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		<title>A Message From Our Executive Director, Michael P. Riccards</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends: For over two months the Hall Institute website has been down as we repaired it for use.  It had been hacked into by a person or persons probably from the People&#8217;s Republic of China who decided to contaminate it with a computer virus that would have infected our users.  We are pleased to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hall1nstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2356099&amp;post=547&amp;subd=hall1nstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Student Loans: Use Public Funds for College Students, Not for Banks and Private Lenders</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Linda Stamato A bill introduced in Congress on Wednesday would end the bank-based guaranteed-student-loan program (and provide additional money for Pell Grants, expand the Perkins Loan program from the current $1-billion to $6-billion a year, while overhauling its structure). Introduced by the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives education committee, George Miller (D-Calif), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hall1nstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2356099&amp;post=544&amp;subd=hall1nstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should Political Campaigns Take an All-Star Break?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard A. Lee Major League Baseball took its annual mid-season break for the All-Star Game this week, but there was no break in the action in New Jersey’s 2009 campaign for governor. Two days after throwing out the first pitch at the All-Star Game in St. Louis, President Barack Obama headed to New Jersey [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hall1nstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2356099&amp;post=542&amp;subd=hall1nstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Jersey Public Pensions &#8211; A Comparative Perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael P. Riccards One of the major foundations in this country, operated by the Pew group, is a center devoted to the states which examines the challenges that impact pensions in the fifty states. The comparative study of public pensions offers conclusions that we in New Jersey would do well to heed. The study [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hall1nstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2356099&amp;post=537&amp;subd=hall1nstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Organs for transplant: Improving the supply by shifting the policy (from opting in to opting out)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Linda Stamato Most people support organ donation and organ transplants but, as it turns out, they don&#8217;t donate. Given the former, how do we encourage the latter? How does (or can) society encourage positive behavior? Should government attempt to affect certain decision-making behaviors? Whether we&#8217;re talking about limiting climate change, for example, or promoting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hall1nstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2356099&amp;post=535&amp;subd=hall1nstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“All Honor to Jefferson”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The author of American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People and editor of The Essential Jefferson, Jean Yarbrough recently delivered a speech to dedicate a statue of Thomas Jefferson erected recently on the campus of Hillsdale College. It is one of the wonders of the modern political world that John Adams [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hall1nstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2356099&amp;post=528&amp;subd=hall1nstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just What Does $340,000 Buy You These Days?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard A. Lee By raising more than $340,000 for his independent campaign for governor, Chris Daggett has qualified for public matching funds, as well as the right to participate in two official debates this fall. Just what else will result from having met the $340,000 threshold is not so clear. Does it give Daggett [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hall1nstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2356099&amp;post=526&amp;subd=hall1nstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Cheers for Henry Hudson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marc Mappen The 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson&#8217;s discovery of the Hudson River is coming up this fall, and there will be celebratory events in New Jersey and New York, states which share the lower part of the River as a boundary.  But the 400th anniversary hoopla will not be anywhere near as extravagant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hall1nstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2356099&amp;post=521&amp;subd=hall1nstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Allies Don’t Always Sing in Tune</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard A. Lee In a symphony orchestra, each musician has a specific role, but as a group they work in unison toward a common goal – to make beautiful music. If just one member of the orchestra decides to do things differently, the results can be disastrous. The dynamics of symphony orchestras come to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hall1nstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2356099&amp;post=518&amp;subd=hall1nstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sin and Conservatism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael P. Riccards We all know the vocalizations about the &#8220;culture wars,&#8221;a phrase that goes back to Bismarck in Germany and more recently to conservative pundit Patrick Buchanan. The implications today are that there are two blocks of people with very different views of the importance of the so called American social issues. There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hall1nstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2356099&amp;post=514&amp;subd=hall1nstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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