Independent Institute Media Alerts

Date	Title
5/15/2020	“Cuts at Ohio University Need to Protect Academic Mission says Economist Vedder” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise appears on WOUB radio
5/15/2020	“Suspend CA AB-5 Now to Hire Gig Workers During Pandemic” Independent’s Open Letter to Suspend AB5 cited on Fallbrook Bonsall Village News
5/15/2020	“Challenging Anthony Fauci” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed on American Thinker
5/15/2020	“Parents Who Home-School Are a Danger to Their Kids? That’s What These Academics Think” Research Fellow Vicki Alger, author of Failure Op-Ed in the Kansas City Star and other Tribune News Service syndicated newspapers
5/14/2020	Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers and Independent Institute’s Open Letter to Suspend California’s AB5 mentioned on National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast
5/14/2020	Independent Institute Founder and President David Theroux appears on National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast to discuss Independent’s YouTube series Love Gov
5/13/2020	“The Question Raisers” Independent Institute Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer David Theroux, Sr. Vice President Mary L. G. Theroux, Sr. Fellow William Shughart II, Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers, Love Gov, California Golden Fleece Awards, and Independent’s Open Letter to Gov. Newsom featured in The East Bay Express
5/13/2020	“A Few Lawmakers Try to Restore Work for Californians” by Lee Ohanian cites the Independent Institute’s Open Letter to CA Gov. Gavin Newsom to Suspend AB5 in Hoover Institution’s California on Your Mind
5/11/2020	“California’s Common Core Apologia” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers and Ze’ev Wurman Op-Ed in Real Clear Education
5/11/2020	“After 40 Bad Years, the Department of Education Redeems Itself a Bit” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
5/11/2020	“Governance of Fear” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs cited in Business World
5/11/2020	Notice and recommendation of the “Open Letter to Suspend California AB-5” in the weekly e-newsletter of the Fountain Valley Chamber of Commerce
5/9/2020	“Public school closures may be a big mistake” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers quoted in the Las Vegas Review-Journal
5/7/2020	‘Punishment without Prisons” Sr. Fellow Bruce Benson, author of The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State cited in The Library of Economics and Liberty
5/7/2020	“Fraud, Survival, and Innovation: The Era of Financial Crisis and COVID-19” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
5/7/2020	Notice and recommendation of the “Open Letter to Suspend California AB-5” in weekly e-newsletter of the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce
5/5/2020	“Can Trump stop a new era of big government?” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in the Washington Examiner
5/5/2020	“California’s AB5 Law Should be Suspended” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers is interviewed on “The Ray Appleton Show” at KMJ-AM Radio
5/5/2020	“Don’t Stop Immigration, Expand Visas for Healthcare Workers” Sr. Fellow Benjamin Powell, editor of The Economics of Immigration Op-Ed in the Washington Examiner
5/4/2020	“Liberty in the Wake of Coronavirus” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in The Library of Economics and Liberty
5/4/2020	“Six Ways to Keep American Universities Alive” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
5/4/2020	Notice and recommendation of the “Open Letter to Suspend California AB-5” in The Pioneer (e-newsletter of the American Nurses Association/California)
5/4/2020	“Crisis and Leviathan in Light of the COVID-19 Crisis” Sr. Fellow Robert Whaples speaks at Mackinac Center event about Crisis and Leviathan by Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs
5/3/2020	“Adopt the Bill Suspended by AB5” endorses the Independent Institute’s Open Letter to CA Gov. Gavin Newsom to Suspend AB-5 in editorial (Bulletin Mail)
5/3/2020	“In Our Opinion: Pass the Bill Suspending AB5” endorses the Independent Institute’s Open Letter to CA Gov. Gavin Newsom in editorial in the Ukiah Daily Journal
5/2/2020	“California Gov. Newsom Numb to Workers’ Pain” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in American Thinker
5/1/2020	“Past Crises Have Ratcheted Up Leviathan. The COVID-19 Pandemic Will Too.” retired Senior Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan, and Research Fellow Donald Boudreaux op-ed at Reason.com
4/30/2020	“Senate Bill 990 a sensible bill to halt the damage of AB5” Independent Institute’s Open Letter to CA Gov. Gavin Newsom cited in editorial in the Orange County Register, Los Angeles Daily News and nine other newspapers in the Southern California News Group
4/30/2020	“How Shutdowns Will Keep Killing the Economy, Even When They’re Over” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in Wall Street Window
4/30/2020	“Key to COVID-19 Recovery: Deregulation” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless Op-Ed in Forbes
4/30/2020	“Suspend California AB-5” Independent Institute Founder and President David Theroux, Executive Director Graham Walker, and Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers discuss the Independent Institute’s Open Letter to CA. Gov. Gavin Newsom appear on Thinkspot
4/30/2020	“Suspend AB5, Governor Newsom” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on the John Phillips show on KABC radio (Los Angeles)