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TURNing A Profit on the Backs of Ratepayers
ePolicy
By: Vince Vasquez
2.25.2005
Every year California utility ratepayers unknowingly pay millions to political advocacy groups through a reimbursement scheme called “intervenor compensation.” This year policymakers should reconsider this process that bilks locals for questionable causes, high-priced attorneys, and special interests.
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California's Taxing Pension System
Capital Ideas
By: Anthony P. Archie
2.17.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - As the pension debate finally begins here this week, California's legislators should take note. California's current pension system is inherently unstable and its huge costs jeopardize the state's taxpayers.
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DQU R.I.P.
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
2.10.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - Most Californians have never heard of Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl University, which last month lost its accreditation. Policymakers, taxpayers, parents, and students may draw some lessons from the story. It began in 1970, when the U.S. Army announced plans to close a communications facility in Yolo County, west of Davis and not far from Sacramento.
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Is Judicial Budgeting in California's Education Future?
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
2.2.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - Although Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed budget increases education spending by nearly $3 billion, education interest groups are shooting for an even bigger share of the pie. One of their most controversial strategies is to bypass the legislative process and push for more spending through the courts.
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Crossed Lines: Regulatory Missteps in California Telecom Policy
By: Diane Katz, Theodore Bolema
2.1.2005
Modern telecommunications is a mind-boggling marvel of software, switches, and electromagnetic spectrum. But telecommunications policy doesn’t have to be complex if guided by fundamental American principles. Among the most basic of these principles is the protection of private property rights. But violation of this principle is the defining feature of current telecom policy, and thus a primary factor in America’s lowly ranking in the deployment of advanced technologies.
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