Pennsylvania Scandals Highlight Need to Get State Out of the Toll Road and...
I'm always harping on the need to get government out of the business of business, and two developing stories in Pennsylvania offer a perfect illustration of why. First, as reported by...
View ArticleIt Takes 25 Years to Widen a 1.5 Mile Stretch of Road in Virginia
For years, commuters on I-66 in Northern Virginia have had to put up with heavy congestion due to bottlenecked merge lanes onto the two-lane interstate. A simple way to reduce congestion would be to...
View ArticlePunitive Damage
The financial crisis has been widely interpreted as proof of the need for extensive government regulation of banks, insurance companies, and other capitalist institutions. The antics of politicians now...
View Article'We Have a Lot of Work to Do'
John Stossel is the best-known libertarian in the news media. As the co-anchor of the long-running and immensely popular ABC News program 20/20, auteur of a continuing series of specials on topics...
View ArticleObama's Unkeepable AIG Promise
When then-President George W. Bush told the nation last September that normally he's "a strong believer in free enterprise," you knew that the mother of all "but"s was coming next, one that would...
View ArticleEven During the Recession Private Companies Are Investing In Ports
"In the past year, trade volumes through Long Beach, Los Angeles and Oakland, which together handle nearly half of America's international trade, have fallen nearly 15 percent," reports the Long Beach...
View ArticleRecession Isn't Preventing Private Sector Interest in Ports
The last few weeks have seen several private companies express interest in running major ports. The Port of Oakland struck a deal with Ports America. Maryland and Virginia are examining port...
View ArticleAIG Saga: A Horrible Tax Idea
The House of Representatives, leading the anti-AIG mob, wants to throw tar on the fledging insurance giant. Today, the House overwhelming passed a piece of legislation that will levy heavy taxes on...
View ArticleWhen Is a Hiring Freeze Not a Hiring Freeze?
Facing mammoth and mounting budget shortfalls, a number of governors implemented state hiring freezes last year as a check on the growth of payroll and benefits. But in the Bizarro Worlds of state...
View ArticleAirport Privatization Being Proposed In A Soft Market
Shirley just noted the recent activity on port privatization. As I noted in my newsletter, cash-strapped governments are also looking at airport privatization as a way to cut costs and reduce...
View ArticlePresident Obama Visits Model School Choice Program in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Daily Newsreports on President Obama's visit today to the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex, a downtown high school that is part of the Belmont Zone of Choice.President Barack Obama...
View ArticleCompanies Receiving Taxpayer Bailouts Owe Back Taxes
Our bailout rescue dollars at work. The AP reports:At least 13 companies receiving billions of dollars in bailout money owe a total of more than $220 million in unpaid federal taxes, a key lawmaker...
View ArticleOne Way to Deal With Local Government Budget Shortfalls
Local governments are being hit by the economic downturn and have to shrink their budgets. Steve Goldsmith, with Harvard's Kennedy School, knows innovation when he sees it. In his latest column he...
View ArticleHow You Can Track the Bailout Trillions
As the White House and Recovery Board develops www.recovery.gov there are various other efforts underway to follow stimulus and bailout money being spent. Reason has been keeping an updated list of...
View ArticleNothing Stops the Growth of Army of CA State Employees
From 2006 to 2008 the state of California added about 40,000 new employees, or one for every 1000 citizens--a stunning rate of growth in its own right, but downright astonishing when you consider the...
View ArticleMaking Sure the Broadband Stimulus Money Isn't Wasted
It’s discouraging that after a daylong, standing-room-only meeting on the allocation of broadband stimulus funds the two federal agencies responsible for spending the cash couldn’t even define the...
View ArticleBillions In Stimulus Going to Broadband Projects
The federal government doesn’t belong in the Internet business. But, of course the stimulus bill offers up $7.2 billion for broadband projects. In a recent meeting the agencies charged with passing out...
View ArticleWhat the AIG Contracts Said
Anger is turning to weariness with the AIG mob saga. But the situation is probably far from over. Yesterday, President Obama spoke, Secretary Geithner spoke, and we got a look at one of the contracts,...
View ArticleSLAPP Silly
reason was going to run an article about touchy developers who sue people for criticizing their abuse of eminent domain. One of those developers is H. Walker Royall of Dallas, who sued Wright Gore III...
View ArticleMassachusetts Health Care Experiment: Right Questions, Wrong Answers
There is both good news and bad news for advocates of market-based approaches to health care.The good news is that there is a growing recognition across the political spectrum that Massachusetts’...
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