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 Our
Way Forward is a series of programs
designed to introduce, and advocate for, ideas to fill our local
leadership vacuum with positive, conservative ideas to make our
governments better.
- past Our Way Forward
programs
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upcoming...
I'm having trouble
getting a guest on this though there are many scolarly papers on the
subject. |
Water: What
should the rate be? We'll
take a hard look at how the subsidizing of the real costs of water
through municipal, and other government, water systems leads to
waste and ultimately higher prices for all.
Should we meter it just as we do any other commodity and charge the
going rate? Big consumers wouldn't like it but then again, you're
paying for their usage. |
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Past "Our
Way Forward" Programs
Friday
1/31/2008
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Innovations in
Texas public education:
Charter SchoolsWe'll talk
to people associated with two different Charter Schools operating in
Lubbock County and discuss the successes and challenges to
alternatives within the public education model in Texas. |
Rise
Academy's Rick Baumgartner founded Lubbock's most highly rated
public elementary school. Located in East Lubbock, the school has an
enrollment of well over 90% very low income students and yet has
achieved Exemplary status with the TEA. In 2007 they had a 100%
passing rate on the TAKS for all grades. The school servers Pre-K
through the 8th grade.
Read Rise Academy's press releases here:
Exemplary status,
National Award consideration
[Program note, due to illness Mr.
Mitchell will not be joining us on-air.] Also joining us will be
LeRoy Mitchell, principal of
Premier
High School of Lubbock. Operating as an alternative to
traditional secondary education, Premier uses a computer-enhanced
curriculum that allows for individual pacing in learning. You can
learn more about
Premier High School of Lubbock here (pdf). |
Tues. 10/16
Adrian Moore |
Privatization of Government activities As
published by the Reason Foundation
Privatization of Public Library operations
"Across the country, tight budgets caused dramatic cuts in funding
for public libraries in the 1990s. So many libraries have closed
their doors in recent years that the American Library Association
says it’s no longer able to keep track of them all. The trend began
in 1990, when officials in Worcester, Massachusetts, a city of
170,000, closed all six library branches.." - report contain
many links to other points of view |
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Adrian
Moore is vice president of research at
Reason Foundation,
a non-profit think tank advancing free minds and free markets.
Moore, who has testified before Congress, regularly advises federal,
state and local officials on ways to streamline government and
reduce costs. In 2002, Moore was awarded a World Outsourcing
Achievement Award by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Michael F. Corbett &
Associates Ltd. for his work showing governments how to use
public-private partnerships and the private sector to save taxpayer
money and improve the efficiency of their agencies.
Read
more here. More info:
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Wed. 9/26
Joel Kotkin |
As
published in the Wall Street Journal, 28 August 2007
Road Work: Cities focus on the glitzy, not the effective
"The ultimate question here is that of priorities. Yes, artists and
cultural institutions have always been hallmarks of great cities.
But underpinning that efflorescence since the earliest times has
been critical commitments to such mundane things as water systems,
canals, dikes and protective walls — the economic infrastructure
that supports the rest." |
An
internationally-recognized authority on global, economic, political
and social trends,
Joel
Kotkin is the author of the critically acclaimed book, THE CITY: A GLOBAL HISTORY from Random House/Modern Library. Published in
China, Spain, Great Britain and the British Commonwealth, editions
in Japanese and Korean are planned for later this year. |
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