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- Jindal, Christie, Kasich and Other Governors Pursue Privatization
Annual Privatization Report examines how state governments are enlisting the private sector to reduce spending on health insurance, roads, lotteries, alcohol, prisons and more
April 24, 2012 - Study Proposes Major Improvements for Southeast Florida Transportation Plan
Report details how to reduce traffic congestion in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach by 13 percent and increase Gross Regional Product by $3.5 billion a year
March 27, 2012 - Reason-Rupe Poll: President Obama Leads Romney by Six, and He's Ahead of Paul, Santorum by 10
Romney leads Santorum 39-26 in GOP primary and poll examines what Hillary Clinton's impact would be as VP
March 26, 2012 - New Reason-Rupe Poll: Americans Think Health Care and Broccoli Mandates Are Unconstitutional
Voters want to shop around for health insurance and are open to changing Medicare for people not yet receiving it
March 26, 2012
Reason Foundation Commentaries
- Proposition 29 - A Cigarette Tax with Good Intentions But Disastrous Methods
Why California voters should think twice before voting in favor of this ballot initiative
Adrian Moore
May 24, 2012 - States and Cities Going Private With Infrastructure Investment
Leonard Gilroy and Harris Kenny
May 24, 2012 - Parking Privatization Blossomed in 2011
Several city, university parking privatization initiatives advanced in 2011
Harris Kenny
May 22, 2012 - States Exploring Private Lottery Management
Illinois launched a groundbreaking privatization of lottery management in 2011 to increase revenues. Other states eye similar deals
Leonard Gilroy
May 21, 2012 - Reason Foundation, Bipartisan Policy Center, Building America's Future and Others Urge Congress to Give State and Local Governments More Transportation Flexibility
Fix the highway bill so state and local governments have flexibility to use pricing, private capital and other needed funding sources
Shirley Ybarra
May 16, 2012 - Puerto Rico Building Robust Infrastructure Privatization Program
Puerto Rico advanced public-private partnerships in schools, highways and aviation in 2011
Leonard Gilroy
May 15, 2012 - California Library Privatization Success in Jeopardy
Meanwhile, successful partnerships thrive in Florida, Oregon and elsewhere
Harris Kenny
May 15, 2012 - Tulsa, Jacksonville Mayors Pursuing Public-Private Partnerships
Two first-term mayors hit the ground running in 2011
Harris Kenny
May 15, 2012 - Villaraigosa Administration Advocating Reform in Los Angeles
Debate over city-owned parking garages and zoo continues, progress made elsewhere
Harris Kenny
May 15, 2012 - Emanuel Administration Embracing Private Sector Competition in Chicago
New $7 billion infrastructure trust developing alongside initiatives in recycling, water and elsewhere
Harris Kenny
May 15, 2012 - Kasich Administration Advanced Privatization in Ohio in 2011
Initiatives advanced in economic development, asset realignment and more
Leonard Gilroy
May 15, 2012 - Jindal Continued Louisiana Privatization Push in 2011
Initiatives advanced in Medicaid, public employee health care and more
Leonard Gilroy
May 15, 2012 - Christie Administration Expanded Privatization Portfolio in New Jersey in 2011
Initiatives advanced in toll collection, road maintenance, racing facilities and more
Leonard Gilroy
May 15, 2012 - High Unemployment the New Normal
The headline unemployment statistics are wrong; unemployment is higher than 8.1 percent and it will be for a while
Anthony Randazzo
May 14, 2012 - How to Restore Trust in Mortgage-Backed Securities
Perpetuating government control of housing finance in today’s era of high deficits is unaffordable
Anthony Randazzo and Marc Joffe
May 10, 2012 - A Better Way to Limit Congestion on Roads
How applying the Managed Lanes concept to arterials could reduce traffic
Robert Poole and Chris Swenson
May 9, 2012 - Competition Would Improve North Carolina's Correctional Healthcare Delivery
Letter to the Editor Submitted to The News & Observer
Harris Kenny
May 9, 2012 - How to Reduce the Government's Trillions In Housing Credit Risk
New ideas for the mortgage reform debate
Anthony Randazzo and Marc Joffe
May 7, 2012 - Lawmakers Should Delay Implementing Positive Train Control
Why this costly tool isn't the only answer to commuter train safety
Baruch Feigenbaum
May 3, 2012 - U.S. Transportation Public-Private Partnerships at Risk
Why it's important to debunk false claims against PPPs
April 30, 2012 - Tax Incentive Program is a Misguided Attempt to Create Jobs
Senate Bill 124 would set loose a broken program that should be reined in.
