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The fact that trolley lines can't be easily or inexpensively moved, as bus lines can, means that entrepreneurs will build bars and restaurants on trolley-served streets, which D.C.'s H Street N.E. will be if the proposed trolley line is up and operating. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

A year after opening, DC Streetcar is just an expensive relic of the past

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February 23, 2017 12:00 am

If the Obamacare exchanges are in a —œtrial and error—£ stage, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid acting administrator Andy Slavitt described them last week at the Marketplace Innovation Conference, the errors shouldn’t have to come at the expense of taxpayers. (AP Photo)

Healthcare

Greater transparency the first step to keeping Americans healthy and insured

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June 27, 2016 4:03 am

If Harry Reid and his collaborators were truly interested in comprehensive reform of an outdated and growth killing federal tax code, they would shun these political games that pick winners and losers in the free market. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Democrats’ energy ‘innovation’ plan a throwback to discredited policies

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November 5, 2015 5:01 am

Boeing can't decide what its story is, other than that it wants its taxpayer subsidies back. (AP Photo)Â

Op-Eds

Boeing threatens layoffs to keep taxpayer spigot open

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September 4, 2015 4:01 am

Irrigation pipes sit along a dried irrigation canal in California. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Energy and Environment

The tragedy of California’s bureaucrat-made drought

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June 18, 2015 9:00 am

By voting the plastic bag ban down, California taxpayers would save hundreds of thousands in tax dollars that would be spent on administrative costs associated with implementing and enforcing the ban. (AP Photo)Â

Energy and Environment

California bans bags; Arizona bags bans

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May 18, 2015 9:00 am

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