Independence Institute

Reallocating Florida’s HSR Grant 0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- March 16, 2011
When Ohio and Wisconsin elected governors who promised to cancel those states’ high-speed rail projects, Secretary of Immobility Ray LaHood redistributed the federal grants to those projects to other states (including $342 million to Florida) before the new governors even took office. Now that Florida has also cancelled its high-speed rail project, LaHood is being […]
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Sad and Shameful: Colo. House Education Committee Kills “Parent Trigger” Bill 0
- EDUCATION - Blogs
- March 15, 2011
Yesterday was a BAD day to behold in Colorado’s House Education Committee. The committee voted to kill House Bill 1270, a piece of legislation that would have introduced the “parent trigger” concept to Colorado. HB 1270 would have emp…
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Reining in the Tax-Gobbling Menace 0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- March 15, 2011
Rahm Emanuel, the newly elected fiscally conservative mayor of Chicago, wants to “overhaul” that city’s tax-increment financing program, which he says “morphed from a tool for blighted economic communities into an all-purpose vehicle.” TIF was first used in Chicago by Mayor Harold Washington in the 1980s, whose goal was to help blighted neighborhoods. Critics say […]
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Aid and Comfort to the Enemy 0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- March 14, 2011
Later this week, the Antiplanner will review The Triumph of the City, a new book by Harvard economist Edward Glaeser. But because a crucial part of that book is based on a working paper written by Glaeser and UCLA economist Matthew Kahn, I first want to review that paper. Titled “The Greenness of Cities: Carbon […]
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