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  • Innovation Alert: Glenwood Springs Schools and Students “Moving On” Up?0

    • February 28, 2011

    I’ve been to Glenwood Springs before with my parents. It’s a neat place, with the caves and the rides and, of course, the hot springs. But this has got to be the first time I’ve blogged about it here. The local Post Independent reports that the Roaring Fork School District looks like they are about […]

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  • Authorities won’t enforce Medicare Advantage restrictions until after election0

    • February 28, 2011

    “The White House has apparently decided that it won’t enforce the unpopular parts of its health-care plan until after the 2012 election. The latest evidence is its decision not to slash Medicare Advantage, the program that Democrats hate because it lets seniors choose private insurance options” – WSJ

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  • South Island Tragedies0

    • February 28, 2011

    In 2007, an American scholar teaching in Christchurch uncovered a public-land scandal: New Zealand was giving grazing lands to local farmers at prices that were well below market. In fact, the government often paid farmers to take land that they sometimes turned around and sold at a huge profit. The scholar was Ann Brower, who […]

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  • Missing Comments0

    • February 25, 2011

    Some people have noticed that some of the comments people made on Wednesday’s post are missing. Apparently, the server went down and my ISP lost the last dozen or so comments. It also lost this morning’s post. I was able to recreate this morning’s post, but not the comments. Feel free to remake the comments […]

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  • Would Merit Pay Work Better If More Schools Didn’t See It Like Brussel Sprouts?0

    • February 25, 2011

    It’s Friday, so allow me to tease you a bit. Na na nanny boo boo. No, not like that. I mean “tease,” as in the broadcast media lingo for giving you just a little bit of info and a heads-up, while making you wait for the real deal.
    But first, my own curiosity was drawn […]

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  • Giving and Taking Away0

    • February 25, 2011

    When Wisconsin and Ohio elected governors who promised to cancel high-speed rail, Secretary LaHood took their money away before the governors-elect even took office. But when Florida’s governor cancelled that state’s high-speed rail, LaHood gave local governments a week to see if they could form a consortium able to take on the project. Why didn’t […]

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