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Michigan’s Teacher Bargaining Law: A Model for Illinois
Opinion -All across America, parents and local school boards are wrestling with a growing problem--the political and economic clout of teacher unions. One state--Michigan- -has finally done something about it. -
The ’94 Crime Bill: Shooting Hoops in the Dark
Opinion -The crime bill currently being debated in Congress, if passed, will go down in history as one of the most colossal failures ever to come from Capitol Hill. The bill is chock-full of political pork, repeats old mistakes, and will not prevent crime. -
Privacy Means Privacy from Everyone, Even the Police
Opinion -GOOD NEWS! The federal government respects and is working to protect your privacy . . . just as long as you don't want privacy from the government itself. -
The Science of Chlorine
Opinion -Thirteen years ago in Volume 1, 1981, this international journal started with an editorial that emphasized the need for a forum in which to review, analyze, and debate the scientific bases for regulatory decisions. -
Mr. President, Don’t Mess with Drug Pricing
Opinion -The Clinton Administration says it wants to drive down the cost of prescription drugs. This sounds like a fine idea, but the method being proposed could backfire on consumers. -
The Solution to Pollution is Eco-Sanity
Opinion -If the modern environmental movement in the United States was born in 1962 with the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, then the movement is now 32 years old. -
Don’t Federalize Criminal Law
Opinion -Different versions of President Clinton's omnibus crime bill passed the Senate and the House months ago. Today the proposals remain mired in a conference committee that has been unable to get agreement on several controversial provisions. -
Property Tax Relief Should Drive School Reform
Opinion -Assembly Speaker Walter Kunicki and his legislative colleagues are reaping praise these days for what some have portrayed as a bold stroke of innovative policy making. -
The Importance of Keeping Secrets
Opinion -Electronic communication is essential for global commerce. The telephone has become an indispensable business tool, as has the fax machine. Increasingly, important business is being conducted over computer networks. -
Health Care with an Iron Fist
Opinion -Those who support some form of national health system, from the President and Mrs. Clinton on down, enjoy stressing the "caring," "compassionate" nature of their proposals. -
Uncle Sam’s Health Club
Opinion -Many advocates of health care reform claim to be seeking a radical transformation of the U.S. health care system. Yet for the most part, their proposals call for nothing more than further government intervention in the health care industry. -
No. 62 Stadiums, Professional Sports, and Economic Development: Assessing The Reality
Publication -Policy Studies -About one century ago, professional sports became prominent in American public life. During its early yeras, the business of sports was primarily a private undertaking, financed with private money and played in private stadiums and arenas. -
School Choice: Church vs. State
Opinion -Nationwide pressure for school choice shows people now doubt that "public education" can happen only in schools owned and operated by the government. -
Competition, Not Money, Works Wonders in Education
Opinion -About three decades ago, the Johnson Administration commissioned the outstanding social scientist James S. Coleman to prove that America's public schools needed more tax dollars. -
Man Bites Dog; Property Taxes Refunded
Opinion -Big headlines are often made in small places. Crestwood, Illinois--population 12,000--has been in the middle of a quiet public policy revolution for two-and-a-half decades. -
No. 56 Entrepreneurial Independent Contractors vs. The State
Publication -Policy Studies -Entrepreneurship, independence, risk-taking, and freedom of contract were essential to America's development as the world's greatest economic power. Unfortunately, America appears to have lost its entrepreneurial "edge," and our economy shows it. -
No. 56 Entrepreneurial Independent Contractors vs. The State
Publication -Policy Studies -Entrepreneurship, independence, risk-taking, and freedom of contract were essential to America's development as the world's greatest economic power. Unfortunately, America appears to have lost its entrepreneurial "edge," and our economy shows it. -
No. 54 The Killing Can Be Stopped
Publication -Policy Studies -In 1992, the city of Chicago was reeling from the shooting death of Dantrell Davis, a 7-year-old boy caught in the crossfire of gangs battling for control of the city's notorious Cabrini Green public housing project. -
Dial 911 and Die
Opinion -Most Americans believe their local police have a duty to protect them against criminals. They are wrong. Some of them are dead wrong. -
No. 34 Partisan Gerrymandering: Harms and a New Solution
Publication -Policy Studies -In Part I of this Heartland Policy Study, the authors describe gerrymandering as a real, not illusory, danger to democratic practice -- the moral equivalent of stealing elections. -
No. 34 Partisan Gerrymandering: Harms and a New Solution
Publication -Policy Studies -In Part I of this Heartland Policy Study, the authors describe gerrymandering as a real, not illusory, danger to democratic practice -- the moral equivalent of stealing elections. -
No. 33 Should Governments Own Convention Centers?
Publication -Policy Studies -Taxpayer-financed convention centers have become increasingly popular with state and local government officials. Centers have been built or planned in most large cities and in many metropolitan suburbs and small cities and towns. -
No. 33 Should Governments Own Convention Centers? (summary html)
Publication -Policy Studies -Quick LinksPolicy Study (HTML)Policy Study (pdf)1. Government-subsidized convention centers are chronic money losers.Convention centers have become increasingly popular "investments" of state and local tax dollars. -
No. 32 Sports Stadiums As “Wise Investments”: An Evaluation
Publication -Policy Studies -By opening Union Grounds in Brooklyn on May 15, 1862, William Cammeyer established himself as the inventtor of the enclosed ball park-- the country's first baseball "stadium.
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