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California Can Learn Health Care Lessons From Down Under
Capital Ideas
By: Diana M. Ernst
4.30.2008
Health care reform is still on the table in California, which should consider carefully the achievements and failings of foreign systems. Canada is the usual candidate but Australia’s health care strategies deserve a closer look.
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Earth Day Lessons for California
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
4.23.2008
SACRAMENTO – Earth Day events here were rather different this year. Car dealers showcased their latest hybrids, hippies were little in evidence, and the crowd was more upscale. There was even, yes, valet parking for bicycles. The baleful note of past events was missing and for that there is some justification.
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Can California Dig a Peripheral Canal?
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
4.15.2008
When rumors began circulating in late February that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was about to issue an executive order to study options for a peripheral canal that would divert water from the Sacramento River around the delicate Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, legislators, environmentalists, and central valley farmers alike felt the sting of an old wound. The bitter history and potential future of the peripheral canal idea underscores the need for effective and efficient solutions to California’s ever-growing problems of water supply.
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California Lawmaker Says Speech Should be Free on the Internet ... After Taxes?
Capital Ideas
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
4.9.2008
Next week California lawmakers meet to consider a new $500-million tax on Internet commerce. Some have dubbed this the “iTax” because of its application to Apple’s iTunes digital music store, but Assemblyman Charles Calderon (D-Whittier) is targeting more than just songs. In reality, AB 1956 is a “free speech tax” imposing fees on something most Internet users take for granted: the free and unfettered exchange of ideas.
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Commie Dearest
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
4.2.2008
SACRAMENTO – Today the Senate Education Committee holds a hearing on SB 1322, which allows members of the Communist Party USA to teach and hold meetings in California’s public schools. This measure, authored by state Sen. Alan Lowenthal, a southern California Democrat, has left many puzzled.
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Male-Female Facts and Fallacies
Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
4.1.2008
"History shows that the career paths of women over the course of the twentieth century bore little resemblance to a scenario in which variations in employer discrimination explain variations in women's career progress."
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