Reason's team of policy analysts, who have recently advised the Bush administration, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, among others, bring you the latest outsourcing and privatization news and commentary in Privatization Watch. Members of the media interested in receiving Privatization Watch should contact Chris Mitchell. All other inquiries should be directed to Privatization Watch Editor Leonard Gilroy at (310) 391-2245.

Focus on Land Use (.pdf)
Vol. 31, No. 6 - 2008
Articles include:
1. Flexibility and Freedom Lead to Growth and Redevelopment in Anaheim (by Mayor Curt Pringle),
2. Smart Growth Planning Reducing Housing Affordability in Florida,
3. The Failures of Government Planning (Despite the "Best-Laid Plans"), and
4. Sustainable Development in Urban Planning: The Case for a Market-Based Approach.

Other articles include: Interview with Greg Hulsizer, CEO of the South Bay Expressway Toll Road; The Housing Crisis: Cause or Symptom of Economic Woes?; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Innovators in Action (.pdf)
Vol. 31, No. 5 - 2008
Articles include:
1. Improvement Requires Willingness to Change (by Gov. Jeb Bush),
2. Addressing Public Challenges with Private Partners (by Gov. Bill Owens),
3. Running Government More Like a Business (by Virginia Del. Chris Saxman), and
4. Reflections of a Texas Transportation Trailblazer.

Other articles include: City of Charlotte's Privatization and Competition Advisory Committee; Managed Competition in San Diego; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Focus on Government Reform (.pdf)
Vol. 31, No. 4 - 2008
Articles include:
1. Government Transparency Reforms Sweep the Nation,
2. Occupational Licensing: Serving the Public Interest or Special Interests?,
3. Privatization to Modernize Indiana's Welfare System, and
4. Federal Government Performance Reviews Continue.

Other articles include: Trends in Global Airport Privatization; States Betting on Lottery Privatization; World Bank Report Examines Water Privatization; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Focus on Mobility (.pdf)
Vol. 31, No. 3 - 2007
Articles include:
1. Running on Fumes: Toll Road Financing in the United States,
2. 21st Century Tolling: Private Sector Innovations Stand to Transform Highway Finance,
3. Tolling and Public-Private Partnerships in Texas: Separating Myth from Fact, and
4. Leasing the Pennsylvania Turnpike: a Response to Critics.

Other articles include: Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Focus on Education (.pdf)
Vol. 31, No. 2 - 2007
Articles include:
1. No Choices Left Behind: Restructuring California's Lowest-Performing Schools,
2. Experimenting With School Choice: A Tale of Two California Districts,
3. Competition Key for Future of New Orleans Schools, and
4. Utah Creates Nation's First Universal School Voucher Program.

Other articles include: School Empowerment Surges Ahead in 2007; Colleges Feel Housing Crunch; Charter School Enrollment Soars; Milton Friedman's Ideas Work in Milwaukee Schools; States Consider Lottery Privatization; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Focus on State Budgets (.pdf)
Vol. 31, No. 1 - 2007
Articles include:
1. State Budget Outlook,
2. Ballot Tax Measures Result in Mixed Bag for Taxpayers,
3. State and Municipal Bonds Do Well In General Election, and
4. Answers to the Most Common Objections to Public-Private Partnerships.

Other articles include: The Minimum Wage Debate; Earmark Reform Rollercoaster; Transit Advocates Paint Undeservingly Rosy Picture; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Focus on Telecommunications (.pdf)
Vol. 30, No. 6 - Winter 2007
Articles include:
1. Video Franchise Reform Catches Fire,
2. A Dynamic Perspective on Government Broadband,
3. Lessons Learned from Provo's Municipal Broadband, and
4. What Franchise Reform Does for Customers.

Other articles include: Protecting Property Rights in a Landslide; What Now for Tolling and PPPs?; Don't Expect Feds to Hike the Gas Tax; Improving Efficiency in Indiana; Texas's Retail Electricity Market Is Working; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Focus on Economic Development (.pdf)
Vol. 30, No. 5 - Winter 2006
Articles include:
1. Does Rail Transit Spurs Economic Development?
2. Boosting the Economy by Fighting Congestion,
3. Fixing Downtown Detroit, and
4. Seven Keys to Development.

Other articles include: Lessons for Detroit; School Impact Fees; Growth Buffers for Indiana; California's Never-Ending School Bonds; Private Cities in Georgia; Video Franchise Reform; Thanks, Milton Friedman; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Focus on Mobility (.pdf)
Vol. 30, No. 4 - Fall 2006
Articles include:
» Privatization Briefs
» The Galvin Mobility Project
» L.A.-Style Gridlock is Coming to a Road Near You
» Why Mobility Matters
» Sounding the Alarm: Interview with Bob Galvin
» Updating the Interstate System
» How to Tackle Atlanta's Congestion
» Thinking Bigger and Smarter in Texas
» Can't Build Our Way Out?
» The Train Drain
» Bringing Style to the Road
» Myths About Car-Crazy Suburbia
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Focus on Privatization Trends (.pdf)
Vol. 30, No. 3 - Fall 2006
Articles include:
1. Reflections from Privatization Pioneers,
2. State Privatization Update,
3. Local Government Update,
4. Water Privatization Update, and
4. Airport Privatization Update.

