The articles below are some privatization news highlights from the last week that haven’t been covered elsewhere on the blog:
FEDERAL
- “Let’s Outsource the Post Office,” New York Times
- “US Postal Service’s Sticky Situation,” The Epoch Times
STATE & LOCAL:
- “Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnerships Authority Launches Its Website,” BusinessWire.com
- “Glitches Mar Indiana’s Effort to Outsource Social Services,” Wall Street Journal
- “OUR ABCs: Rationales for Liquor Monopoly Don’t Hold Up,” Richmond Times-Dispatch
- “Oklahoma lawmakers tour private prison in Lawton,” Forbes.com
- “State workers group seeks injunction for state agency’s privatization plan,” KFSM.com (Oklahoma)
- “Bing: Privatizing can save city cash,” Detroit Free Press
- “Kansas City will explore options to improve bulky item pickup,” Kansas City Star
- “Gwinnett to bid out property appraisals,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution
INTERNATIONAL:
- “New Zealand Fin Min: Potential To Use Private-Public Partnerships More,” NASDAQ.com
- “Polish Government Approves Asset Sales to Cover Swollen Deficit,” Bloomberg.com
- “Poland’s Asset Sales May Be Best Option to Finance 2010 Deficit,” Bloomberg.com
- “Borovo takes first step towards privatization,” ISI
- “Belgrade Fair won’t be privatized,” B92.net
- “Chile’s privatized pension system gets high marks, but many don’t participate,” Sun Journal
“ Reason Foundation’s Annual Privatization Report 2009
“ Reason Foundation’s Privatization Research and Commentary