Don’t Bet Against Nevada, Gov. Sandoval Breaking Through on School Choice
Occasionally I like to take a peek around at other states and see if there’s anything Colorado can glean from them, or vice versa, or just to get a bigger picture of the education reform debate. Today let’s look west at Nevada. Why? Because of the new School Reform News story penned — er, keyboarded? […]
Coulson Daily Caller Column References Center Research Data in Post-103 Diagnosis
On Thursday, November 10, the Daily Caller published a column by Andrew Coulson, director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom, in which he calls for the dramatic cost-saving reform of tuition tax credits in the wake of the defeat of Colorado’s tax-hiking Proposition 103. The commentary includes a gracious hat tip to the […]
NFIB: Health Insurance Tax tax to cost Colorado 2,500 jobs
The National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation Wednesday released its national study highlighting the private-sector job loss it says will result from the Health Insurance Tax, including 2,500 jobs Colorado by 2021 – 1,300 of them in small businesses. Continue reading
Brown’s Folly
Jerry Brown didn’t think up the idea of a California high-speed rail line, but he endorsed it last week despite the estimated doubling of its price tag. Brown has recommended that the legislature release funds so construction can begin in 2012. “Lincoln built the transcontinental railroad during the Civil War, and we built the Golden […]
Get rid of renewable mandates and solar subsidies
This column appeared originally on Townhall.com End stupid energy policy: Get rid of solar subsidies and renewable mandates By Amy Oliver Cooke and Michael Sandoval If lawmakers really cared about consumers, they would ditch expensive renewable energy mandates that require a subsidized market for resources that are not practical on a large scale. It’s a […]
What A Little-Known Colonial Pamphlet Tells Us About the Constitution
Between 1764 and the Declaration of Independence in 1776 Americans produced a rich series of pamphlets and resolutions listing their grievances against the central government of the British Empire. As I have pointed out before, reading those pamphlets is very helpful in understanding what the Constitution really means. And ignorance of them contributes to common […]
Everybody Wants a Streetcar
The streetcar craze is just insane. Los Angeles wants one; so does San Antonio. It was bad enough when cities all over the country were building light rail, an expensive, obsolete form of transportation that at least has the virtue of providing slightly better service than the local buses it usually replaced. But streetcars have […]
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Newsletter November 10 2011
Plan Early for Important Digital Learning Day: February 1, 2012, is Coming
Today is a great opportunity to mark your calendar for Wednesday, February 1, 2012, the first-ever Digital Learning Day, “a year-long campaign to celebrate bold, creative innovative teachers in classrooms across this nation.” Digital learning has real power to help transform our state’s and nation’s education system into a more nimble, productive, effective, and student-centered enterprise. Progress requires changing policies designed for the 20th century factory age, which also means less regulation and more parental choice.
Employer mandate for “affordable coverage” creates confusing incentives for employers, employees
If [an employer] does offer health insurance, the worker with dependents will prefer that the coverage is unaffordable. That’s not a typo — if the coverage is unaffordable, then the employee will be able to buy health insurance for his family on the exchange. Continue reading
Meeting with a Regional Planner
An Aussie who calls himself the Unconventional Economist, also known as Leith van Onselen, created and posted this little cartoon about dealing with regional planners. He based much of it on a script by another blogger named Ross Elliot. Admittedly, some of the statements made by the planner in the animation are a bit far […]
Colorado Election Upholds Fiscal Responsibility, Boosts K-12 Reform
Host Amy Oliver talks with senior policy analyst Ben DeGrow about the resounding defeat of the Proposition 103 state tax hike, the record loss of numerous school district tax and debt measures, and some key local board of education electoral victories for reformers. Special attention is given to Douglas County, where the winning sweep of pro-voucher board candidates coincides with the release of an excellent 8-minute Choice Media TV feature video on the groundbreaking local program.
