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Eminent Domain abuse in the name of development

(Reason TV) A small business is fighting for its life in Brooklyn, New York. (Previous 2009 article)
April 22nd, 2010 | Policy, Recent News | Read More

What really drives healthcare spending

(Wall Street Journal) Jason Fodeman and Robert Book from The Heritage Foundation explain that the main problem with health care is a pricing system that insulates both patients and producers from normal market incentives. Read the article <here>
April 22nd, 2010 | Health Care | Read More

Take a pass on trains

(Cato Institute) Michigan should be grateful the federal government allocated only $244 million to the Detroit-Chicago high-speed rail corridor. To qualify for the really big federal rail grants, California and Florida agreed to put up billions of dollars of their taxpayers’ money — money...
April 22nd, 2010 | Recent News | Read More

Better options than a health insurance mandate

(Insurance News Net) From Arnold Kling at the Mercatus Center and Nick Schulz at AEI: Forcing consumers to buy health insurance may benefit insurance companies, health-care providers and other special interests, but it is not good public policy. Read the article <here>
April 22nd, 2010 | Recent News | Read More

Falling crime rates can’t be explained despite the recession

(Wall Street Journal) Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald explains how falling crime rates are demolishing the theory that unemployment causes crime. Read the article <here> Watch the video <here>
April 22nd, 2010 | Recent News | Read More

How competitive contracts can help WA’s budget

(Washington Policy Center) Washington lawmakers again face a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, meaning they will either increase the amount of money they collect from citizens each year, or re-evaluate the way they deliver core services to the public. Read the PDF <here>
April 22nd, 2010 | Economics, Recent News | Read More

Are non-profits in healthcare more efficient?

(Goldwater Institute) With the possible exception of education, perhaps nowhere is the notion of profit more widely condemned than in health care. Economic principles and econometric studies indicate that for profit health care providers are just as effective, if not more effective, at providing health...
April 22nd, 2010 | Health Care | Read More

High-risk pools better for insured

Funding state high-risk pools a better alternative for the uninsured (Council for Affordable Health Insurance) One of the key issues in the health care reform debate is how to guarantee the uninsured, and especially those with a pre-existing medical condition, have access to affordable health insurance...
April 22nd, 2010 | Health Care, Issues | Read More

Former Crime Lab Director Criticizes New Proposal

Former Crime Lab Director Criticizes New Proposal
Former crime lab director, George Taft, criticizes proposed crime lab and recommends Alaska Policy Forum report.  April 5, 2010 Anchorage, Alaska – Another former director of the Alaska State Crime Lab has expressed his opposition to the crime lab replacement project as it has been currently proposed...
April 22nd, 2010 | Accountability, Featured | Read More

APF presents before Muni Budget Group

APF presents before Anchorage Municipality Budget Working Group: Better Student Outcomes; More Choices Alaska Policy Forum Research Fellow Bob Griffin presented before a budget working group for the Municipality of Anchorage on ways the Anchorage School District can improve its performance. Press Release Power...
April 22nd, 2010 | Education | Read More

Stimulate Economic Education

Dave Cuddy Every generation in America…until this one…has endeavored to deliver a better quality of life, and an improved nation to our children. For the first time in our country’s history, we have failed in this challenge. The economic meltdown is unlike anything in most of our memories....
April 22nd, 2010 | Economics | Read More

ASD: Competition, not spending

 Competition, not spending, will improve the performance of the Anchorage School District Bob Griffin, Research Fellow in Education Policy For those who seek a better value education (better results at a lower cost) in Anchorage, policies with proven results are the only ones that should be considered....
April 22nd, 2010 | Education | Read More

Better Education Value for Anchorage

Better Education Value for Anchorage
Download a hardcopyhere (PDF). Recently, the Anchorage School District (ASD) requested community input to assist the District and the School Board in managing their budget. The question under consideration was how to close an anticipated budget gap for FY 2011. We at the Alaska Policy Forum attended...
April 22nd, 2010 | Education, Featured | Read More

The best form of transparency

The best form of transparency
For some, the word “transparency” may seem like a political football. While there exist those who do use it as such, there is a larger worldwide effort to change the perception about government data and its usefulness to the public. Can more disclosure of government data be useful to Alaskans? Alaska...
April 20th, 2010 | Accountability, Featured | Read More

Let the Climategate Hearings Begin

Let the Climategate Hearings Begin
By Kenneth Green Climate skeptics are having a field day, celebrating the firestorm of controversy surrounding the UK’s Hadley Center Climate Research Unit (CRU), until recently, the world’s leading climate research center. One skeptic, a Canadian named Steve McIntyre has particular cause for doing...
April 20th, 2010 | Featured, Recent News | Read More

Former Crime Lab Director George Taft Recommends AFP Report

ANCHORAGE, AK – Another former director of the Alaska State Crime Lab has expressed his opposition to the crime lab replacement project as it has been currently proposed by the Department of Public Safety and has recommended the report released by the Alaska Policy Forum which addresses the merits...
April 5th, 2010 | Featured, Recent News | Read More
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