Privatization and Public-Private Partnership Trends in Local Government
Annual Privatization Report 2011 This section of Reason Foundation's Annual Privatization Report 2011 provides an overview of the latest on privatization and public-private partnerships in local...
View ArticleSchool Choice, Charter Schools, and Trends In Educational Privatization
Annual Privatization Report 2011 This section of Reason Foundation's Annual Privatization Report 2011 provides a comprehensive overview of the latest on school choice, charter schools, voucher and tax...
View ArticleThe Year 2011 in IT Outsourcing, Network Neutrality, and Federal Broadband
Annual Privatization Report 2011 This section of Reason Foundation's Annual Privatization Report 2011 provides an overview of hot topics in technology outsourcing and telecommunications policy. Topics...
View ArticleAPR 2011: Universal Service, Spectrum Policy, Online Privacy and Internet...
The Reason Foundation today has published the Telecommunications and Internet section of its 2011 Annual Privatization Review.Although there's been a bit of lead time since the articles were written,...
View ArticleOsceola County, Florida Library Partnership "Paying Dividends"
In a recent Around Osceola op-ed, Osceola County, Florida Commission chairman John Quiñones writes, "A bold, ground-breaking partnership with a private company to operate the Osceola Library System...
View ArticleAPR 2011: Corrections and Public Safety
The rollout of Reason Foundation's Annual Privatization Report 2011 (APR 2011) concluded this week with the Corrections and Public Safety section, which provides an overview of the latest news and...
View ArticleRestoring Trust in Mortgage-Backed Securities
The mortgage finance market has leaned heavily on government support over the past few years. More than 90 percent of mortgages originated in 2011 were securitized by government entities using taxpayer...
View ArticleLawmakers Should Delay Implementing Positive Train Control
Trains are among the safest form of transportation but on rare occasions when crashes occur, the death toll is often high. A tragic train crash in California in 2008, in which 25 people lost their...
View ArticleNew Study: Restoring Trust in Mortgage-Backed Securities
In a new study, released today, former Moody's Analytics senior director Marc Joffe and Reason Foundation director of economic research Anthony Randazzo find that the profound lack of confidence in the...
View ArticleLawmakers Should Delay Mandatory Implementation of Positive Train Control
My latest Commentary details the problems with mandating Positive Train Control (PTC) by 2015. While safety is important, PTC is not the best immediate solution. First, it fails the Federal Railroad...
View ArticleFLAIR Act Would Bring Efficiency, Accountability to Federal Land Management
Testimony on “Federal Geospatial Spending, Duplication and Land Inventory Management”May 3, 2012U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral...
View ArticleTestimony: FLAIR Act Would Bring Efficiency, Accountability to Federal Land...
Today I had the opportunity to testify at a remote field hearing of the House Committee on Natural Resources' Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources regarding federal geospatial spending,...
View ArticleSecretary LaHood Should Focus on Real Driving Dangers
While DOT Secretary LaHood obsesses over cell-phone use, a new report from the Society of Automotive Engineers details how improper use of turn signals causes twice as many accidents as distracted...
View ArticleMuch of the Capital in PPPs Comes from American Sources
The Reason Foundation’s Annual Privatization Report 2011Surface Transportation Chapter reveals that much of the capital in Public Private Partnerships comes from American sources. Specifically as my...
View ArticleHow to Reduce the Government's Trillions In Housing Credit Risk
RealClearMarkets Over $5.8 trillion in home mortgage debt in the United States is now either owned or guaranteed by a federal entity - be it the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), Ginnie Mae, the...
View ArticleVideo: French and Greek Elections Were Not Proof Austerity Doesn't Work
Over the weekend France elected a new president, the Greeks shuffled their parliamentary make up, and Germany's leading party lost some local elections. The votes are viewed as a push back against the...
View ArticleFreddie Mac Takes $19 Million More from Taxpayers
Freddie Mac reported last Thursday it needs $19 million from the U.S. taxpayers to remain solvent after making a dividend payment to the Treasury department following first quarter 2012 financial...
