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Could more lawmakers do less harm?
Orance County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
12.19.2011
The Neighborhood Legislature Reform Act initiative creates thousands of new neighborhood legislators, who would elect a smaller group that would actually go to Sacramento and do the normal business of legislating.
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Real meaning of Brown's 'open letter'
North County Times
By: Steven Greenhut
12.12.2011
Gov. Jerry Brown last Monday released "An Open Letter to the People of California," in which he called for the state's taxpayers to approve tax-raising initiatives to "fix" the state's structural deficit. Here is the letter and my interpretation of what Brown really meant to say:
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States vs. the Digital-Learning Revolution
National Review Online
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
12.9.2011
Earlier this fall, New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced that five international high-tech companies had entered into investment agreements, totaling $4.4 billion, with the state. The governor boasted that the agreements would make New York “the epicenter for the new generation of computer-chip technology.” However, when it comes to using computer technology to teach its new generation of young people, New York is a straggler to the digital-learning revolution.
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California ‘The Big State that Can't' (or won't)
The Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
12.5.2011
As the public employee pension and health care benefit crisis sweeps across the nation, some states are dealing seriously with these multibillion-dollar threats to public services and treasuries. And other states remain in deep denial. California, to no one's surprise, is moving stridently in the wrong direction.
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