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Protecting Your Privacy: Who Should Do It?
Action Alerts
1.18.2000
Internet privacy will be one of the hottest issues of the new millennium, a fact which has not been lost on California’s bureaucrats. Busy thinking of new and improved ways to regulate consumers, one wonders if any of them found time to celebrate the holidays.
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Rethinking the Federal Role in California Schools: Proposals for Reform
PRI Education Study
By: Tom Dawson
1.15.2000
For too long, federal regulations and funding have helped stymie education reform in California. Attention here and across the country should be directed to finding a substantive but limited role for the federal government to play. Washington can help by stepping out of the way, while empowering California students, parents, teachers, and policymakers to bypass federal bureaucracy and to improve the state’s schools.
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The "ism" of the 21st Century
The Contrarian
By: Naomi Lopez
1.14.2000
The recent comments by Vice President Al Gore’s national campaign manager, Donna Brazile, confirm that there is no gender gap when it comes to paternalism, petty partisanship, backward thinking, and the unraveling of the progress and achievements by minorities in the 20th century.
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Regulate the Regulators
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
1.11.2000
Last week, the Department of Labor hastily withdrew an OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) ruling that employers would be responsible for the working conditions of home-based employees. What is remarkable about this episode is that it is not remarkable, but rather typical.
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Stop Government Sprawl
Action Alerts
By: Laura Steadman
1.10.2000
Urban sprawl has been resurrected from the 1960s and declared a national problem for the 1990s. But attempts to halt the menace defy common sense. Consider, for example, the case of San Jose, CA, mainstay of Silicon Valley.
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Democrats and School Choice
Capital Ideas
1.5.2000
At a legislative hearing last year, prominent Democratic State Senators John Vasconcellos and Tom Hayden warned representatives of the public-education establishment that unless California’s public schools improved soon they would consider supporting school-choice vouchers.
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Will regulators allow the Internet to reshape politics?
E-Clips
By: Justin Matlick
1.1.2000
As campaign 2000 accelerates, political web sites and the promise of online voting are reshaping the political landscape. This evolution will only continue if Internet democracy remains unhindered by partisan regulations.
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