Ben DeGrow Takes Heat for Tackling $10 Billion Edujobs Bailout in Denver Post
My Education Policy Center friend Ben DeGrow made the opinion page of today’s Denver Post with a featured guest column titled “Education jobs bailout can’t be justified.” Find out why the $10 billion in federal funding is “excessive, shortsighted and fiscally irresponsible.”
Navigating health care bill’s small business tax credit
Do you own a small business, or are you involved in its benefits administration? The new health control bill (HR 3590) has a small business tax credit. But you get it if you satisfy certain criteria, which are a bit complicated to follow. Representative Dave Camp (R-Mich) of the House Ways and Means Committee has […]
Free Markets and Free Parking
The Antiplanner is disappointed that my distinguished colleague and fellow supporter of free markets, Tyler Cowen, has fallen for the “high-cost-of-free-parking” arguments of Donald Shoup. Shoup is an excellent scholar, but like many scholars, he has the parochial view that the city that he lives in is a representative example of what is happening everywhere […]
Sen. Keith King Chimes In on Colorado Adopting Common Core Standards
Not to spend too much time today dwelling in the past — it’s been 11 days now since the State Board regretfully adopted the Common Core standards — but I felt impelled to bring your attention to a guest column in today’s Denver Post. State senator Keith King, a charter school administrator and education expert, […]
More on Driverless Cars
Between hiking, cycling, and doing research on transportation and tax-increment financing, the Antiplanner has been too busy to write a decent column today. So I’ll just link to a couple of recent articles on one of my favorite topics, driverless or autonomous cars. First, the Kansas City Star notes that driverless cars are “just around […]
A Glimpse at New Schools: SkyView Academy (Highlands Ranch)
It’s been too long since I’ve taken a glimpse at a new Colorado school. But as the school year fast approaches for most students around the state, it’s definitely time to get back on track.
For the preschool-through-5th grade students at SkyView Academy in Highlands Ranch, a south Denver suburb, the inaugural school year doesn’t […]
Prepare for countless government health care bureaucracies
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said “we have to pass the bill [HR 3590] so you can find out what is in it.” Apparently passing the bill is not enough. We still don’t know what’s in it. As Politico reports:
Don’t bother trying to count up the number of agencies, boards and commissions created under the new […]
Spending Revolt Bus Tour – Denver
The Independence Institute will be participating in the Spending Revolt National Bus Tour and will tentatively be making its first stop in Colorado on Thursday, August 12 in Grand Junction. The red and blue emblazoned Spending Revolt Bus is bringing speakers, events, and a mobile activist hub to hundreds of locations nationwide to demonstrate how the […]
Financial Reform or Social Engineering?
Everyone agrees that, by lowering credit requirements, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac played an important role in the recent financial crisis. Now the Obama administration has promised to reform those “government-sponsored enterprises” (GSEs). However, as faithful Antiplanner ally Ron Utt warns, Obama’s idea of reform is more focused on changing American lifestyles than on preventing […]
CSAP Scores Get Little Attention, But Call For Expanding School Reform Approach
Yesterday morning the Colorado Department of Education unveiled the latest CSAP (state assessment) results. It’s hard to believe: in the past these events attracted a lot of fanfare. But for the most recent announcement, I missed the brass band and confetti. Maybe because there wasn’t any.
And that doesn’t take into account the fact the release […]
Colorado Amendment 63 (health care choice) not a “PR stunt”
Is the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative a “public relations stunt,” as a political science professor says? No, it’s not. Should a lawsuit against the mandatory insurance provision of HR 3590 succeed, the Feds will pressure states into enforcing it. And regardless of the lawsuit, state-level legislation have influenced the enforcement and reform […]
Congestion-Priced Parking
The Antiplanner has never considered parking “subsidies” to be the serious problem that Donald Shoup thinks they are. At the same time, there is nothing wrong with cities pricing curbside parking at market rates. Toward that end, San Francisco’s plan to install parking meters whose rates vary depending on demand sounds just fine. Unfortunately, the […]
