The FCCâ??s Broadband Plan: The Devil Will Be in the Details
Politico’s Playbook earlier today released what is described as “a late draft” of the executive summary of the FCC’s Broadband Plan, due to be delivered to Congress Wednesday. The document is long on...
View ArticleReason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey Episode Guide
Cleveland was one of America’s 10 largest cities in 1950. By the 2000 Census it wasn’t in the top 30. And from 2000 to 2007, only New Orleans - devastated by Hurricane Katrina - lost more of its...
View ArticleThe Decline of Cleveland: Episode 1 of Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey
In the opening Reason Saves Cleveland video, Drew Carey describes his love for the city, its history, its woes and why he launched this project: “As you know, I’m from Cleveland, Ohio. I love...
View ArticleFixing Cleveland's Public Schools: Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey...
The Cleveland Municipal School District spends over $14,000 per student. Yet only 54 percent of students graduate from high school and the district is failing to meet 27 out of 30 Ohio performance...
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Local Government Privatization 101
"It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided."â??former New York Governor Mario Cuomo"Privatize everything you can."â??Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (advice...
View ArticleTen Privatization Opportunities for Cleveland
Cleveland policymakers need all of the policy tools at their disposal as they grapple with the lingering fiscal effects of the recession and the challenge of repositioning the city to better compete in...
View ArticlePre-Crime Policing
To hear them tell it, the five police agencies who apprehended 39-year-old Oregonian David Pyles early on the morning of March 8 thwarted another lone wolf mass murderer. The police "were able to...
View Articleâ??You Cut Spendingâ??
In 1999, a year after winning a second and final term as Republican governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson became the most prominent politician in the United States to call for legalizing marijuana. He...
View ArticleThe Wrong Kind of Toyotathon
Tales of runaway cars have a long history. The first sudden acceleration study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was done in 1978 and the agency had conducted more than 100...
View ArticlePrivatize It: Episode 3 of Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey
With all of its problems should Cleveland’s government be running shopping markets and golf courses? “No, of course not,” Drew Carey says.Selling off golf courses, contracting out parking concessions,...
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Services That Local Governments Can Privatize
An excerpt of Leonard Gilroy's new policy brief Local Government Privatization 101:Where Can—or Can't—Local Governments Apply Privatization?Local policymakers often ask a very simple question: "where...
View ArticleCalifornia Teachers Association $212 Million Political Spending Spree
The Sacramento Bee'sCapitol Alert reports that the California Teacher's Association is the number one political spender in the state of California.The California Fair Political Practices Commission...
View ArticleLouisiana Announces Privatization of Insurance Program
In what's shaped up as a "Privatization Day" of sorts at Reasonâ??with our new Reason.tv "Privatize It!" video and two new privatization policy briefs here and hereâ??it seems fitting to report some...
View ArticleTen Steps to Brings Jobs and Businesses Back to Cleveland and Other Big Cities
Cleveland is one of the best examples of a big American city struggling with the economic transitions and transformations brought about by today’s globally competitive services-based economy. As...
View ArticleRejuvenating Urban America Through Land Use and Housing Policy Reform
Traditional cities in the U.S. suffer from an older, less desirable housing stock. Redeveloping housing will be central to their revitalization and rejuvenation. Unfortunately, the very policies...
View ArticleHow Cities Can Take Care of Businesses
The Internet and globalization have both made it possible to operate a business from virtually anywhere and still serve a wide range of customers. Most firms no longer need to be located in downtowns...
View ArticleDeath in Juarez
few weeks ago, I debated drug policy with Ron Brooks, president of the National Narcotics Officers Association, on John Stossel's Fox Business show. When Stossel asked him about the violence fostered...
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The Death of Fiscal Federalism
Last May the Obama administration forced South Carolina not just to take its share of federal stimulus funds, but to spend the money on new programs rather than paying down the state’s debt. I was...
View ArticleCalifornia Pink Slip Mania 2010: Quality-Based Layoff Edition
As the AP reports this week, California's budget crisis could cost nearly 22,000 teachers their jobs this year.State school districts had issued 21,905 pink slips to teachers and other school employees...
View ArticleImproving the Economies and Business Climates In Struggling Cities
Policies that focus on making entrepreneurship easy and affordable will be milestones in leading a city to a thriving economy. Reducing the tax burden on small businesses will encourage new types of...
View ArticleWhy the Jobs Bill Passed Today Hurts College Students
It was right around this time, mid-March, during my senior year that I got my first job coming out of college. Of course it wouldn't start until after I graduated, but I, like all my classmates, were...
View ArticleReason Saves Cleveland Schools: Follow Detroit Edition?
As Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey, the one consolation for Cleveland is that they were not Detroit. However, Cleveland could look to Detroit's new school plan as a robust example of how to Fix...
View ArticleDoes Planning Hurt Revitalization in Big Cities?
Reason.tv continues to release videos on Cleveland hosted by Drew Carey and the problems of revitalizing big cities. Today, the focus is on streamlining government to encouarge business development,...
View ArticleCensus: Fill Out Form So We Can Spend More Money
I received my census form in the mail yesterday with a nice note from the Census Bureau urging me to fill it out as soon as possible. The argument the Census Bureau used to get me to fill out the form...
View ArticlePoliticians Smother Cities
I like my hometown, but I must admit that New York has problems: high taxes, noise, traffic. Forbes magazine just ranked my city the 16th most miserable in America. Ouch! Of course, that makes me...
