OPINION

Republican Michigan State Representative Michele Hoitenga took $6,000 from telecommunications industry lobbyists. She’s now the sole sponsor of a bill that would outright ban municipal broadband. Huge parts of the state are “being left behind,” said one activist.

These three things should be considered when focusing in on what millennials value even more than price.

Relying on the libertarian billionaires’ support is nothing new for the vice president. Now Mike Pence and the Koch brothers are working together to pass tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

The controversies around DA Cyrus Vance Jr. highlighted the fact that it's currently legal in New York for defense attorneys to donate to the campaigns of district attorneys prosecuting their clients.

Underwriters and insurers may profit from a disconnect between the perceived risk of mass violence like the Las Vegas shooting and the actual probability of such attacks.

In advance of a possible 2020 White House run, Sen. Bernie Sanders seems determined to fix a problem that may have cost him the 2016 Democratic nomination.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s calendar highlights the influence wielded by top GOP donors on the Trump administration.

The New York Constitution gives the governor the authority to remove a district attorney at any time.

There is a way to protect individuals and give them ownership of their personal data.

The Manhattan DA later overruled his prosecutors and declined to file charges against Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, Jr. and others involved in the controversial Trump SoHo project.

Even as Gov. Martinez backed legislation to remove elected officials from the state investment council, a continuing IBT investigation found that four additional investment managers made donations to the governor, the RGA and other affiliated campaign groups.

Clayman & Rosenberg and its partners gave more than $42,000 in campaign cash to Cyrus Vance, Jr. Several of the firm's clients with cases in front of the Manhattan DA's office avoided prison.

David Boies made a $10,000 donation to the campaign coffers of Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance, Jr. right after Vance's office declined to pursue sexual assault charges against Weinstein.

Study: While states debate how to reduce the costs of their public pension benefits, those same governments have awarded local companies with tax subsidies and credits, or allowed them to dodge tax payments by taking advantage of loopholes.

After the Las Vegas massacre, a Columbine victim's father asks why alarms aren't sounded about shooters before they act.

“Don’t do it,” says a department official in the video. Before former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned, his office sent staff an urgent mandate on spotting and outing potential leakers.

Federal officials, gaming operators and security experts saw Las Vegas as vulnerable to a mass shooting. Mandalay Bay's parent company even warned investors that “certain acts could expose us to substantial uninsured losses.”

In the years before Las Vegas saw the worst mass shooting in American history, Democratic Sen. Reid and Republican Gov. Sandoval played pivotal roles in stopping the government from regulating assault weapons.

A bill before Congress would make silencers easier to purchase, even as critics warn that it could make mass shootings more lethal. The largest manufacturer of silencers in the U.S. donated heavily to the Republican Party in 2016.

Shares of gun manufacturers have been down in 2017. In the hours after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, that started to change.

Reports from the first half of 2017 show corporations and special-interest groups weighing in on key provisions of Trump’s new tax framework.

Blockchain makes it possible to provide fully-automated payouts to passengers in case of flight delays.

New Mexico taxpayers have forked over millions of dollars to private equity and hedge fund managers in the past five years, but the state refuses to disclose the full amount it has paid.

Likening today’s conservatives to British loyalists, the NBA legend described President Trump as “a rich, entitled white man who thinks only he should be allowed to speak freely.”

A year and a half after the Panama Papers leak hit headlines across the globe, the country's finance minister sat down with IBT to discuss what his department has been doing since then to clean up Panama's reputation on the world stage and keep the use of secretive tax havens in check.

Targeted Victory, a Washington D.C. communications firm founded by a former digital strategist for Mitt Romney, is raking in money from Saudi Arabia to write a smattering of paid social media content.

As Amazon awaits bids from cities and states hoping to house its new headquarters — and lavish the company with subsidies and tax credits — Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper hired the e-commerce giant's lobbyist.

Panamanian Finance Minister Dulcidio De La Guardia said the country's president was free of conflict of interest as his administration prosecuted the firm at the heart of the Panama Papers, despite that one of the firm's founders is the president's former adviser and friend.

Following IBT/MapLight’s report, New Mexico’s Democratic U.S. senator and GOP Land Commissioner sound alarm about corruption.