Kevin Mooney is an investigative reporter for The Daily Signal. Send an email to Kevin.
View all authorsHealth CareNews
A radical California organization boasts of pouring millions into health care and education programs in the public interest, Obamacare among them, but pulls back the welcome mat from anyone who offers… Read More
LawNews
Virginia environmentalists and big landowners have made a concerted effort to interfere with the business activities of an organic farmer, claims a new lawsuit describing… Read More
EnergyNews
Taxpayer-funded college professors and researchers who cite climate change to advocate regulations that would raise energy costs for consumers have some explaining to do, congressional… Read More
EconomyNews
Proposals to stop state and local governments from deducting union dues from their employees’ paychecks are likely to gain traction in coming months, those on… Read More
EconomyNews
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Taxpayers won a key battle with government workers unions this summer when one of Rhode Island’s top politicians withdrew two measures that would have… Read More
EconomyNews
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—In a battle of political wills in Rhode Island, local voters so far have held their ground against efforts by union leaders and state… Read More
EnergyNews
On first glance, this is a rather routine story in the environmental policy wars. A study published in the journal Nature Climate Change said researchers… Read More
SocietyNews
Wondering where the companies you buy from stand on the gay marriage case before the Supreme Court? Turns out there’s an app for that. It’s… Read More
EconomyNews
After watching federal officials with the U.S. Department of the Interior unilaterally rewrite regulatory rules without state input in what was supposed to be a… Read More
LawNews
To hear Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia tell it, America’s freedoms don’t come from freedom of speech or freedom of the press. It’s not the… Read More
EnergyNews
It may seem like one of the smaller, less consequential clashes as environmental fights go, but the battle taking shape over a pipeline that would… Read More
EnergyNews
Is big money dangerously and improperly compromising environmental policy? Climate change advocates have long asserted that the fossil fuel industry “bought” science—i.e., paid scientists for… Read More
EconomyNews
Few people in either party in Washington are happy with the current tax code, so what if we simply started over? That is at the… Read More
EnergyNews
Instead of filing the same version of the conservation easement that was signed by its president and a Virginia farmer, the Piedmont Environmental Council pulled… Read More
Energy News
After clashing with a non-profit land trust over the terms and conditions of a conservation easement that sits on her property, Martha Boneta saw no… Read More
LawNews
Did the New York Attorney General’s Office collude with a local union leader to develop the basis for a lawsuit against a Papa John’s Pizza… Read More
EnergyNews
For more than 15 years, the Environmental Protection Agency has resisted releasing data from two key studies to the general public and members of Congress…. Read More
EnergyNews
Remember the EPA bureaucrat who got caught receiving $900,000 in pay without working because he claimed he also was employed by the CIA? According to a… Read More
SocietyNews
It was a cold and cloudy day with poor visibility on the side of a mountain in Colorado when Dr. Pat Castle first encountered Padre… Read More
SocietyNews
TRENTON, N.J.—We all know the story from high school history. Or think we do. Gen. George Washington and his tired and tiny Continental Army scored… Read More
EconomyNews
Virginia farmer Martha Boneta thought her long-running dispute with a local green group was coming to an end. But now, that light at the end… Read More
EconomyNews
Kentucky is not a right-to-work state, but one of its counties soon may be. Local officials in Warren County are to vote Friday on a… Read More
EconomyNews
Two state labor officials have publicly acknowledged there are ample opportunities for “community organizers” and labor unions to partner with government agencies to enforce workplace laws… Read More
EconomyNews
Under President Obama, government officials are aggressively enforcing the law against employers who fail to pay the minimum wage, deny overtime compensation and misclassify workers… Read More
SocietyNews
Virginia farmer Martha Boneta’s desire to have an environmental conservation group replaced as overseer of her property has moved a step closer to reality. Officials… Read More
EconomyNews
A union operative generously praised New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman when he announced he was taking a Papa John’s pizza franchisee to court on… Read More
LawNews
Christian schoolteachers who object to being forced to help finance the political agendas of unions yesterday moved a step closer to having their case heard by… Read More
LawNews
RICHMOND – Martha Boneta’s eight-year battle with an environmental group over a conservation easement on her farm in Virginia’s Hunt Country moved closer to resolution… Read More
LawNews
Martha Boneta’s years of struggle with a powerful conservation group could come to the beginning of an end this week. Boneta owns the 64-acre Liberty Farm… Read More
SocietyNews
“Hands Across New Jersey.” That was the name given to the grassroots movement that came together in response to the $2.8 billion tax increase New… Read More
