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May 28, 2002
05/28/02 – Using Vice to Fund Something Virtuous
Well, just when we thought that perhaps we had seen it all in the dreadful, painful television ads...
May 21, 2002
05/21/02 – Goodbye to All That
It is just past mid-May and unless compelled to return by an emergency or an adverse ruling on...
April 18, 2002
04/18/02 – The Florida Legislature Can Help the State’s Economy by Implementing the Fe...
In March 2002, the U.S. Congress passed the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002. Among its...
March 19, 2002
03/19/02 – What the Oscars Can Teach Florida Lawmakers
Recent controversy over A Beautiful Mind, the biographical movie of Nobel laureate John Nash, sparked unusual interest from...
March 15, 2002
03/15/02 – Seeking Conservative Solutions to Government Spending
Now that conflicting points of view on state fiscal policy have created a series of impasses between the...
March 6, 2002
03/06/02 – The Nature of Our Enemy
Aside from those directly affected by the trauma of September 11, 2001, in New York and Washington, no...
February 13, 2002
Florida’s New Chief Financial Officer
Florida's New Chief Financial Officer
02/13/02 – Free Market Principles and Leaner, More Efficient Government Cornerstone to Reorg...
In 1998, Florida voters overwhelmingly approved Revision 8, a constitutional amendment designed to downsize the state’s cabinet, signaling...
02/13/02 – Florida’s New Chief Financial Officer
In 1998, I proposed the merger of two cabinet offices, comptroller and treasurer, into a single cabinet position,...
January 31, 2002
01/31/02 – Insuring Proper Policy Consideration in Tax Reform Efforts
A short four months ago most observers would have asserted that the coming legislative session would feature heated...
January 24, 2002
01/24/02 – Pork of a Different Sort
As voters in Florida in the next general election, by action of the Florida Supreme Court on January...
January 4, 2002
01/04/02 – A Partnership With Florida
There are few absolutes in how Americans govern themselves. We tinker with the shape of voting districts. We...
December 21, 2000
12/21/00 – Lawsuits or Legislation?
The next presidency of the United States is resolved. However, the election mess has brought to light one...
October 13, 2000
10/13/00 – Would You Want a Train In Your Backyard?
The citizens of Florida will be faced with an issue on the ballot on November seven that has...
September 19, 2000
09/19/00 – Workforce Deficiencies: Let Free Labor Markets Work out the Problem of Labor Supp...
The state of Florida legislature recently passed the Workforce Innovation Act, 2000, which is supposed to address today’s...
