Opinion
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November Ballot Initiatives Showdown Between California Taxers, Taxpayers
Opinion -No foe California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has had to face in his movies has proved as tough to conquer as the real-life state budget. -
TABORs Receive New Attention
Opinion -This year's Reason privatization report includes a section on TABORs--Taxpayers' Bills of Rights--which limit taxes and spending. As the first state to fully enact a modern TABOR 13 years ago, Colorado is the poster child for successful implementation. -
$246 Billion Tobacco Settlement Faces Constitutional Challenge
Opinion -The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has launched a legal challenge to the constitutionality of the multi-state tobacco settlement of 1998. -
A Rolling Stone and His Love of Trees
Opinion -Forever Green: The History and Hope of the American Forest By Chuck Leavell and Mary Welch Published by Evergreen Arts, April 2004 Distributed by Mercer University Press http://www.mupress.org/webpages/books/leavell.html $24. -
Advisory Group Identifies Medicaid Cuts
Opinion -The federal government's Medicaid Advisory Commission, charged with identifying reforms necessary to stabilize and strengthen Medicaid, voted in August on six recommendations designed to save more than $10 billion over the next five years in federal -
Alternative Principal Programs Gain Ground
Opinion -This summer, former Massachusetts state legislator Mark Roosevelt got a new job in the private sector. -
Alternative Programs Commended
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Education in August commended six alternative administration programs for their effectiveness, in the report Innovations in Education: Innovative Pathways to School Leadership. -
Big Spending Ignites Revolt in Palm Beach
Opinion -Until its Election Day 2000 debacle with butterfly ballots and hanging chads, Florida's ritzy Palm Beach County was best known nationally as a winter playground for the rich and famous. -
Bill Would Divide Hawaii by Race, Dole Out Entitlements
Opinion -Legislation to divide Hawaii along racial lines and hand out race-based government benefits to as much as 20 percent of the state's population is moving through Congress, having attracted almost no attention outside the state, despite its implications. -
County Chairman Sees Chance to ‘Wipe the Slate Clean’
Opinion -The Sandy Springs revolt has spawned other city movements in Fulton County. County Chairman Karen Handel said two other unincorporated areas in North Fulton County are conducting incorporation studies. The county is also studying itself. -
Democrats Stepping Up to Protect Private Property
Opinion -Democratic lawmakers across the country are demonstrating an often-overlooked commitment to protecting private property rights in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Kelo v. City of New London. -
‘Direct Instruction’ Narrows Wisconsin’s Achievement Gap
Opinion -A new report shows that "direct instruction" (DI), a teaching method relying heavily on phonics and repetition, has helped raise reading and math scores, particularly among minority and low-income students, in Milwaukee's public schools. -
Early Intervention Program Aims to Keep Kids out of Special Ed
Opinion -A Colorado Springs, Colorado school district is implementing a pilot program to address one of the greatest challenges classroom teachers face: meeting struggling students' needs as soon as they appear. -
Florida’s Voluntary Pre-K Program Gives Parents New Options
Opinion -One of the nation's largest early-learning school choice initiatives kicked off August 15 when more than 90,000 four-year-olds headed to class in Florida's Voluntary Prekindergarten Program. -
Grand Rapids School Board Privatizes Busing
Opinion -When students in Grand Rapids, Michigan boarded their school buses for the start of this school year, they probably did not know it was the first of many rides that would save the school system an estimated $18 million over the next five years. -
How to Reduce the Risk of Nutritional Diseases
Opinion -The United States is experiencing an epidemic of diseases related to poor nutrition. Rates of heart disease, stroke, type-2 diabetes, and obesity are all rising rapidly. -
Illinois Schools’ Spending Gap No Mystery
Opinion -More than 800 separate school districts and varying costs of living across the state of Illinois are two of the factors contributing to a per-pupil spending gap of more than $19,000 between the costliest and least-expensive school districts in the state, -
In the News
Opinion -CPUC Wants ‘Naked’ DSL The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has called for incumbents to offer customers the option of stand-alone, or “naked” DSL apart from conventional voice service. -
Lomborg, Pope Debate the Future of Global Environmental Policy
Opinion -Björn Lomborg and Carl Pope, two leading commentators on environment policy, recently debated the future of environmental activism in the July/August issue of Foreign Policy. -
New Media Transforms the Ownership Debate
Opinion -On June 13, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the predominant case on media ownership, Prometheus Radio v. FCC, which had been sent up from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals last summer. -
Pension Investment Fees Get Close Look, Calls for Reform
Opinion -Questionable fees amounting to millions of dollars that have been paid to middlemen for the placement of Illinois' government employee pension investments have resulted in subpoenas from federal investigators and calls to end the practice. -
Pie in the Sky?
Opinion -Policy Standards for bidders as set forth by the City of San Francisco for its municipal wireless network. The Network must provide universal service for both indoor and outdoor usage. -
Public School Choice Grows in Massachusetts
Opinion -An obscure Massachusetts law passed in 1991 enabling students to attend public schools outside the district designated for them by the government is beginning to force public schools across the Bay State to fight with each other for enrollment. -
Should Have Hedged
Opinion -Dear Editor: High oil and gas prices have created a great opportunity for a lot of politicians. A windfall profits tax on U.S. integrated oil companies has been proposed with the proceeds going to favored political constituencies.
