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Opinion: New Hampshire is arguing about K-12 education
New Hampshire has never fully reconciled the values that shape how we design, fund and evaluate our education system. As a result, we debate individual policies without first agreeing on the questions those policies are meant to answer. Local control is one of those core values. It has long defined New Hampshire's system of local governance. Through town meetings and local elections, voters decide how to fund schools, municipal services, capital projects and long-term obligations.
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Coca-Cola has done opponents of DEI and ESG a huge favor
Coca-Cola has done opponents of DEI and ESG a huge favor By Scott Shepard web posted September 30, 2024 I'd like to buy the world a home and furnish it with love grow apple trees and honeybees and snow-white turtle doves I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony I'd like to buy the world a coke and keep it company Those were the lyrics to what was up 'til then—and still may be— the world's most famous (and frustratingly catchy) commercial.
Scott Shepard: Coca-Cola Has Done Opponents of DEI and ESG a Huge Favor
Honest shareholder representatives (including the National Center, which employs me) have warned Coke’s directors and executives at annual shareholder meetings, in shareholder proposals and otherwise that the New Racism was no different – constitutionally, legally or morally – than the Old Racism, and that the company would suffer from their embrace of it.
Jack & Harley discriminate against white male key demographic under Big 3 pressure
Jack & Harley discriminate against white male key demographic under Big 3 pressure By Scott Shepard web posted September 23, 2024 The ESG (standing for "environmental, social and governance" – no noun included to maximize the duplicity!) movement is both appalling and appallingly powerful. Consider: it could, for a while, force anti-white race and anti-man sex discrimination on Harley-Davidson and Jack Daniel's, of all companies.
Scott Shepard: Jack & Harley Discriminate Against White Male Key Demographic Under Big 3 Pressure
In the end, though, Fink, O’Hanley & Co. are just custodians – custodians with massive, clear fiduciary duties. Every time they force any partisan position (even if it’s just stupid, not unconstitutional), every time they rely on invalid, goal-sought research from in-the-tank “consultancies” to support false claims about what makes a company more profitable, every time they “do ESG” in pretty much any way at all, they have violated those duties.
How Urban Tolling Helps Decarbonize Cities
As a result of multiple trends and life shaping events, such as the COVID pandemic, the way we live, work, and spend leisure time has been forever changed in our urbanized settlements. What initially started as an experimental venture prior to the pandemic, namely shared mobility in the form of e-bikes, e-scooters, ridehail, carshare, and an increased emphasis on integration with public transport through mobility as a service (MaaS), has only gained further strength in the post pandemic era.
How Urban Tolling Helps Decarbonize Cities
Cities have been going through a profound transformation across the globe over the past five years. As a result of multiple trends and life-shaping events such as the COVID pandemic, the way we live, work and spend leisure time has been forever changed in our urbanised settlements.
FEP Hits Front Pages, Stands Out in Fight Against SEC Power Grab
FEP Hits Front Pages, Stands Out in Fight Against SEC Power Grab Posted at 13:52h in BLK, Featured, Free Enterprise Project, Legal Reform, STT Our ears have been burning in recent weeks as front-page spreads raise the chatter about the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) and show just how effectively it has led the fight against the ESG juggernaut.
Newly Diagnosed Papillary Craniopharyngioma With BRAF V600E Mutation Treated With Single-Agent Selective BRAF Inhibitor Dabrafenib: A Case Report
We report a case of a patient with newly diagnosed, locally extensive and cystic, suprasellar papillary craniopharyngioma successfully treated with single-agent Dabrafenib. The patient was symptomatic with gait imbalance with falls, lethargic episodes, fatigue and incontinence. Diagnostic imaging demonstrated a cystic suprasellar tumor extending into the third ventricle causing obstructive hydrocephalus. The tumor was partially debulked, and bilateral shunts were placed.
