Category: Risk Analysis

New York Post Book Review: The Food Police

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In a book review of Jayson Lusk’s “The Food Police” in today’s New York Post, I write, Activists have spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to influence what food we eat, where we buy it and where it should ...
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Dangers of Nanny State are to More than Just Our Liberties

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That's the conclusion of the Washington Examiner in a story by Michal Conger this afternoon about a CPAC panel on the nanny state sponsored by the Independent Women's Forum and featuring, among others, the National Center's own Jeff Stier. The ...
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Risk Experts to New York City: Styrofoam Ban Would Be a Mistake

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New York, NY - In a letter sent this morning to members of the New York City Council, a coalition of policy organizations is cautioning legislators against supporting Mayor Michael Bloomberg's effort to ban Styrofoam in New York City. The ...
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Obama Administration Ignores Crimes Documented in New York Times

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In an op-ed in Forbes.com today, Dr. Henry Miller of the Hoover Institution and I ask why the Obama Administration ignored a case of high profile vigilantism. The short answer: The criminal activity was done by the left. The longer ...
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Rahm Emanuel: He’s Got Moves Like Bloomberg

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At the same time as a high-end shopping mall vending machine in Burbank, California is beginning to dispense caviar, truffles and escargot, city employees in Chicago are looking at the possibilities of finding kale smoothies and organic, gluten-free soy crackers ...
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Chicago Teachers Should Have a Beef about LFTB Policy, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

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When Chicago schoolteachers recently went on strike, the only city-run schools open were those set up to serve meals to needy students. While striking Windy City teachers screamed about pay and evaluation standards, food was a problem apparently being ignored ...
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Jeff Stier: Bloomberg Soda Ban Cog in Larger Anti-Choice Campaign

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In a discussion with host Larry Kudlow about the new ban on the sale of large sugary drinks in New York City that was part of the 9/13/12 edition of CNBC’s “The Kudlow Report,” National Center Risk Analysis Division director ...
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Jeff Stier Discusses Mayor Bloomberg’s Failure to Lead in the Fight Against West Nile Virus in NYC

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On the September 12, 2012 edition of “Good Day New York” on Fox5-New York, National Center Risk Analysis Division director Jeff Stier says the Bloomberg Administration’s response to the threat of West Nile virus is “too little, too late… We ...
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City To Mosquitoes: Don’t Drop Dead

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In an op-ed in today’s New York Post, I explain why Mayor Bloomberg and his nanny-state health commissioner are putting New Yorkers at risk by failing to stand up to environmental activists who oppose the responsible use of low-concentration pesticides ...
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NCPPR’s Jeff Stier Defends Consumer Choice for Energy Drinks

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On the 8/28/12 edition of CNBC’s “Closing Bell,” National Center Risk Analysis Division director Jeff Stier says New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is on a “fishing expedition” that may lead to the next nanny state assault on consumer choice ...
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