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- What Sub-Saharan Africa Can Teach San Francisco
Mass transit doesn’t have to mean massive government spending.
G. Pascal Zachary
May 17, 2011 - [Op-Ed] Don’t Close State Parks; Lease Them
Harris Kenny
May 16, 2011, 2:20pm - California Provides the Case in Point Against National Curriculum
Lisa Snell
May 16, 2011, 2:17pm - Time to Eliminate the Blight of California's Redevelopment Agencies
Examples in San Jose and other areas show how redevelopment agencies fail taxpayers
Adam Summers
April 26, 2011 - Happy Tax Freedom Day, California!
Adam Summers
April 16, 2011, 7:35pm - CA Gov. Brown Signs Inmate Transfer Bill AB 109
Harris Kenny
April 6, 2011, 12:40pm - California High-Speed Rail: Next Stop, Bankruptcy
Adam Summers
April 4, 2011, 3:31am - California High-Speed Rail
The next stop is bankruptcy
Adam Summers
April 3, 2011 - Summers on Public Pay and Pensions in Minnesota and Elsewhere
Adam Summers
March 31, 2011, 3:59pm - Opposing View: Fast Train to Nowhere
Would truly high-speed rail work in the USA?
Robert Poole
March 30, 2011 - Little Hoover Commission Report Paints Dire Picture of California Public Pensions
Adam Summers
March 30, 2011, 3:39pm - CA Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher Co-Authors Budget Reform Bill
Adam Summers
March 27, 2011, 10:24pm - The $6 Billion Scam
Jerry Brown’s plan to kill community “redevelopment” is fiscally smart, morally right, and probably doomed.
Tim Cavanaugh
March 17, 2011 - Bill Gates on State Budgets, Entitlement Spending and Education Cuts
Harris Kenny
March 7, 2011, 11:00pm - Has Anybody Seen Jimmy Carter Lately?
At this point, would America settle for a new 1980s?
Tim Cavanaugh
March 4, 2011 - Evaluating the Nunes Pension Reform Bill
New legislation is a step in the right direction, but more fundamental reforms are needed
Adam Summers
March 1, 2011 - The Golden State Is Made of Lead
Pollyannas say we’ll all be going back to Cali. I don’t think so.
Tim Cavanaugh
February 25, 2011 - State of the State: California in 2011
Harris Kenny
February 18, 2011, 3:40pm - Privatization and Public-Private Partnership Trends in State Government
State Government Privatization Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2010
Leonard Gilroy, Harris Kenny, Shirley Ybarra and Tyler Millhouse
February 18, 2011 - Farewell, My Lovely
How public pensions killed progressive California
Tim Cavanaugh
February 16, 2011 - L.A. Chamber of Commerce Calls for Pension, Health Care Benefits Reform
Adam Summers
February 15, 2011, 11:19pm - CA Gov. Brown Orders 50% Reduction in State Vehicle Fleet
Harris Kenny
February 9, 2011, 10:00am - The Unseen Consequences of "Green Jobs"
Will investing in clean energy harm the economy?
Ronald Bailey
February 8, 2011 - CA High Speed Rail Costs up Over 50 Percent
Adrian Moore
February 8, 2011, 1:25pm - Group Seeks to End Collective Bargaining for Public Employees in California
Adam Summers
February 6, 2011, 5:33pm - Balancing California’s Budget and Preserving State Parks
Harris Kenny
February 4, 2011, 5:42pm - Should Government Employees Receive Different Retirement Benefits Than Private Workers?
Adam Summers
January 14, 2011, 2:55pm - Implementing Partnerships in California
Adrian Moore
January 11, 2011, 11:49pm - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Gov. Jerry Brown's California Budget Proposal
Adam Summers
January 11, 2011, 5:30pm - Brown's Budget Cut Plans Emerge
Adrian Moore
January 4, 2011, 11:46pm - Jerry Brown to CA: "Hey, Remember Those 'Temporary' Tax Increases...?"
David Godow
January 4, 2011, 11:22am - Top 10 Reasons Business Is Leaving California
Adrian Moore
December 27, 2010, 5:04pm - Significant Reform Needed to Address California's Public Pension Burden
Adam Summers
December 7, 2010, 2:02pm - California Budget Deficit Already Back Up to $25.4 Billion
Adam Summers
November 11, 2010, 1:10pm - “It’s No Longer a Matter of If, It’s a Matter of When”
Staying high on marijuana legalization after the defeat of Proposition 19
Brian Doherty
November 5, 2010 - CA Prop. 21 Struck Down by Voters
Harris Kenny
November 3, 2010, 3:43pm - CA Ballot Proposition Results--First Cut
Adrian Moore
November 3, 2010, 12:06am - How Do Solve a Problem Like California
Adrian Moore
November 2, 2010, 11:34pm - CA Can't Even Manage Election Results Web Page
Adrian Moore
November 2, 2010, 11:27pm - California's Prop 21: Tax Cars to Pay for Parks?
Adam Summers and Harris Kenny
November 2, 2010, 10:15am - California's Prop 23 Offers Voters Choice: Green Lobby or Economic Activity
Adam Summers
November 1, 2010, 4:29pm - San Diego Prop D Promises Reforms, But Only if Taxpayers Cough Up Hundreds of Millions in Taxes
Adam Summers
October 31, 2010, 11:58pm - Another Study Claims Government Workers Are Undercompensated
Adam Summers
October 31, 2010, 9:42pm - California Props 20 & 27: Redistricting, Round 2
Adam Summers
October 31, 2010, 2:19pm - Strange Love
How I learned to stop worrying and embrace the equal protection argument for gay marriage
Jacob Sullum
October 26, 2010 - Sacramento Über Alles
Jerry Brown’s plan to revive California through government alone
Tim Cavanaugh
October 20, 2010 - The Last Action Hero
After seven years that felt like a thousand, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger bequeaths a slightly larger government to a sickly state.
Tim Cavanaugh
October 18, 2010 - Study: California Faces $379 Billion Retirement Liability
Adam Summers
October 6, 2010, 11:06pm - Report Details Excessive Public Pensions in San Diego
Adam Summers
October 4, 2010, 6:39pm - California’s Prop. 21 Would Perpetuate the State’s Parks Plight
Harris Kenny
September 28, 2010, 12:43am
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Featured Research
- The Next California Budget
Eliminating California's deficit and fixing the budget process through "Budgeting for Outcomes" - Public-Private Partnerships for Corrections in California
Bridging the gap between crisis and reform - How to Fix California's Public Pension Crisis
How the state's public pension system broke and how to fix it
California Blog
- Saving California State Parks through Public-Private Partnerships (6/1)
- Public-Private Partnerships Could Save State Parks (5/31)
- New at Reason: Savings for Fresno—The Role of Privatization (5/30)
- ANALYSIS: Is Managed Competition Dead in San Diego? (5/6)
- ANALYSIS: San Diego, San Jose Lead the Way in Local Pension Reform (5/6)
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