A recent Pioneer conference on “Microenterprise in Boston: Building the Entrepreneurial City of the Future” included a panel discussion on the range of services offered to microentrepreneurs by various support organizations. Providing a framework for the discussion, John Friar of the Entrepreneurship Center at Northeastern University, conference co-sponsor, spoke of the role of microbusinesses in the economy. Michael Caslin, CEO of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, offered concluding thoughts on the value of entrepreneurship in terms of individual and societal betterment. The remarks of each are excerpted below, followed by a look at the participating organizations and the services they provide.
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Electronic government—the far-reaching potential of the Internet to improve government services and enhance citizen outreach—was explored at a recent Pioneer Forum. Speakers were Massachusetts Secretary for Administration and Finance Stephen Crosby, a former high-technology business executive who is overseeing the Commonwealth’s “e-government” efforts, and Janet Caldow, executive director of the IBM Institute for Electronic Government, a resource for government in developing strategy, policy, and implementation of electronic services. An edited transcript of their presentations follows.
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The Right Honorable James B. Bolger, ONZ, New Zealand’s Ambassador to the United States, delivered the keynote address at Pioneer’s 2000 Better Government Competition Awards Dinner, outlining the market-based government policies he undertook as New Zealand’s prime minister in the 1980s and ’90s to rescue a country on the edge of economic collapse and help transform it into what is now one of the world’s most robust economies.
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“She’s a good girl. She helps me a lot. She has big, big dreams. I don’t have the money, but she has big dreams. I hope she’s going to get everything, but she works so hard. She works so hard in school.”
“Our family is needing to make some really big sacrifices because we believe this is important, and so, we’re basically going to do whatever it takes… Sometimes we look at each other and go ‘I don’t know if I can do it again another month…’”
“A lot of the families have to sacrifice and work multiple jobs… And just scraping together enough money to just make tuition, just the basics.”
“It is discriminatory, that parents who want to choose an alternative to public school for their children, would not in any way receive any compensation for that, whether it be tax credit, whether it be a voucher…”
In the 1840s, nativist movement leaders formed official political parties and local chapters of the national Native American Party (later the American Party), although they continued to be commonly known as the Know-Nothing Party. Politicians sought to insert provisions into state constitutions against Catholics who refused to renounce the pope. The Know-Nothing movement brought bigotry and hatred to a new level of violence and organization.
The party’s legacy endured in the post-Civil War era, with laws and constitutional amendments it supported, still today severely limiting parents’ educational choices. A federal constitutional amendment was proposed by Speaker of the House James Blaine prohibiting money raised by taxation in any State to be under the control of any religious sect; nor shall any money so raised or lands so devoted be divided between religious sects or denominations. These were then named the Blaine Amendments of 1875.
in recent decades, often in response to challenges to school choice programs, the U.S. Supreme Court has demonstrated great interest in examining the issues of educational alternatives and attempts limit parental options. Massachusetts plays a key role in this debate. The Bay State was a key center of the Know-Nothing movement and has the oldest version of Anti-Aid Amendments in the nation, as well as a second such amendment approved in 1917. Two-fifths of Massachusetts residents are Catholic, and its Catholic schools outperform the state’s public schools, which are the best in the nation.
A recent Pioneer conference on “Microenterprise in Boston: Building the Entrepreneurial City of the Future” included a panel discussion on the range of services offered to microentrepreneurs by various support organizations. Providing a framework for the discussion, John Friar of the Entrepreneurship Center at Northeastern University, conference co-sponsor, spoke of the role of microbusinesses in the economy. Michael Caslin, CEO of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, offered concluding thoughts on the value of entrepreneurship in terms of individual and societal betterment. The remarks of each are excerpted below, followed by a look at the participating organizations and the services they provide.
Download Report: Services for Urban Microentrepreneurs
Electronic government—the far-reaching potential of the Internet to improve government services and enhance citizen outreach—was explored at a recent Pioneer Forum. Speakers were Massachusetts Secretary for Administration and Finance Stephen Crosby, a former high-technology business executive who is overseeing the Commonwealth’s “e-government” efforts, and Janet Caldow, executive director of the IBM Institute for Electronic Government, a resource for government in developing strategy, policy, and implementation of electronic services. An edited transcript of their presentations follows.
Download Report: E-government: The New Frontier for Improving Public Services
The Right Honorable James B. Bolger, ONZ, New Zealand’s Ambassador to the United States, delivered the keynote address at Pioneer’s 2000 Better Government Competition Awards Dinner, outlining the market-based government policies he undertook as New Zealand’s prime minister in the 1980s and ’90s to rescue a country on the edge of economic collapse and help transform it into what is now one of the world’s most robust economies.
Download Report: From the Brink of Bankruptcy: The Transformation of New Zealand's Economy
Services for Urban Microentrepreneurs
/0 Comments/in Transcripts /by Pioneer Institute and John FriarA recent Pioneer conference on “Microenterprise in Boston: Building the Entrepreneurial City of the Future” included a panel discussion on the range of services offered to microentrepreneurs by various support organizations. Providing a framework for the discussion, John Friar of the Entrepreneurship Center at Northeastern University, conference co-sponsor, spoke of the role of microbusinesses in the economy. Michael Caslin, CEO of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, offered concluding thoughts on the value of entrepreneurship in terms of individual and societal betterment. The remarks of each are excerpted below, followed by a look at the participating organizations and the services they provide.
Download Report: Services for Urban Microentrepreneurs
E-government: The New Frontier for Improving Public Services
/0 Comments/in Transcripts /by Pioneer InstituteElectronic government—the far-reaching potential of the Internet to improve government services and enhance citizen outreach—was explored at a recent Pioneer Forum. Speakers were Massachusetts Secretary for Administration and Finance Stephen Crosby, a former high-technology business executive who is overseeing the Commonwealth’s “e-government” efforts, and Janet Caldow, executive director of the IBM Institute for Electronic Government, a resource for government in developing strategy, policy, and implementation of electronic services. An edited transcript of their presentations follows.
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From the Brink of Bankruptcy: The Transformation of New Zealand’s Economy
/0 Comments/in Transcripts /by Pioneer InstituteThe Right Honorable James B. Bolger, ONZ, New Zealand’s Ambassador to the United States, delivered the keynote address at Pioneer’s 2000 Better Government Competition Awards Dinner, outlining the market-based government policies he undertook as New Zealand’s prime minister in the 1980s and ’90s to rescue a country on the edge of economic collapse and help transform it into what is now one of the world’s most robust economies.
Download Report: From the Brink of Bankruptcy: The Transformation of New Zealand's Economy