View ArticleBair on U.S. Bond Bubble Possibility
The United States government, the Fed and financial markets don't have a great track record when it comes to spotting bubbles. The financial markets missed the dot com bubble in the late 90's and, more...
View ArticleCompetition Would Improve North Carolina's Correctional Healthcare Delivery
Dana Cope (“Unwise outsourcing of prison health care,” op-ed, Apr. 25) missed the mark when she claimed partnering with the private sector to deliver correctional healthcare “won’t save money.” For...
View ArticlePrivate Screening Could Solve TSA Theft Issues
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is hiring screeners without adequately checking their backgrounds. Recently, the TSA purchased equipment that does not work, mishandled screening of...
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A Better Way to Limit Congestion on Roads
Priced "managed lanes" (ML) are one of the great transportation success stories of the past decade, with such lanes now in operation on expressways in many metro areas and new mega-projects adding such...
View ArticleHow to Restore Trust in Mortgage-Backed Securities
The Daily Caller Over the past four years, there have been a number of government efforts to spark the rusted engine of the U.S. housing market. These include tax refund incentive programs for...
View Article(Video) Interview on Reason's New Mortgage Reform Study
Earlier this week I appeared on Fox Business to discuss our recent Reason Foundation study "Restoring Trust in Mortgage Backed-Securities." We argue that to end the government housing monopoly and...
View ArticleA Long Slog Ahead on Unemployment
There have been a lot of stories lately about the challenges of college graduates finding a job. They aren't without merit. Here is a snapshot of the problem from The Wall Street Journal:Graduating...
View ArticleThe Senate's Transportation Bill Attacks Public-Private Partnerships
In March 2012, the U.S. Senate approved its MAP-21 surface transportation reauthorization bill. While MAP-21 has a number of parallels with H.R. 7, it also contains several provisions intended to...
View ArticleWashington Outer Beltway and I-495 BRT Have Benefits
Last Week transportation reporter Martin Di Caro of Metro Connection received a dressing down by David Alpert of Greater Greater Washington. Alpert argued in a column that Di Caro’s transportation...
View ArticleFannie Mae Breaks Its 14 Quarter Bailout Streak
Fannie Mae performed a magic trick this past quarter: they made a net profit including their dividend payment to Treasury for the first time since the fall of 2008 when they were taken into...
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High Unemployment the New Normal
Reason.com Last month the government said that 8.1 percent of the American work force was unemployed, down from 9 percent in April 2011. Cue the golf clap.Compared to an unemployment rate that was well...
View Article24 High-Performing Los Angeles Unified Schools Plan to Become Charter Schools
In "The School District is Dead, Long Live the Schools," I wrote about the emerging trend of high-performing traditional schools converting to charters schools to get more flexibility and control of...
View ArticleGreen Dot Charter Schools Raise Performance for Long-Suffering Locke High School
Reason first told the story of the struggle of Locke high school parents and teachers to have their school run by Green Dot charter schools in the Drew Carey piece: Education Revolt in Watts.Now there...
View ArticleChristie Administration Expanded Privatization Portfolio in New Jersey in 2011
Annual Privatization Report New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's administration continued to expand its portfolio of privatization initiatives in its second year of office as part of its broader government...
View ArticleJindal Continued Louisiana Privatization Push in 2011
Annual Privatization Report In the last year of his first term in office, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal continued to advance privatization as a central component of his broad government reform agenda....
View ArticleKasich Administration Advanced Privatization in Ohio in 2011
Annual Privatization Report A year into his new administration—and as promised during his gubernatorial campaign—Ohio Gov. John Kasich has taken significant steps to advance privatization as a key...
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Emanuel Administration Embracing Private Sector Competition in Chicago
Annual Privatization Report After Mayor Richard Daley left office, the future of privatization in Chicago was uncertain at best. Under Daley’s tenure, dozens of city services were privatized and his...
