Public Employees Spurn Concessions in Connecticut
According to the latest budget analysis by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, Connecticut faces a $2.9 billion budget deficit in FY 2012 and a $2.7 billion budget deficit in FY 2013. In order...
View ArticleLukewarmers, Denialists, and Other Climate Change Skeptics
Climate change politics is very nasty. So nasty, in fact, that the mud started flying even before the start of last week's Sixth International Climate Change Conference (ICCC6) in Washington, D.C....
View ArticleThe Week of Lying Dangerously
There was a time when Barack Obama seemed more honest than Bill Clinton. While Slick Willie notoriously claimed he smoked pot but "didn't inhale," Obama candidly admitted, "When I was a kid, I inhaled...
View ArticleGary Miller Has a Plan: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Rep. Gary Miller has a plan, Wall Street investors and banks will provide money for you to buy a home, when you pay your mortgage they collect the interest payments and earn a profit. If you don't pay...
View ArticleSmoked Out
Arizona has a major public health problem: Too few people are smoking.That’s not the only fiscal problem the state faces. But it’s one of them. Like many states, Arizona’s public finances are in...
View ArticleRomney Strikes a Blow Against Romney
Any candidate for president can fall victim to occasional stumbles, lapses, gaffes, and clunkers. But Mitt Romney has a shot at raising ineptitude to an art form.The other day, he had to answer a...
View ArticleThe College Scam
What do Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Mark Cuban have in common?They're all college dropouts.What do Richard Branson, Simon Cowell, and Peter Jennings have in common?They never went to...
View ArticleThe Turkish Model and Jasmine Revolution
The Turkish political model is unique and enviable to its troubled regional neighbors. Last month Turkey continued to set itself apart from its Arab neighbors as well as its central and southeast Asian...
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The Stimulus Was a Success
Here's a billion-dollar piece of news that's shuffling right by while the best minds of our generation debate whether the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) did or did not create a private...
View ArticleFriday Privatization News Highlights (7/8/2011 edition)
News articles on some of the more interesting developments on the state and local privatization front this week include:"State: Private manager takes over lottery operations today" (The Daily Journal):...
View ArticleThe Price of Big Government
The bio for James Delingpole of the London Telegraph describes him as "a writer, journalist, and broadcaster who is right about everything." The rest of us should probably heed the counsel of a woman...
View ArticleWal-Mart and Gender Discrimination
The sex discrimination case against Wal-Mart, in which the U.S. Supreme Court handed an important victory to the retail chain on June 20, revives a longstanding debate: are disparities in the workplace...
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Five Uncomfortable Facts About the Wonderful, Horrible Debt-Limit Debate
It's all debt limit, all the time, it seems. Everyone's talking about what may or may not happen when the U.S. government finally butts up against its legal borrowing limit on August 2. That's the date...
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A New Blueprint for Recovery
Ahead of the Curve Issue No. 4 There is a moment towards the end of every drunken party when bingers sense the ridiculousness of their epic self-delusion that taking 14 tequila shots won't come back to...
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The Facts About Stimulus Spending
Editor’sNote: Reason columnist and Mercatus Center economist Veronique de Rugy appears weekly on Bloomberg TV to separate economic fact from economic myth.Myth 1:Stimulus spending can jump start the...
View ArticleVehicle Fleet Purge Continues in California
Update: The Sacramento Bee reports that the 3,800 figure mentioned below:Counted 'mobile assets,' such as electric carts, trailers, dump trucks and other rolling equipment. Only about half the 3,800...
View ArticleNew at Reason: Today's Unemployment Numbers in Context
The June jobs report hit like a hammer this morning, with the unemployment rate rising to 9.2%. But that is not the only bad economic news hovering over America. Housing also continues to falter, and...
View ArticleMinnesota's Proposed Cigarette Tax Wouldn't Work Even if They Tried
Minnesota's government shutdown is causing all sorts of deja vu for those who remember the 2005 budget crisis in the Gopher State. Then-Gov. Tim Pawlenty, currently running for the 2012 GOP (vice)...
View ArticleMinnesota's Misguided Cigarette Tax
There is a sense of bitter irony in Democratic Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton’s new cigarette tax proposal, which is aimed at bridging the Gopher State’s budget gap. In 2005, then-Gov. Tim Pawlenty used an...
View ArticleWA State Auditor Issues Second Report on Performance-Based Contracting
Last week, the Washington State Auditor's Office released an excellent new report that should be required reading for policymakers and government administrators interested in performance-based...
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