Voice of San Diego, with whom the Rose Institute worked to put together our “Comparing San Diego County Services: A Twelve-County Analysis,” ran an insightful and comprehensive series of articles based on the Rose Institute study. The articles are all available from the Special Report center on the Voice website. And now Voice has put [...]
Today KPCC talk radio host Pat Morrison interviewed Rose Institute Fellow Douglas Johnson. Mr. Johnson discussed Federal transportation funding and the MTA with MTA spokeswoman Carol Ng, La Habra Heights City Manager Shauna Clark, and Congressman Adam Schiff.
When it is available, the podcast will be posted on the KPCC website.
Update I: The KPCC coverage is following [...]
An editorial on AppealDemocrat.com suggests that Governor Schwarzenegger should consult bodies like the Rose Institute regarding the California budget.
“We urge the governor to appoint reasoned voices that understand state budget picture — such as from think tanks such as the Rose Institute of State and Local Government and Reason Foundation, and universities — not advocates [...]
From Joel Kotkin’s article in the LA Times:
Los Angeles could certainly use such a department. The most recent Kosmont-Rose Institute “Cost of Doing Business Survey” reported that Los Angeles remains the second-most-expensive city for businesses, behind Santa Monica, in the county and third most in the state, behind San Francisco and Santa Monica. Any hope [...]
I noticed this article on a new bill in the Arizona legislature that would create an Arizona institute “to provide access to election information, redistricting and state demographics.”
A belated thanks to Shane Goldmacher from the Sacramento Bee’s Capitol Alert. Last week Goldmacher recommended The Rose Report as a “top blog covering the California political scene.” The Rose Report is now a link on the Capitol Alert website.
The following article is from our Fall, 2007 newsletter:
One of the principal reasons the Rose Institute has been so successful in educating our students in critical thinking skills, problem solving, presentation abilities, and the fundamentals of public policy is that we land major grants and contracts from real-life clients who expect that the research findings [...]
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