Other articles include: Federal Government Update; Airport Privatization Takes Off Overseas; Managed Competition Comes to Ohio; Sandy Springs: A Model "Private" City; States Continue to Expand School Choice; PPP Toll Roads on the Drawing Board Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Focus on Land Use (.pdf)
Vol. 30, No. 2 - July 2006
Articles include:
1. Do the Suburbs Make You Fat?
2. Protecting Landowners From Regulatory Takings,
3. How to Create a Housing Crisis, and
4. Revitalizing Cities with Urban Homestead Zones.

Other articles include: States Take Action on Takings; Property Rights Trailblazer: Interview with Oregonians in Action's David Hunnicutt; Raleigh Passes Major Impact Fee Increase; Adding FAST Lanes to Milwaukee's Freeways; Poor Marks for Early Education; Attention Detroit: Your Peers Are Privatizing; Transit Labor Negotiations in Pittsburgh and Denver; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Focus on Education (.pdf)
Vol. 30, No. 1 - May 2006
Articles include:
1. The Case Against Universal Preschool,
2. Building Schools with Private Dollars,
3. San Francisco's Decentralized Schools, and
4. Pricey Preschool in Quebec.

Other articles include: Second Thoughts on School Impact Fees; Who's Afraid of Foreign Ownership?; Another "F" for Air Security; States Selling Toll Roads; What Price Free WiFi?; Uncle Sam: Louisiana's Next Real Estate Baron?; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Focus on Budget Reform (.pdf)
Vol. 29, No. 8 - March 2006
Articles include:
1. Steering Through the Pension Storm: The Looming Disaster of Government Pension Plans,
2. Defined Contribution Plans—Part of the Solution,
3. Coping with Existing Pension Obligations, and
4. Pension Reform—Why Does It Matter?.

Other articles include: Driving More Money into the Classroom: The Benefits of Shared Services; Interview with Moore County, NC County Manager Steve Wyatt; Fed Study Keen on Private Prison; Airport Security—Let Airports Decide; Boosting Performance by Staying Home; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Focus on Government Sprawl (.pdf)
Vol. 29, No. 7 - February 2006
Articles include:
1. What is Government Sprawl?,
2. Not So Easy After All: Governments Enter the Telecom Business,
3. PART of the Solution: Performance Budgeting at the Federal Level, and
4. Off the Map: Government Competes With Private Mapping Firms.

Other articles include: Cites Step Back: More Are Deciding Against Funding Wireless Networks; How Will New Competition Affect Municipal Telecom Networks; Florida DOT Competes With Private Sector Mapping Services; Massachusetts Tries to Ban Water Privatization; Keeping Private Private; FAA Outsources Flight Service Stations; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Focus on International Issues (.pdf)
Vol. 29, No. 6 - November 2005
Articles include:
1. Coming to America? A Cautionary View on Importing London-Style Congestion Pricing,
2. Japan's Massive Postal Privatization,
3. Is Euro-Care Better Care?, and
4. Corporatizing Air Traffic Overseas.

Other articles include: France to Sell Toll Roads; Pricing to Please Bus Riders and Motorists; You Name It, Slovakia's Reformed It; Global Aid Gone Bad; Losing Patients: Questioning Canada's Nationalized Health Care; Forget the Bubble—Housing Shortage is the Crisis; How Schools Cheat; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Focus on Land Use (.pdf)
Vol. 29, No. 5 - October 2005
Articles include:
1. Regulating for Recovery: How Policy Can Help (or Hinder) the Gulf Coast,
2. Eminent Domain: Is There an Alternative?,
3. Supreme Advocate: Interview with Scott Bullock, and
4. The Kelo Aftermath.

Other articles include: Paying for Recovery: Tapping Unused Assets; Rebuilding Schools and Public Buildings; Two Decades of Eminent Domain; Denver Launches Permit Reform Effort; Refocusing Urban Redevelopment Policy; Privatization City Emerges in Georgia; Toll Road Sale Proposals Proliferate; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Focus on Trends in Privatization and Goverment Reform (.pdf)
Vol. 29, No. 4 - September 2005
Articles include:
1. If It Can Make It There, It Can Make It Anywhere,
2. Tax and Spending Limitations,
3. Spotlight South Carolina, and
4. Texas and Beyond: PPP Toll Road Projects.

