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UC Admissions: Same as the Old Boss?
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
10.29.2003
On October 1, Robert C. Dynes took over as president of University of California, replacing
Richard Atkinson, whose admissions policy presented the new UC president with his first problem. Californians
should be watching how, or rather if, he solves it.
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Infantopia
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
10.23.2003
SACRAMENTO, CA - Yes, it is true that "we spent too much" as Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante candidly conceded on television during the recall campaign. Mr. Bustamante's cure for this problem, taking even more money from the people, did not find much favor with voters. But beyond the simple arithmetic, and the obvious truth that a state should not spend more than it takes in, lies a broader malaise.
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Davis Was Carter But Is Arnold Another Reagan?
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
10.14.2003
It's not often that one gets to make a public prediction and have it come true. In April 1999, just after Gray Davis first took office as governor of California, I wrote a column for the California Journal that posited that the seemingly invincible Davis could become the next Jimmy Carter. Even at that early date the signs of Davis's ultimate failure were discernible for anyone willing to look closely.
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Bye-Bye Kyoto
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
10.8.2003
WASHINGTON, DC - Gray Davis's political career isn't the only thing circling the drain this week. Remember the Kyoto protocol on global warming? Russia is about to flush it.
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Arnold Wins, but is he Good for Silicon Valley?
ePolicy
10.8.2003
The political theater produced by California's recall election is fitting given that the people's replacement for Governor Gray Davis is a Hollywood mega-star. Arnold Schwarzenegger is famous for hi-tech movies such as "Terminator" and "Total Recall," but the question many are asking is: "Will he be good for Silicon Valley?"
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Language Police Brutality
By: Sally C. Pipes
10.1.2003
Last month NASA ended the career of the Galileo space probe by smashing it into Jupiter. As a reporter on National Public Radio noted, Galileo was an "unpersonned" space craft. Only language was injured.
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New Broadband Study Finds Fierce Competition in Small and Medium Enterprise Market
PRI Study
10.1.2003
This paper examines the level of competition for broadband services in the small and medium-sized business market to assess how well they are being served by a variety of broadband providers such as digital subscriber lines (DSL) and cable modem providers. That question is also being considered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which is currently debating whether to carve out a separate product market segment for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In a December 2001 inquiry,1 the FCC raised a number of important questions.
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