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Follow the Money
Technology Op-Ed
7.25.2001
The United States Court of Appeals dealt a devastating blow to the Justice Department’s 4-year-old antitrust crusade against Microsoft when it overturned the proposed breakup of the software giant and sent the case back to a new judge in the lower court. The ground now appears clear for a reasonable settlement that would close out the most important antitrust trial since the breakup of Standard Oil early in the last century.
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Gov. Davis, Electricity and Ethics
KQED Commentary
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
7.24.2001
On the surface, things seem to be going pretty good for Gov. Gray Davis with regard to California’s electricity crisis. The governor has gotten nice publicity switching on some new power plants. The weather has been unseasonably cool. His sagging poll numbers are edging back up. Yet, for Davis, just beneath this optimistic picture lies some very troubling problems.
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Why the Rx is not the cure
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Naomi Lopez Bauman
7.21.2001
When choosing between two evils, Washington is often compelled to try the one it hasn’t tried before. While that might go a long way to explain the complexity of the current tax code, it is a misguided approach that some lawmakers seem to be embracing as they attempt to “do something” about health care. Take, for example, the Patients’ Bill of Rights.
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How the Regulatory Regime Affects Women
Business and Economics Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
7.20.2001
Following a recent rally for the homeless in the state capital, the local weekly lamented the climate of “unbridled capitalism” in America. Capitalism actually remains quite bridled in America, and regulations designed for large-scale businesses usually owned by men have a particular effect on women who choose to work at home.
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Is This Man to Blame for the Western Power Crisis?
Business and Economics Op-Ed
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
7.8.2001
As California’s electricity crisis worsens, Gov. Gray Davis is pointing the finger of blame at out-of-state energy generators and the Bush administration. This is nonsense and has nothing to do with economics or reality. The truth is that California has only itself to blame for its current predicament, starting with a 1996 deregulation law that was fundamentally flawed.
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Price U.S. drugs for big picture
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Laura Dykes
7.7.2001
Increased spending for prescription drugs is alarming to many senior citizens. No one doubts that. Unfortunately, some lawmakers are offering a solution to this problem without understanding the ailment—or basic economics.
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Resistance Grows: Critics Ignore Charter Schools’ Success
Education Op-Ed
By: Diallo Dphrepaulezz
7.6.2001
Across the country, school boards, teacher unions and activists are fueling a culture of resistance to charter schools and school-choice alternatives for parents, particularly minorities. The San Francisco School Board’s campaign against a local charter school, using racial pretexts, is one of the most outrageous examples
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Sidebar: Deal Forced on Edison, Despite Meritless Charges
PRI in the News
7.1.2001
The charges against the Edison Charter Academy by the San Francisco School Board are completely without merit, according to a report from the San Francisco-based Pacific Research Institute, released a week before the board’s vote on the disposition of the Academy’s charter. Despite this, the school board used the threat of charter revocation to force the Edison company into accepting an unattractive deal, said the report’s author, PRI Policy Fellow Diallo Dphrepaulezz.
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