Volume 5, Number 9 • September, 1997
Cover Story
NEVER MIND that the concept of charter schools has already been pronounced a resounding success in California, Georgia, Minnesota, Massachusetts and elsewhere, reports Nevada Journal Managing Editor Erica Olsen. In Nevada the politically powerful NSEA wanted nothing to do with such a promising idea and found exactly the right Assembly committee chairman to dilute the effectiveness of a charter school bill introduced in the Senate.... [the article]
Will Our Rivers Be Up for Grabs? NOT ONLY did this year's "American Heritage Rivers Initiative" slip very quietly into the public agenda, reports Contributing Editor D. Dowd Muska, but it poses a serious threat of even greater federal land use restrictions. [the article]
The 1990s: A
Political "Twilight Zone" The rich have been getting richer and the poor poorer, reports NPRI Senior Research Fellow Ralph Heller, who spells out several of the most significant economic and sociological changes of recent years in American life and wonders if we're really on the right track.. [the article]
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 Things Aren't "I used to believe that there
was a green stick, buried on the edge of a ravine in the
old Zakaz forest at Yasnaya Polyana, on which words were
carved that would destroy all the evil in
the hearts of men and bring them everything good." THE OPERATIVE phrase in that Tolstoy quotation is, obviously, "I used to believe." We all "used to believe" a lot of things, of course—about the presumed benevolence of government, about the selfless "public service" aspect of public employment, even about the unselfishness of public school teachers. Ultimately, we shed our childlike assumptions, sadly, and—like Tolstoy—find ourselves facing reality bearing little likeness to what we "used to believe." ....[more]
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