With its third straight state-wide shellacking, Republicans are about to engage in their annual ritual of self-contemplation, and everyone will pine for the days when the Big Guy from California came riding out of the West and branded the initials “RR” on the federal government’s hide. But is the real...
There are four truths to the climate change policy debate that environmental activists do not really want known. The first is that greenhouse gas reduction goals, like Virginia Governor Kaine’s, are both unachievable and irrelevant. In an op-ed commentary, Center for Evnironmental Stewardship Director David Schnare explains the “inside game”...
At the Research Triangle Institute in November 2008, David Schnare, Director of the Jefferson Institute’s Center for Environmental Stewardship, discussed climate change from a political theory perspective, with reference to geoengineering as a means to break the political roadblocks. In a thought-provoking presentation, he examines Malthusian and post-Marxist approaches to...
At the age of eight, I watched my father vote in a contested election for his union’s leadership. Sitting across the folding table from him, watching to see how he voted, were members of the union leadership being challenged – the ones who decided which union members would be assigned...
The economic downturn shouldn’t dissuade policymakers from pursuing public-private partnerships. In fact, the economic downturn makes infrastructure more, not less, attractive to investors. Here’s why …
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Government will always do the right thing … after its eliminated all other options. For years, the Thomas Jefferson Institute has urged state government to reduce costs, and now it looks like they’re starting to do just that.
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In an internal analysis of the U.S. economy and federal environmental spending, Center for Environmental Stewardship Director David Schnare conducted a brief review of the relationship between the health of the economy and its effect upon environmental spending. Notably, significant changes in the former do not appear to much affect...
An African-American from Illinois and a woman from Alaska have infected millions of Americans with a thirst for change. Will Virginians feel it too?
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Leading the Way on Local Government Privatization
As the economy has deteriorated, so too have the fiscal conditions in local government. Rather than ask federal taxpayers to bail them out, cities and counties of all sizes should embrace a variety of privatizationn strategies to help them do more with less. Here’s one example that leads the way.
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