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Rural rebellion brewing
Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
10.31.2011
The nearly five-hour drive from the Sacramento area to Yreka, in Siskiyou County by the Oregon border, was a reminder not just of the immense size and beauty of California, but of the vast regional and cultural differences one finds within our 37-million-population state.
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Honesty, No More Subsidies
New York Times
By: Steven Greenhut
10.26.2011
President Obama’s plan to change federal lending rules so people who are under water in their mortgages can refinance will make a political point about Republican intransigence on his jobs package but won’t sway many voters.
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Reviewing ObamaCare's Rate Review
Forbes.com
By: Sally C. Pipes
10.25.2011
This month, the Obama administration began its campaign to ostracize health insurers who don’t charge prices it likes. The administration now requires insurers who want to raise premiums by 10% or more to post a formal explanation on a government website. Federal bureaucrats — in partnership with their counterparts in the states — will then determine whether the insurers’ proposed prices are “justified.”
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Unlocking secret records, findings on police officers
Ventura County Star
By: Tori Richards
10.24.2011
A mentally ill homeless man was beaten into a coma that proved fatal by six Fullerton police officers as he screamed, "Help, dad!" Fresno police punched a homeless man in the head while he was face down with his arms behind his back. Three BART officers in Oakland detained an unruly passenger, who was then fatally shot in the back.
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Dems Slash Business-Saving Bills
Fox & Hounds Daily
By: Katy Grimes
10.19.2011
Long before any of 800 bills passed by the Legislature reached Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk this legislative session, partisan politics took precedence over repairing the state’s economy. Apparently restoring confidence and faith in California’s residents and businesses was less important than party politics and flexing muscle.
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Seal the Borders Against Canadian Health Care
Forbes.com
By: Sally C. Pipes
10.18.2011
Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D-Mont.) recently announced his aspirations for bringing universal health coverage to Big Sky Country. Schweitzer is not the first U.S. governor to stump for a state-funded health care system. Earlier this year, Gov. Peter Shumlin (D-Vt.) signed Green Mountain Care into law and began moving his state toward single-payer.
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Part D Price Controls Kill Jobs
Investor's Business Daily
By: Sally C. Pipes
10.13.2011
Washington faces two pressing tasks — getting a handle on escalating federal debt and addressing the country's unemployment crisis. Unfortunately, the White House, thanks to its usual ideological blinders, has come up with a plan that will actually cost jobs — even as it achieves only trifling savings.
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For Parents, School Choice Is Easier Than Ballot Initiatives
Flash Report
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
10.11.2011
There’s a grassroots parent revolt surging in California. Parents statewide and at the local level are pushing ballot measures to overturn unpopular government education policies. While the initiative process may be Democracy 101 in action, it would be easier for parents if they were simply given vouchers to choose the school that best meets the needs of their children.
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Hypocritical pension funds lecture others
San Francisco Examiner
By: Steven Greenhut
10.10.2011
The nation’s two largest pension funds, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, have been plagued by myriad fiscal problems, and even a corruption scandal in the case of CalPERS, and yet these systems continue to lecture the private sector on ethical corporate governance. The latest hypocrisy, released last week, is a project funded by the two systems to promote “diversity” in board rooms.
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The deficit ‘super committee' and health care
News OK
By: Sally C. Pipes
10.10.2011
The federal debt-reduction “super committee” recently held its third meeting to explore changes in the tax code. The 12-member bipartisan panel must find $1.5 trillion in federal savings by Thanksgiving.
Committee members have gone to great lengths to emphasize their differences, but there is still room for agreement. The committee can — and should — focus on proposals that eliminate government waste, fraud and inefficiency.
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Comparative effectiveness reviews mean fewer cures
Washington Examiner
By: Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D
10.10.2011
Elected officials have powerful incentives to spend, and the administrators of government agencies -- always seeking to increase their budgets -- are happy to oblige. But the federal budget is finite. There are equally-powerful incentives to create more programs, as politicians are driven to make more citizens dependent upon government.
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Education activist urges online learning at Pleasant Hill luncheon
Contra Costa Times
10.3.2011
Charter schools and online learning could help turn around underperforming campuses such as Clayton Valley High School in Concord, an education reform advocate said Friday. Lance Izumi, who is an author and senior director for education at the Pacific Research Institute public policy think tank, said many school districts throughout the state and country are failing to adequately prepare students to be competitive with students around the world.
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Delta Water rules smelt of extremism
Orange County Register/San Francisco Examiner
By: Steven Greenhut
10.3.2011
If you want to understand the fundamental things wrong with our nation and California, in particular, you ought to peruse the 140-page opinion recently issued by Judge Oliver Wanger in the "Consolidated Delta Smelt Cases."
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California workers could suffer under Obamacare
San Francisco Examiner
By: Joseph Perkins
10.3.2011
A coalition of 26 states filed a petition recently asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law. California should have been the 27th. That’s because no state stands to take a bigger economic hit when and if Obamacare is fully implemented.
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