Privatization

New Year's resolutions generally conjure up good intentions to lose weight, spend more time with family and friends or reorganize. But for millions of Americans, this year's resolutions are more urgent: Find a job. Make enough money to cover groceries and...

In 2011, some of the top news stories in the state involved medical marijuana, the governor's re-election decision and proposed sales tax increase, liquor privatization, Amanda Knox, the Occupy movement, a Tacoma teachers strike and even a duckling shot...

The free market system works for American retail establishments. Consumers let companies know what they want when making their purchases. Business stay open or close based on their abilities to make a profit. When the government operates a system like...

Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner said on Wednesday that he could not support proposed legislation to privatize the state's liquor stores. Wagner testified before the House Liquor Control Committee that the Department of the Auditor General's...

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is getting a lesson in one of the major downsides of privatizing government services: When you ask outside groups to take over something the city has always done, their agendas won't always be the same as yours....

A lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges that the voter-approved initiative to privatize liquor distribution in Washington State violates the constitution. The suit, filed on behalf of union members who will lose their jobs when state-run liquor stores are...

Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're on the road in State College this morning, so here's a quick survey of the Top Five Stories making news this 1st day of December. 1. Former Congressman Paul Kanjorski, who knows a thing......

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. There's one last day of quiet before the state House and Senate return to town next week to begin what is expected to be the frantic, final push on major legislation before they adjourn for......

The past year tested the grit of residents and villages still trying to recuperate from the economic downturn that determined the course of the previous …...

From the News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — After being rebuffed by a judge for its effort to privatize several prisons because of the way lawmakers went about it, the Legislature will try again to shed several prisons, this time doing it in...

TALLAHASSEE — To recap yesterday, capitol watchers saw the Senate introduce new prison privatization bills, the governor nominate a new Secretary of State and Rep. Erik Fresen, R-Miami, file amendments to his casino bill. To catch up on that and...

TALLAHASSEE – A Senate panel opened the door Wednesday to give the Senate a second shot at privatizing 29 prisons in South Florida and eliminate some of the obstacles that led a Tallahassee judge to reject a similar plan this summer. The Senate...