Reason 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Opportunity Scholarship program that allows disadvantaged students to attend higher-quality DC private schools and even rescinded...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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