|
|
Publication Archive |
|
|
|
|
Blasting UC'S Comprehensive Review
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
11.26.2003
John Moores, chairman of the University of California board of regents, recently ignited a firestorm when he released two reports on the UC admissions process. The reports found that students with low test scores were being admitted to UC Berkeley and that many such students dropped out. But is this a
question of test scores or a racial balancing scheme that isn't working?
Read more
|
|
|
Taxpayers Funding Internet Tax Lobbyists
ePolicy
11.20.2003
A bill to permanently bar some taxes on Internet access is stalled in the U.S. Senate, despite swift passage two months ago by the House. Predictably, states and localities, ever eager for more revenue, are vigorously fighting the measure. But unbeknownst to millions of taxpayers who benefit from an online oasis is the fact that they are actually funding the lobbying effort for higher taxes.
Read more
|
|
|
Public Broadcasting?
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
11.19.2003
Joan Kroc, the heir to the McDonalds fortune who died last month in San Diego, left $200 million to National Public Radio. The gift, reportedly the largest of its kind in American history, is nearly twice NPR's annual budget of $103 million. It provides the opportunity to ponder the concept of public broadcasting, a classic misnomer.
Read more
|
|
|
The Choice Revolution
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
11.6.2003
Why aren't more women running the world? Because the best and brightest are choosing not to - and in increasing numbers. Intelligent, high-achieving women, loaded with advanced degrees from Harvard, Princeton, UCLA, and Stanford, are choosing family concerns over those of the workplace and the feminist movement.
Read more
|
|
|
An Idea Worth Considering
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
11.5.2003
With another large budget deficit facing California in 2004-05, conventional thinking isn't going to get the fiscal job done. Even the sacred cow of education funding shouldn't be exempt from new and better scrutiny. Assemblywoman Sharon Runner (R-Lancaster) has an idea that would save hundreds of millions of dollars per year, but which challenges the way early education has been done in California for years.
Read more
|
|
|
|
 |
