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Gary St. Fleur Local taxes in Scranton, Penn., will be lower thanks to Gary St. Fleur, the city’s Libertarian mayoral candidate, who won a major court victory for the city’s taxpayers on Oct. 18. Lackawanna County Common Pleas Court Judge James Gibbons made a final ruling that the city of Scranton must follow the Act […]

  Our convention committee and staff are working hard in preparation for the 2018 Libertarian National Convention. It will be held in New Orleans from June 30 to July 3. Visit LibertarianConvention.org any time for the latest details. Super Early Bird prices are available from now through November 30. After that, prices will increase. So, […]

On Sept. 26, Republicans once again failed to keep their promise of the last seven years to repeal Obamacare. After three dissenting senators denied the Republicans a majority vote, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell canceled a vote on the bill. John McCain, breaking repeated promises to repeal Obamacare, outright complained that the bill did not […]

In the wake of the shocking and sad news about the mass murder that took place in Las Vegas on the evening of Oct. 1, Libertarian Party Chair Nicholas Sarwark offered his thoughts of empathy for the victims, as well as their family and friends: Eight years ago I had one of the happiest days […]

Less cronyism, more competition a win for both drivers and riders There are 40,000 Uber drivers in London who may soon lose their livelihood, and 3.5 million passengers who may lose their preferred method of transportation. A recent surprise move by the city’s taxicab regulator to revoke the license of the city’s only ride-sharing service […]

Until a waiver to the Jones Act was granted on the morning of Sept. 28, emergency hurricane relief to Puerto Rico had been artificially scarce and far more expensive than it needed to be, thanks in large part to that piece of protectionist shipping legislation left over from nearly a century ago. The Jones Act […]

Dear Libertarian, No matter what state you live in, please visit Cliff Hyra’s website and send him a note saying, “Thank you for running for governor as a Libertarian!” Click here to visit CliffHyra.com, where you’ll find his email address. Cliff Hyra’s campaign had to collect 10,000 valid signatures to get onto the ballot in […]

It turns out that President Donald Trump’s allegations of campaign-season “wiretapping” by the Barack Obama administration in 2016 are true. Sharyl Attkisson, the former CBS News investigative journalist, now host of Sinclair Television’s Full Measure, wrote in an op-ed for The Hill on Thursday that the FBI indeed wiretapped Trump’s then–campaign head, Paul Manafort, and […]