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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Heritage Clones in the Heartland By Lawrence Soley Conservative think tanks patterned after the highly successful Washington, D.C.-based American Enterprise Institute (1996 revenues: $16.5 million) and Heritage Foundation (1996 revenues: $28.7 million) opened up around the United States during the 1980s and early 1990s almost as quickly as Scholotzky's Delis. Like Scholotzky's, they have now reached saturation. Most states have one, some have several. For example, Colorado has the Center for the New West and the Independence Institute; Illinois has the Rockford Institute and the Heartland Institute; and New York has the Manhattan Institute and the Empire Foundation for Policy Research. Similar think tanks can be found in the South (e.g., Georgia Public Policy Foundation and John Locke Foundation in North Carolina), Northeast (e.g., Yankee Institute for Public Policy Studies in Connecticut and the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research in Massachusetts), Northwest (e.g., Seattle's Washington Institute for Policy Studies and Portland's Cascade Policy Research Institute), Great Lakes Region (e.g., Wisconsin Policy Research Institute and Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan), and Southwest (e.g., New Mexico Foundation for Economic Research and Arizona's Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research). Although there are a few left-of-center think tanks around the United States, these tend to be underfunded and understaffed, just as the few left-of-center Washington, D.C. think tanks are. For example, the D.C.--based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) had revenues of $654,289 in 1996, or 2.3 percent of Heritage's. (The Heritage Foundation's president, Edwin J. Feulner, received $406,052 in salary and another $55,788 in benefits that year--70 percent of IPS's total budget!) To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1430 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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