The Rose Institute’s recently released report on Florida’s upcoming elections and redistricting has been featured in several major blogs over the last week. FLApolitics, one of the top political blogs in Florida, wrote an article pulling numerous quotes from our series and noted that it is the “perfect fix for a political junkie.” SwingStateProject.com also [...]
The Rose Institute-Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey was recently featured in a post on New Santa Ana. The article discusses how the 2009 Kosmont Survey found that Santa Ana was the fourth most expensive city to do business in in Orange County. It argues that “some of the BEST cities in Orange County charge [...]
Rose Institute Fellow Douglas Johnson was interviewed today about gerrymandering for CNN’s “American Morning” show. The topic is redistricting. The piece — assuming it makes it past the editing room — will air Thursday, February 25th at 6am EST, and at various other times throughout the day.
The clip should be available online after it first [...]
The Rose Institute’s Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey was featured in a recent article by the Los Angeles Times. In an opinion piece suggesting methods of increasing jobs in Los Angeles, writer Russel Goldsmith suggests lowering the city’s gross receipts tax. He writes:
Los Angeles is a particularly expensive place to do business, according to the [...]
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 [...]
The results of the Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey recently showed up in an article on states trying to lure California businesses in the Orange County Register. The article mentions the Kosmont Survey’s results showing many very expensive California cities.
This comes on the heels of four consecutive years of substantially more Californians moving [...]
From Brooke Edward’s article in the Victorville Daily Press:
“The key to sustaining Victorville’s growth is keeping homes affordable,” states the resulting report, commissioned by the BIA and created by the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College. “High development impact fees remain one of the largest barriers to housing affordability and [...]
From Matthew T. Hall’s article in the San Diego Union-Tribune:
“I’ve heard people wax very eloquently on both sides,” said Steve Frates, a senior fellow at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College.
From the article by Stephen Moore, senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal editorial page, in the Weekly Standard:
“Pensions are the second biggest line item in most municipal budgets today behind law enforcement,” says Steven Frates, a professor at Claremont McKenna College and an expert on California’s pensions system. He adds that “the annuity [...]
From Brooke Edwards’ article in the Victorville Daily Press:
“Reserves allow cities to have some financial flexibility,” said Steven Frates, senior fellow with the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College.
The general fund is typically used to balance other city funds that don’t perform as expected, such as Victorville’s development impact fees [...]
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