Coronavirus Shutdown of 2020 Should End

4/20/2020

According to the most widely cited model projecting the course of the coronavirus outbreak, today is supposed to be Oklahoma’s peak in daily deaths. Now is a good time to go back to the beginning of the Great Coronavirus Shutdown of 2020, review the goal of our policy, and assess our current status. If our policy should be “data-driven,” as we are constantly told, then let’s actually look at the...

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If Data is Supposed to be our Guide, the Great Coronavirus Shutdown of 2020 Should End
April 20, 2020 at 10:21AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Shut Downs Likely to Result in More COVID-19 Deaths than if Nothing Were Done

4/16/2020

More people will die as a result of COVID-19 because we closed the schools than would have if we’d kept the schools open or if we’d brought the kids back to school in summer. That is part of the message from Knut M. Wittkowski, who headed the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at The Rockefeller University in New York, when he was interviewed around April 6. (The...

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Shut Downs Likely to Result in More COVID-19 Deaths than if Nothing Were Done
April 16, 2020 at 03:08PM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

What if Legislators Were Licensed? Well Just to Make a Point...

4/15/2020

1889 Institute, as a general matter, objects to occupational licensing. We have written about it more than any other subject. The scant benefits simply do not outweigh the enormous costs to consumers and entrepreneurs, and burdens that disproportionately impact the poor. It must be noted that the remainder of this post is a work of satire. This should be obvious to anyone who has read...

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What if Legislators Were Licensed? Well, Just to Make a Point...
April 15, 2020 at 10:00AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Budgeting During the Wuhan Virus Apparently Means Not Having to Make Tough Decisions

4/13/2020

At the time of this writing, Governor Stitt remains in a budgetary impasse with the legislature over completing the current fiscal year, which ends in June. By the time this is posted, in all likelihood, he’ll have signed the spending bills that access the rainy day fund and which make no spending cuts for the rest of this fiscal year, despite current revenue issues and the fact that many...

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Budgeting During the Wuhan Virus Apparently Means Not Having to Make Tough Decisions
April 13, 2020 at 09:07AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Cronyism: Feature Not a Bug for Used Car Dealer Licensing

4/8/2020

Used car dealers in Oklahoma are governed by the Oklahoma Used Motor Vehicle and Parts Commission (UMPV). Like most licensing boards, it is made up of industry insiders. The UMVP's stated mission is to protect consumers from harm, but its structure and history indicate that its primary concern might be protecting licensed dealers from competition. This, of course, is the prime directive of all...

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Cronyism: Feature, Not a Bug, for Used Car Dealer Licensing
April 08, 2020 at 08:55AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

COVID-19 Proves Our Schools Are Social Service Centers First Education Institutions Second

4/6/2020

There is no way the 180-day (or 1,080 hours) school year can be completed by the end of previously established school calendars for this year given the fact that spring break has now already been effectively extended an additional two weeks. One option would have been to extend the school year into the summer. Given the level of family togetherness being experienced now, and the fact that incomes...

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COVID-19 Proves Our Schools Are Social Service Centers First, Education Institutions Second
April 06, 2020 at 09:20AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

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