Opinion
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Nothing’s ‘Impossible’ When It Comes To Innovation
Opinion -Meeting Americans’ needs, especially those of the neediest, requires free markets that can realize and reward the benefits of technological innovations, big and small. -
The Cuban Literacy Campaign of 1961
Opinion -Editorial -The truth is, literacy is fast being eradicated in the world, with or without literacy campaigns. -
CPAC Shocker: “RepublicEN” Astroturf Group Launches Character Attack on Princeton Physicist
Opinion -I attended a CPAC session Thursday on climate change and was stunned at the stark difference in tone and professionalism among the panelists. -
Supreme Court to Decide Safety Requirements on Abortion
Opinion -In what promises to be a landmark ruling on a highly charged issue, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear a case, -
California Considers Imposing Climate Change Education
Opinion -A California bill under consideration in the state legislature would require schoolchildren to learn that humans are causing dangerous climate change in order to graduate. -
Twitter Hits No Substitute for Science in Understanding Climate
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #352 -
Supreme Court Sidelines Review of ACA Constitutionality as Law Approaches Ten Years
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court said it will not fast-track a request by 19 states to take on a decision by a federal appeals court that ruled Obamacare’s individual mandate is unconstitutional -
Washington state Supreme Court Blocks Greenhouse Gas Limits for Some Businesses
Opinion -Washington state’s Supreme Court invalidated portions of the state Department of Ecology’s (DEC) rules applying greenhouse gas emission caps to indirect emitters such as natural gas companies and fuel distributers. -
Rural Hospital Consolidation May Undermine Care, Access, New Study Finds
Opinion -Hospital consolidation, often seen as a financial lifeline for rural hospitals and encouraged by the Affordable Care Act, may result in cutbacks in services and reduced patient access, a new study concludes. -
Appliance Regulations Are Bringing Back Dirt, Filth, and Disease
Opinion -President Donald Trump is fighting to roll back federal appliance standards which are leaving people in the dark, dirty, and possibly ill. -
Arizonans Face Stiff Rate Hikes as Utilities Switch to Renewables
Opinion -Tucson Electric Power requested the Arizona Regulators allow it to by add $7.61 to home customers’ monthly electricity bill beginning in May 2020, to pay for new renewable power supplies, having helped close an inexpensive coal power plant in late 2019. -
Book Review: Child Safety Accounts Would Allow Immediate Transfers to Safer Schools
Opinion -Child Safety Accounts: Combating Student Bullying and School Violence by Empowering Parents, by Heartland scholars Vicki Alger, Tim Benson, and Lennie Jarratt, lays out the plan for CSAs in every state. -
Drug Companies Stall on Generic Drug Releases
Opinion -The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has approved generic versions of pharmaceutical products at a record-setting pace since 2016, but few of the newly certified products are available to patients, according to an analysis by Iqvia. -
The Freedom to Pump Gas
Opinion -Illinois state representative Camille Lilly recently sponsored a bill to restrict self-service gasoline stations. Would creating jobs for gas station attendants be good economics? -
PRESS RELEASE: Bernie Sanders in 1981: Some Police Forces ‘Dominated by Fascists and Nazis’
Opinion -Newly exposed comments from the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for president come on heels of Sanders’ praise of communist regimes in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela -
New England Journal Study Questions Merits of Hospital Mergers
Opinion -The national debate over the benefits of hospital mergers flared up anew over a new study showing the growing trend of consolidation has led to “moderately worse patient experiences and no significant change in readmission or mortality rates.” -
Pennsylvania Advances Rule to Restrict Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Production
Opinion -Pennsylvania’s Environmental Quality Board passed regulations to reduce methane and volatile organic compound emissions from oil and gas operations in the state, that will make it hard for small firms to operate wells or storage facilities. -
Psychiatric Urgent Care Exceeds Expectations, Says Hospital
Opinion -One of the nation’s first psychiatric urgent care centers has attracted nearly 3,000 patients since it opened six months ago, according its operator, Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. -
Study: Ag Benefits of Carbon Dioxide Are Understated in Climate Models
Opinion -The agricultural gains from the fertilization effect of increasing carbon dioxide levels may produce benefits greater than any harms generated by climate change, a new study shows. -
Turning the Aircraft Carrier
Opinion -Since the days of George Washington, Presidents have wished they could make government employees do what they are told. Actually, that frustration is much older than America. -
Republicans Playing Climate ‘Me Too’ Risk Big Losses
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #351 -
China and India Rejecting Renewables for Coal-fired Futures
Opinion -Both China and India view energy as an amoral source of power that is to be used for survival and advancement during this century. The rest of the world should take careful note. -
West Virginia Takes Step Approach at CON Repeal
Opinion -The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill that eliminates a $1,000 fee charge that is most often refunded when seeking Certificate of Need (CON) approval. -
New Mexico Considers a Fracking Moratorium
Opinion -For the second consecutive year, Democrats in New Mexico have introduced legislation to impose a four-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and subject existing operating wells to expanded reporting requirements.
