Category Archives: Top Story

Florida, U.K. Innovate in Corrections Partnerships

Posted on June 8, 2011 by matt ohern

Though different in structure, both the Florida and UK PPP initiatives seek to reorient the corrections system by placing a heavy emphasis on rehabilitation and are using a public-private partnership to do it. Continue reading →

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Cosmic Climate Change

Posted on May 27, 2011 by matt ohern

What is it about the term “cosmic rays” that takes all of us back to Buck Rogers, hokey space ships and the presumption that “it’s all made up.” Continue reading →

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The Florida Lesson

Posted on April 28, 2011 by matt ohern

Is Florida an educational wasteland? Continue reading →

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Focus on Results for Smarter Government Budgeting

Posted on April 14, 2011 by matt ohern

Fiscal crises inevitably yield difficult choices for policymakers as they seek ways to cut spending. Adopting a Budgeting for Outcomes approach would be a major step for Virginia’s state and local governments towards bringing accountability and fiscal sustainability to budgeting. Continue reading →

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Putting Wind on Trial

Posted on March 31, 2011 by matt ohern

Hard facts have emerged from the noise of environmental activism, from the hush of subsidy-driven self-interested energy company green-washing and from the increasingly grumpy offices of the state public utility commissions. Wind is not affordable and it is not clean. Continue reading →

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