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Posts tagged "Eric Zorn"

Watch Illinois Policy Institute's Tillman on Cable/Web: Obama, Gas Prices, School Choice, Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, the Wealth of Nations and oh, so much more.

Is the Illinois Policy Institute (liberty and free market based), reinvigorated in the last few years under the leadership of its CEO, John Tillman, now one of the two most influential public policy think tanks in Illinois? The answer has to be “Yes, it is.”  Major events hosted by the Illinois Policy Institute in the... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
April 22, 2012 at 1:49 pm
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Gov. Pat Quinn's Budget, Sen. Brady's Message and the Mainstream Media

  Tomorrow is the big day.  Governor Quinn is supposed to lay out his Fiscal 2011 budget for the State of Illinois.  The last time he did this, he had only recently moved up from Lt. Gov. to Governor, and the budget was still, in a sense Gov. Blagojevich’s budget, except for the income tax... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
March 9, 2010 at 4:10 pm
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On the Road to greater healthcare regulation with President Obama

Video and other links added;  text revised and supplemented at 3:30 pm on Tuesday afternoon Natural monopoly In the olden days, we were used to regulating our public utilities: phone, gas, electric and water. Much, but not all, of the regulation was done on the state level, with the Feds there to backstop things. The theoretical economics... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
February 23, 2010 at 3:29 am
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The horrendous state of the Chicago Public Schools, 1980-2010: the setting for the Byrne-Zorn debate

The Byrne-Zorn Debate on school vouchers   Eric Zorn and Dennis Byrne started an online debate on School Choice-School Vouchers. I made some extended comments. The tone, tenor and substance of the debate, and the numerous comments received on Zorn’s site are first rate. It struck me, though, there was one thing lacking:  Any discussion... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
February 18, 2010 at 4:26 pm
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Eric Zorn, let there be school vouchers- school choice; let it be, let it be.

Dennis Byrne and Eric Zorn have now put forth their secondChicago Tribune joint column debate. The first was on health care, the second on school vouchers-school choice. Unlike some in the journalistic and political community,  Byrne and Zorn are able to use their intellect to engage in sharp disagreements on ideas without engaging in ad hominem attacks. Byrne does... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
February 17, 2010 at 4:09 am
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