Opinion
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State Global Warming Programs Are Budget-Busters
Opinion -State governments across the nation are facing record budget deficits. According to the American Legislative Exchange Council, the cumulative deficit now approaches $90 billion. -
Study: TIF Doesn’t Work, Hurts Neighborhoods, and Is Unfair
Opinion -Chicago, IL – One of the most popular economic development tools in municipalities across the country, tax increment financing (TIF), often does not work, according to a new study. -
Global Warming: Thinking Globally and Acting Locally Doesn’t Work
Opinion -“Think globally, act locally” has long been a credo of the environmental movement. It is often a helpful principle to guide effective advocacy efforts and make personal lifestyle choices. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #2-3
Opinion -Send the Disability Checks c/o Leavenworth A Los Angeles jury has ordered two insurance companies to pay a 66-year-old Beverly Hills lawyer $371,000 for stopping the man’s $8,200-a-month disability payments in 1999. -
Statement on Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s 2003 State of the State Address
Opinion -In his State of the State Address on March 12, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich outlined three education initiatives: increasing the school readiness of at-risk children, expanding the state’s teaching corps, and increasing opportunities for parental -
Left Uses Uninsured to Grind Axes
Opinion -Three of the most powerful liberal advocacy groups in the country – the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Families USA, and the Commonwealth Fund – are proclaiming the week of March 10-16th as “Cover the Uninsured Week. -
Meet William Mellor at a New Coalition at The Heartland Institute Luncheon
Opinion -The New Coalition at The Heartland Institute invites you to a special lunch program: Monday, March 24, 2003, Noon Union League Club, 65 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois featuring: William H. -
Heartland Calls for Reform Legislation on Asbestos Litigation
Opinion -According to written testimony submitted to the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate, Congress must pass legislation to alleviate the growing crisis in asbestos litigation. -
Testimony to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Asbestos Litigation
Opinion -To: Senator Orrin Hatch Chairman Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate Dear Chairman Hatch: Please accept the following comments to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary pertaining to the meeting scheduled for March 5, 2003, on -
On NSR, Bush Should Ignore Knee-Jerk Opposition from Left
Opinion -As was demonstrated by the November election, there aren’t many issues that give Democrats an edge over Republicans. So the Democrats are trying to make the most of the few they do have, including the environment. -
Congress Battles Itself Over Affordable Energy
Opinion -Two Congressional events held on January 8--a news conference supporting more federal funding to help the poor pay their winter energy bills and a Senate hearing on a bill to fight global warming--may at first blush appear completely unrelated. -
Lieberman, McCain Introduce Climate Change Measure
Opinion -Senators Joe Lieberman (D-Connecticut) and John McCain (R-Arizona) have introduced the Climate Stewardship Act of 2003, a far-reaching measure that would establish nationwide limits on greenhouse gas emissions, launch a greenhouse gas permit trading -
Cap and Trade: The Moral Equivalent of Bamboozle
Opinion -At the start of the 108th Congress, Senators John McCain (R-Arizona) and Joe Lieberman (D-Connecticut) held a hearing on climate change in preparation for legislation they have since introduced. -
Private Companies Take Action Against Global Warming
Opinion -Private companies are taking the lead in researching climate change and funding projects that could mitigate the effects of greenhouse gases on the Earth’s climate. Several recent efforts are particularly noteworthy. -
Taken By Storm
Opinion -Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming by Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick Key Porter Books, November 2002 320 pages paperback Taken by Storm should be required reading for anyone--including the media and -
EPA Reexamines Clean Water Act
Opinion -Responding to a 2001 Supreme Court ruling that the Army Corps of Engineers and Environmental Protection Agency overstepped their bounds in enforcing the Clean Water Act, EPA has gathered and is now evaluating public comments regarding the scope of the -
Norton Intervenes in Western Water Feud
Opinion -Interior Secretary Gale Norton cut back California’s Colorado River water supply, making good on a promise to intervene in a regional water dispute if California could not reach a water-use agreement with six other Colorado River states. -
Texas Hot over U.S.-Mexico Water Agreement
Opinion -Texas government officials and South Texas farmers are furious that a new water agreement between the U.S. and Mexico fails to address years of broken promises and the latter country’s failure to abide by earlier water treaties. -
Madison Commuter Rail: Let Taxpayers Beware!
Opinion -How would you feel if you bought a fancy new DVD player for Christmas, only to find the next day the same store was selling another DVD player just as good--but at one-fourth the cost? -
Animal Rights Group Admits Funding Domestic Terrorist Group
Opinion -WASHINGTON, DC September 19, 2002 -- “We did it. We did it. We gave $1,500 to the ELF,” said the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Lisa Lange, on Tuesday, September 17, 2002. -
First Step to What?
Opinion -It was a treaty even Bill Clinton was afraid to submit to the Senate for approval. Clinton's own Department of Energy figured it would lower GDP by $397 billion and double the cost of energy. WEFA Inc. -
Voucher Lessons from Sweden
Opinion -School choice has come to Sweden in a big way over the past 10 years, confounding widespread perceptions of the Swedes as statists and providing inspiration for supporters of market-based education reform in the U.S. -
In UNICEF Ranking, U.S. Teens Come in 18th
Opinion -The Educational Disadvantage League Average Rank in Five Measures of Absolute Educational Disadvantage 1.4 Korea 2.2 Japan 4.4 Finland 5.0 Canada 6.2 Australia 8.2 Austria 9.4 UK 10.2 Ireland 10.8 Sweden 12.2 Czech Republic 12. -
Boost for DC Charters; Tax Credits Grab Early Attention
Opinion -As the ice on the Potomac River reached its thickest level in a decade, the 108th Congress settled in to undertake its first round of school reform.