View ArticleThe Obama "Narrative" Narrative
"Every successful [political] campaign," Jon Taplin noted last month over at TPMCafe, "has a narrative." And "if there's one note that runs through many of the theories as to why Obama has disappointed...
View ArticleEncourage Bottom-Up Redevelopment: Episode 5 of Reason Saves Cleveland With...
While the city crumbled, Cleveland taxpayers were paying huge amounts to subsidize stadiums. The next big taxpayer-funded boondoggle is the new convention center. “I didn’t know Cleveland was such a...
View ArticleIn for a Dime, In for a Dollar
When I heard about the proposal to replace Ulysses S. Grant with Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill, I had two thoughts. The first: Grant is on the $50 bill? The second: Jimmy Carter is going to be furious....
View ArticleHow to Repopulate Cleveland And Other Once-Great American Cities
No city can exist without people. Cleveland’s population has declined from nearly 1 million in the 1950s to about 430,000. Many of these people have moved to nearby suburbs, causing city population...
View ArticleLouis Brandeisâ?? Partial Justice
Louis D. Brandeis: A Life, by Melvin I. Urofsky, Pantheon Books, 976 pages, $40In June 1928, the Harvard law professor and future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter received a letter from his...
View ArticleActually, The Process Does Matter
The Democratic Party believes so deeply in the will of the American people that it may courageously not vote on a bill that it couldn't pass.It was The Washington Post that recently compressed the...
View ArticleHighway Trust Fund Solvent for Another Nine Months
In the midst of the health care debate, the President signed the HIRE Act (Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act) containing several transportation provisions including an extension of the...
View ArticleEducation Lessons Are Lost on Obama
I can't pinpoint the moment when the Obama administration went wrong on the subject of education. But I can pinpoint the moment when it demonstrated that it can't be taken seriously.It happened on...
View ArticleDr. Obama's Idea of Change
Courtesy John Goodman at the National Center for Policy Analysis, here is the change you can look forward to under ObamaCare:19 millionNumber of people predicted to lose their employer plan (Lewin...
View ArticleThe Lie of Fiscal Responsibility
As Democrats made cable-news victory laps in the wake of securing the necessary votes to pass a massive legislative overhaul of the American health care system, there was much talk of history—making...
View ArticleHealth-Care Reform Attacks Federalism
Federalism is one of the bedrock principles of American governance. I wonder how many Congressman really understood how the health-care reform plan passed by Congress on Sunday really was a direct...
View ArticleBailing Out Big Brother
The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again, by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols, Nation Books, $26.95At the dawn of the new millennium, when...
View ArticleVideo: Interview on What's Wrong With the Jobs Bill
Interview on RT about the problems with the jobs bill.For more see this see this blog post from last week.
View ArticleRecent News Links on Mobility and Transportation
The American Dream Coalition has convassed news outlets and found these news links on transportation policy and mobility:Taking the Driver Out of the Car– Randal O’Toole, Wall Street JournalCar...
View ArticleLos Angeles Unified to Restrict School Transfers and School Choice
Los Angeles will deny students transfers to other surrounding school districts like Culver City and Torrance so LAUSD can keep the per pupil funding.Culver City, Santa Monica-Malibu and Las Virgenes...
View ArticleReason Calls for GSE Privatization... in 2005
I was searching some of the Reason archieves this morning and came across this blog post from 2005: "Privatize Fannie and Freddie?" In the post my colleauge Len Gilroy cites an article from the now...
View ArticleMissing the Story
Has anyone checked the Internet connection at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute lately? Last week, the Institute announced the nominees for its “Top Ten Works of Journalism of...
View ArticleHealth Care 2020
March 23, 2020—At the beginning of the last decade, there was great excitement about the future of medicine. Advances in biotechnology, nanotechnology, diagnostics, information technology, stem cell...
View ArticleHousing and Land Use News Article Links
The American Dream Coalition will be holding its annual conference on free-market approaches to transportation, land use, and urban development in Orlando, Florida on Jun 10-12, 2010. Check out the...
View ArticleAnother Senseless Drug War Death
The Jonathan Ayers story was already outrageous enough. Last September, Ayers, a 28-year-old Baptist pastor from Lavonia, Georgia, was gunned down by a North Georgia narcotics task force in the parking...
View ArticleDonâ??t Fear the E-Reader
When online super-retailer Amazon.com first released its Kindle e-reader in the fall of 2007, David Pogue, the influential New York Times tech columnist, exclaimed that the gadget’s “instant wireless...
View ArticleThe Politics of High Speed Rail Policymaking....
Florida received $1.25 billion of the federal government's $8 billion allocation to high-speed rail projects. It would be hard to find a state rail plan that flies in the face of Obama's commitment to...
View ArticleHigh-Speed Rail Meets Alice in Wonderland
In a scene fitting for a Lewis Carroll novel--perhaps this is nonsense business management rather than nonsense literature, Amtrak is reorganizing itself so that it can compete for high-speed rail...
View ArticleU.S Education Secretary Arne Duncan Won't Support School Choice for Poor D.C....
US Education Secretary Arne Duncan has been unwilling to support the DC Opportunity Scholarship program that allows disadvantaged students to attend higher-quality DC private schools and even rescinded...
View ArticleNew Jersey Gov. Christie: Skip Raises to Avoid Teacher Layoffs
Teacher layoffs create more public sympathy for increasing education funding than wage freezes. However, school districts could freeze wages and have employees contribute to health benefits rather than...
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