Harris Kenny
April 28, 2012 - Californians Being Taken for a Ride on High-Speed Rail
Why California's latest high-speed rail plan lacks merit
Adam Summers
April 27, 2012 - Midtown Tunnel Likely Dies without Tolls
Private financing is best path forward for tunnel expansion, highway improvements
Leonard Gilroy and Baruch Feigenbaum
April 13, 2012 - Tunnel Project Needs to Move Ahead
Improvements are vital to mobility, port commerce and regional economy
Shirley Ybarra and Leonard Gilroy
April 13, 2012 - Reinventing Libraries in Osceola County, Florida: Partnering with the Private Sector to Create Standards of Excellence
Interview with Osceola County, Florida Commissioner Frank Attkisson
Harris Kenny
April 12, 2012 - Tidequistadors In Search of Sound Money
A laundry soap has developed as much legitimacy as the dollar to serve as currency, what's going on?
Anthony Randazzo
April 9, 2012 - Livable Centers Initiative Program Needs to be Refocused
Atlanta Program Uses Federal Fuel Tax Revenues for Non-motorized Transportation and Economic Development Projects
Baruch Feigenbaum
April 6, 2012 - New Deepening Option Vital for Port of Savannah
Improving Vital Infrastructure Without Burdening Taxpayers
Baruch Feigenbaum
April 6, 2012 - Airports as Victims of Airline Deregulation?
Lessons legacy airlines are learning decades after Carter administration deregulation
Robert Poole
April 5, 2012 - The Dynamic Duo of Carrollton, Texas: Creating a Culture of Competition in City Government
Interview with Carrollton, Texas City Manager Leonard Martin and Director of Competition Tom Guilfoy
Leonard Gilroy
April 5, 2012 - 5 Reasons Why the Federal Trade Commission's Proposed Online Privacy Rules Will Do More Harm Than Good
How self-regulation, consumer choice and free market models are the best tools to protect online consumer privacy
Steven Titch
April 3, 2012 - Time to Defend Transportation Public-Private Partnerships
Why tolling and public-private partnership provisions are a must for the transportation reauthorization bill
Robert Poole
April 2, 2012 - Congress Passes Short-Term Transportation Bill
How Congress struggled with the bill’s tolling provisions
Shirley Ybarra
March 30, 2012 - Get the Government Out of Solar
Adam Peshek
March 29, 2012 - The MBS Investor's Case Against the Mortgage Settlement
It is understandable that MBS investors are upset about this, but do they have a case in court?
Anthony Randazzo
March 26, 2012 - No, This Is Not a Housing Recovery
Anyone who says we are in the midst of a housing recovery is wrong
Anthony Randazzo
March 23, 2012 - Is the U.S. School System a National Security Threat?
