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  • 2010 Edublog Award Nominations0

    • November 30, 2010

    Last year I told you that all I wanted for Christmas was to be nominated for an Edublog Award. Ok, so it wasn’t really ALL I wanted for Christmas, but that’s beside the point.
    Well, the 2010 Edublog Awards competition is up and running, and I am proud to say that someone DID nominate me! […]

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  • ObamaCare and Colorado Medicaid Spending: Should Colorado Drop Out?0

    • November 30, 2010

    If the recent federal health care legislation remains as it currently exists, citizens and states might be better off exiting Medicaid and letting the federal government pay for health insurance for eligible Colorado citizens.

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  • Megabus Business Booming0

    • November 30, 2010

    Ridership on Megabus is “well up from last year,” and starting in about two weeks the company plans to expand service to several new cities. Megabus will then serve nearly 50 major cities, all with virtually no subsidies. Megabus near Chicago Union Station.Flickr photo by compujeramey . Meanwhile, high-speed rail nuts want to spend tens […]

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  • How Medicare vouchers could bypass health care rationing0

    • November 29, 2010

    The debate over which medical treatments Medicare would cover would vanish if instead of running a monopolistic health plan for seniors, government subsidized seniors’ purchase of the insurance plan of their choice.

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  • Parental Involvement is Great, Even Better if the Parents Choose the School0

    • November 29, 2010

    Yesterday’s Denver Post featured an interesting story on a successful program at Denver’s Abraham Lincoln High School and its feeder schools to engage parents:

    The collaboration is focused on aligning academics and empowering parents — providing them with training, taking them to visit colleges, encouraging them to volunteer and getting them to attend parent-teacher conferences.
    Not long […]

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  • Where Do We Draw the Line?0

    • November 29, 2010

    “How much is sustainability worth?” asks Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Nigel Jaquiss. “Try $65 million in public money.” That’s how much taxpayers will be spending on a $72 million “green” building in downtown Portland. At $462 a square foot, it will be “perhaps the most expensive office space ever built in Portland.” The director of the […]

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