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Despairing Disparities
The Contrarian
By: Katherine Post
2.19.1998
As natives can attest, in this city the normal rules do not apply, including the rule of law. Witness the most recent public contracting preferences spectacle, where millions of the city’s dollars are operating in violation of equal protection laws, and city officials are bending over backwards to support the violations.
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It Takes a Village, and a Licensed Professional
The Contrarian
By: Katherine Post
2.6.1998
—“Clinterngate” came at a very bad time for the White House’s initiative on child care. If one can remember anything pre-Lewinsky, one might recall the photo-op of the First Couple up to their elbows in paste and cardboard paper, unveiling a massive new federal initiative to “improve child care for America’s working families.”
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Bill Clinton, Conservative Hero?
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
2.3.1998
The thinking goes like this: Conservatives are for smaller government, and Clinton is diminishing the
presidency every day. QED. We tried this thesis out over the weekend on folks in town for the Conservative
Political Action Conference (aka, nerve center of the “vast right-wing conspiracy”). We didn't get many takers.
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The Road Ahead: The Economic and Environmental Benefits of Congestion Pricing
PRI Study
By: Erin Schiller
2.1.1998
In California, traffic congestion worsens every year. The economic and environmental costs that accompany this congestion pose a serious threat to the quality of life for all citizens. Mass transit, road expansion, and other traditional congestion relief programs are expensive, environmentally questionable, and ineffective in alleviating the problem, leaving transportation officials, legislators, and individual drivers to seek innovative solutions.
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