Giant investment houses are still infinitely partisan
Giant investment houses are still infinitely partisan By Scott Shepard web posted June 24, 2024 In a recent article, Sarah Nassauer and Theo Francis, reporting on the efforts of "anti-woke" shareholder representatives, made a small error that occluded a vital fact about modern American investing: the Big Three investment houses – BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard – are so steeped in personal-policy bias throughout their operations that they have become, collectively, the greatest...
Scott Shepard: Giant Investment Houses Are Still Infinitely Partisan
Spending other people’s money to shut down legitimate inquiries by elected officials into whether you’re breaching your fiduciary duty to those very people sure looks like plain pecuniary self-dealing to cover up an unbroken history of policy self-dealing. If that’s true, the law says the damages come out of the directors’ and executives’ own pockets. That’s the real story behind the vote totals for “anti-woke” shareholder proposals.
That Starbucks DEI Case Doesn’t Stand for What You Think It Does
dei, discrimination, Race, Shareholders, Starbucks More from: Ethan Peck, Scott Shepard, Stefan Padfield , NCPPR Scott Shepard is General Counsel and Director, Stefan Padfield is Deputy Director, and Ethan Peck is an Associate of the Free Enterprise Project (FEP) at The National Center of Public Policy Research (NCPPR). This post was prepared for the Forum by Mr. Shepard, Mr. Padfield, and Mr. Peck.
Scott Shepard: Some Wandering Wonderings About Disney's Odd Shareholder Vote
Bob Iger won the Nelson Peltz-driven challenge to his catastrophic, personal-politics-over-corporate-success mismanagement of The Walt Disney Company last week. Peltz, an activist investor, told the truth about Iger’s reign, and would have brought the Iger-independent voices on the board to one. Iger seemed aware that his failures and breaches of duty were so massive that even one truth-teller on the board would finish him, so he and his squad went to extraordinary lengths to defeat Peltz.
The Shareholder Activism of Anti-Discrimination Proponents
dei, discrimination, ERG, ESG, FEP, Shareholders More from: Ethan Peck, Scott Shepard, Stefan Padfield , NCPPR Scott Shepard is General Counsel and Director, Stefan Padfield is Deputy Director, and Ethan Peck is an Associate of the Free Enterprise Project (FEP) at The National Center of Public Policy Research (NCPPR). This post was prepared for the Forum by Mr. Shepard, Mr. Padfield, and Mr. Peck.
SCOTT SHEPARD: The Lesson Of Iger’s Continued Disney Chokehold
Bob Iger won the Nelson Peltz-driven challenge to his catastrophic, personal-politics-over-corporate-success mismanagement of The Walt Disney Company last Wednesday. Disney was down as far as 40 percent from its highs in 2023, driven in part by losses of up to 9 figures on virtually all of its wokeness-saturated tentpole releases.
Hate woke corporatism? Vote your shares against it in minutes
Hate woke corporatism? Vote your shares against it in minutes By Scott Shepard web posted March 25, 2024 The fight against woke corporate non-capitalism grinds on, with the forces of free markets and non-partisan corporate management beginning to secure some big wins. Now there's another tool to fight woke – one that shareholders can use, whether they own a few shares or millions. It's called ProxyNavigator. In recent years the left has taken control of an astonishing array of American companies.
A Look at Budapest's Mobility Picture
Amongst European capital cities, Budapest, Hungary, most represents the merging of unique and multiple settlements into a coherent metropolitan unit. This can be seen when scanning the city across multiple vantage points from both sides of the Danube River. As a city of 1.756 million inhabitants located in north central Hungary, Budapest is an ancient settlement with roots tracing back to the 4th century BC.
Hate Woke Corporatism? Vote Your Shares Against It In Minutes
The fight against woke corporate non-capitalism grinds on, with the forces of free markets and non-partisan corporate management beginning to secure some big wins. Now there’s another tool to fight woke – one that shareholders can use, whether they own a few shares or millions. It’s called ProxyNavigator. In recent years the left has taken control of an astonishing array of American companies.
