In Denver on April 12? Bring Your Brown Bag Lunch to a “Teachers Matter” Event
If you live in the Denver area, please mark your calendars for Thursday, April 12, from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM. The Education Policy Center is hosting a brown bag lunch event with special guest speaker Dr. Marcus Winters. The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs assistant professor and Manhattan Institute senior fellow will be sharing the findings and recommendations from his new book Teachers Matter: Rethinking How Public Schools Identify, Reward, and Retain Great Educators. Follow the link to find out how to RSVP.
EPA bans construction of new coal plants
Today, the EPA announced new limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. For once, industry and environmental groups are in agreement: these new limits, they say, will effectively ban the construction of new coal plants. As Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, put it, the new limits mark the “end of an […]
Fracking: Chemicals, Cancer, and Relative Risks
The Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH) at the University of Colorado recently announced an article that will be published this month in the journal Science of the Total Environment. The article is based on a study of air pollution resulting from oil and gas development (including hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”) in Garfield County. According […]
Kopel on Obamacare & the Supreme Court
CO Independent reports: “The Independence Institute … has filed what it is calling two “potentially game changing” briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court. The court this week is hearing arguments on the constitutionality of the two-year-old law.” Continue reading
Kopel on Obamacare & the Supreme Court
CO Independent reports: “The Independence Institute … has filed what it is calling two “potentially game changing” briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court. The court this week is hearing arguments on the constitutionality of the two-year-old law.” Continue reading
Dreams of Trains
Speaking of dreams, some of the Antiplanner’s best dreams involve riding intercity trains, particularly riding in a dome car. I had my first ride in a dome car when I was a young boy and my family took the Northern Pacific North Coast Limited from Portland to Fargo, during which trip I spent most of […]
Late-Night Louisiana House Advances School Choice, Tenure Reform Bills
A lot of big people were paying attention to Louisiana this weekend because of some big presidential primary election there. But I’m more interested in Bayou State developments from the world of K-12 education. And they look pretty big from here.
Last Thursday night Republicans and Democrats in the Louisiana House of Representatives came together to […]
Semi-Driverless Cars Available Soon
Continental Automotive, a company that makes tires and other parts, has put together a semi-driverless car for Nevada. Under the rules in that state, which legalized driverless cars last year, a car must successfully go 10,000 miles without an accident before being marketed in the state. Continental’s car, which is based on a Volkswagen Passat, […]
Tuesday, March 27: Hands Off My Healthcare Rallies in Colorado
Rallies for the “Supreme Court to uphold Americans’ individual freedom and rule that the ObamaCare individual mandate is unconstitutional.” CO Springs, Denver, Grand Junction, Loveland. Continue reading
Harrison Teacher Performance Pay: Fordham’s Guide to Serious Reform
It’s been awhile since I’ve written about the performance pay plan in Colorado Springs’ Harrison School District, so you may not be up to speed on this cutting-edge innovation. At that time, six months ago, Harrison superintendent Mike Miles was sharing the district’s story around Ohio.
From those events has come at last an excellent Fordham […]
The Government as Public Trust—One Roman Emperor Showed It Is Feasible
“A public office is a public trust”—common saying, but do we really believe it? The American Founders did. Most of them agreed that public officials should be held at least to the standards imposed on private trustees and other fiduciaries—maybe even higher standards, since government officials can do more damage than private fiduciaries. (A fiduciary—from […]
The War on the Working Class
It is always a thrill for an author to receive the dust jacket for a new book, so I’ll indulge myself by presenting the complete jacket for the Antiplanner’s latest book, American Nightmare (click on the image for a full-sized, 1.5 megabyte, view). Here is a brief preview of the book, which is scheduled for […]
