Recent Posts Tagged With 'policy'

• Looking forward to 2010

  Posted on Wednesday December 30th, 2009 at 09:25 in politics, policy, vendors, efficiency, regional centers, heirarchy of prompts, r****s

  Well, heck. The new year will bring new cuts. We all have known that for a while and none of us have any excuse for not being ready for them. I just updated my resumé, for example. I do hope people understand that the next round of cuts proposed ...

• The (Draft) Ten Guiding Principles for the ICBM

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 22:10 in policy, icbm

  At the request of Anonymous, here is the draft I received as the "ten guiding principles for the Individual Choice Bugeting Model Process." (ICBM) I am typing this all in so I expect Anonymous gratitude.Reduces overall state General Fund costs.Incre...

• Save your self(-determination)

  Posted on Thursday May 21st, 2009 at 15:44 in policy, efficiency, inclusion, self-directed services

  On this blog, we have discussed SDS (self-determination or self-directed services.)  For examples, you can click here (and please forgive the self-referential first result.)  I have tended to argue stridently for self-determination in concept and a...

• Measuring caps on the Mohs scale.

  Posted on Friday February 20th, 2009 at 17:25 in politics, Debate, policy

  There are several notorious topics to pick up after my sabbatical from this blog. My favorite format on this blog has been the debate format, so let's start with a discussion of the hard cap on spending which I believe will be on the ballot in May. ...

• Channeling Paul

  Posted on Wednesday September 10th, 2008 at 12:17 in policy, efficiency, paul

  In the comments to the post below, Paul wrote: Doug,Have you noticed that over the last several years we have “hammered out..” a budget that actually shrinks our opportunitu to hammer out one in the future? What I mean is this…As we shift more...