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Trump’s Reversal on Public-Private Partnerships Is Bad News for California Roads
After taking office, Trump’s transportation team highlighted how public-private partnerships could help fund the proposed $1 trillion worth of infrastructure improvements. But Trump has reportedly changed his mind.
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California’s Bail System Is Unjust and Expensive
In California, you’ll be forced to sit in jail until you either plead guilty to the charges or you get acquitted after going to trial. Pre-trial justice systems should be based upon public safety, fairness and cost-effectiveness.
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Self-Driving Cars Delivering Pizza in Other States Should Worry California
Cities and states that embrace them or put up the fewest barriers should reap the earliest and biggest economic rewards. California needs to re-evaluate its policies on self-driving cars.
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Congress Should Repeal Sports Gambling Ban, Let California Chart its Own Path
Southern California is now home to two NFL teams. But if you want to bet on those teams, you’ll have to go to Las Vegas.
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Michael Bloomberg Wasted $10 Million Trying to Convince Chicago-Area Cook County to Keep its Soda Tax
Residents of Cook County, Ill. are celebrating a much-needed win for consumer freedom with the Board of Commissioners opting to repeal the sweetened beverage tax in a landslide vote of 15-2.
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Surface Transportation News #168
Trump and P3 infrastructure: what now?
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Why I’m Happy With My Move From California to Florida
Lower taxes and better services, how Florida does a better job for taxpayers.
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Perpetual Mismanagement Threatens Solvency of the Chicago Pension Systems
What we know so far about the Chicago pension crisis.
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Air Traffic Control Newsletter #147
Questions about GAO report on NextGen
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Pension Reform Newsletter – September 2017
Analyzing Kentucky's pension crisis, L.A. city/county pension & OPEB debt, latest investment returns for pension funds, and more
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Express Transit Lanes for Toll Roads
Express bus service combined with variable pricing in a new policy framework aimed at achieving significant, sustainable reductions in congestion in both the general lanes and the inside-shoulder lane.
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Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, September 2017
“IPS believes the school is the unit of change in a school district. IPS is moving from a “directive” district - making decisions at the central level in a “one-size” fits all - to a "collaborative" district that shifts decisions to the school level."
