Colorado Amendment 63: refuting the “cost-shift” & other flawed opposition
Boulder Daily Camera: Health care needs real reform, but mandatory insurance does the opposite by entrenching the worst of current policies. It bans affordable insurance, increases costs, and further extends insurers’ government-granted privileges at patients’ expense.
Report from Japan
On Monday, the Antiplanner rode a high-speed train from Tokyo to Nagano, probably the most expensive high-speed rail route in the world. According to one source, it cost more than half a billion dollars per mile in 1997 dollars, no doubt because much of the route is in tunnels. The train I was on was […]
The Ivory Tower May Be Cracking, But Education Professors Have a Ways to Go
I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about teachers and policies related to them. But what about those who teach teachers — at least those teachers who receive traditional certification from postsecondary schools of education?
Last week the Fordham Institute released the results of a survey of more than 700 education professors “to […]
Morgan Carroll wants to force insurers to sell child-only policies
Update to CO insurers stop selling child-only policies – blame health control bill: The Denver Business Journal reports: State Sen. Morgan Carroll is warning insurers in Colorado to return to the child-only individual health care market or face a “very good” chance she or another Democrat will introduce legislation come January compelling them to do […]
How to Fool Transit Riders
Recently, FTA Administrator Peter Rogoff told transit managers, “you can entice even diehard rail riders onto a bus, if you call it a ‘special’ bus and just paint it a different color than the rest of the fleet.” Eugene, Oregon’s Lane Transit District (LTD) proved this with its EMX bus-rapid transit line. When this line […]
Many Kids Are Waiting for Superman, But Some Have Found Their Rocketship
We’re getting closer to that Waiting for Superman Colorado premiere… less than two weeks! While we know that a school isn’t necessarily better because it’s a charter school, the coming of the movie reminds us there are some innovative charter operators attaining remarkable results.
One of the charter networks deserving positive attention is Rocketship Education, the […]
Pro-Freedom Candidates Passing Up Candidate Forums? Good!!!
We’ll drop the constitutional-wonk stuff this week, and talk some practical politics. Our local paper has a story about how the Boulder, Colorado League of Women Voters had to cancel a candidate forum because local Republican candidates decided to direct their attentions elsewhere. The story has some generalized comment about how GOP candidates are allegedly […]
P.J. O’Rourke Book Signing
View the event photos P.J. O’Rourke RSVP Make a tax-deductible contribution Join Us For A Booking Signing With P.J. O’Rourke Don’t Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards Monday, October 4, 2010 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Jackson’s All-American Sports Grill 1520 20th Street, Denver Map RSVP REQUIRED to mary@i2i.org Books will be available for purchase […]
Amendment 63 protects right to spend money on your own medical care
Writes Linda Gorman in the Salida Mountain Mail: Passing Amendment 63 in November would ensure that you will have the right to use your own money to pay for the medical care that you think you need. If you live in Colorado you need this protection, and you need it now. Colorado’s health agencies plan […]
Report from Seoul
Even smart-growth planners believe, or say they believe, that Le Corbusier‘s Radiant City would be an awful place to live. If you agree, then Seoul is a scary place, as much of it consists of hundreds of high-rise apartment blocks. Seoul occupies less than 2 percent of Korea’s land area but contains 40 percent of […]
Stand up to D.C. on health care choice
Check out the op-ed by Linda Gorman and Jon Caldara in Sunday’s Denver Post. It begins: Stop D.C. Yes on 63. Washington went too far when it passed health care reform this year. While the voters of Colorado can’t change federal law, we can amend Colorado’s constitutional Bill of Rights to guarantee a right to […]
After K-12 Stimulus Funding, Are Colorado Schools Ready to Tighten Belts?
It’s been a long time since I’ve written about the federal government’s “magical money tree.” Funny how we forget so quickly about $100 billion of borrowed taxpayer funds shipped around the country to prop up the K-12 status quo. Or have we forgotten?
Rich Lowry at National Review writes a column today that takes a big-picture […]
