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“The Spending-Industrial Complex” and the Future of California
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
7.29.2009

SACRAMENTO – California’s current crisis, worst since the 1930s, has spurred talk of revising the state constitution. Legislators so inclined might first consider recommendations from the 1996 California Constitution Revision Committee, subject of a July 10 lecture by Fred Silva at the University of California’s Sacramento Center
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Politicians’ Broken Promises Shatter Hopes for DC Families
Capital Ideas
7.22.2009

President Obama recently promised to continue funding the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program by allowing students currently enrolled to complete their education. This decision will prevent many students from being forced from their schools of choice, but it fails to help the thousands of DC parents who hoped to use vouchers in the future to rescue their children from poorly performing and unsafe schools.

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U.S. Index of Health Ownership: 3rd Edition
PRI Publication
By: John R. Graham
7.21.2009

Americans continue to lack the basic freedom to make their own health care decisions according to this third edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, an annual report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI).
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California Counts the Cost on Climate Change Legislation
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
7.21.2009

Last week, an investment management and advisory firm comprised of professors from California State University, Sacramento, released a report attempting to estimate the costs to small businesses – and therefore to California’s economy – of implementing Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
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California Enterprise Value Index
PRI Study
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
7.20.2009

The California Enterprise Value Index is a measure of the enterprise value (EV) of publicly traded companies headquartered in California relative to the EV of all U.S. publicly traded companies. This is the first measure in an ongoing series.
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Americans Beware: “Healthy” San Francisco’s Tax Hikes May Be Coming Your Way
Capital Ideas
By: John R. Graham
7.15.2009

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently wrote a column for the Huffington Post promoting his Healthy San Francisco plan as a model for the federal “public option” touted by President Obama. Healthy San Francisco could be a model, but not in the way Mayor Newsom imagines.

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Medicaid’s Costs, Like Medicare’s, Have Risen Far More Than the Costs of Private Health Care
Health Policy Prescription
By: Jeffrey H. Anderson, Ph.D
7.14.2009

As the congressional debate heats up over President Obama’s proposed “public option” and his proposed expansion of Medicaid, the debate largely centers on the question of controlling costs. The president claims that more government control would make health care more affordable. The empirical evidence, however, confirms that more government control would make health care more expensive.
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Click Confidential: A Privacy Primer for the Social Web
PRI Study
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
7.8.2009

Click Confidential: A Privacy Primer for the Social Web, authored by Daniel Ballon, Ph.D., PRI senior fellow in technology studies, outlines the detrimental affects of government regulated privacy policy on emerging online businesses.
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Governor Schwarzenegger Takes a Stand for Tech
Capital Ideas
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
7.8.2009

Last week Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed a budget measure that would have cut off the livelihood of thousands of California’s small Internet businesses. As the state faces a $26 billion budget deficit and record high unemployment, Schwarzenegger declared that “we should be doing everything we can to keep jobs and create jobs in California.”
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California Feminist Seeking Young, Healthy Man to Subsidize Health Care Costs: Must Enjoy Higher Premiums
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
7.7.2009

Groups claiming to support women’s rights have recently thrown their support behind California bills AB 199 and SB 54, which would ban the practice of gender rating in the individual insurance market. If enacted, this legislation will have adverse consequences that seem to have escaped notice.
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Time to Sunset California’s “Relic” Stem Cell Institute
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
7.1.2009

SACRAMENTO – The governance of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state stem cell institute, is inadequate to protect the interests of taxpayers and CIRM’s own goals, according to Stem Cell Research: Strengthening Governance to Further the Voters’ Mandate, a June 25 report from the Little Hoover Commission, a state watchdog agency.

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