California State Librarian and historian, Kevin Starr, authored a piece in the Sunday, January 4, Los Angeles Times that raises an issue that periodically surfaces (beginning with the philanthropic activity of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie) about the role of foundations vis-a-vis government in the policy arena.

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