John Buntin

Recent Articles

• Fighting Foreclosures Using Emergency Management Tactics
• Dec 31, 2009
• As a young paramedic in Sarasota County, Florida, Bob Stuckey learned to respond to emergencies using a protocol known as the Incident Command System. Originally...
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• The Public Option and State-Level Competition
• Dec 8, 2009
• This week, the Senate is taking up the controversial issue of whether health reform should include a public option -- that is, a government-run health...

• Police Stations, Civic Architecture, and Story Ideas
• Dec 8, 2009
• Is excellent individual design what public buildings should aspire to, or is there still a place for civic architecture?
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• Arizona's Harsh Stance Against Illegal Aliens (The Outer-Space Kind)
• Dec 4, 2009
• A decade ago, a group of computer scientists in the Bay Area launched the first large-scale distributed computing project, SETI@Home. Its mission: to harness ...

• Health-Care Reform and Grandpa's Care
• Nov 30, 2009
• In 1982, President Ronald Reagan saw a chance to realign the relationship between Washington and the states. He offered to switch government responsibilities: The states would...

• Turning Golf Courses into Parks
• Nov 30, 2009
• Ellen DiIorio, a resident of Union County, New Jersey, had always dreamed of building a first-class archery range. But while the county Parks Department was...

• Swift and Certain: Hawaii's Probation Experiment
• Oct 31, 2009
• Steven Alm was no courtroom novice when he started handling felony cases as a circuit judge in Hawaii. He'd already been a judge for three...

• Did Bill Bratton Succeed in Changing LAPD's Culture?
• Aug 31, 2009
• Dragnet. 77 Sunset Strip. As a boy growing up in Boston, Bill Bratton lapped up the exploits of the Los Angeles Police Department through his television....
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• 'Death Panels' Rationed Care 50 Years Ago
• Aug 31, 2009
• Amidst the recent furor over so-called "death panels" and whether or not they are in national health care reform proposals, there's a side story that's...
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• To Protect and To Serve
• Aug 6, 2009
• It's been a day of encomiums for retiring LAPD police chief Bill Bratton, and no wonder. As my own post of yesterday made clear, the ...

• Job Freedom
• Jul 31, 2009
• Can the lessons of welfare reform be applied to the prison system?

• Desert Storm
• Jun 30, 2009
• From the front yard of her house in Redlands, California, Sherli Leonard looks out over the foothills of nearby mountains to San Timoteo Canyon. In...

• Paying the Ratepayer
• Jun 30, 2009
• Can solar power come mostly from rooftops, rather than from vast solar farms in the desert? Proponents of renewable energy say yes--but only if state...

• Seniors and the City
• May 31, 2009
• More than two decades ago, Michael Hunt noticed something interesting about Hilldale, a well-established neighborhood in Madison, Wisconsin. Elderly people were moving into its apartment...