Building Micro-Homes in Portland
Okay, it is one thing for someone who wants to live within a block of Central Park to pay $700 a month for a 90-square-foot “apartment.” But now a major homebuilder, D.R. Horton, is building 364- to 687-square-foot micro-homes in Portland. “You can’t just keep going farther from the city and acquiring farm land,” says […]
Mike Rosen Show Features Discussion of Open Union Negotiations in Jeffco
Senior policy analyst Ben DeGrow joined Jefferson County Board of Education director Laura Boggs as guests on 850 KOA’s Mike Rosen Show for a full hour to discuss the controversy over open union negotiations in Colorado’s largest school district. Go here to listen to a podcast of the 11 AM hour from the May 4 […]
Innosight Blended Learning Encyclopedia a True Wealth of Innovative Information
What can I say but, “Wow?” (I know, bad rhetorical question, because here goes….) All you education transformers out there should be aware of a new Innosight Institute report by Heather Staker titled The rise of K-12 blended learning: Profiles of emerging models. Doesn’t sound that spectacularly exciting, I know, unless you have joined little […]
Colorado SB 11-200, State Insurance Exchanges: The Case against Implementation
Establishing state-level government-run insurance exchanges “offers no protection against future decisions by the federal bureaucracy, collaborates with an unconstitutional framework, and risks undercutting court cases across the country.”
Ending the Mortgage Interest Deduction
Realtors and home builders strongly defend the mortgage interest deduction as a way of increasing homeownership, which is supposed to be a good thing. But does it really work that well? Edward Glaeser doesn’t think so. While he agrees that there are social benefits to increasing homeownership, he notes that the mortgage-interest deduction mainly benefits […]
Five-Year-Old ProComp Competes for Reform Attention, Awaits Final Evaluation
Denver’s Professional Compensation System for Teachers has received a great deal of attention through the years from those interested in education policy and reform. (Just Google “ProComp” if you want to see what I mean.) So it’s certainly no surprise to see the Denver Public Schools celebrate ProComp’s fifth birthday. Somehow, ProComp has caught up […]
Hey, Paul Krugman, patients should be consumers, not helpless pawns in an authoritarian politically-controlled health care system you support
Nobel-prize winner & New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman is demonstrates how little he knows about health care policy. Let me count the ways.
Colorado SB 11-200: Feds will control the insurance exchange
The feds have broad authority over how state legislatures operate nominally “state-run” health insurance exchanges. The exchanges have “police” functions helping the IRS punish the uninsured. They also expand gov’t dependency & power.
Whitest City Gets Whiter
Portland should change its motto from “the city that works” to “the city that’s white.” Already the whitest big city in America in 2000, the city has gotten whiter still as poor people have been pushed from the inner city into the suburbs, as shown in this stunning series of maps. The Antiplanner has covered […]
Students Now Can Apply for DougCo Choice Scholarships, Final School List TBD
Today is an important day for families interested in Douglas County School District’s brand new, groundbreaking Choice Scholarship Program. Student applications are now available. Completed forms are available either online or as a hard copy to download and print. The district will accept application forms through next Thursday, May 12, at 5 PM. To be eligible students must be Douglas County residents and currently attend a DCSD school since at least last August.
Rep. Shawn Mitchell: No on SB 200: Resist federal control
Gov’t-run “exchanges are cogs in the machinery of the federal bill. SB 200 creates increased bureaucracy & the framework for subsidies — costs for most of us — & mandates, while conveniently concentrating the action in a perfect shooting gallery for the same special interests & connected players that drag the current system.” Shawn Mitchell in the Denver Post.
