Enter to Win the Bastiat Prize for Journalism and Reason Video Prize
Reason Foundation is accepting entries for the 2015 Bastiat Prize for Journalism and the 2015 Reason Video Prize. The submission deadline for both prizes is July 31, 2015. Winners will be honored at...
View ArticleTraining Police How to Interact With the Mentally Ill Can Save Lives
Orange County Register Four years ago in July, Kelly Thomas, a schizophrenic homeless man, died days after being beaten and tased by two Fullerton police officers. They were tried and acquitted of any...
View ArticleTSA's Failure to Discover Fake Weapons Epitomizes Agency's Problems
The Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) recent failures to detect fake weapons and explosives were worse than first reported. Not only did the TSA fail 67 out of 70 tests conducted by the...
View ArticleAllow Airports to Raise Passenger Facility Charges, but Consider Requiring...
Currently, U.S. airports coordinated by trade associations Airports Council International—North America (ACI-NA) and the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE), and the airlines coordinated...
View ArticlePrivately Financed High-Speed Rail Line Could Be Good for Texas
Star-Telegram Texas Central Railway proposes to privately finance, build and operate a high-speed passenger rail line between Houston and Dallas.Opponents mistakenly claim that taxpayers will be stuck...
View ArticleHow Will State Courts Rule on Pension Reforms? Pension Law Map Gives Guidance
The New Jersey Supreme Court recently upheld payment reductions to the state's pension fund. A month before, the Illinois Supreme Court rejected the state's pension reform efforts. Both states have...
View ArticleHow Congress Can Fix the Highway Trust Fund
My name is Robert Poole. I direct the transportation policy program at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank with offices in Los Angeles and in Washington, DC. I’m a graduate of MIT with two...
View ArticleSeven Critical Factors to Improving Student Outcomes with Student-Based...
Education Resource Strategies has worked extensively with several districts in implementing student-based budgeting. Through these partnerships they’ve concluded that equitable funding and autonomy...
View ArticleFunding Follows Results for Charter School Facilities Bonds
Charter schools now serve five percent of all public school students and continue to grow in popularity. There are an astounding one million students on waitlists nationwide. Despite this demand most...
View ArticleDonâ??t Determine California Teacher Evaluation Criteria Through Collective...
A pair of new California state bills that would grant teacher unions the power to negotiate various aspects in job performance evaluations made their way through Congress this past week. The bills are...
View ArticleLimit Regulations on Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles are no longer a fantasy that appears only in science fiction movies. In theory, the ongoing investments and research should allow many driverless cars to transition out of...
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