The Free Market 13, no. 12 (December 1995) Cheers to the governors of Alabama and Virginia for sending back millions of dollars earmarked for the “Goals 2000” program slated to be imposed on their states’ schools. After decades of federal attacks on local control, they have responded to voter demands that school centralization be halted. Today,
The Free Market 13, no. 12 (December 1995) Washington agencies pay private-sector clipping services so senior management can know who their friends and enemies are. Journalists who write negatively about, say, the BATF, immediately enter the agency’s sights. Even if nothing is done with the information, the knowledge that it’s being collected
The Free Market 13, no. 8 (August 1995) As Congress considers cuts in science funding, lamentations are rising. “We’re dominated by fools,” said one Democrat. “At risk is the type of Government-financed research that has put men on the moon,” intoned the New York Times . “Such cuts portend wide changes in American science and American life.” A
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