The Blog at MSPC

Voters across the Mountain States will consider several important ballot measures this November. To help provide them with the...

This November, voters in the city of Bozeman will decide whether to adopt a ban on plastic bags and straws, as well as foam containers. ...

This November, Washington voters will decide if consumer energy choices deserve protection. Over the course of the last year, Washington...

This November, Montana voters will decide whether to adopt two separate constitutional amendments: CI-126 to require a non-partisan Top...

As billions of dollars in federal funding flows into states through the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, the...

Regionally based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) recently released its 2024 Index of Freedom report . The top five states in...

This November, Idaho voters will decide whether to enact Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) for statewide elections while using a non-partisan...

Mountain States Policy Center (MSPC) – the region’s premier free market think tank – has announced best-selling author and former Judge Jean

When the Idaho School Boards Association (ISBA) meets in Boise in November to pass a legislative platform, they may want to reconsider their

The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, became law in 2010 and provisions from the legislation began in 2014. The overall goal of the law...

Note: This is a joint op-ed with Elizabeth New ( Washington Policy Center ) and Jackson Maynard ( Citizen Action Defense Fund )....

Ahead of the 2025 legislative session, lawmakers in Idaho are reportedly considering various plans to expand education choice options in the

Across the country, local municipalities and county governments are taking on the task of establishing their own broadband utilities,...

Across the country, states are increasing education choice offerings such as Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) or tax credits to provide...

The Mountain States Policy Center team had the privilege of recently attending the 2024 State Policy Network (SPN) Conference in Phoenix,...

I farm, homeschool, garden, bake bread, raise chickens, and make my own yogurt. It seems I’m following the fad of the homesteading...

K-12 public school spending is at an all-time high, and America spends more per student than any other developed nation. In 2022, the...

A new piece of energy legislation in Congress called the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 (EPRA) has made its way through the...

Unless Congress acts soon, taxpayers across the Mountain States will face an automatic tax increase next year. This is because lawmakers...

It would be one thing if the policies had a true environmental impact. Unfortunately, there is little evidence the laws are helping – and ev