Commentary
Business & Economics
Google/Yahoo deal debris
Is what’s good for the goose also good for the Google? The Senate Antitrust Subcommittee just investigated a proposed partnership between Google and Yahoo, the two most visited properties on the Internet. Though the deal could consolidate more than 90 percent of an $11-billion search and advertising industry, Google insisted ...
Commentary
Remedial education a big cost for state’s colleges
Remedial education classes for students enrolling in the state’s public colleges and universities are costing California as much as $14 billion a year, according to a report from the Pacific Research Institute. That figure was reached after the authors estimated several costs, including the $274 million the colleges spend providing ...
Commentary
High cost of good intentions
Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced recently that he wants to give autistic children the most comprehensive health insurance coverage in the nation. If the legislature agrees to changes he wrote into a bill, state law will require companies that sell health insurance in Illinois to pay up to $36,000 a year ...
Business & Economics
Ban the Man?
Next month the world’s athletes gather in Beijing, what we used to call Peking, for the XXIX Olympics, this iteration bearing the slogan “One World, One Dream.” One outstanding American athlete had a dream to compete in these Olympics, but will not be doing so. It’s not because of drugs, ...
Business & Economics
Fined if You Do, Fined if You Don’t
The European Union recently slapped Microsoft with a penalty of $1.3 billion, the largest fine ever levied against a single company. The timing is curious because the penalty was issued just a week after Microsoft posted on the Internet over 30,000 pages of its most closely held trade secrets. This ...
Commentary
Education Reform Leaves out Choice
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared 2008 would be “The Year of Education Reform.” Now, more than halfway through the year, California parents continue to wait for promised relief. If the governor’s blueprint for reform is any indication, they may be waiting for a long time. Gov. Schwarzenegger unveiled “Students First: Renewing ...
California
Healthy San Francisco
California Catholic Daily, July 23, 2008 Two Catholic hospitals join program to give “free” medical care to city’s 73,000 uninsured Three private hospitals in San Francisco – two of them Catholic – this month agreed to participate in the city’s ambitious plan to provide health care, free of charge or ...
Commentary
Remedial education costs billions
The poor performance of California’s public schools costs Californians up to $14 billion in remedial education programs, rivaling the state’s current budget deficit of $15 billion. “The High Price of Failure in California: How Inadequate Education Costs Schools, Students, and Society,” released Tuesday by the Pacific Research Institute, calculates the ...
Business & Economics
Phoenix: Not so free, not so unfree
July 24, 2008 Disloyal Opposition Blog, Phoenix isn’t a terrible place when it comes to personal freedom. It’s not so great either, despite Arizona’s overstated Wild-West reputation. Reason magazine’s Radley Balko raised a fuss in Chicago with his column in the Chicago Tribune taking that city to task for “treating ...
Business & Economics
Speaker criticizes N.J. climate for firms facing suits
New Jersey’s legal environment is one of the worst in the nation for a business defending itself against a tort lawsuit, and the climate can stunt a state’s job creation and economic growth, a trade group heard. The claim was made at a New Brunswick forum organized by the Trenton-based ...
Google/Yahoo deal debris
Is what’s good for the goose also good for the Google? The Senate Antitrust Subcommittee just investigated a proposed partnership between Google and Yahoo, the two most visited properties on the Internet. Though the deal could consolidate more than 90 percent of an $11-billion search and advertising industry, Google insisted ...
Remedial education a big cost for state’s colleges
Remedial education classes for students enrolling in the state’s public colleges and universities are costing California as much as $14 billion a year, according to a report from the Pacific Research Institute. That figure was reached after the authors estimated several costs, including the $274 million the colleges spend providing ...
High cost of good intentions
Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced recently that he wants to give autistic children the most comprehensive health insurance coverage in the nation. If the legislature agrees to changes he wrote into a bill, state law will require companies that sell health insurance in Illinois to pay up to $36,000 a year ...
Ban the Man?
Next month the world’s athletes gather in Beijing, what we used to call Peking, for the XXIX Olympics, this iteration bearing the slogan “One World, One Dream.” One outstanding American athlete had a dream to compete in these Olympics, but will not be doing so. It’s not because of drugs, ...
Fined if You Do, Fined if You Don’t
The European Union recently slapped Microsoft with a penalty of $1.3 billion, the largest fine ever levied against a single company. The timing is curious because the penalty was issued just a week after Microsoft posted on the Internet over 30,000 pages of its most closely held trade secrets. This ...
Education Reform Leaves out Choice
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared 2008 would be “The Year of Education Reform.” Now, more than halfway through the year, California parents continue to wait for promised relief. If the governor’s blueprint for reform is any indication, they may be waiting for a long time. Gov. Schwarzenegger unveiled “Students First: Renewing ...
Healthy San Francisco
California Catholic Daily, July 23, 2008 Two Catholic hospitals join program to give “free” medical care to city’s 73,000 uninsured Three private hospitals in San Francisco – two of them Catholic – this month agreed to participate in the city’s ambitious plan to provide health care, free of charge or ...
Remedial education costs billions
The poor performance of California’s public schools costs Californians up to $14 billion in remedial education programs, rivaling the state’s current budget deficit of $15 billion. “The High Price of Failure in California: How Inadequate Education Costs Schools, Students, and Society,” released Tuesday by the Pacific Research Institute, calculates the ...
Phoenix: Not so free, not so unfree
July 24, 2008 Disloyal Opposition Blog, Phoenix isn’t a terrible place when it comes to personal freedom. It’s not so great either, despite Arizona’s overstated Wild-West reputation. Reason magazine’s Radley Balko raised a fuss in Chicago with his column in the Chicago Tribune taking that city to task for “treating ...
Speaker criticizes N.J. climate for firms facing suits
New Jersey’s legal environment is one of the worst in the nation for a business defending itself against a tort lawsuit, and the climate can stunt a state’s job creation and economic growth, a trade group heard. The claim was made at a New Brunswick forum organized by the Trenton-based ...
