Moral revival needed to curb crime, schools urged
Dr Edward E Burgess argues crime stems from moral and spiritual decay, urging radical changes in public schools from kindergarten onward. He criticizes current crime programs as after the fact and warns of a creeping police state while calling for moral education, home and church involvement, and curricular reforms to teach honesty and justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fife Symington
Eustace Percey
Rico
Dorothy Sayers
John Ruskin
Hammurabi
Abraham
Moses
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Brookings Institution
Reviving downtown Mesa
A citizen vision promotes downtown Mesa as a cultural and business hub. It notes existing venues like the Southwest and Youth museums and Mesa Arts Center, urges preserving a historic district study, and argues revenue from downtown power use can fund reinvestment without new taxes. Local advocate VL Sisto and Ronald L. Peters weigh in on leadership and growth.
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Mesa Mesa
Mesa
RUDAT
East Valley Institute of Technology
Motorola University
Mesa Arts Center
Civic Center
Lee Iaccoca
Reinvented government a timid budget critique in 1992
Michael J. Boskin critiques the National Performance Review urging deeper reform to cut waste and costs in federal programs. He argues the proposed savings are overstated and urges sunset, zero-based budgeting, privatization, private sector outsourcing, and selective program scrapping to truly reduce deficits and improve efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Performance Review
al Gore
Congress
Congressional Budget Office
White House
CBO
House
John R. Kasich
Ohio
Timothy J. Penny
Minnesota
Labor Department
Senate
Bob Kerrey
Nebraska
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Veil
Ran
Hell
Edward E. Burgess
Gilbert
Mike Ritter
Tribune
Michael J. Boskin
Council of Economic Advisers
Bush
Tully M. Friedman
Stanford University
Hoover Institution
Stanford
Boskin
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