If price controls are imposed on medicines, many rural doctors will be put in the untenable position of deciding whether to prescribe their preferred, more effective treatment at a financial loss or to administer an outdated, less effective treatment that fits within the price-controlled market.

Companion bills—Senate File 2584 and House File 2602—are making their way through the legislative process and have already cleared some committees on their way to floor votes and the governor’s desk. 

Southwest Public Policy Institute recently published a report detailing the negative consequences of restricting access to credit in New Mexico.

After the recent elections, the DFL Party controls the Minnesota House and Senate and the Governor’s office. Creating a 100% carbon-free Minnesota by 2040 is one of the DFL’s main priorities.

Kent Kaiser, secretary/treasurer of Domestic Policy Caucus, appeared on The Jack Tomczak Show to discuss House File 290 and interest rate caps on short-term, small-dollar loans.

In the Dakotas, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has made history with the success of an interesting organization, the Indigenous Environmental Institute (IEI).

Pharmacies are essential to the communities they serve. Yet throughout America, rural independent drugstores are struggling. This month, the Rural Policy Research Institute reported this troubling fact: The number of independently owned retail pharmacies declined by 16 percent in the United States between 2003 and 2021.

Recently, an initiative by an activist group seeking to cap annual interest rates on consumer loans at 36% failed to make the ballot in Michigan.

Late last year, the so-called “Michiganders for Fair Lending” launched a ballot initiative that would do anything but make lending fairer in Michigan.

SB2271 would require the state’s presidential vote count to be kept secret until after the Electoral College meets (about seven weeks after the November election).