Policy Review articles from March 1998

Policy Review archives from March 1998

How Congress can champion civic renewal.
March 1, 1998... A small but growing group of members of Congress serve their constituents by encouraging private, local solutions to community problems U.S. Representative Rob Portman is widely known as a leader in the war against drugs. He has built this...

Transforming Arkansas government.
March 1, 1998... Can a citizens' commission reform state government? Arkansas serves as the testing ground Arkansans are still smarting from the 1992 presidential campaign, when Republicans charged that the Razorback State displayed the inbred politics and...

Broken cities: liberalism's urban legacy.(Cover Story)
March 1, 1998... Last New Year's Day, Washington, D.C., residents awoke to the news that 10,000 more people had moved out of the nation's capital in 1997, bringing the net loss of population during the 1990s to 78,000. Washington now has fewer residents than at...

Can-do unions: competition brings out the best in government workers.
March 1, 1998... In January 1994, Indianapolis was hit with a particularly nasty blizzard. One of the many benefits of cellular telephones, I discovered, was the increased speed and convenience with which citizens could complain about the city's snowplowing...

The gold star state. (Texas high in elementary-school achievement)
March 1, 1998... How Texas jumped to the head of the class in elementary school achievement If funding and demography were vital to educational performance, then Texas would likely have one of the worst public-school systems in the nation. Spending per pupil...

Hospice, not hemlock: the medical and moral rebuke to doctor-assisted suicide.
March 1, 1998... The medical and moral rebuke to doctor-assisted suicide In the deepening debate over assisted suicide, almost everyone agrees on a few troubling facts: Most people with terminal illnesses die in the sterile settings of hospitals or nursing...