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A foundation led by the owner of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team and the Charles Koch Foundation have pledged $6 million to create a new center that will study enterprise and markets at the University of Maryland's business school.

The center will be dubbed the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets after a $5 million donation by Ed Snider, a Maryland alumni and chairman of Comcast-Spectacor, which owns the Flyers.

With another $1 million from the Koch Foundation, the university can hire three professors and a managing director, in addition to support staff, five doctoral candidates and four post-doctoral fellows.

Koch and his brother David run Koch Industries, an oil, gas, and chemical conglomerate that is the country's second-largest privately held company.

The Koch brothers are known for financially backing libertarian and free-market organizations, supporting conservative political causes, and helping to found other economic and policy think tanks like the conservative Cato Institute.

Charles Koch also is a board member at the George Mason University's Mercatus Center, a market-oriented think tank that some left-leaning critics argue is partisan and favors viewpoints held by the Kochs. The brothers have drawn criticism for similar donations to other universities.

University of Maryland officials said the center will conduct its hiring and research independently of the donors. The $5 million gift from the Snider Foundation is the second-largest in the business school's history after the $15 million naming grant from Robert H. Smith in 1997.

The center will draw on the expertise of academics outside of the business school and study "business as transactions among people within firms and markets" and "the history and philosophy of enterprise, markets and institutions," said Alexander Triantis, dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Snider, who recently recovered from cancer, also is known for his libertarian views. He helped found the Ayn Rand Institute and was executive producer of the film "Atlas Shrugged: Part I," based on one of the libertarian author's books.

cwells@baltsun.com

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By Nick Niedzwiadek Published 21 hours ago

Its tough running as a Libertarian political candidate in the United States.

The plurality system hurts the chances of third-party candidates, and they rarely receive the financial support major parties enjoy.

That is why it is surprising to see ads popping up on Twitter and other outlets supporting North Carolinas Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate, Sean Haugh.

The American Futures Fund, a conservative advocacy group,started running $225,000 worth of ads targeting younger voters with blunt messaging, including Get Haugh, get high and More weed, less war.

The ads are noticeably campy, with young people holding the cutout signs and cheesy camera work throughout.

The ads came as a surprise to Haugh, who has spent most of his time campaigning on YouTube instead of TV or print.

Though Haugh clearly welcomes more awareness of his Libertarian platform, the ads appear to have an ulterior motive, as some of the group's other spots are critical of Sen. Kay Hagan, yet none mention Republican candidate Thom Tillis.

In one ad, a woman rhetorically asks, Does Kay Hagan support progressive values? Others paint Hagan as pro-war and out of touch.

The reason these ads are getting a cynical glace from observers is because Tilliss positions on military use is also different from Haughs. Tillis hasn't taken a stance on marijuana legalization.

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Brooklyn, New York (PRWEB) October 27, 2014

Four candidates for Governor of New York debated Wednesday night in Buffalo. The candidates included Republican Rob Astorino , incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo, Green Howie Hawkins and Libertarian Michael McDermott.

"I rest my case" said McDermott, referring to the Democrat and Republican opening statements, "When you listen to my opponents you don't know who to believe".

McDermott continued, The Democrats and Republicans are the problem. The Libertarian platform is about the people. Its about the Constitution its about doing whats right and whats fair We have to reduce taxes and we have to get government down to within its Constitutional size.

On the issues, the major party candidates seemed to be shifting toward traditional Libertarian positions, including tax reductions, marriage equality and medical marijuana which have long been fundamental parts of the Libertarian platform.

McDermott urged voters to listen to the candidates not as Democrats and Republicans but rather as New Yorkers. The Democrats and Republicans are the problem. We have to get the people back into power. Vote Libertarian this one time.

Libertarians contend that the majority of people support both economic freedom and personal freedom and that limiting the choice to Democrats and Republicans forces voters to choose the candidate they dislike least. A Gallup poll indicates that 42% of Americans self-identify as political independents, far more than Democrats (31%) or Republicans (25%).

According to a George Mason University analysis New York ranked dead last in voter turnout in the 2010 gubernatorial election at just 32% of eligible voters. Absence of choices that reflect their views may be the cause of growing voter disengagement.

Third parties face an uphill battle. Under New York State election law, once a candidate for Governor receives 50,000 votes, any future candidates from that party face much less stringent requirements in order to appear on the ballot.

Otherwise, depending on the office, candidates must collect thousands of signatures.

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