Why Condoleezza Rice, Joel Klein and the Council of Foreign Relations are wrong about common core and national standards
Lisa Snell
March 23, 2012 - What the U.S. Can Learn from China’s Highway Building Binge
How the user pay principle is being used to advance infrastructure projects
Samuel Staley
March 23, 2012 - USPS Is $14 Billion In the Red This Year, So It Promotes Junk Mail
Why privatization is a better tactic to save the U.S. mail
Adam Summers
March 22, 2012 - Insights on the Federal Transit Administration’s New Starts, Small Starts Program
Why the FTA should reassess its newly proposed rules for approving major capital grants
Robert Poole
March 20, 2012 - Improving Transportation for All and Not Just the Few
A look into U.S. metropolitan cities’ disproportionate transportation spending
Adrian Moore
March 14, 2012 - A Cost Effective Way to Cut Smog
Why the Environmental Protection Agency’s ozone plan will do more harm than good
Adam Peshek and Julian Morris
March 14, 2012 - Financial Crisis Theories Reviewed Series: Peter Wallison Interview, Part 3
The SEC’s lawsuit, Dodd-Frank, and the economic slump
Anthony Randazzo
March 12, 2012 - Americans Don't Benefit From Fed Inflated Asset Prices
The Wealth Demographics of Misdirected Monetary Policy
James Groth
March 9, 2012 - Insights on Federal, State and Local Transportation Funding from ‘The Voice of Transportation’
Associate Director for Finance and Business for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Joung Lee briefs Reason Foundation
Baruch Feigenbaum
March 8, 2012 - Denver's RTD Weighing Options for Northwest Corridor
Policymakers seeking to provide the most service, for the most people, to the most places.
Harris Kenny
March 7, 2012 - Financial Crisis Theories Reviewed Series: Peter Wallison Interview, Part 2
Alternate theories of the crisis
Anthony Randazzo
March 7, 2012 - Privatize Parking, But Not for the Kings
The current arena plan is a steal for the Kings and an air ball for taxpayers.
Harris Kenny and Leonard Gilroy
March 6, 2012 - Offering State and Local Governments New Tools for Infrastructure Delivery in Texas
Interview with Texas State Rep. Jim Murphy
Leonard Gilroy
March 5, 2012 - The Euro Isn't the Problem, but Europe Is
What actually ails Europe is bloated government bureaucracy, over-regulation, and unfunded pension and healthcare obligations
Julian Morris
March 5, 2012 - Fate of Highway Tolling and Pricing Pilot Programs in Reauthorization Proposals
Why the House's and Senate's federal surface transportation reauthorization bills should include tolling provisions
Robert Poole
March 2, 2012 - California Barking Up the Wrong Tree with Pet Groomer Licensing Bill
Adam Summers
March 1, 2012 - Financial Crisis Theories Reviewed Series: Peter Wallison Interview, Part 1
Housing policy’s role in the crisis
Anthony Randazzo
February 29, 2012 - Congress Forms 'Yellow Pages' Caucus: Goal is Smaller Federal Government, Cut Spending
How the 'yellow pages' test could curb out of control federal spending
John Palatiello
February 28, 2012 - China’s Hard Lessons on High-Speed Rail
Why President Obama should look to China on what not to do when it comes to U.S. high-speed rail projects
Samuel Staley
February 28, 2012 - Florida Correctional Healthcare Reform in Jeopardy
The state Department of Corrections should be encouraged for pursuing reform, not stifled.
Harris Kenny
February 27, 2012 - A Highly Unjust Mortgage Settlement
Whatever justice may appear to have resulted from banks shelling out a few billion dollars, it should not come at the expense of those mortgage investors or taxpayers who did nothing wrong or the economy at large.
Anthony Randazzo
February 27, 2012 - Competition Could Lower Costs of Prison Healthcare in Arizona
Letter to the Editor Submitted to the Arizona Republic
Leonard Gilroy
February 24, 2012 - Should We Double Down on Clean Energy?
Examining Europe's results
Adam Peshek
February 24, 2012 - When Greece Defaults
The second European bailout of Greece agreed to this week is just delaying the inevitable.
Anthony Randazzo
February 24, 2012 - Government Workers vs. Taxpayers
Why the president needs to reverse his stance on hiring additional federal workers
Adrian Moore
February 17, 2012 - A Robo-Signing Deal That Has Almost Nothing to Do with Robo-Signing
How robo-signing victims got the short end of the stick
Anthony Randazzo
February 16, 2012 - The Facts Behind the EPA’s Latest Proposal
How the agency is using fuzzy math to justify a costly regulation
Adam Peshek
February 16, 2012 - Reforming Local Government in Colorado Springs
Interview with Chuck Fowler, CEO and Chairman of The City Committee of Colorado Springs
Harris Kenny
February 14, 2012 - Picture This: Film Tax Credits Demonstrably Wasteful, Ineffective
As most states wind down film tax credits, Colorado might expand them.
