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California’s CARBon Conjecture
Capital Ideas
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
4.29.2009
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) last week passed the world’s first low carbon mandate for transportation fuels. Instead of treating all fuels equally, these regulations continue the state’s reliance on dubious science to pick winners and losers in the rapidly evolving and extremely complex market for clean technologies. As a result, all Californians could soon face higher prices and fewer choices at the pump.
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Tort Law Tally
PRI Study
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D, Nicole V. Crain, W. Mark Crain
4.28.2009
The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, released Tort Law Tally, a new report identifying which state tort reforms reduce tort losses and tort insurance premiums the most.
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A Proposition for Better Student Performance?
Capital Ideas
By: Evelyn B. Stacey
4.22.2009
The special election of May 19 is less than a month away and the California Teacher’s Association (CTA), the state’s most powerful union, is spending a lot of money to pass Propositions 1A and 1B. The measures, however, do nothing for education except make a complicated system more complicated.
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Agriculture and the Environment Are Not Opposing Forces
Envronmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
4.21.2009
Recently, thousands of farm workers and their supporters hit the road in California’s Central Valley to raise awareness of water shortages in the region that are threatening the livelihoods and communities that rely heavily on irrigated crops. The farmers’ most controversial target, arguably, is the Delta smelt.
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Report Card for the Diversity Racket
Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
4.7.2009
I do not know Charlotte Westerhaus but I do have some sympathy for her. The duties of her job, “vice president for diversity and inclusion” for the National Collegiate Athletic Association, include replying to charges that in 2008 the NCAA “lost ground for both their record for gender hiring practices and hiring practices by race.”
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President Obama's Education Vision Falls Short
Capital Ideas
4.1.2009
In early March, President Obama addressed the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on his vision for public education. The president promised that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan would move beyond party politics to use “only one test” when deciding how to use taxpayer money. That test would be “not whether an idea is liberal or conservative, but whether it works."
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