Being "Smart" Isn't Enough, Cities Need to be Human-Centric Too
It has been an astounding time to live in, based upon what we have seen in the realm of urbanism, mobility and technology. The past decade has brought forth a flurry of innovations that have changed the very nature of cities, how we move and how we live. These transformations at the urban scale have been life-altering for certain, but pose a series of questions regarding their efficacy and utility on a long term scale.
Understanding the Car-Dominated Past Can Lead to a Better Future —
We have experienced more rapid change in the way we move through urban areas over the past few years than any time in recent history. Since 2020, our cities have been reconfigured, repurposed, and revitalized in ways we could only imagine before the pandemic. This inflection point in urbanism and mobility, while uncertain, gives us much cause for hope that we can move beyond an ideology that long favored modernism and progress over humans and communities.
Urbanism & Mobility in the Post-COVID City
We have experienced more rapid change in urbanized settlements and the way we move through them over the past few years than any time in recent history. Since 2020, our cities have been reconfigured, repurposed, and revitalized in ways we could only imagine before the pandemic. This inflection point in urbanism and mobility, while uncertain, gives us much cause for hope.
The #CitiesFirst Urban Profiles: Budapest
Amongst European capital cities, Budapest most represents the merging of unique and multiple settlements into a coherent metropolitan unit. This can be seen when scanning the city across multiple vantage points from both sides of the Danube River. As a city of 1.756 million inhabitants located in north central Hungary, Budapest is an ancient settlement with roots tracing back to the 4th century BC.
Paris Is Great, But Here's Where the Green Mobility Revolution Is Happening
The world has experienced fundamental changes over the past several years, especially in the wake of the COVID pandemic. This is especially true when it comes to urbanism and mobility. One of the cities that epitomizes this transformation the most is Paris. What has occurred in the “City of Light” is nothing short of phenomenal, and all in a relatively short period of time.
Is BlackRock's retrenchment from ESG real?
Is BlackRock's retrenchment from ESG real?
Paris Is Great — But the Green Mobility Revolution Is Happening All Over Europe | MATR
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Paris Is Great — But the Green Mobility Revolution Is Happening All Over Europe — Streetsblog USA
Editor's note: This piece was originally published in Scott Shepard's "The #CitiesFirst Newsletter," which you can check out on Medium. The world has experienced fundamental changes over the past several years, and especially in the wake of the COVID pandemic. This is especially true when it comes to urbanism and mobility. One of the cities that epitomizes this transformation the most is Paris.
Scott Shepard: Is BlackRock's Retrenchment From ESG Real?
Scott Shepard: Is BlackRock’s Retrenchment From ESG Real? Posted at 15:16h in BLK, Featured, Free Enterprise Project, Published Commentaries Don’t celebrate BlackRock’s move toward apparent political neutrality quite yet.
Helsinki Case Study Confirms Infrastructure Influences Behavior
The Helsinki E-Scooter Safety Tech Case Study has been published, and the results are in, confirming that a deficient bicycle lane network is causing users to ride on sidewalks. The Helsingin kaupunki — Helsingfors stad — City of Helsinki, Forum Virium Helsinki, Drover AI, Voi Technology, VTT, and Vianova collaborated on the 12-week research project that monitored the use of e-scooters and utilizing AI and computer vision.
Chuck Holton, Scott Shepard, Ralph Norman, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
On today’s program: Chuck Holton, freelance war correspondent, reports from Israel with the latest news. Scott Shepard, National Center Fellow, sheds light on a recently released plan from a United Nations agency to regulate and govern worldwide communication online. Ralph Norman, U.S. Representative for the 5th District of South Carolina, shares an update on the House Republicans' Biden impeachment inquiry.
Can corporations really trust the Conference Board?
Can corporations really trust the Conference Board? By Scott Shepard web posted November 27, 2023 For some inexplicable reason I have a clear, if fleeting, memory from early youth of hearing either MacNeil or Lehrer drone, in one of their ponderous voice-of-God tones, "and the Conference Board anticipates …." At the time I think I figured it was a government agency, to the extent I thought about it at all, and that impression stuck with me for many years.
Scott Shepard: Can Corporations Really Trust the Conference Board?