Harris Kenny
February 14, 2012 - Government Bureaucracy Is Sinking Port Deepening Projects
How public-private partnerships can help supply the needed funds to deepen our nation’s ports
Baruch Feigenbaum
February 13, 2012 - Florida’s Privatization Proposal Could Drive Innovation, Performance in Corrections
Policymakers should look past political hype, consider the Senate’s proposal on its merits
Leonard Gilroy and Adrian Moore
February 10, 2012 - What Has Ben Bernanke Done For You Lately?
Why the Federal Reserve’s Policies Aren’t Helping a Majority of Americans
James Groth
February 8, 2012 - Reconstructing the Interstates
Why the best way forward for Interstate reconstruction is to remove the caps on the existing Interstate tolling program while maintaining restrictions on the uses of toll revenues.
Robert Poole
February 7, 2012 - Obama's Next Bailout
Home flippers get a sweetheart deal from the government.
Anthony Randazzo
February 6, 2012 - Will States Toast Liquor Privatization in 2012?
Reviewing the landscape for divesting state alcohol monopolies
Leonard Gilroy
February 3, 2012 - Virginia's High Occupancy Toll (HOT) Lanes Changed to 'Express Lanes'
An in-depth look at the highway project
Shirley Ybarra
February 1, 2012 - Obama laughs over spilled milk but fines companies for not producing fictional fuel
Adam Peshek
January 30, 2012 - Time to Face Reality on the California High-Speed Rail Project
Cost estimates keep soaring but Gov. Brown keeps pushing the rail system
Adam Summers
January 27, 2012 - Maryland Announces $456m PPP to Redevelop and Operate I-95 Travel Plazas
Deal a win-win for taxpayers, business, state
Leonard Gilroy
January 27, 2012 - Checking the Facts on President Obama's "Energy Facts"
Debunking the claims made in the president's most recent campaign ad
Adam Peshek
January 24, 2012 - SOPA and PIPA for Non-Techies
A guide to understanding how the two anti-piracy bills won’t do anything but end the Internet’s openness
Steven Titch
January 19, 2012 - Lawmakers Should Encourage Prison Health Competition, Not Ban It
Attempt to ban privatization of prison nurses is misguided
Leonard Gilroy and Harris Kenny
January 19, 2012 - President Obama Wrong on Keystone
How the president put the interests of a few environmentalists before the interests of the entire nation
Adam Peshek
January 18, 2012 - The Fed’s Unstable Housing Reform Foundation
A critique of the ideas in the housing policy white paper the Federal Reserve should not have written
Anthony Randazzo
January 18, 2012 - With Automatic Spending Cuts Looming, the Federal Government Should Use Contracting
The federal government is prohibiting cost-effective partnerships with the private sector
John Palatiello
January 18, 2012 - Tulsa: Open for Business
Tackling city's challenges requires willingness to embrace innovation, competition and market ideas
Dewey Bartlett, Jr.
Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma
January 13, 2012 - CBO Study Gets It "Almost" Right on Highway Public-Private Partnerships
Best federal study yet on highway PPPs still gets a few things wrong
Robert Poole
January 12, 2012 - Chicago Crosses the Line In Trying to Maintain Property Values
Banks that comply with Chicago's new law may be liable for burglary, trespassing, or similar crimes.
Anthony Randazzo
January 6, 2012 - Government Loans Bring Trouble
Denver officials gambling with taxpayer money on dubious urban renewal initiatives.
Harris Kenny
January 6, 2012 - Traffic Congestion and the Economic Decline of Cities
How traffic is costing people jobs and stifling economic growth
Samuel Staley
January 5, 2012 - Benefits of Revenue-Risk Concessions
Getting more value out of highway infrastructure through the revenue-risk concession model
Robert Poole
January 3, 2012
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