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January 31, 2011

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State Budget Reform Toolkit

Leonard Gilroy, Jonathan Williams

Today, states face structural deficits created by overspending. Most of the legislative "fixes" over the past few years for state budget gaps have merely postponed or obscured the problems rather than addressing them directly. The State Budget Reform Toolkit—a joint project of the American Legislative Exchange Council, Reason Foundation, Americans for Tax Reform, The Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Washington Policy Center, Evergreen Freedom Foundation and State Budget Solutions—offers a practical set of budget and procurement best practices to guide state policymakers as they work to solve the current budget shortfalls, assisting legislators in prioritizing and more efficiently delivering core government services through advancing Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty.

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Surface Transportation Innovations # 87

Elections impact on federal transportation policy, rethinking ports and waterways funding, emission-reducing highways

Robert Poole

In this issue:

• Election’s impact on federal transportation policy
• No more earmarks?
• Rethinking ports and waterways funding
• New toll concession projects in the Midwest
• Emission-reducing highways
• Upcoming Conferences
• News Notes
• Quotable Quotes

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Gun Control Wouldn't Have Stopped Loughner

And Loughner shouldn't start a new push for gun control

Brian Doherty

A very public shooting spree, with victims including a congresswoman, a judge, and a little girl, committed by a known lunatic, using equipment that had previously been banned: Jared Loughner’s crime seems an unparalleled opportunity for gun control advocates to gin up support for new legislation to restrict the weapons legally available to Americans and to restrict which Americans have access to those weapons.

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