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Replacing Reagan
National Review - Op-Ed
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
9.28.2007
The other night over martinis, someone asked me which GOP presidential candidate I like the most. Like many my fellow conservatives, I'm not very enthusiastic about any of the three putative, pre-Thompson frontrunners. A mid-martini moment of insight, however, sparked the following idea: The problem with this field is that it is too much like the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Lawsuits causing economic injustice
The Boston Herald - PRI in the News
9.28.2007
Suppose America’s economy suffered an $865 billion loss every year - more than the combined output of all six New England states - and no one knew the reason.
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Mandatory health insurance? No sale
Los Angeles Times - Letter to the Editor
By: John R. Graham
9.28.2007
Court rightly criticizes Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for seeking to deliver every Californian not dependent on Medicaid or Medicare to a health-insurance industry that many of us find increasingly unsatisfactory. Unfortunately, he identifies the wrong cause of increasing costs.
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Institute study on schools in middle class cities
PRI in the News
By: Harry V. Martin
9.27.2007
The Pacific Research Institute has released a book authored by three prominent educators which dispels the once "sacred" belief that more affluent communities provides better schools with a higher education proficiency.
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Book Asks How Bad Schools Happen to Good Suburbs
The New York Sun - PRI in the News
By: Elizabeth Green Staff Reporter
9.27.2007
Armed with evidence that "nice" neighborhoods do not guarantee good public schools, a new book suggests that America's suburbs import policies usually associated with inner cities — such as charter schools, public school choice, and private school vouchers — in order to improve performance.
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Book: Torrance schools underperform
PRI in the News
By: Paul Clinton
9.26.2007
Four Torrance schools are among hundreds in California that don't offer an education commensurate with the prices of homes in their neighborhood, claims a book released Tuesday.
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Are Schools in Upscale Neighborhoods Better?
TV - Fox News
9.26.2007
Quality schools are often part of the equation when families buy a new home, but is the schooling in some of LA's upscale neighborhoods also upscale? As Gina Silva reports, the answer may surprise you.
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Sky-high real estate out of reach for many
PRI in the News
By: Bonnie Eslinger
9.26.2007
SAN FRANCISCO - Rosario Ramirez said she feels lucky to live in a studio apartment near San Francisco’s popular South Park neighborhood, but her daughter doesn’t.
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A costly co-pay
Orange County Register - PRI in the News
By: Mark Landsbaum
9.23.2007
Every politician seems to have a killer health care plan, and each one calls for large doses of government, which means more taxes and less care.
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Charter Parents and Teachers School the Speaker Nunez
Sacramento Union - Education Op-Ed
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
9.21.2007
When the state played politics with charter laws, parents and teachers fought back—and won. Fed up with special-interest politics masquerading as “local control,” hundreds of Los Angeles parents and teachers recently rallied against Sacramento’s latest assault on charter schools.
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Water conservation should be first on California legislative agenda
San Jose Mercury News Editorial
9.19.2007
The governor and lawmakers are in a special legislative session, attempting to craft a solution to California's water woes. But their focus on multibillion-dollar bond proposals that would pay for dams, reservoirs, canals and other expensive water works shouldn't be getting the most attention.
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Students and Subprimes
Education Op-Ed
By: Rachel Chaney
9.19.2007
According to most predictions, the recent downturn in the housing market is only going to get worse before it gets better. In July, housing starts -- the number of privately owned homes on which construction has begun -- fell to the lowest levels in a decade. The subprime mortgage crisis continues to worsen, making credit harder to come by for many people. Mortgage defaults are rising while house prices are falling.
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Dr. Hillary Will See You Now - The new HillaryCare
An NRO Symposium
9.18.2007
Senator Hillary Clinton unveiled her presidential health-care plan on Monday. National Review Online asked a group of experts to assess how bad it is! National Review Online asked a group of experts to assess how bad it is!
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The 'Guilty Green' (gasp!) don't always recycle
USA Today - PRI in the News
By: Janet Kornblum
9.16.2007
They drive SUVs, throw perfectly recyclable bottles and cans in the trash, clean their bathrooms with — gasp — bleach and think nothing of sometimes blasting the air conditioner or taking wickedly wasteful long, hot showers.
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Retro-Regulators Threaten Tech Future
Tech News World - Technology Op-Ed
9.14.2007
At a time when most people agree that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) or Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) have replaced Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) as the tech industry's top player, government regulators on two continents are going retro, pushing old antitrust arguments. This backward-looking thinking threatens innovation for all companies and needs to stop now.
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Is there a doctor in the house ... who hasn’t been sued?
PRI in the News
By: Mark Tapscott, Cheryl K. Chumley
9.14.2007
WASHINGTON - For plaintiffs lawyer and Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, 1985 was the year he stood before a jury and channeled the silent pleas of a baby girl born breeched and brain-damaged, thanks to a doctor’s alleged negligence.
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Digital Pipeline: Who should pay?
PRI in the News
By: D. R. Stewart
9.9.2007
Like most things in life, the Internet is becoming more complex as it ages. Primarily used as a medium to transport text in its early years, the Internet has evolved into a multidimensional information, communications and entertainment source.
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Patent Reform is a Fool's Errand
Real Clear Politics - Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
9.7.2007
Congress has just returned from its summer recess, and lawmakers are facing a jam-packed legislative calendar. To lighten the load, they should jettison one of the most misguided pieces of legislation on the agenda -- the Patent Reform Act of 2007.
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Young and Uninsured
Sacramento Union - Health Care Op-Ed
By: Diana M. Ernst
9.7.2007
To young people, the high cost of health insurance hardly seems as important as food and shelter, but they still have to protect themselves from unexpected sickness or injury. California can take a simple step to help them do so.
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Lessons from Massachusetts
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
9.7.2007
Health care reform is hot this election season and presidential hopefuls from both parties appear weekly with promises of reforms that will supposedly solve our system's problems with universal coverage at affordable costs. A recent overhaul in Massachusetts that expanded taxpayer-funded health insurance and requires individuals to purchase government-approved policies is proving particularly compelling to many, not the least because its architect, Mitt Romney, is a leading Republican candidate.
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Maryland County Is Nation’s First To Ban Trans Fats
PRI in the News
By: Dr. Sanjit Bagchi
9.1.2007
On May 15, Montgomery County, Maryland became the first county in the United States to ban artificial trans fats for most foods sold in restaurants and at prepared-food sections of supermarkets, after a unanimous vote by the county council.
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State recruiting efforts get a dose of court aid
PRI in the News
By: Frank Maley
9.1.2007
The legal climate for business in North Carolina is better than you might think - better than in all but five states, says The American Justice Partnership, a Lansing, Mich.-based lobbying group formed in 2005 by the National Association of Manufacturers.
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Labor Anxiety
Press Enterprise - Business and Economics Op-Ed
9.1.2007
U.S. companies have outsourced labor for decades, but in recent years, this practice has drawn criticism as Americans see highly paid jobs shifting overseas. That scares many workers, and receiving a pink slip can be devastating. But offshore outsourcing can provide great benefits to Americans when driven by natural market forces rather than government mismanagement.
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