Flexibility in implementing health care “reform” limited to more authoritarian control
“HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has written that ObamaCare gives states “incredible freedom” to implement the law. We now know what she meant: states are free to coerce their residents even more than ObamaCare requires. What’s incredible is that she calls that freedom.” – Michael Cannon, Cato Institute
Reining in the Tax-Gobbling Menace
Rahm Emanuel, the newly elected fiscally conservative mayor of Chicago, wants to “overhaul” that city’s tax-increment financing program, which he says “morphed from a tool for blighted economic communities into an all-purpose vehicle.” TIF was first used in Chicago by Mayor Harold Washington in the 1980s, whose goal was to help blighted neighborhoods. Critics say […]
Falcon 49 Parents, Teachers, District Leaders Convene Around Innovation
Has it really been a whole month since I wrote about the Falcon 49 innovation plan — not to mention the Cookie Monster? Time flies. Next thing you know, I’ll blink and turn 6.
Anyway, over the weekend, we saw one of the first promising signs that the district’s innovative reform is gaining traction. The Colorado […]
DeGrow Talks Local School Choice with Suburban Republicans
On March 12, 2011, senior policy analyst Ben DeGrow was privileged to address more than 50 members and guests at the North Suburban Republican Forum in Thornton, Colo. After introducing some of the Education Policy Center’s media products and sharing some background on the history of school choice and on research supporting school choice, Ben […]
Colorado may cancel state-run “Prescription Drug Monitoring Program”
Do you find it kind of creepy that government agents have access to your prescription information? Every med you take, Colorado authorities could be watching you. But Colorado’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program may lose its tax funding.
Aid and Comfort to the Enemy
Later this week, the Antiplanner will review The Triumph of the City, a new book by Harvard economist Edward Glaeser. But because a crucial part of that book is based on a working paper written by Glaeser and UCLA economist Matthew Kahn, I first want to review that paper. Titled “The Greenness of Cities: Carbon […]
The U.S. Budget Situation is Worse than Even You Imagined
Last week, Senator John Kerry (D.-Mass) was unhappy with a Republican plan to cut as much as $61 billion out of the federal budget. “I think it’s an ideological, extremist, reckless statement,” Kerry said of the plan. I hadn’t kept up on all the numbers recently, so I took a look at President Obama’s 2012 […]
Get your ObamaCare updates from Cato Institute
The latest Healthy Competition newsletter from the Cato Institute summarizes the latest studies, op-eds and blog posts from Cato scholars about ObamaCare. The big picture, lawsuits, and effect on states.
Flattered by Matthew Tabor After a Great Edublogging Podcast: Check It Out!
It has been said that flattery will get you nowhere. I don’t know who said that, but it wasn’t a 5-year-old education blogger and his name wasn’t Eddie. My Education Policy Center friend Ben DeGrow hosted a podcast with prolific education blogger and new media entrepreneur Matthew Tabor from Education Debate at Online Schools. After […]
In 2011, the New Energy Economy Will Cost Coloradans…
For all the ink that Colorado’s public officials have spilled on the subject of the New Energy Economy, there’s been little discussion of its cost. Ex-Governor Bill Ritter, for example, recently took to the pages of the New York Times to brag about his energy legacy. While he made an unsubstantiated claim about creating “thousands […]
It’s Still Dead
Sometimes I feel like Chevy Chase proclaiming, week after week, that Franco, by which I mean Florida’s high-speed rail, is still dead. Yet people are still trying to revive Florida’s high-speed boondoggle. The latest is a just-released ridership projection showing that the rail line, if built, would earn an operating profit as soon as it […]
Debating Education Reform Online
Matthew Tabor of Education Debate at Online Schools discusses the importance of informed voices getting involved in the online education reform discussion. A prolific commentator and new media entrepreneur, Tabor explores the current terrain of the education blogosphere and highlights a current debate that exemplifies the effectiveness of the medium.
