Inquiring Minds: Is Major Education Reform About Ready to Give Iowa a Try?
In this musical play my grandma told me about, called The Music Man, there’s a song that strongly suggests people from Iowa are stubborn, and (kinda tongue-in-cheek) tells listeners that “you really ought to give Iowa a try.” Back in January, my Education Policy Center friend Ben DeGrow noted how one-time Colorado education innovator Jason […]
Why You Don’t Have Real Health Insurance
“[H]ave you ever seen a commercial for health insurance that focused on why you actually need health insurance? That is, have you ever seen a health insurance commercial that told you that you need a really good insurer in case you get cancer, heart disease, AIDS, etc.?” John Goodman answers. Continue reading
Skeptical of the Big Green Empire
Headline: “Golden’s NREL to shed more than 10 percent of workforce” Denver Post, October 3, 2011 Well maybe. Read my take on the rest of the story. Golden’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) dreams of a global green empire may have to be scaled back but just a wee bit. According to the Denver Post‘s […]
Suttons Bay Joins Harrison with More NFL-Like Teacher Pay Innovations
Last week I shared with you an update about the Harrison School District’s forward-thinking teacher compensation system. Led by superintendent Mike Miles, the Colorado Springs-area district is one of the few in the state, or even in the nation, to completely discard the old salary schedule and its rigid payment of teachers based on years […]
Guy w/o health plan: Should “society should just let him die?”
W/o government mandates, will “society” let someone die? The real question is “What are YOU going to do about it?” Treating “society” as some super-entity above and beyond the individuals who compose it causes two problems. Continue reading
Music City Star Continues to Bilk Taxpayers
Nashville’s commuter train, the Music City Star, is “really taking off,” at least according to an op ed in the Tennessean written by the transit agency CEO, Paul Ballard. Actually, the best that can be said for the train is that Ballard hasn’t been fired over it yet. The Music City Ripoff. Starting the commuter […]
Salazar approved solar project a bust
Almost a year ago to the day the Department of Interior issued a press release boasting that Secretary Ken Salazar had “approved the first large-scale solar energy plants ever to be built on public lands.” As with Obama administration renewable energy initiatives, there were the promises of massive amounts of electrical power and “green jobs.” […]
Obama Jobs Bill Defies Both the Constitution and the Supreme Court
A section located deep in President Obama’s proposed “American Jobs Act” would suspend part of the U.S. Constitution. The proposed law would violate not only the Constitution’s actual meaning, but even the watered-down version of the Constitution now applied by the U.S. Supreme Court. You might be surprised to learn that the Obama bill seeks […]
