Opinion
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108th Congress Has Opportunity to Liberate MSAs
Opinion -How well would Individual Retirement Accounts work if they were available only to employees of businesses with fewer than 50 people? What if Section 529 College Savings Plans could be started only by the self-employed? Suppose Sec. -
Bush Sends Mixed Signals
Opinion -In his State of the Union Address on January 28, President George W. Bush mentioned a prescription drug benefit and the need to get affordable drugs to AIDS patients in other countries. -
Charter Law Puts Indianapolis Mayor in Driver’s Seat
Opinion -Imagine a city where the mayor has the power to start new public schools. Imagine a mayor who can encourage private-sector participation in solving today’s education woes. Difficult to imagine? Yes ... but in Indianapolis, that’s the reality. -
Congress Offers Hope of Asbestos Litigation Reform
Opinion -Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are hoping to agree on key elements of an asbestos reform bill for a vote today (June 26). -
Long-term Care Crisis Builds
Opinion -State governments face their worst fiscal crises in 50 years. The federal budget flipped from a triple-digit surplus to a triple-digit deficit. -
More School Choice Lessons from Abroad
Opinion -The aim of paying teachers in India’s government schools four times what they would make in private schools was to make them better teachers, noted British researcher James Tooley in a recent issue of The Spectator. They also have lifetime job security. -
Mother’s Education Markedly Affects School Readiness
Opinion -Children's school readiness skills vary markedly by demographics, with mother's education level and family income being the most important factors. -
Need a Doctor? Call a Lawyer!
Opinion -The barriers to affordable health care in the U.S. have long included outdated government-run programs like Medicare and Medicaid and an over-abundance of mandates and regulations imposed on the health care industry. -
Parents Must Have the Power to Choose: an exclusive interview with Lawrence C. Patrick III
Opinion -"This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. ... Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children." Martin Luther King Jr. -
Reform of New Source Review Raises Concerns
Opinion -The fog has not yet cleared from the Bush administration’s decision to change the rules that govern the Clear Air Act. -
Ten Myths of Reading Instruction
Opinion -Managing Editor’s note: This is a condensed version of a more detailed article available under the same title at the Web site of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory at http://www.sedl.org/reading/topics/myths.html. -
Vouchers Improve Public Schools
Opinion -Opponents of school choice frequently argue that giving parents vouchers will hurt the public schools, resulting in bad schools producing even worse educational achievement for their students. -
A State Global Warming Policy Could Destroy the Economy
Opinion -There is a little-known provision in North Carolina’s “clean smokestacks” bill that could cost the state billions of dollars annually and devastate the economy. -
Global Warming Programs Bust State Budgets, Study Warns
Opinion -CHICAGO, IL: A new study of state efforts to battle “global warming” says such programs “would carve a 28.6 percent hole in the average state’s budget, making today’s fiscal problems look small by comparison. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #2-2
Opinion -Lawbreakers Can Sue Too . . . And Win Syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock describes the case of a deranged New Yorker who shot and wounded his parents and himself in a June 1995 incident. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis: Impact on Alabama
Opinion -The likely cost of an Alabama-only greenhouse gas program to consumers and businesses -- $22.9 billion -- can be divided by the number of households in the state to reveal the cost per household of a typical greenhouse gas program. There were 1. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis: Impact on California
Opinion -The likely cost of a California-only greenhouse gas program to consumers and businesses--$82.4 billion--can be divided by the number of households in the state to reveal the cost per household of a typical greenhouse gas program. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis: Impact on Colorado
Opinion -The likely cost of a Colorado-only greenhouse gas program to consumers and businesses -- $2.5 billion -- can be divided by the number of households in the state to reveal the cost per household of a typical greenhouse gas program. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis: Impact on Delaware
Opinion -The likely cost of a Delaware-only greenhouse gas program to consumers and businesses -- $3.5 billion -- can be divided by the number of households in the state to reveal the cost per household of a typical greenhouse gas program. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis: Impact on Hawaii
Opinion -The likely cost of the Hawaii greenhouse gas program to consumers and businesses -- $2.9 billion -- can be divided by the number of households in the state to reveal the cost per household of a typical greenhouse gas program. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis: Impact on Iowa
Opinion -The likely cost of an Iowa-only greenhouse gas program to consumers and businesses -- $12.1 billion -- can be divided by the number of households in the state to reveal the cost per household of a typical greenhouse gas program. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis: Impact on Louisiana
Opinion -The likely cost of a Louisiana-only greenhouse gas program to consumers and businesses -- $4.2 billion -- can be divided by the number of households in the state to reveal the cost per household of a typical greenhouse gas program. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis: Impact on Maryland
Opinion -The likely cost of a Maryland-only greenhouse gas program to consumers and businesses -- $13.4 billion -- can be divided by the number of households in the state to reveal the cost per household of a typical greenhouse gas program. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis: Impact on Kansas
Opinion -The likely cost of a Kansas-only greenhouse gas program to consumers and businesses -- $14.8 billion -- can be divided by the number of households in the state to reveal the cost per household of a typical greenhouse gas program.
