Jindal 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...
View ArticleNJ Legislature Exploring Decriminalizing Marijuana
Today the New Jersey Assembly Judiciary Committee is considering Assembly Bill Number 1465 (A1465), which would most notably decriminalize possession of 15 grams or less of marijuana, and impose a new...
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