Erik Telford

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If the activists behind the ballot measure gather 25,000 signatures in support of the measure by November 2016, D.C. voters will be allowed to vote on whether they want the higher minimum wage. (AP Photo)

Proposed D.C. minimum wage increase could be a job killer

Erik Telford · September 17, 2015 4:01 am

Few in Congress have been as outspoken as Chellie Pingree about transparency and campaign finance reform. (AP Photo)Â

Rep. Pingree’s campaign finance reform’s hypocrisy

Erik Telford · August 28, 2015 4:01 am

A Dish Network receiver is seen on June 4, 2015 in Miami, Florida. Reports indicate that Dish Network, the satellite television company, is in talks to acquire the wireless provider T-Mobile US. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Potential Dish and T-Mobile merger is trickle-up corporate welfare

Erik Telford · July 6, 2015 4:01 am

Thousands of demonstrators protest against an internet tax planned to be introduced by the Hungarian government for the second time in two days in front of the Ministry of National Economy in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Tens of thousands of protesters marched against a plan by the Hungarian government to tax Internet use from 2015. The inscription on Guy Fawkes mask reads: "Unity, freedom!" (AP Photo/MTI, Janos Marjai)

From Budapest to Boise, governments are trying to control the Internet

Erik Telford · December 15, 2014 10:00 am

Red Alert Politics

Conservatives can win tomorrow by investing in tech and youth today

Erik Telford · February 20, 2014 8:57 pm

Recently, the FDA fast-tracked approval of a vaccine for the influenza strain H5N1, even though there had not yet been reported cases of H5N1, and the vaccine had been subjected to significantly less clinical research than the meningitis B vaccine. (Thinkstock)

FDA bureaucracy stifles access to life-saving drugs

Erik Telford · January 23, 2014 5:00 am

For Kathleen Sebelius, desperate times call for questionable measures to advance Obamacare

Erik Telford · August 27, 2013 12:00 am

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