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• in Politics
  An Oasis of Brilliance in Arizona’s Desert Full of Crazy
  Believe it or not, Arizona takes the lead with a smart new public policy idea.
  by jimmyzuma / on Jun 16, 2011
• in Politics
  A Marijuana Policy that will Blow your Mind
  What if marijuana makes you more productive at work?
  by jimmyzuma / on Mar 17, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “public policy”

 

• Investigating Home Automation Resources — Security Talk Blog

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 146
  Dominic Schwebs wrote this 3:35 pm: In last weeks blog we started to investigate the 4 top “Home Automation” organizations and how they each contribute to this exciting new field .  One of the first companies you should study is CEDIA (Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association).   CEDIA ...
  20 hours ago

• Does Obama Finally Have a Plan to Fix the Housing Mess?

  
  The Curious Capitalist — Authority: 535
  Perhaps the single biggest headwind the American economy faces, rivaled only by unemployment, is the dismal housing market.  American’s biggest source of wealth has been decimated over the past six years, so it was no surprise that President Obama, in his state of the union speech, promised responsible homeowners ...
  1 day ago

• Why Only Non-Health Care Business Can Save America From The Health Care Industry

  
  The Doctor Weighs In — Authority: 114
  Brian Klepper Posted 1/26/12 on Care & Cost The attached PP deck is a presentation I’ve given several times that has received an overwhelmingly positive, if frightened, reception. It is, perhaps, the most disturbing public argument of my career (which is going some), because it tries to document the health ...
  3 days ago

• Anti-tax zealots plump for casinos

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 124
  Gambling yes ! Grover Norquist, the nation’s most prominent anti-tax crusader, wrote a letter last week to Texas legislators to call for expanded gambling. “In light of the adverse economic impact that higher taxes would have, it is imperative that lawmakers consider all other options for balancing the ...
  3 days ago

• On Financial Intermediation

  
  The Aleph Blog — Authority: 551
  I appreciate Steve Randy Waldman, who writes the excellent blog Interfluidity.  Even before I started blogging, while I was at RealMoney, we interacted over CPDOs, along with Alea, and several others that were onto the scam.  That was a fun time, because aside from the Canadian rating agency Dominion, there was no ...
  3 days ago

• Resource Nationalism: A Challenge to the Modern Mining Industry – Part One

  
  MetalMiner — Authority: 116
  A keynote speech made by Brian Menell (chief executive of Kemet Group and CEO of Tinco, a vertically integrated tin miner) at the Mines and Money Conference in London, addresses a growing issue in the mining industry — namely, resource nationalism. Brian Menell defines resource nationalism as growing assertiveness ...
  4 days ago

• Why not spit the dummy? Let’s legislate a “Handbook for the Fools Who Elected Us”.

  
  Sanjeev Sabhlok's revolutionary blog — Authority: 89
  Paternalism has reached a peak in the West. Public servants (supposed to be our SERVANTS – not masters) – many of them barely in their early 20s, fresh out of university, have presumed to themselves the role of our masters (or, at least, our parents).  They, along with elected governments (which seem to be ...
  6 days ago

• On Unemployment and Pensions

  
  Get the Flick — Authority: 108
  I hope that we are at some kind of turning point in our society. I think we are. I perceive that people are thinking harder about what we all want out of life -- and our government. Consumerism and a work ethic without reward seem to be losing their luster. But first things first. Buffet Fan and The Angry ...
  1 week ago

• My Canadian Open Government Consultation Submission

  
  eaves.ca — Authority: 448
  Attached below is my submission to the Open Government Consultation conducted by Treasury Board over the last couple of weeks. There appear to be a remarkable number of submission that were made by citizens, which you can explore on the Treasury Board website . In addition, Tracey Lauriault has tracked some of the ...
  1 week ago

• James McCarthy Chosen as Ninth President of Suffolk University

  
  arezzo1.com — Authority: 132
  Demographer with Academic Interests in Public Health and Public Policy Now Serving as Provost of Baruch College, City University of New York. (PRWeb January 18, 2012) Read the full story at
  1 week ago

• Job Alert: Community Planners – U.S.DOT’s Transportation Policy and Planning Technical Center (RVT-20) at Volpe – Cambridge, MA

  
  TransportGooru — Authority: 107
  
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• Fox News: The TV source Americans trust the most AND the least

  
  Hot Air — Authority: 798
  Go figure. The Fox News Channel is simultaneously America’s most trusted news source and its least, according to a new poll from Public Policy Polling. Now, if the very same Americans said they both trusted and distrusted Fox, that might have suggested the channel is as perfectly fair and balanced as its ...
  1 week ago

• Thom Brooks on "How Not to Save the Planet"

  
  The Brooks Blog — Authority: 108
  . . . can be freely downloaded here . The papers abstract: "Climate change presents us with a pressing challenge. A global consensus accepts that human activity is responsible for climate change and its associated dangers. However, there is disagreement on how best to address this challenge. The essay argues ...
  1 week ago

• Thom Brooks on "Climate Change and Negative Duties"

  
  The Brooks Blog — Authority: 108
  . . . has now appeared in Politics and found here . The abstract: "Climate change and its harmful effects are widely accepted. A common approach is to argue along the lines of Mills ‘harm principle’: if we contribute to climate change, then we are likewise responsible for harming others and we have a ...
  1 week ago

• Ponderous PSEA, Virulent Violence Verified

  
  Policy Blog — Authority: 110
  Last December, the Commonwealth Foundation urged lawmakers to offer kids in Pennsylvanias worst violent, failing schools a lifeline, and give them school choice for Christmas. We delivered bouquets of 17 white roses to every legislator to highlight that students in the bottom-5 percent of the commonwealths schools ...
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• Intimate Wars: Sex is Intimate. So is Pregnancy.

  
  Fem2pt0 : societys issues + womens voices — Authority: 412
  War can be an intimate experience, often in a deeply personal way, even though it’s a shared collective event.  People experience the physical effect of war through their bodies and perceive their emotional experience in their minds.  My grandmother lived through an occupation, and her strongest memories were of ...
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• Revisiting the American Dream: Is the U.S. Providing Fewer Opportunities to Get Ahead?

  
  Knowledge@Wharton — Authority: 110
  The United States is widely seen as a place where a person can rise from extreme poverty to lavish wealth on the basis of hard work, ingenuity and a little luck. But has that vision of the American dream become less attainable in recent times? As economic inequality rises, and much of the population grapples with high ...
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• Snippets

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 110
  The death of Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash marks the end of an era. It is also another footnote in the troubled history of the Eastern Mediterranean where the overhang of the past is ever present. The release of a World Bank report forecasting further global slowdown received extensive coverage in ...
  1 week ago

• Snippets

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 110
  The death of Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash marks the end of an era. It is also another footnote in the troubled history of the Eastern Mediterranean where the overhang of the past is ever present. The release of a World Bank report forecasting further global slowdown received extensive coverage in ...
  1 week ago

• Keystone XL is a lesson waiting to be learned

  
  The Cost of Energy — Authority: 102
  If you’re at all plugged into the enviro news via Twitter, RSS feeds, or even blogs (how quaint!), you probably know that the hot news is that President Obama is set to reject the application to build the Keystone XL pipeline . As with almost anything that’s triggered this much emotion and clash of wills (or ...
  1 week ago

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