Pennsylvania Railroad
Mark Ciavarella, the Pennsylvania judge known as "Mr. Zero Tolerance," had a reputation for running his courtroom like an assembly line, spending just a minute or two on each of the juvenile offenders...
View ArticleThe Rough Road Ahead for Real Highway User Fees
The political headwinds working against adopting a system of direct user fees for roads are strong, and one of the biggest reasons is the fact most Americans have little direct experience with them.I...
View ArticleChinas Beauty Problem
I was traveling across Eastern China on a high-speed train last summer when my Chinese host from the U.S.-China Exchange Foundation, who had recently visited India, my native country, asked: “Why are...
View ArticlePrivatization and Public-Private Partnership Trends in Local Government
This section of Reason Foundation's Annual Privatization Report 2010 provides an overview of the latest on privatization and public-private partnerships in local government. Topics...
View ArticleThis Is What a Broke Democracy Looks Like
As of this writing, the Wisconsin budget/union standoff hasn’t been settled. While the state assembly debates, Democrats are offering amendment after amendment to slow things down. The state Senate...
View ArticleWhat Do the Administration's Budget Cuts Really Look Like?
The Cato Institute's Tad DeHaven has an interesting graph of what the $61 billion in cuts proposed in the House Republicans' plan to fund the rest of 2011 would look like against the total budget. The...
View ArticleState of the State: Illinois in 2011
This is the third of a ten-part series on the 2011 State of the State (SOTS) speeches in states with the ten worst projected relative budget deficits for FY 2012. Budget data is from the Center on...
View ArticleHow Public Employees and Taxpayers Got Scammed
Public employees have been cramming the Wisconsin state Capitol to protest the governor's plan to cut their take-home pay and gut their collective bargaining rights. You can't blame them for objecting...
View ArticleWhy Does Government Suppress Information?
Sunday night is Oscar night! Think you know who's going to win? Want to make a bet?The Hollywood Stock Exchange allows people to bet on which movies, actors, directors, etc. will take home Academy...
View ArticleReality Bites
In the United States alone, reports Jane McGonigal in her new book Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, there are 183 million people who spend an average of 13...
View ArticleThe Golden State Is Made of Lead
“We’ve been living in Fantasyland,” incoming California Gov. Jerry Brown announced in a December forum on the state’s dire budget situation. “It is much worse than I thought. I’m shocked.”Amid lengthy...
View Article4th Quarter Shows Strong Demand Growth
Revised GDP numbers for the fourth quarter of 2010 were released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis today, showing the economy grew at an annual rate of 2.8 percent, slightly lower than the previous...
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The Truth About Obama's 2012 Budget
Editor’s Note: Reason columnist Veronique de Rugy appears weekly on Bloomberg TV to separate economic fact from economic myth.Myth 1: Under President Barack Obama’s 2012 budget, we will “live within...
View ArticleThe Year 2010 in IT Outsourcing, Network Neutrality, and Federal Broadband
This section of Reason Foundation's Annual Privatization Report 2010 provides an overview of hot topics in technology outsourcing and telecommunications policy. Topics include:IT outsourcing in state...
View ArticleSteps Forward on GSE Reform
Since Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were put into conservatorship in September 2008 there has been very little movement to fix them or reform the housing finance system. Treasury sponsored a conference in...
View ArticleNo New Taxes in Idaho... Except on Cigarettes
State lawmakers in Boise, who have shown admirable restraint on spending and tax issues in recent years are showing cracks in their fiscal armor. Under pressure from the estimated $340 million state...
View ArticleTeaching People Power
The Daily Beast calls Gene Sharp "The 83 Year Old Who Toppled Egypt." The New York Times reportsthat "for the world's despots, his ideas can be fatal." In the last month he's been praised in venues...
View ArticleNew at Reason: Review of Local Privatization Issues in 2010 and Today
The rollout of Reason Foundation’s Annual Privatization Report 2010 continues with the release of the Local Government Privatization section, authored by Reason’s Leonard Gilroy, Harris Kenny, Samuel...
View ArticleState Budget Showdowns
Wisconsin. Ohio. Michigan. New Jersey. New York. Budget-battle showdowns are coming soon to a statehouse near you.Thousands of angry school teachers, union members, and their sympathizers have...
View ArticleRoom for Disagreement on Gay Marriage
President Barack Obama has been denounced by Republicans for asserting federal power at the expense of state sovereignty. But last week, he was denounced by Republicans for ... not asserting federal...
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