View ArticleVillaraigosa Administration Advocating Reform in Los Angeles
Annual Privatization Report Like most cities, Los Angeles grappled with a substantial budget deficit for FY 2012. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa eliminated the $457 million budget deficit and proposed a...
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Tulsa, Jacksonville Mayors Pursuing Public-Private Partnerships
Annual Privatization Report Two first-term mayors hit the ground running in 2011 by pursuing transformative government reform initiatives: Tulsa, Oklahoma Mayor Dewey Bartlett and Jacksonville, Florida...
View ArticleCalifornia Library Privatization Success in Jeopardy
Annual Privatization Report In Reason Foundation’s Annual Privatization Report 2010: Local Government Privatization, we chronicled the growing trend of municipal library privatization in California,...
View ArticlePuerto Rico Building Robust Infrastructure Privatization Program
Annual Privatization Report In two short years, the administration of Governor Luis Fortuño has turned Puerto Rico into a privatization leader among its state peers. To address the territory's chronic...
View ArticleJoin Reason On an Alaskan Cruise
Reason's Alaskan cruise will depart from Seattle on August 11, 2012. We'll visit Juneau, Glacier Bay, Sitka, and Ketchikan, Alaska, before visiting Victoria, British Columbia. Join Reason's Nick...
View ArticlePuerto Rico's Infrastructure Renaissance Continuing in 2012
Under the leadership of Gov. Luis Fortuño, Puerto Rico continued to emerge as a leader in attracting private investment in public infrastructure in 2011, with public-private partnerships (PPPs)...
View ArticleReason Foundation, Bipartisan Policy Center, Building America's Future and...
Today, Reason Foundation's Robert Poole joined a diverse coalition urging Congress to fix the highway bill's problems and highlighting the need to free state and local governmets to use pricing,...
View ArticleSenate Transportation Bill Uses Creative Math
It has been three months since the Senate passed its Transportation bill, MAP-21. This has given analysts time to examine the bill in more depth. Unfortunately, the more transportation analysts...
View ArticleSchool Districts in Wisconsin Saved $30 million on Health Insurance Costs...
A competitive environment for health insurance is already saving school districts money in Wisconsin.As the Wisconsin State Journal reports:WEA Trust, the not-for-profit insurer that covered about...
View ArticleFederal Public School Food Police Fine Utah School $15k for Leaving Vending...
As "The Blaze" reports: A Utah high school is learning the hard way that the government is serious about nudging students away from food it doesn't want them to consume. Davis High School in the Salt...
View ArticlePrivate Sector's Increasing Role in Infrastructure Investment
Today my colleague Leonard Gilroy and I published a piece on Real Clear Markets entitled, "States and Cities Going Private With Infrastructure Investment," which explains "...that new infrastructure...
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Polling Metro Denver Voters' Support of Tax Hikes for Public Transit
Last month I wrote on Reason Foundation's Out of Control Policy Blog about the Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) Board's decision to abandon a proposed tax hike that would have doubled the...
View ArticleTransportation Policymakers Need to Use Congestion Pricing More
Earlier this week I was at a congestion pricing workshop hosted by the Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration, and consulting firm ICF in Providence, Rhode Island. Four of these...
View ArticleCA High-Speed Rail and Positive Train Control in the News
During the past few weeks, High-Speed Rail (HSR) and Positive Train Control (PTC) have both been in the news. First, last Thursday Secretary of Transportation LaHood warned California lawmakers to take...
View ArticleStates Exploring Private Lottery Management
Annual Privatization Report On July 1, 2011, a private consortium took over operations of the Illinois Lottery, formally launching a first-of-its-kind lottery privatization initiative that is already...
View ArticleWill Indiana, Pennsylvania Follow in Illinois' Footsteps on Lottery...
One of the more interesting developments last year in the world of privatization was Illinois' first-of-its-kind privatization of the operation of its lottery, covered in detail in Reason Foundation's...
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