Other articles include: Federal Bill Boosts Tolling, Pricing; Competitive Sourcing Continues to Save Billions; What Now for Airport Security?; HOT Lanes Gain Speed; Charter Schools Take Off; The Era of Personal Spaceflight Has Begun; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Focus on Environment Policy (.pdf)
Vol. 29, No. 3 - August 2005
Articles include:
1. Good News on Air Quality,
2. Is the Air Really Making Us Sick?,
3. Out of the ANWR Morass, and
4. Improving Parks with Pricing.

Other articles include: Do Hybrid Cars Deserve Special Perks?; Hydrogen Hype; Why Corporate Reformers Are Ignoring Homeschooling; Government Offshoring — Less Common Than You Think; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Focus on Air and Space Policy (.pdf)
Vol. 29, No. 2 - June 2005
Articles include:
1. Interview with Space Entrepreneur Burt Rutan,
2. Fly the Frugal Skies,
3. FAA Outsources Flight Service Stations, Saves Billions, and
4. Airport Privatization Still Flying High, Overseas.

Other articles include: Governor Backs Private Airport for Chicago Suburbs; Will All Airport Screening Be Outsourced?; Pondering Core Functions in Colorado; Private Para-transit Helps the Disabled; Privatization Aids Rwanda's Rebirth; Break Up Violent Schools; Examining Eminent Domain; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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Focus on Health Care (.pdf)
Vol. 29, No. 1 - April 2005
Articles include:
1. Private Prisoner Care in Michigan,
2. Politics vs. Patient Care,
3. Who’s Afraid of Specialty Hospitals?, and
4. Trade or Aid? Helping the world’s poor.

Other articles include: Texas Lands $7.2 Billion Private Toll-Road Investment; Toll Truck Lanes Gaining Momentum; Building for the Future in California; Unions Try to Discredit Education Outsourcing; 50th Anniversary of Competition in Federal Government; 2004 Competitive Sourcing Results; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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The Comprehensive Government Reform Issue (.pdf)
Vol. 28, No. 7 - March 2005
Articles include:
1. The Bodybuilder’s Guide to Government Reform,
2. Government by Network: The new public governance,
3. Efficiency at the Gate: How Florida is making government leaner and smarter,
4. Battered but Breathing: Bringing competition to Washington, and
5. What’s in the Government’s Attic.

Other articles include: Cleaning House with Comprehensive Reform; Chicago Skyway Sold for $1.8 Billion; Managed Lanes Advance Across the Country; Privatization Speeds Port Modernization; Catching the Aquaculture Wave; The Rise of Education Management Organizations; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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The Education Issue (.pdf)
Vol. 28, No. 6 - January 2005
Articles include:
1. No Way Out: The Illusion of School Choice,
2. Helping Charter Schools Help Special Ed Students,
3. Bad Schools Threaten Urban Renewal,
4. D.C. Schools May Follow Privatization Trend, and
5. Top-Heavy Education.

Other articles include: The Truth About Competitive Sourcing; Out of the Red in St. Louis; Resisting the NFL’s Siren Call; Private-Sector Airport on Track for Chicago; After the X-Prize; Denver and Minneapolis Study Express Toll Lane Networks; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.
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The Surface Transportation Issue (.pdf)
Vol. 28, No. 5 - November 2004
Articles include:
1. Will He Ride Rail?,
2. Boosting the Bus,
3. Express Toll or HOT Lanes?,
4. Building Highways or Bureaucracies?, and
5. Tolls or Taxes? Financing future highways.
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The Offshore Outsourcing Issue (.pdf)
Vol. 28, No. 4 - September 2004
Articles include:
1. Government Jobs Go Overseas,
2. Can America Learn to Love Outsourcing?,
3. Truths About Trade,
4. Heard of Insourcing?, and
5. The Outsourcing-Education Connection.
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The Land Use Issue (.pdf)
Vol. 28, No. 3 - June 2004
Articles include:
1. Is Your City Hip?,
2. Do Affordable Housing Mandates Work?,
3. Dealing with Statewide Growth Challenges,
4. Big Box Planning, and
5. The Backlash Against 'Smart Growth'.
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The Water/Wastewater Issue (.pdf)
Vol. 28, No. 2 - April 2004
Articles include:
1. Atlanta Water Privatization,
2. Water Pricing,
3. Wastewater Contracting,
4. Interview with Federal Water Chief Bennett Raley, and
5. Trends in Water/Wastewater Privatization.
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The State Budgets Issue (.pdf)
Vol. 28, No. 1 - January 2004
Articles include:
1. Why States are Broke,
2. Searching for Good News,
3. Remembering Arnold's Mandate,
4. Privatizing Child Support, and
5. Arnold Targets the Budget Crisis.
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