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New Year’s Resolution for California: Let Economic Freedom Ring
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
12.31.2008
SACRAMENTO – The year certainly boasted some highlights, including the Olympics and a much anticipated national election, but as 2008 winds to a close, the mood is not exactly upbeat in California. The economy has cooled off, and the “Golden State” finds itself staring down the barrel of a two-year deficit of $40 billion, or more. The state needs to thrive again, and there is a way to bring that about.
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Unhealthy Ballot Initiatives Feed the “Blob”
Capital Ideas
By: John R. Graham
12.23.2008
As California teeters on insolvency, Republican state legislators have proposed a budget that transfers $5 billion from two health care programs that are in surplus. The funds in question are for mental health and early childhood development. They are in "silos" because they were approved via propositions. To "break the bank," the Republican proposal has to go back to voters this spring. This invites the question of whether taxing and spending for specific health programs should be done through the initiative process.
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Will the EPA Have a Cow?
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
12.16.2008
In response to an April, 2007, Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently ended the public comment period on “proposed rulemaking” for regulating greenhouse gases. Buried within the proposal is a controversial measure for regulating methane from agricultural and livestock operations. While EPA bosses claim they do not intend to implement a “cow tax,” dairy and livestock producers are understandably nervous.
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Follow the Foster-Care Leader
Capital Ideas
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
12.10.2008
SACRAMENTO—With approximately 80,000 children, California has the nation’s largest foster-care population, according to the state’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care. Californians should keep a close watch on Arizona, where the fate of the country’s first K-12 scholarship program for foster-care students is now in the hands of the state supreme court.
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Cajun Care: Medicaid Reform in Louisiana
Health Policy Prescriptions
By: Adam Frey
12.10.2008
The election of Barack Obama and forthcoming nomination of Tom Daschle as secretary of Health and Human Services has given hope to advocates of government monopoly health care. As the Wall Street Journal noted on November 20, the appointment of Daschle, “puts a skilled navigator of Capitol Hill in charge of the president- elect’s bid to establish universal health care, which he has made a top priority.” However, current fiscal constraints may form a major barrier for any sort of universal plan.
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State Stem Cell Institute Short on Responsibility – and Results
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
12.3.2008
Last month, California’s Little Hoover Commission, a public watchdog agency, completed its first hearing on the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). The proceedings flagged problems of governance and responsibility with the state’s stem-cell institute. At the same time, a medical breakthrough in Europe points out the shortfall in CIRM results, though not in revenue.
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How Feminatics do the Math
Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
12.2.2008
The national election has finally passed, thankfully without any mandate for 50-50 gender representation of the kind favored by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. At last we can get caught up on an important story.
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