Nicholas Johnson
Nicholas Johnson
Nicholas Johnsonis best known for his controversial term as a dissenting Federal Communications Commission commissioner, 1966-1973, and his book, How to Talk Back to Your Television Set. He currently teaches at the University of Iowa College of Law, with an emphasis on communications and Internet law, and since 2006 has posted over 1000 blog essays...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth23 September 1934
CountryUnited States of America
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Of the 13,000 objects, over 40 percent came from breakups of both spacecraft and rocket bodies.
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If a state's currently in the toilet, this is going to keep it there.
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In too many states, the poor and near-poor who are working to join the middle class are instead being taxed right back into poverty. For a family in poverty, a few hundred dollars is a lot of money.
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Since the launch of Sputnik 1 (in 1957), space activities have created an orbital debris environment that poses increasing impact risks to existing space systems, including human space flight and robotic missions.
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Colorado's economy had been growing faster than most other states long before it adopted TABOR. The claim that TABOR explains Colorado's prosperity in the 1990s -- and that other states can boost their economies by adopting TABOR -- isn't based on fact.
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Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.