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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Statement on Reorganization
Opinion -Press Release -The following is a statement on the reorganization of The Heartland Institute, which began on Friday, March 6, 2020 -
Profile: EdChoice Provides Research and Training to Expand School Choice
Opinion -school-reform-news -Formerly known as the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, EdChoice is the oldest school choice advocacy group in the nation. -
Shortage of Psych Beds Puts Spotlight on Michigan’s CON Law
Opinion -health-care-news, News -As Michigan continues to struggle with how to address its lack of available beds in its psychiatric hospital in Caro, Michigan, the legislature is proceeding with hearings on legislation to exempt, among other areas, psychiatric beds from CON approval. -
U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Exclusion of Religious Schools from Scholarship Programs
Opinion -school-reform-news -In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, Kendra Espinoza and other parents are challenging a 2018 ruling by the Montana Supreme Court that the state’s tax credit scholarship program is unconstitutional. -
Obamacare: 10 Years of Distress and Disappointment
Opinion -Editorial -In its first decade, ObamaCare has failed to solve many of the health care problems it was supposed to address. -
Replace Common Core with Common Sense. (Yes, It Can Be Done)
Opinion -school-reform-news, Editorial -Florida again leads the way by supporting a wide range of private and public school choices for families, a blossoming of freedom that DeSantis helped bolster as a top priority upon taking office in 2019. -
Keeping Africa on the Brink of Starvation
Opinion -Editorial -UN and EU government agencies – and tax-exempt NGOs – have brought a plague of locusts. -
AOC’s Pitch for the Green New Deal Is Unhinged From Reality
Opinion -Editorial -AOC's recent comments, along with the actual text of Green New Deal bill, are at odds with numerous facts about pollution, regulations, and the economics of energy. -
Federal Government Clarifies Migratory Bird Protections
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed a rule under which it would no longer prosecute entities that unintentionally or accidently harm or kill birds protected under the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act. -
Commentary: FDA’s New Commissioner Needs to Shed Bloat, Put Patients First
Opinion -health-care-news, Editorial -Now that the Trump Administration’s new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, Dr. Stephen Hahn, has been confirmed, -
Virginia’s ‘Clean Economy Act’ Will Have Dirty Results
Opinion -Editorial -850-foot-tall turbines, 3.5 times DC covered with solar panels, mining, child labor, pricey power. -
Is Health Care a Right?
Opinion -Editorial -Health care is a component of modern prosperity, which must be continually created. -
Second Street.org Spotlights Socialized Medicine from Canadian Viewpoint
Opinion -health-care-news, News -When senior citizen Jenny Mackenzie of Vancouver, Canada learned it would take two years to receive hip surgery, it was SecondStreet.org that brought her tale of woe to the public’s attention. -
College Athletes Could Soon Profit from Commercial Deals
Opinion -school-reform-news, budget-tax-news -Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed a bill allowing college athletes to sign endorsement deals and hire agents. -
A Consumer Wish List for Health Care
Opinion -News -See related article, April 2, 2020 -
Nothing’s ‘Impossible’ When It Comes To Innovation
Opinion -Editorial -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 -Editorial -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 -health-care-news, News -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 -environment-climate-news, school-reform-news -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 -News, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #352 -
Supreme Court Sidelines Review of ACA Constitutionality as Law Approaches Ten Years
Opinion -health-care-news, News -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 -environment-climate-news -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 -health-care-news, News -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.
