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Letters: Think Carefully Before Remaking The USMC (From The Wall Street Journal)
The Lexington Institute’s Daniel Goure recently penned a letter to the editor of The Wall Street Journal in response to the Journal’s editorial “Deterring China on a Coronavirus Budget” that was published on April 11. Goure wrote that there were “sound ...
Letters: Readers Sound Off On New York City, Youth In Politics And USPS (From The New York Daily News)
A letter to the editor, published in the New York Daily News from the Lexington Institute’s Paul Steidler takes issue with the paper’s April 20 editorial, “Posting up: The United States Postal Service needs cash and reforms.” Steidler points out that t ...
Letters: Independent System Operator Keeps Power On (From The Albany Times Union)
A letter to the editor of The Albany Times Union by the Lexington Institute’s Paul Steidler addresses the paper’s April 1 editorial, “Isolated, Capital Region-based energy grid workers keep power on.” Steidler commends the heroism of highly-skilled, ha ...
Letters: The Postal Service Helps Define Our Nation. Losing It Would Be Devastating (From The Los Angeles Times)
A letter to the editor published in The Los Angeles Times from the Lexington Institute’s Paul Steidler takes issue with the paper’s April 16 editorial “The Postal Service is America’s lifeline. Save it.” Steidler critiques the editorial for “omitting f ...
Appeals Court Tells USPS Regulator To Rethink ‘Incomprehensible’ Package Revenue Formula (From Federal News Network)
The Lexington Institute’s Paul Steidler is quoted in a Federal News Network April 17 article about the need for a more modern pricing system at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). The USPS Office of Inspector General concluded in a 2014 white paper that a ...
Letters: Congress Has Neglected Postal Reform For Years (From The Boston Globe)
A letter to the editor of The Boston Globe penned by the Lexington Institute’s Paul Steidler addresses the Globe’s April 14 editorial “The postal service has never been more valuable — or more endangered.” It takes the editorial board to task for “lett ...
How To Invest In The Military-Industrial Complex (From The New York Times)
Lexington COO Loren Thompson was recently quoted by the New York Times in an article examining the defense industry’s resilience to fallout from the coronavirus crisis, which has hit multiple sectors hard in a matter of weeks. The defense industry, it ...
Postal Service Warns Of $22 Billion Hole From Coronavirus (From The Wall Street Journal)
The Wall Street Journal quoted Lexington Senior Fellow Paul Steidler in an article on coronavirus-related challenges facing the United States Postal Service (USPS), as well as related Congressional proposals and USPS assistance requests. As the House a ...
Power Industry Pleads For Priority COVID-19 Testing, PPE For Mission-Essential Workers (From POWER Magazine)
POWER Magazine, in an article about the threat that COVID-19 poses to electric grid reliability because highly-skilled professionals who must work close to another in control rooms could become ill, quoted Lexington Senior Fellow Paul Steidler. Steidle ...
House Democrats: USPS Faces Imminent Crisis Due To Coronavirus Outbreak (From Linn’s Stamp News)
Linn’s Stamp News, in a story about Congressional Democrats’ efforts to expand financial assistance for the United States Postal Service (USPS), cited Lexington Senior Fellow Paul Steidler’s recent article on that topic. Steidler argued against writing ...