Scott Shepard: Can Corporations Really Trust the Conference Board? Posted at 14:58h in Featured, Free Enterprise Project, Published Commentaries In a commentary published by RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard targets the supposedly “independent, nonpartisan” Conference Board, which claims its advice can be trusted while making no efforts to dialogue with more than one side of the policy aisle.
Scott Shepard: Partisan Bias Shot Through Operations at Vanguard, State Street
Scott Shepard: Partisan Bias Shot Through Operations at Vanguard, State Street Posted at 12:41h in Featured, Free Enterprise Project, Published Commentaries, STT While BlackRock garners most of the attention for misusing other people’s money to push woke ends, investment houses Vanguard and State Street — the other members of the Big 3 — are in many ways worse.
October 2023: The month the net-zero dream died
October 2023: The month the net-zero dream died By Scott Shepard web posted November 13, 2023 Recently I reported on state elections in Germany that signaled that western polities – even in Germany, where the phantasm has held greatest sway – had given up on the idea of the green warriors' dream of a net-zero future, and weren't willing to pay the immense costs of chasing after unicorn-powered windmills. Confirmation of this conclusion poured in throughout the rest of the month.
Scott Shepard: October 2023: The Month the Net-Zero Dream Died
Scott Shepard: October 2023: The Month the Net-Zero Dream Died Posted at 16:06h in Environment and Enterprise Institute, Featured, Free Enterprise Project, Global Warming, Published Commentaries For years we’ve been warning CEOs about the absurdity of their net-zero emissions ambitions, and recent developments indicate that we’ve been right all along.
Scott Shepard: Elon Musk Is Right About George Soros's Efforts To Wreck the Anglosphere
I’ve long wondered: if you were trying to wreck the home countries of liberal (in the 19th century, “classical liberal” sense) democracy – the English-speaking countries, as Churchill famously put it – what would you do differently than George Soros has done throughout his long, sordid career? Now it appears that I’ve been joined in these speculations by, of all people, Elon Musk, who’s turning into a real champion of human liberty and progress, whatever his other quirks.
German elections sound death knell for 'decarbonization'
German elections sound death knell for 'decarbonization' By Scott Shepard web posted November 6, 2023 The decarbonization of world, or even western, economies just isn't going to happen. Probably ever. And everything will be fine. There are many, many reasons for this. The most important one is that decarbonization, or even "net-zero," which itself includes so many gimmicks as to be meaningless, is simply impossible – under any scenario, and given any scale.
Scott Shepard: German Elections Sound Death Knell for 'Decarbonization'
Scott Shepard: German Elections Sound Death Knell for ‘Decarbonization’ Posted at 20:31h in Environment and Enterprise Institute, Featured, Free Enterprise Project, Global Warming, Published Commentaries “Everywhere you look,” writes Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard, “except in the dregs of the West (e.g., California), reality is biting back and net-zero dreams are dissolving.” In a commentary published at RealClearMarkets, Scott uses the recent elections in Germany and England...
The #CitiesFirst Podcast on Apple Podcasts
14 episodes New Podcast Series hosted by Scott Shepard, and focused on the intersection of Urbanism, Active Transportation, Shared Mobility, Decarbonization & AI New Podcast Series hosted by Scott Shepard, and focused on the intersection of Urbanism, Active Transportation, Shared Mobility, Decarbonization & AI OCT 27, 2023 Episode 14: Daniel Casas Valle Daniel is Founder & Owner of Urban Dynamics - design | planning | research | reflection (Porto and Amsterdam) and Director of the Future...
Upgrading Urban Micromobility
Article originally published in Zag Daily Drover is a proud member of the Open Mobility Foundation (OMF), a non-profit open-source foundation that brings together cities, mobility companies, and software vendors to collaboratively develop open-source tools to manage mobility. We have worked in partnership with OMF on the development and release of the Mobility Data Specification (MDS 2.0).
