Lawmakers Should not Speed-up Positive Train Control Deadline
Trains are among the safest form of transportation but on rare occasions when crashes occur, the death toll is often high. The crash earlier this week of a Northeast Regional train en route from...
View ArticleGive Privately Funded Texas High Speed Rail Line a Chance
Ever since Japan, in 1964, built the first high-speed rail line in the world linking Tokyo to Osaka, U.S. policymakers have researched how they might build such a system in the U.S. In 2009, President...
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Mitch Daniels Receives Reason Foundation's 2015 Savas Award for...
On May 5, 2015, Reason Foundation presented its inaugural Savas Award for Public-Private Partnerships to Purdue University President and former two-term Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels at an event in...
View ArticleMitch Daniels Receives Reason Foundation's 2015 Savas Award for...
On May 5, 2015, Reason Foundation presented its inaugural Savas Award for Public-Private Partnerships to Purdue University President and former two-term Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels at an event in...
View ArticleThe Probability of Fulfilling Pension Promises: Pennsylvania's Illustration
A recent study by Erick Elder and Gary Wagner at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University, examines the nexus between investment returns and pension funding levels for Pennsylvania’s two largest...
View ArticleLongevity Assumptions Affect Pension Funding
Accurate estimates of lifespans play an important role in pension funding. As longer lifespans mean larger pension benefits, underestimation of workers’ life expectancy may cause insufficient funding....
View ArticleResearch Groups Launched Comprehensive Public Plans Data Resource
Looking for pension data may often be arduous and time-consuming. Fortunately, a recently launched website provides easy access to comprehensive data on 150 state and local pension plans in the US. The...
View ArticleMarket-Driven Solutions Can Help Create Affordable Housing in Sarasota
Sarasota Observer As former City Commissioner Eileen Normile told the Observer, “I don’t know how we understand the term ‘affordable housing’ without defining what that term is. What’s affordable to...
View ArticlePrivatization & Government Reform Newsletter #18 (May 2015 edition)
The May 2015 edition of the Privatization & Government Reform Newsletter is now online. Topics covered in this issue include:PRIVATIZATION: Annual Privatization Report 2015STATE GOV: Reviewing the...
View ArticleProposed I-710 Tunnel Would Reduce Southern California's Traffic Congestion
Orange County Register Why would Orange County commuters care about a tunnel being debated 50 miles away in Pasadena?For the past 30 years, the biggest hole in the Southern California freeway network...
View ArticleNew California Pension Initiative Announced: Voter Empowerment Act of 2016
A bipartisan coalition of politicians and business people, led by former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and former San Diego Councilmember Carl DeMaio, filed a pension reform ballot initiative with the...
View ArticleCulture Is Key to Fixing Air Traffic Control
Aviation Week In the current debate on air traffic control reform, just about everyone agrees that uncertain and unstable funding is a problem that must be fixed. The Air Traffic Organization is in...
View ArticleSchool Choice, Funding Portability, and Trends In Educational Privatization
Annual Privatization Report 2015 This section of Reason Foundation's Annual Privatization Report 2015 provides a comprehensive overview of the latest on school choice, charter schools, school funding...
View ArticleAnnual Privatization Report 2015
Now in its 28th year of publication, Reason Foundation's Annual Privatization Report is the world's longest running and most comprehensive report on privatization news, developments and trends.Annual...
View ArticlePrivatization Can Help Cover Costa Mesa's Rising Pension Costs
Orange County Register As the Register’s Editorial Board recently noted, Costa Mesa’s Pension Oversight Committee presented data to the City Council showing that the city’s total annual payments to the...
View ArticleAustralia's Drought Strategy Would Work for California
Orange County Register California is in the midst of a water crisis that threatens to do enormous damage to the economy and ecology of the state. In response, Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed an...
View ArticleSchool Districts Go Lean: Denver Edition
Large school districts across the country are trying to reduce their bureaucratic footprint on schools. Over 45 cities are working to implement portfolio management, a strategy in which many...
View ArticlePedicab Market in Siesta Key, FL Doesn't Need to Be Regulated
Sarasota Observer Pedicabs, tricked-out golf carts and even Volkswagen Things are a hot form of transportation for tourists and others. You’ve seen them around Sarasota and the local Keys. They are...
View ArticleEnter to Win the Bastiat Prize for Journalism and Reason Video Prize
Reason Foundation is accepting entries for the 2015 Bastiat Prize for Journalism and the 2015 Reason Video Prize. The submission deadline for both prizes is July 31, 2015. Winners will be honored at...
View ArticleTraining Police How to Interact With the Mentally Ill Can Save Lives
Orange County Register Four years ago in July, Kelly Thomas, a schizophrenic homeless man, died days after being beaten and tased by two Fullerton police officers. They were tried and acquitted of any...
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