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Why California's "Budget Wolf" Has Returned
Capital Ideas
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
2.27.2008
SACRAMENTO – On February 16, Governor Schwarzenegger approved the California legislature's plan to deal with the "fiscal emergency" that the governor declared on January 10, two days after he said that the "budget wolf" that California had managed to avoid for two years was now back at the door.
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We're Number Eight: Decoding the Advanced Placement Spin
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
2.20.2008
SACRAMENTO – Last week the College Board released the results of Advanced Placement (AP) tests placing California eighth in the nation, with nearly one in five public school students scoring a college-credit-earning three or better on at least one 2007 AP exam. The news came with a positive spin, but there is a lot more to the story that policy makers and parents should know.
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What Now for California Health Care?
Capital Ideas
By: Diana M. Ernst
2.13.2008
Last month the Senate health committee dumped the Schwarzenegger/Núñez Model ABX1 1, California's trend-setting gadget for health-care repair. Senator Sheila Kuehl, who chairs that committee, tossed it for more personal reasons, other than the obvious $14-billion price tag and state budget deficit of similar size.
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California’s Broadband Bridge to Nowhere
Capital Ideas
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
2.6.2008
The California Broadband Task Force, convened by Governor Schwarzenegger, concluded last month that high-speed Internet access should be a public investment, much like roads and power lines. The CBTF proposes “state-issued broadband bonds” to bring ultra-fast connections to the state’s most desolate reaches. Without public subsidies, however, California already ranks first in the nation for availability of advanced broadband technologies.
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Defying Depression Stereotypes
Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
2.5.2008
Readers will recall that, in September, The Contrarian reviewed The Forgotten Man, by Amity Shlaes, a history of the Depression that charts the massive growth in government dating from the New Deal. For that reason alone we considered Amity's book a valuable work, and quite suitable for "women's studies," as well as a thoughtful holiday gift.
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California Health Care Deforminator: Model ABX1 1
Healthy California Series
By: John R. Graham
2.1.2008
Californians entered 2007 hopeful that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders would collaborate to find real solutions to overcome the “root causes” of rapidly increasing health costs, the growing number of uninsured, and the rise in small businesses increasingly unable to provide health benefits. Instead, they got a proposed tax increase.
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