To a remarkable extent, the Democrat's
extraordinary success in California's elections hinged on the
overwhelming support of slow-growing urban areas. Despite the
state's dramatically changing… more
To the IT professional, the U.S. Navy's
decision to have private-sector contractors build and maintain
its entire 360,000-user intranet may be the mother of all outsourcing
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Over the past several weeks, a shadowy
state agency has convened under court order to fix a school
construction-funding scheme flagrantly biased against California's
most overcrowded,… more
What's the difference between the
new economy and the old economy," writes a reader, "if people
are still just buying things?" Her question is precisely what's
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Few economic fantasies are as beguiling
as the notion that the Internet consumes far less of our social
infrastructure -- roads, energy, police, court time and so forth
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With remarkable clarity, this year's
presidential campaign exposes the stark regional conflicts shaping
U.S. politics. The country's fastest-growing states overwhelmingly
favor Texas Gov. George W. Bush,… more
It was too hot for the hills and too
foggy at the beach, so I decided to mountain bike to the Democratic
National Convention. I unloaded my rig well west of the 110
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If the wishes of federal and state economic
development officials all came true, U.S. industry would be
a high-tech, white-collar paradise. Billions of dollars in subsidies,
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Behind the Federal Reserve Board's interest-rate deliberations and months of sluggish stock-market performance lies a nagging question: Why did U.S. productivity, the nation's … more
It was no surprise that a House committee
extended the federal ban on Internet taxes last week, ahead
of schedule and with little debate. By concentrating wealth
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