Archive for the ‘Recent News’ Category

Charter schools boost graduates

(Education Next) With roughly 30 percent of American students dropping out before receiving a diploma—a rate that has been stable for several decades—assessing existing alternatives to the traditional high school is an urgent task. Read the article <here>
April 22nd, 2010 | Education, Recent News | Read More

Can a higher income tax close the deficit?

(The Tax Foundation) The trouble with political discourse about the federal deficit is that voters are often numb to the subject, and as a result, politicians are able to avoid the unpopular votes for cutting spending or raising taxes. Whether deficits are expressed in hundreds of billions of dollars...
April 22nd, 2010 | Recent News | Read More

Vanpools in the Puget Sound region

(Washington Policy Center) As traffic congestion and the financial and environmental costs of commuting continue to rise, a once overlooked transit alternative has quietly become an effective option for many motorists: vanpooling. Instead of spending more public funds on public bus services, light rail...
April 22nd, 2010 | Economics, Recent News | Read More

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

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

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

Event: Panel discussion with Irish Documentary Filmmakers to Address Climate Change

Anchorage, Alaska – Irish Filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer will be at the Wendy Williamson Auditorium on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus, January 26, to present their new film to Alaska audiences. The documentary describes the politics behind the fears of climate change and suggests...
January 16th, 2010 | Recent News | Read More

Moving the health care debate beyond talking points

By Jeremy Thompson While it appears the national debate over health care reform is on hold, don’t kid yourself. Health care is an issue that will work its way to the top of the priority list again. Moving one’s view of health care reform beyond reaction and talking points will be critical for understanding...
January 15th, 2010 | Recent News | Read More

Competition, not spending, will improve the performance of the Anchorage School District

By Bob Griffin 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. The facts show that more financial resources will not increase student achievement and lower dropout rates. Unfortunately,...
January 10th, 2010 | Recent News | Read More
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