After first proposing to buy the 306 acres of the Dorthea Dix property for $40 million, the City of Raleigh has "revised" its offer and has now come up with a $10.5 million offer for the property. Some might call this a low ball offer. Others would call it highway robbery or grand theft. If [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2007
- 2Jun14
Booyah : Come be Our President, Vaclav
Vaclav Klaus delivers another killer op-ed on climate change in the pink pages. Where are leaders like this in America?
- Jun14
Distributed Investments Reporting
Some NC bloggers with spare time are combing through the pension portfolio put together by gubernatorial candate and State Treasurer Richard Moore. Check it out here at Under the Dome (see also the comments).
- Jun14
Charter Schools Brief
This policy brief (pdf) from Chloe Gossage has a misleading title–"Charter Schools : Why More Study is Needed". Chloe is not saying we should keep the cap, I wouldn’t think. Rather, I take her to be saying: if you’re going to study it some more, here’s how to do it. It’s a very delicate way [...]
- Jun14
Charter Schools : Standards, Not Caps
Much has been made of a recent N.C. Center for Public Policy Research study, which concludes that the cap on new charter schools should remain—due primarily to unresolved issues of performance, financial insolvency, and ethnic diversity. But even if we accept the study’s questionable methodology, why not simply introduce a standards baseline instead of a [...]
- Jun14
Doug North Needs Madder Props
I can only agree with the sentiments of Arnold Kling in this article about Douglass North. Developing institutions as reducing transaction costs is a lesson that can be applied at all levels of government, too.
- Jun13
The World is a Little Less Pragmatic Today
Richard Rorty died of cancer on Monday. He was an intellectual giant, and one of this blogger’s heros. Yes, his everyday political sensibilities were leftish. But it wasn’t his politics that made him great; it was his refusal to accept dogma. It was his willingness to challenge foundations and foregone conclusions. His eagerness to break [...]
- Jun13
State House Call : Welcome to the Blogroll
Another weapon in the fight against single payer health insurance, creeping health socialism at the state level, and a healthcare status quo.
- Jun13
Shocking: Bootleggers & Baptists on NPR
OK, so NPR almost explained Bruce Yandle’s Bootleggers & Baptist theory of political economy on NPR (near the end of the piece). Almost is good for hand grenades, right? If climate change zealots are curious as to why corporate whores seem to be getting on board, read more here. And if you’d like an introduction [...]
- Jun12
Climate Change : The Skeptical Top 10
Or ‘what it would take to convince a skeptic we need action’ (in no particular order): 1) Something beyond mere speculation that there will be catastrophic harm from climate change. (Might some warming not offer net benefit, as a majority of economists believe?) Offer substantive evidence that global warming would amount to a net harm [...]