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I Wonk, Therefore I Am: The Limits Of Republican-Bashing
Josh Barro is getting a lot of attention lately. Formerly affiliated with Republican-heavy institutions like National Review and The Manhattan Institute, he is now mostly a scourge of the “unproductive” GOP — that wing of the party for which no policy pr 5/24/13 from Forbes Read more »
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Gadflies are Useful for a Political Party
May 23, 2013 2:33 PM The surprising thing is that Barro, the son of the prominent orthodox-conservative economist Robert Barro, is the one who has done it. The elder Barro has called the stimulus “the worst bill that has been put forward since the 1930s, from Washington Monthly Read more »
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NYC: Gelinas Responds to Komanoff on Bike-share Safety
Manhattan Institute fellow Nicole Gelinas submitted this response to Charles Komanoff’s critique of her weekend opinion piece in the New York Post about bike-share safety. Charles Komanoff, in his Streetsblog post, called my weekend Post piece on bike-sh from Streetsblog Read more »
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NYC: Predictions of Bike-Share Carnage Are a Mirage and a Distraction
Just when you thought the bike-share detractors might have run out of steam — or at least taken a time-out — along comes an intellectually muddled piece in the NY Post warning of dead bike-share users littering Midtown streets. “Three people died in Pari from Streetsblog Read more »
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News: Despite extensive cuts, statewide spending up per student
New York has been a perennial big spender on education, and when residents head to the polls Tuesday, theyll see school budgets that raise per-pupil spending at the fastest rate in five years, according to the Empire Center for New York State Policy. Eac from The Ithaca Journal Read more »
