Mr. Bastardi graduated from Pennsylvania State University and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Meteorology. He is a Policy Advisor to The Heartland Institute.

Heartland Video Systems, a video systems integration and consulting firm, has hired Joe Turbolski as the new marketing manager and sales. In his new role at HVS, he will be focused on sales ...

Joe Armendariz is the director of political and government ... chairman for the California Center for Public Policy since 2014. Armendariz joined the Heartland Institute Board of Directors in 2023.

Philip Morris commissioned Heartland to write and distribute reports. A former president of the group, Joe Bast, once claimed that “moderate” smoking doesn’t raise lung cancer risks ...