Colo. Dept. of Health Care Policy & Financing Recycles Child Poverty Statistics
If the goal is more government involvement, and one implicitly assumes that poor families cannot raise children properly, what better way to foster more government involvement than to produce and harp on data showing that child poverty is increasing? Continue reading
Rail Propaganda Is Not a Civil Right
Honolulu’s transit agency signed millions of dollars worth of contracts to Parsons Brinckerhoff and other consultants to spread propaganda in favor of its $5 billion rail project, which is a major issue in tomorrow’s Saturday’s mayoral election. When a member of Honolulu’s city council proposed to require the transit agency to terminate these contracts and […]
Yes, the Supreme Court’s Medicaid Decision was Good Contract Law
In NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare decision) a 7-2 majority voided that part of the law that required states to join the Medicaid expansion or lose all (not just a part) of their Medicaid funds. The court treated the federal-state Medicaid relationship as a contract. It essentially held that while the states had granted the […]
Thompson School Board Mulls Paying Directors to Cover Official Expenses
Here’s a good question I haven’t thought a lot about before: What kind of payments should school board directors be eligible to receive? I’m not talking about campaign contributions, which most districts unfortunately allow from groups that get dues collection services from government payroll systems. Special interests stopped Colorado from cleaning up that unethical cycle […]
Literacy Champion John Corcoran Shares Inspiring Tale of Triumph
On Thursday, August 2, the Independence Institute Freedom Embassy hosted its second Brown Bag Lunch event with a compelling personal story highlighting the need to improve literacy in Colorado and nationwide. Addressing an audience of more than 50 Colorado educators, officials and other interested citizens, John Corcoran, president and CEO of the John Corcoran Foundation, […]
Here and There
Atlanta wisely voted down a transportation tax. Some thought it spent too much on highways; some too much on transit. But wherever the money would be spent, why should transportation be paid for out of taxes when users will (and should) pay for it? Meanwhile, the race for mayor of Honolulu is heating up with […]
NY Times: “Too Few Doctors in Many U.S. Communities.” Blame policies favoring 3rd-party payment
R. Posner: “Third-party payment … systematically favors specialists over primary-care physicians, because specialists tend to provide discrete procedures, which are easier for the insurers, whether they are private insurance companies or government, to cost.” Continue reading
Fordham Reports Adds Popular Views to Debate on K-12 Budget Realities
I need a sidekick. No, I really, really do. Someone maybe a little naive and idealistic (even more than yours truly) who can feed me lines like these:
Sidekick: What are we going to do today, Eddie?
Me: Why, same thing we do every day: Blog about education, of course!
Sidekick: Oh, yeah. Of course. But what exactly […]
Federal judge bars enforcement of contraception mandate on Colorado Company
A senior U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Colorado issued an order forbidding the government from taking action against a company called Hercules Industries for refusing to provide contraceptive coverage to its employees. Continue reading
Amy Oliver Show: Dougco Union Took Two Sides of Reform
Senior education policy analyst Ben DeGrow reveals that the Doug Co teachers’ union privately coordinated with the ACLU to thwart educational reforms while publicly appearing to support them.
Emails Expose Dougco Union’s Voucher Opposition
In 2011, when the Douglas County Board of Education adopted a groundbreaking private school choice program, the few public comments made by local union officials expressed a measure of approval. However, two newly disclosed emails strongly suggest the same officials (paid at the time by taxpayer funds) were cheering for and coordinating with the ACLU, as the organization filed a lawsuit to shut down the program.
Colorado Health Benefits Exchange: Will Federal Rules Dominate?
Wisonsin Sec. of Health Dennis Smith on feds: “It’s not that they don’t have answers because they’re withholding it from us, it’s that they don’t have answers because they don’t have answers.” Continue reading
