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Women Entrepreneurs Sound Off
The Contrarian
By: Joelle Cowan
7.26.2001
Most female entrepreneurs support families, almost all started their own businesses out of a desire to be in charge, and many find obstacles in high taxes and endless bureaucracy. Those are the results of a survey of more than 36,000 businesses by the New York Women’s Agenda and New York City Comptroller Alan Hevesi.
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More Electricity Problems for Davis
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
7.24.2001
On the surface, things seem to be going pretty good for Gov. Gray Davis with regard to California’s electricity crisis. The governor has scored some nice publicity by switching on some new power plants. The weather has been unseasonably cool. His poll numbers are edging back up. Yet beneath this optimistic picture lie troubling problems.
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Fannie Mae Is No Free Lunch For Taxpayers
Action Alerts
By: Laura Dykes, Randall Rohn
7.23.2001
Congress created Fannie Mae, the Federal National Mortgage Association, during the Depression to make home mortgages more available. While home ownership is still part of the American dream, most people never think about the considerable risks that Fannie Mae poses to taxpayers.
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The Condit Conspiracy
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
7.20.2001
Rep. Gary Condit, the Modesto Democrat who remains curiously agnostic about the whereabouts of one Chandra Levy, his good friend and a missing intern, has a facet that has escaped discussion. And if television viewers think they saw Rep. Condit years earlier, they might well have.
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Why State Antitrust Enforcement is Bad Policy
Action Alerts
By: Helen Chaney
7.16.2001
Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of California, has requested—and the Assembly and Senate have supported—a roughly 400-percent budget increase for his office to prosecute antitrust complaints against the high-tech sector. This measure, if passed, will harm consumers by arming a campaign to capture private benefits at the public’s expense.
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Atkinson's UC Admissions Bamboozle
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
7.2.2001
At the June meeting of the California Postsecondary Education Commission, UC President Richard Atkinson tried to convince commissioners of the soundness of his plan to eliminate the SAT I as a UC admissions tool. Rather than make a persuasive case, however, Atkinson offered his version of the "Great Bamboozle."
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