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Friday, June 24, 2005


Education Funded by Gambling?
What happens if you enhance spending on k-12 education by bringing casinos to your state?

Writing for the Wichita Eagle, Randy Scholfield has a satirical take:

Mrs. Rollem opened her second-grade class with the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by a video greeting from Seymour Heist, president of MultiState Casino Holdings, urging the children to study hard, play the hand they're dealt and "always bet on success."

Read it all here.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'’s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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