Scott Shepard: JPM & BofA Choose Politics Over Fiduciary Duties
Scott Shepard: JPM & BofA Choose Politics Over Fiduciary Duties Posted at 19:03h in Featured, Free Enterprise Project Last week Sen. Ted Cruz revealed that Intuit had been forced by its bankers – JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America– to deny services to gun manufacturers and sellers. How do these taxpayer-backed banks continue to get away with their debanking schemes?
Scott Shepard: Bob Iger's Diminished Disney: Time Shares, Betting Lines, and Inoffensive Retreads
Scott Shepard: Bob Iger’s Diminished Disney: Time Shares, Betting Lines, and Inoffensive Retreads Posted at 11:39h in Featured, Free Enterprise Project In a commentary published at RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard notes that Disney CEO Bob Iger has so abused Disney that its plans to save itself rely on helping people bet on amateur sports, hawking time shares and churning out sequels from what were some of the most creative studios on earth before he crushed them.
Investment-house collusion suffocates market signals
Investment-house collusion suffocates market signals By Scott Shepard web posted September 25, 2023 Even occasional readers of these pages will be aware by now that American capitalism is suffering attack from giant investment-house magnates who would prefer to replace the invisible hand of free markets with the marshal's baton of their own direction.
Scott Shepard: Investment-House Collusion Suffocates Market Signals
Scott Shepard: Investment-House Collusion Suffocates Market Signals Posted at 23:07h in Featured, Free Enterprise Project, Published Commentaries In the below commentary published at RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard wants to know: What shall we call a combination by three giant investment houses to use other people’s assets to force behaviors that reduce the productivity of all large American corporations in a way that masks the free-market information that...
Scott Shepard: Companies Should Prioritize Profits of Everyday Investors Over the Whims of Bill Gates & His Buddies
Scott Shepard: Companies Should Prioritize Profits of Everyday Investors Over the Whims of Bill Gates & His Buddies Posted at 14:09h in Featured, Free Enterprise Project, Published Commentaries At RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard uses the Gates Foundation’s massive purchase of Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B) stock to explain why true capitalism — as opposed to c-suite insurrectionism — requires that fiduciary duty run to a neutral, objective reasonable investor who...
AI pilot study set to launch in Helsinki and Chicago
This article originally published in Zag Daily Drover AI is embarking on two parallel case study projects with the cities of Helsinki and Chicago to resolve multiple pain points that councils, operators, and users currently struggle with when integrating shared and dockless e-scooters in dense urban environments.
Hollywood writers have scripted their own redundancy
Hollywood writers have scripted their own redundancy By Scott Shepard web posted August 14, 2023 For the first time since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was still president of the Screen Actors' Guild, Hollywood's writers and actors have gone on strike at the same time. This strike is technically larger than that one, since it involves not only SAG, but AFTRA, the television actors' union, which in the '60s was a separate shop but has since merged with SAG. The actors' side of the strike is just funny.
Scott Shepard: Hollywood Writers Have Scripted Their Own Redundancy
If Hollywood’s writers were churning out original, exciting scripts that move in unpredictable ways to reach unexpected conclusions, audiences might return to theaters and actually watch the stuff thrown up on the streaming services, all of which would create more revenue with which more writers could be hired for more projects.
Scott Shepard: Bob Iger's Dark Disney Magic: A Wrecking Ball for Wokeness
You will not be surprised to hear that this has all resulted in Disaster at Disney. Attendance at the parks is down; other sources of revenue are drying up. The central fact is this: Disney has already almost certainly lost well more than a billion dollars on its movies this year in ways that have absolutely destroyed the value of all the purchases that Iger has made over the years.
Oops JPMorgan Chase did it again…again
Oops JPMorgan Chase did it again…again By Scott Shepard web posted August 7, 2023 JPMorgan Chase is back to debanking. Once again, it's not providing any explanations. And once again it's targeting people who dare to question the Left Government/Woke Business conspiracy against liberty. At about the same time, it appears, Chase debanked, without warning, Drs. Syed Haider and Joseph Mercola. Wait, no. Not just them, but also Dr. Mercola's employees – and his and their families. All without explanation.
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