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Los Angeles Catholic Schools Serve the Needs of Minority and Low-Income Students with Half the Money of L.A. Unified, Study Finds
4.26.2001

Los Angeles, CA – Los Angeles Catholic schools are providing top quality education to low-income and minority children with half the resources of Los Angeles public schools, according to Helping Hand: How Private Philanthropy and Catholic Schools Serve Low-Income Children in Los Angeles, a new study from the San Francisco-based Pacific Research Institute.
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Cleaner Air, Fireproof Rivers Are Reasons To Celebrate
Environment Op-Ed
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
4.22.2001

Recent invectives directed at the Bush Administration obscure a significant but ignored story: the steady and continuing improvement in U.S. environmental quality. That trend is certain to continue during the Bush years, despite demonizing by groups that view the president as the equivalent of an Exxon-Valdez oil spill every day.
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Political Anachronism
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
4.17.2001

Evidence why the state of California should not have a Lieutenant Governor is being provided in abundance by the current incumbent, Cruz Bustamante, who has added legislative buffoonery to dubious racial attitudes. The man who would be governor should anything happen to Gray Davis is, in fact, fortunate to still be in office.
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Environment is Greatest Success Story of Last 30 Years, Study Finds
Press Release
4.11.2001

San Francisco, CA — The vast improvement of the U.S. environment is one of the great public-policy success stories of the last generation, according to the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators 2001, released today by the California-based Pacific Research Institute.
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Sacramento Spendoholics! The Bigger the Surplus, the More the California Legislature Spends, Study Shows
Press Release
4.10.2001

San Francisco, CA – As tax day approaches, a new study shows that the California legislature spends over $9 in new expenditures for each dollar of surplus revenue.
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Gray Davis and Rate Hikes
KQED Commentary
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
4.3.2001

In my commentary a couple months ago, I said that Governor Gray Davis had to offer not only offer more realistic solutions to California’s electricity crisis, but also better leadership. At that time, Davis seemed more interested in avoiding political blame than in solving the state’s energy problems. Since then, unfortunately, Davis’ efforts to dodge political and policy responsibility for the crisis have reached truly absurd levels.


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Send It They Will Spend It: The Case for Tax Cuts in California
4.1.2001

Children, there’s a better way to filter content on the Internet
Technology Op-Ed
By: Helen Chaney
4.1.2001

Two lawsuits filed March 20 ask a federal court to overturn a new law that mandates the use of Internet filtering software in public schools and libraries. If the misguided law survives the court challenge, it could easily end up damaging the education of many children.
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