Opinion
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National Geographic or ‘National Deceptivegraphic’?
Opinion -The National Geographic Society is proud of its maps. So it should be downright embarrassed by the map it published on pages 56 and 57 of the July 2001 issue of National Geographic magazine. (You can see the map at http://magma.nationalgeographic. -
Kyoto bet backfiring on some energy companies
Opinion -While the usual cast of anti-free market environmentalists has assembled to pressure Congress and President George W. -
News from the month that was . . .
Opinion -The sixth annual Conference of the Parties (COP) to the climate treaty, involving all 180 national delegations, met in Bonn and activated the Kyoto Protocol (KP), designed to limit emissions of greenhouse gases. -
Yucca Mountain clears another hurdle
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has given a favorable safety assessment to a plan that would build a nuclear waste storage facility beneath Nevada's Yucca Mountain. -
‘Shrub Man’ out of jail
Opinion -John Thoburn, the "Shrub Man" of Reston, Virginia who was sent to jail for violating zoning ordinances on the planting of trees, has been released from jail but must sell part of his golf range to cover his mounting legal expenses. -
NAEP Brings Good News and Bad News
Opinion -The release of the 2000 math scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), sometimes called the Nation's Report Card, produced a flurry of good-news headlines during the summer doldrums, especially in states where scores were up -
A Privatization Success Story
Opinion -According to Utah State University's Substitute Teaching Institute, about 10 percent of American classrooms need a substitute teacher on any given day. That's more than a quarter of a million substitute teachers a day. -
The Education Industry
Opinion -The private-sector education market in the United States grew 8 percent to top the $100 billion mark in revenues last year, according to a new report on the education industry published in August by Eduventures, an independent research firm focused on -
PR and the Public Schools
Opinion -How to announce poor test scores: "The opening paragraphs should announce and explain an action plan and several paragraphs later, announce the scores. -
Rx Discount Card Plan Stalled by Judge
Opinion -A federal court on September 6 blocked President George W. Bush’s plan to offer prescription drug discount cards to elderly Americans by early next year. -
New Jersey Adopts Patients’ Bill of Rights
Opinion -More than 3 million New Jersey residents enrolled in state-regulated health plans now have the right to sue their HMOs, under provisions of the so-called patients' bill of rights signed by Acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco on July 30, 2001. -
Not the first time
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Arsenic a “hot button” for Senator Clinton
Opinion -Senator Hillary Clinton on July 19 lashed out at the Bush administration for failing to quickly reduce arsenic levels in drinking water. -
Bush’s environmental record is a far cry from media portrayals
Opinion -It is very subtle, but it is persistent. Listen to the language used by the media to describe President George W. Bush's approach to environmental issues. The language speaks volumes. -
Voucher Proposals Flourish Nationwide
Opinion -Although school vouchers were pronounced dead and buried by gleeful opponents after two initiative defeats last November--and also squeezed out of President George W. -
Parents Support Teachers in Maryland Test Scandal
Opinion -School officials in Montgomery County, Maryland are hoping this current school year turns out better than the last one, when comments from two students at a low-scoring middle school led to the unearthing of the district's second major cheating scandal -
‘Public’ Meetings Not for the Public
Opinion -Most local government bodies have some provision for members of the public to bring new items of concern--non-agenda items--to the attention of their elected officials at regularly scheduled meetings. -
Michigan Seniors Enroll in State’s Rx Program
Opinion -Low-income seniors already enrolled in the state of Michigan’s prescription drug assistance programs will be given the first opportunity to sign up for a new one, says a state health official. -
Litigate, or Regulate?
Opinion -The managed care political debate was lost when free-market advocates failed to address the feelings of disempowerment held by individual consumers. -
Western states facing new endangered species inquiries
Opinion -Environmental groups have begun pressing the case of three western species they claim are in danger due to human development. The new actions have the potential to create a severe impact on economies up and down the Pacific coast. -
Polar ice cap studies refute global warming
Opinion -A series of recent studies shows that the polar ice caps, which should be shrinking if dire global warming theories are correct, are maintaining their mass and in fact growing slightly. -
Regulating CO2 as a pollutant: Costly in more ways than one
Opinion -President George W. Bush has taken a beating in the press for walking away from the United Nations' global warming agreement, reached at July's conference of the parties in Bonn. -
Teacher Unions Resist Introduction of Competition
Opinion -"It is better for the public to procure at the market whatever the market can supply; because there it is by competition kept up in quality, and reduced to its minimum price. -
How Schools ‘Manage’ Parents
Opinion -Why is it that parents who give a mediocre grade to public schools in general almost invariably have a favorable impression of the performance of their local public school?
