Here we’ve all been promoting our ideas — on how to improve state and local government — for free. We just jot em down here on BMG.
Turns out you can win $10,000 for doing same — turning your blog post into a 5 page paper….
An annual contest, sponsored by Pioneer Institute’s Shamie Center for Restructuring Government and open to any citizen, pays a $10k prize.
The BGC seeks innovative, concrete ideas to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of governmental services in Massachusetts and to provide a public forum for these ideas.
“Aha, that’s the catch!” you think. “Pioneer is committed to ‘free market principles and limited gov’t’ — doesn’t sound very BMG friendly to me.”
Not so. As Heartland Dem points out on another post, Deval Patrick is adopting the pension reform proposal first promoted by the Pioneer Institute.
Look at last year’s winner — some guy from Nevada proposed a way to streamline civil trials. A guy won in 2004 for proposing online business registration in MA, while State Rep Harriet Stanley (D) proposed a re-engineering of Mass Health.
You can propose an idea that already exists in your town if you think it can scale up; you can grab ideas from other states that you think would work here.
If you have any ideas and don’t feel like writing them up, just leave them on this thread for me to claim. I need $10k to blow on this.
Another “think tank” I presume, similar to another think tank called PNAC. And Yes, being 50 something the probability of my being a VICTIM of “pension reform” is most certain. Maybe 10,000 would be enough to research the building of an EMP generating device.