March 2
Analyzing the Health Care Options
President Obama and the Democratic leadership are finalizing their final health care bill. The RAND Corporation provides an  overview of what policy options that can be considered.

February 25
Health Care Summit Pursues Common Ground
Lawmakers during Thursday's health care summit made another attempt to tackle health care reform and bridge the longstanding gaps between Decmocrats and Republicans.

February 23
California Solar Project Gets Loan Guarantee
The Obama Administration announced preliminary approval on Monday for $1.4 billion in loan guarantees to build a huge solar power plant in the Mojave Desert in Southern California, according to the Los Angeles Times.

February 16
Obama Announces Underwriting for Nuclear Power
Obama announced 8.3 billion in loan guarantees for nuclear energy. As the economy continues to grow, the demand for alternative energy becomes increasingly critical. AOH considers a broader perspective on how to meet the economy’s growing energy needs.

February 10
Rebuilding Haiti: A Guide to Nation-Building
Rebuilding Haiti after the devastating earthquake is a complex issue. The RAND Corporation provides some key guidelines for securing a peaceful society in Haiti.

February 4
Toyota's Present Challenges
Nearly every day there are news reports about problems with unintended acceleration in vehicles - a phenomenon also prominently featured in news reports in the late 1980s.

January 20
UN Climate Change Deadline Shelved
The timetable for global agreement on climate change was shelved Wednesday by the UN after last month’s fractious Copenhagen summit.

January 16
Rebuilding Haiti - Lessons from the Past
Haiti is a disaster of immense proportions. The immediate needs include humanitarian aid but some experts believe now is also a good time to start focusing on the future and the rebuilding of the nation beyond the status quo.

January 6
Obstacles to Training as a Job-Creation Panacea
California’s governor proposes to spend $500 million for worker training to create new jobs, as reported in the Los Angeles Times. But, there are many reasons why such efforts can be limited in success, AnalysisOnline finds.

January 5
Healthcare Reform and the Middle Class
Middle-income Americans already encumbered by high healthcare costs may be increasingly burdened – or at least not aided – under healthcare reform, according to an article in Kaiser Health News.

January 4
Intervention by Government Is Not the Same as Genuine Recovery
The double punch of housing delinquencies and joblessness are hitting Main Street USA more deeply, reports Bloomberg. AnalysisOnline examines how boosting consumer confidence requires long-term genuine growth.

December 31
Is the Mortgage Mess Getting Bigger?
The federal agency in charge of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac since they went into conservatorship 16 months ago now has unlimited access to taxpayer funds to aid these government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). The Wall Street Journal reports on calls to investigate why caps of $200B each were removed and carte blanche was given.

December 28
Contrast in Terrorism Response: Action and Spin
RAND Corporation Senior Adviser Brian Jenkins notes there have been more terrorism incidents on U.S. soil in 2009 than in any other year since 2001; a Wall Street Journal editorial describes how civilians had a more sure-footed response to the latest threat than Homeland Security’s characterization on the event.

December 24
States: Lumps of Coal
Initial and mid-year budget gaps total $193 billion, or 28 percent of states’ budgets, reports the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; more federal aid could lessen how much states drag down general economic recovery, it says.



The December forum "Immigration: Confronting the Challenges in Arizona"

ASU's Dr. Marjorie Baldwin Looks at Rising Healthcare Costs

Bradford Kirkman-Liff of ASU's W. P. Carey School of Business on the Prognosis for Healthcare Reform

Dawn McLaren, at ASU's W. P. Carey School of Business, on Illegal Immigration

Dr. Tim Considine of
Penn State University
on Energy Technologies

Dr. Robert Brook
Director of RAND Health
on Health Care in America

University of Arizona's Dr. Price Fishback
on Social Security and the U.S. Economy

Harvard University's
Dr. Joseph Kalt
on Economics

Harvard University's
Dr. Henry Lee
on the Dimensions of the Energy Problem

Caltech's Dr. Nate Lewis on Energy

2006 Program Overview

Arizona Daily Star Presentation
Sealing our Border: Why It Won't Work

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TCI was delighted to host Dr. Stephen Happel, Professor of Economics at the W. P. Carey School of Economics at Arizona State University, as the featured speaker at the most recent SNA/AnalysisOnline Media Briefing.  The topic was how to better understand and communicate the reality of the economic crisis.  A recording of the webinar is now available on the SNA website for download, along with the handouts provided by Dr. Happel. The recording is free to replay or share with your colleagues and can be accessed by clicking here.  

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November 17, 2008 – Arizona State University
       Tempe Campus, Memorial Union

Sponsors:

Arizona State University · Arizona Investment Council  
Thomas R. Brown Foundations · The Communications Institute
County Supervisors Association of Arizona

League of Arizona Cities and Towns

Arizona Capitol Times · Arizona Daily Star  · Arizona Republic

Click here for a copy of the final report.
 

FEATURED SPEAKER:

  Norman Mineta

Former United States Secretary of

Transportation under President George W. Bush

and United States Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton 
 

 
Click here for a summary of the event.

Community Forum:
Decision at the Crossroads

March 14, 2008
ponsors:
Arizona Daily Star
Thomas R. Brown Foundations
University of Arizona
The Communications Institute

With the agenda including insights from three national experts, a forum on growth at the University of Arizona Tucson campus brought together planners, environmentalists, economists, and state officials to begin determining strategies to lead Tucson and its projected population growth of 500,000 or more into the middle of the century (according to the EBRC Economic Outlook, 2008-2009.)  The forum drew a crowd of 600 on the heels of an Arizona growth survey conducted by the Arizona Daily Star.