Savings for San Diego
Savings for San Diego: Outsourcing to Reduce Costs and Improve Services San Diego's current "Five-Year Financial Outlook" shows the dramatic financial crisis the city faces, predicting an incredible...
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Did the Stimulus Create Jobs?
Last week the White House held a jobs summit with academics and lawmakers to come up with a strategy for job creation. The result of their cogitation was presented by President Barack Obama on Tuesday...
View ArticlePreemption Back In
Last night, as the House continued debate on The Wall Street Reform Act, a positive step was made on consumer protection:One key change approved Thursday night was the addition of language that would...
View ArticleWas Parking Meter Privatization a Good Deal for the Windy City? Chicago CFO...
A November 17, 2009 article in The New York Times ("Company Piles Up Profits From City's Parking Meter Deal") suggested that Chicago Parking Meters, LLCthe Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Fund/LAZ...
View ArticleWall Street "Reform" Passes the House
The House passed the financial services reform bill today 223 to 202, will all GOP members and 27 democrats voting against The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The bill went through some...
View ArticleFounders Against ObamaCare
Many people have been wondering whether Democratic plans to force individuals to buy health insurance can withstand constitutional scrutiny given that in this country we are supposed to have a...
View ArticleHelp! DC School Voucher Program On the Brink . . .
Via Center For Education Reform:Last night, the House voted 221-202 in favor of an omnibus spending bill that - if also passed in the Senate - will once and for all kill the DC Opportunity Scholarship...
View ArticlePrivatization News Roundup, Dec. 11, 2009
Some privatization news highlights from the last two weeks that haven't been covered elsewhere on the blog:FEDERAL"20 must-follow contracts,"Washington Technology"Industry's wish list for procurement...
View ArticleChicago CFO Gene Saffold Addresses Critics, Discusses Benefits of Parking...
One of the ongoing themes in Chicago's controversial parking meter privatization is the question of whether or not the city received the best and highest value in the $1.156 billion transaction. I...
View ArticleBeijing Goes 3-D--in Highways
Well, maybe not yet, but a proposal to build an underground expressway network including four north-south routes and two east-west routes that span the city seems to gaining momentum. A recent paper...
View ArticlePeer Reviewed Journal Articles Challenging the Climate Change Consensus
As the debate over climate change and the right policy approaches continues to reach hyperbolic levels, Ken Green has usually provided a sane and reasoned perespective. Ken is an analyst at the...
View ArticleNot Change, More of the Same
During the 2008 election, then-Senators Obama and Biden were fond of the line, "That's not change, that's just more of the same." This quip would be useful in the House financial services debate.In...
View ArticleObama Misses the Mark on Financial Services Reform
President Obama released a statement of praise for the House passage of financial services reform last week. In the statement, he supported the initiatives as a way to establish better "rules of the...
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Have a Coke and a Tax
With the federal deficit reaching $1.4 trillion and most state budgets deep in the red, policy makers are desperately searching for new sources of revenue that the tapped-out American public might...
View ArticleWhen Science Becomes a Casualty of Politics
In the unfolding debate over "ClimateGate," the affair of the hacked emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia that offer an inconvenient peek behind the curtain of climate...
View Article"The Most Important Number in the World"
Copenhagen, December 14—"The most important number in the world," Mohamed Nasheed, president of the Maldive Islands, told an audience of hundreds of climate activists in downtown Copenhagen, "is 350."...
View ArticleNew York Transit Woes Demonstrate Need for Reform
The New York Times is reporting that the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or MTA, will cut pay for nonunion workers by 10 percent and reduce service to find $340 million to plug its...
View ArticleModernizing and Expanding Pennsylvania's Transportation Infrastructure...
Even though the vast majority of transportation projects around the country continue to be funded from traditional sourcestaxes, fees, public debt and government subsidiesa new funding paradigm is...
View ArticleReducing HIV in the Porn Industry
My friend Alex Padilla has a great article in Forbes on this.Last week, several health groups, led by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, announced plans to develop a strategy that will push California...
View ArticleRIP Paul Samuelson
Nobel Laureate economist Paul Samuelson passed away yesterday. He was 94.The economic pioneer revolutionized the field of economics with a mathematical approach to economics outlined in his 1948 book...
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