More Thoughts on Plastic Bag Bans
A couple of months ago, I wrote a column for the U-T San Diego on the proposed statewide plastic bag ban in California (which, thankfully, ended up going down to a narrow defeat in the state Senate)....
View ArticleCalifornia Legislators Propose $11 Billion In Higher Taxes And Fees
While refusing to take responsibility for over $100 billion in unfunded pension and retiree health care obligations, California legislators spent the current legislative session coming up with new ways...
View ArticleYet Another Pointless Contractor Sting Operation In California
The Contractors State License Board (CSLB) has announced that it had successfully busted 15 unlicensed contractors in a two-day sting operation in Concord, California. The announcement comes just ten...
View ArticleTaxpayers, Pensioners Riding a Wave of Bankruptcies in Detroit and California
Orange County Register Taxpayers, government workers and retirees alike have been riding a wave of municipal bankruptcies all across the country in recent years. In places such as Detroit and...
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Pioneering Social Impact Bonds in the United Kingdom
Innovators in Action 2013 One of the most interesting trends in public-private partnerships (PPPs) is performance-based contracting—also known as payment-by-results—in which part of the contracting...
View ArticleInnovators in Action: Pioneering Social Impact Bonds in the United Kingdom
The latest interview in Reason Foundation's Innovators in Action 2013 series focuses on social impact bonds, a relatively new—and increasingly popular—type of performance-based public-private...
View ArticleWhy Do Non-Violent Drug Offenders Need Treatment?
Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement that the Justice Department will be easing the use of draconian mandatory minimum sentences for low-level, non-violent drug offenders is certainly welcome...
View ArticleIs Elon Musk's Hyperloop the High-speed Transportation of the Future?
CNN.com Elon Musk unveiled his much anticipated plans for the Hyperloop by releasing his 57-page technical white paper titled "Hyperloop Alpha."The Hyperloop is intended to become the "fifth" mode of...
View ArticleHow to Fix Air Traffic Control
RealClearPolicy America's air-traffic-control (ATC) system lags far behind the state of the art, with technologies and procedures still based largely on what was modern 50 years ago (radar,...
View ArticleWill Elon Musk's Hyperloop Doom High-Speed Rail?
The DeVoe L. Moore Center at Florida State University Blog Elon Musk unveiled his pneumatic tube inspired Hyperloop, a “fifth mode” of transportation that he hopes will revolutionize intercity travel...
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