Minneapolis Star Tribune

To Garofalo and other referendum-loving legislators, I'd recommend a sobering 2010 book: "California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It." Authors Joe Mathews and Mark Paul make a strong case that there's such a thing as ...

The supermajority requirement was a key reason for years of fiscal gridlock and mounting state debt, conclude researchers Mark Paul and Joe Mathews, whose 2010 book, "California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It," ...

"The goal really is to get patients and others to see the extraordinary range of the variation," said Shannon Brownlee, one of the report's authors. While some differences are to be expected, she said, "those differences are swamped in many cases by ...

And, like all tools, they work differently in different hands, according to Evgeny Morozov, author of the new book "The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of ...

In Tim Wu's view, new information technologies follow a predictable pattern that he ominously terms "the Cycle." First, the technology emerges, "bright with ...

Ryan did ask the CBO to do a revenue analysis, but it declined on the grounds that it was another agency's jurisdiction, according to Megan McArdle, an editor at the Atlantic. ...

Joe Mathews, a policy analyst with the Association of Minnesota Counties, said scenarios like those in Scott County are popping up around the state as ...

Students Pinched by Credit Markets (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

..."There is zero danger that federal Stafford loans will not be available in the foreseeable future. Zero danger," said Michael Dannenberg, director of education policy at the New America Foundation in Washington.