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Which Way to Las Vegas?
Capital Ideas
By: Anthony P. Archie
12.20.2006
SACRAMENTO, CA—Last week, the California Department of Finance released figures showing that the number of California residents moving out of the state exceeded the number of individuals moving in. While the overall population increased due to foreign immigration, domestic migrants on net left the Golden State. This is hardly a surprise given that California continues to foster an economic climate that’s unfriendly to entrepreneurship.
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Follow the Money: Why California Educators Manipulate Migrants and English
Capital Ideas
By: Rachel Chaney
12.13.2006
On December 1, a federal audit of California's classification system for migrant students revealed that 74 percent of those identified as migrants were actually stationary, and hence did not qualify for
special federal funding. That finding clashes with California's own self-examination, which claimed that only five percent of migrant schoolchildren were incorrectly identified. What accounts for such a wide discrepancy?
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A Tale of Two Jennifers
By: Sally C. Pipes
12.12.2006
The media were so busy spinning the November 7 election as a Democratic coronation and surrender in Iraq that a resounding victory over discrimination failed to receive the attention it deserved. Proposal 2, the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, passed with an impressive 58 percent of the vote. Key politicians, however, were not reaching for the champagne.
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Loan Rangers Rule at the University of California
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
12.6.2006
Legislators here recently learned something that, like most Californians, they didn't know. The University of California, the state's premier public institution of higher education, also functions as a real-estate loan firm, but only for select clients. Business is booming, in ways not envisioned at the outset.
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Union Front-Group CURE Earns California Golden Fleece Award
California Golden Fleece Award
12.5.2006
Southern California's need for electricity, combined with an abundance of land in the western reaches of Riverside County, has caused several power plants to sprout up in the Inland Empire over the past few years. Two of these plants are unique, not only in the region but in the state.
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Holiday Season Prescription for Trans-Fatty Temptations: Leave Portly Government Policies Out
Health Policy Prescriptions
By: Diana M. Ernst
12.1.2006
The holiday season is here and merry Americans are filling their shopping bags and stomachs with celebratory “surplus.” As a result, the giving season always bears unwelcome gifts for hips and bellies. Of course, too much fat is nothing to celebrate, but recently, it’s not about the amount but rather the kind of fat you eat. Trans fats are the worst among them. As usual, government has arrived at the scene like an anti-fat super hero to save Americans from themselves.
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