October 27, 2011 Despite seeing a strong future for nuclear energy, the Beacon Center’s Justin Owen cautions against the government leading the charge with taxpayers’ money. Putting up taxpayer money for small reactors is wrong, said Justin Owen, president and CEO of Beacon Center of Tennessee,...

NASHVILLE, TN – The Tennessee Center for Policy Research today released its 2011 Tennessee Pork Report, exposing that state and local governments across Tennessee wasted $371 million over the past year. For the sixth consecutive year, Tennessee’s premier free market think tank partnered with taxpayer...

The Nashville Business Journal picks up the recent TennesseeWatchdog.org story about tax credits going to Tennesseans who purchase electric cars. In the story, TennesseeWatchdog.org editor Chris Butler explains how only certain electric car manufacturers benefit, while others are left out of the mix....

News Channel 5 interviews Tennessee Center for Policy Research president Justin Owen about the revelation that Governor Bredesen is an investor in a new solar company started by his former Revenue Commissioner. In his eight years in office, Bredesen has directed millions of taxpayer dollars into building...

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research’s Allyn Milojevich explains how free market environmentalism is a better solution than cap and trade in Sunday’s Tennessean. Allyn is the recent author of Cap & Trade: A (Lame) Duck Proposal, which shows the economic impact cap and trade would...

October 4, 2010 NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, the state’s premier free market think tank, released a policy report today demonstrating the impact that cap and trade legislation could have on Tennessee’s economy. It is widely expected that Congress will attempt to pass some...

Acting Executive Director for the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, Justin Owen weighs the pros and cons of the now “watered-down” cap-and-trade bill. He concludes that the bill’s “election-induced coma is at least a temporary victory for those interested in less government.”...

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research will be releasing short films on various examples of waste in the 2010 Tennessee Pork Report. This week, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research covers Tennessee’s investment in switchgrass to convert into ethanol as a new energy source. View the video...

Allyn Milojevich, research associate at the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, takes the Obama administration to task over its plan to close the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility in Nevada. This article originally appeared in Saturday’s Knoxville News Sentinel. by Allyn Milojevich In 1982,...