Commentary
Agriculture
The Libertarian Perspective On California Water
Secure private property rights in all water, combined with full-cost pricing in free water markets, is the best (and indeed only) way to match California’s vast water supplies to its growing water demands. In practice, this means ending the subsidies that make water for agriculture cost ten times less than ...
Commentary
St. Patrick’s Day Health-Care News from Ireland
(OK, so I am a little late for St. Paddy’s Day: It’s the thought that counts.) The Stockholm Network’s weekly bulletin for March 18 is not yet online, but it came into my e-mail with a fascinating bit of news from Eire:
Business & Economics
CNBC News: Fed Backs U.S. Economy
Insight on the Federal Reserve’s ‘build-up the balance sheet’ program, with Art Laffer, Laffer Investments; Lee Hoskins, Pacific Research Institute; and CNBC’s Rick Santelli, Steve Liesman & Larry Kudlow.
California
Los Angeles’ Martin Luther King, Jr. – Harbor Hospital Shows the Cost of Government Monopoly Health Care
Earlier this month, state and local officials announced an agreement to re-open the Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles in 2012. For four decades, Los Angeles’ most vulnerable, low-income patients suffered terribly because of the county’s management of this failed hospital, which finally closed ...
Agriculture
Governor Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments
Sacramento, California – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the following appointments: Tim Alderson, Jaime Hurtado, Lance Izumi, Stephen Jensen, Jorge Lopez, Kenneth Minesinger, Gary Reed, Richard Sawhill III, Brad Scott, Linda Thompson and James Venable. Tim Alderson, 47, of Pasadena, has been appointed to the Schools’ Agriculture and Nutrition Program ...
Commentary
Bipartisan Ground Hard to Glimpse on Health Overhaul Legislation
Democrats and Republicans at a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing on Tuesday didn’t disagree with each other on everything. Several agreed on support for community health centers and the need to provide the public with more information about medical prices. But on most other issues raised at ...
Commentary
Massachusetts “Universal” Health Care Spends $820 Million to Save $250 Million
Surely, even the New York Times can figure out that spending $820 million on the Bay State’s Commonwealth Care “universal” health-care plan, in order to save $250 million in uncompensated hospital care, is not a good trade-off. Not according to today’s article on the latest state to compel its residents ...
Commentary
Obama Should Look to Sweden for Education, Not Banks
Heritage Foundation “Foundry” Blog, March 16, 2009 A month ago, Obama explored the notion of nationalizing the banks under the Swedish model. Instead of the Swedish banking model, Obama should look at the school voucher program in Sweden for inspiration. The Pacific Research Institute recently had a video Op-Ed on ...
Commentary
Math lesson
Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA), March 15, 2009 Jack O’Connell, California’s superintendent of public instruction, recently claimed that Education Week’s latest Quality Counts report “ranks us a dismal 47th in the country” for school funding. That ranking needs some clarification, but the revenue that school districts actually receive would ...
Commentary
Sweden’s Choice
Why the Obama administration should look to Europe for a school voucher program that works. Click here to see full screen of video.
The Libertarian Perspective On California Water
Secure private property rights in all water, combined with full-cost pricing in free water markets, is the best (and indeed only) way to match California’s vast water supplies to its growing water demands. In practice, this means ending the subsidies that make water for agriculture cost ten times less than ...
St. Patrick’s Day Health-Care News from Ireland
(OK, so I am a little late for St. Paddy’s Day: It’s the thought that counts.) The Stockholm Network’s weekly bulletin for March 18 is not yet online, but it came into my e-mail with a fascinating bit of news from Eire:
CNBC News: Fed Backs U.S. Economy
Insight on the Federal Reserve’s ‘build-up the balance sheet’ program, with Art Laffer, Laffer Investments; Lee Hoskins, Pacific Research Institute; and CNBC’s Rick Santelli, Steve Liesman & Larry Kudlow.
Los Angeles’ Martin Luther King, Jr. – Harbor Hospital Shows the Cost of Government Monopoly Health Care
Earlier this month, state and local officials announced an agreement to re-open the Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles in 2012. For four decades, Los Angeles’ most vulnerable, low-income patients suffered terribly because of the county’s management of this failed hospital, which finally closed ...
Governor Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments
Sacramento, California – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the following appointments: Tim Alderson, Jaime Hurtado, Lance Izumi, Stephen Jensen, Jorge Lopez, Kenneth Minesinger, Gary Reed, Richard Sawhill III, Brad Scott, Linda Thompson and James Venable. Tim Alderson, 47, of Pasadena, has been appointed to the Schools’ Agriculture and Nutrition Program ...
Bipartisan Ground Hard to Glimpse on Health Overhaul Legislation
Democrats and Republicans at a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing on Tuesday didn’t disagree with each other on everything. Several agreed on support for community health centers and the need to provide the public with more information about medical prices. But on most other issues raised at ...
Massachusetts “Universal” Health Care Spends $820 Million to Save $250 Million
Surely, even the New York Times can figure out that spending $820 million on the Bay State’s Commonwealth Care “universal” health-care plan, in order to save $250 million in uncompensated hospital care, is not a good trade-off. Not according to today’s article on the latest state to compel its residents ...
Obama Should Look to Sweden for Education, Not Banks
Heritage Foundation “Foundry” Blog, March 16, 2009 A month ago, Obama explored the notion of nationalizing the banks under the Swedish model. Instead of the Swedish banking model, Obama should look at the school voucher program in Sweden for inspiration. The Pacific Research Institute recently had a video Op-Ed on ...
Math lesson
Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA), March 15, 2009 Jack O’Connell, California’s superintendent of public instruction, recently claimed that Education Week’s latest Quality Counts report “ranks us a dismal 47th in the country” for school funding. That ranking needs some clarification, but the revenue that school districts actually receive would ...
Sweden’s Choice
Why the Obama administration should look to Europe for a school voucher program that works. Click here to see full screen of video.
