Innovation Alert: Glenwood Springs Schools and Students “Moving On” Up?
I’ve been to Glenwood Springs before with my parents. It’s a neat place, with the caves and the rides and, of course, the hot springs. But this has got to be the first time I’ve blogged about it here. The local Post Independent reports that the Roaring Fork School District looks like they are about […]
Authorities won’t enforce Medicare Advantage restrictions until after election
“The White House has apparently decided that it won’t enforce the unpopular parts of its health-care plan until after the 2012 election. The latest evidence is its decision not to slash Medicare Advantage, the program that Democrats hate because it lets seniors choose private insurance options” – WSJ
South Island Tragedies
In 2007, an American scholar teaching in Christchurch uncovered a public-land scandal: New Zealand was giving grazing lands to local farmers at prices that were well below market. In fact, the government often paid farmers to take land that they sometimes turned around and sold at a huge profit. The scholar was Ann Brower, who […]
Missing Comments
Some people have noticed that some of the comments people made on Wednesday’s post are missing. Apparently, the server went down and my ISP lost the last dozen or so comments. It also lost this morning’s post. I was able to recreate this morning’s post, but not the comments. Feel free to remake the comments […]
Would Merit Pay Work Better If More Schools Didn’t See It Like Brussel Sprouts?
It’s Friday, so allow me to tease you a bit. Na na nanny boo boo. No, not like that. I mean “tease,” as in the broadcast media lingo for giving you just a little bit of info and a heads-up, while making you wait for the real deal.
But first, my own curiosity was drawn […]
Giving and Taking Away
When Wisconsin and Ohio elected governors who promised to cancel high-speed rail, Secretary LaHood took their money away before the governors-elect even took office. But when Florida’s governor cancelled that state’s high-speed rail, LaHood gave local governments a week to see if they could form a consortium able to take on the project. Why didn’t […]
New paper summarizes rules for amending the Constitution
Our sister institution, The Goldwater Institute in Phoenix, Arizona has just published my paper, Amending the Constitution by Convention: Practical Guidance for Citizens and Policymakers. Using my prior research and new findings, it summarizes the rules you should use in drafting Article V applications, answering objections, heading off congressional interference, and so forth. As I’ve […]
How to Insure Americans who have Pre-Existing Conditions
Published in Pajamas Media: People with pre-existing conditions deserve better than ObamaCare’s price controls. Free market reforms can provide it. Like a hammer that sees every problem as a nail, many politicians think the solution to every problem is legislation that erodes our liberties.
The totalitarian nature of mandatory insurance & ObamaCare
The latest district court ruling by Judge Gladys Kessler reveals the totalitarian nature of mandatory insurance. If the Commerce Clause empowers the Federal Government can prohibit your choice not to act in a certain way, it can do anything.
Kudos to Colorado Springs District 11 for Shining Sunlight on Union Negotiations
Just when I start to think I can keep up with what’s going on in the world of education, something sneaks up on me almost in my own backyard. I’m talking about a vote by the school board in Colorado Springs District 11 — the state’s eighth-largest school district (nearly 30,000 students) — to do […]
New CBO report hides less of ObamaCare’s true costs
The latest CBO report on ObamaCare’s costs is less misleading, as covers more years that include both tax revenue & spending, rather than just revenue. The result more clearly shows how it fleeces taxpayers.
Waiting Has Been Hard, So I’m Glad to See Douglas County School Choice Details
I think a lot of the policy makers, experts and officials out there don’t get how little patience a little kid like me has. (Or maybe they just don’t care.) But it’s good to see at last the first draft of details of what’s going to happen with Douglas County School District’s groundbreaking private school choice idea.
