Opinion
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Reacts to Passage of Illinois Senate Bill 1947
Opinion -"Illinois lawmakers will continue to fight over education funding until they learn to focus on students and not the school districts and teachers’ pension funds." - Lennie Jarratt -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Expert Reacts to Cleveland Stadium Renovation Subsidy Deal
Opinion -" If Cavs owner Dan Gilbert wants to renovate Quicken Loans Arena, he should use a small portion of his massive fortune to do it himself." - Justin Haskins -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Hurricane Harvey
Opinion -" As millions brace for the potentially devastating impact from Harvey, stories are being written tying Harvey to man-made climate change." - Bette Grande -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Leaked Climate Science Special Report
Opinion -The New York Times this week posted a draft of a climate science report by the federal government’s U.S. Global Change Research Program. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to July 2017 Jobs Report
Opinion -"These new employment numbers show that Trump’s economic program is already working for all Americans, but especially his blue-collar base." - Peter Ferrara -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Failure of ‘Skinny Repeal’ of Obamacare
Opinion -‘America doesn’t have to wait for Congress to get its act together. Some of the most onerous parts of Obamacare were foisted upon us by executive dictate from the Obama administration, and we can reverse the damage in the same manner.’ – Tim Huelskamp -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to New BLM Fracking Rule
Opinion -‘All praise to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and President Donald Trump for reversing the Obama administration’s anti-fossil fuels, anti-fracking rule on lands of the United States.’ – Fred Palmer -
Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Plan to Repeal Obamacare Now, Replace Later
Opinion -‘Repealing Obamacare and starting from scratch will likely result in a far more free-market replacement bill than the one recently considered by the Senate.’ – Peter Ferrara -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Comment on New Senate Republican Health Reform Bill
Opinion -‘The Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) is hardly perfect or even a repeal of Obamacare. However, given the political realities facing the nation and the dire state of the health care market, the BCRA would be a positive step.’ – Justin Haskins -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Names Former Congressman Tim Huelskamp Incoming President
Opinion -Huelskamp Will Succeed Founding President Joseph Bast, Who Has Led the Illinois-based, National Free-Market Think Tank Since 1984 Founding -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Reacts to North Carolina Action on Personal Education Savings Accounts
Opinion -"t has already been a very busy (and good) week for education choice advocates, and this news out of North Carolina is the cherry on the sundae." - Tim Benson -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Expert Reacts to Signing of Education Choice Expansion Bill
Opinion -"Florida continues to be one of the leaders in expanding education opportunities for students." - Lennie Jarratt -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to CBO Score of Senate Republicans’ Health Care Bill
Opinion -"Instead of coercion to buy insurance the uninsured do not want to buy, or wasting more trillions on Medicaid, policy should be focused on lowering premiums and expanding choice" - Peter Ferrara -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Trinity Lutheran Church Victory at Supreme Court
Opinion -“The Supreme Court once again affirms the free exercise of religion ruling it is unconstitutional to deny a religious institution participation in a state program solely because of its religion.” - Lennie Jarratt -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Senate GOP Health Care Reform Bill
Opinion -“Congressional Republicans are exhibiting willful ignorance of the lessons Obamacare should have taught them. Subsidizing health insurers is not a sound basis for a health care system, in theory or in fact.” - Michael Hamilton -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Planned Protest of Illinois Fracking Project
Opinion -‘It appears these protesters know little about fracking and are seeking only to frighten their neighbors.’ – Isaac Orr -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Wisconsin Passing REINS Act
Opinion -"One small step for legislative responsibility, one giant leap for constitutional restraints on executive authority in Wisconsin." - H. Sterling Burnett -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Trump Withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement
Opinion -"It’s been a long time since we had a president who cared as much about real science, energy policy, and the importance of economic growth" - Joseph Bast -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2018 Budget
Opinion -" The proposed budget in fact incorporates tax reform by sharply reducing tax rates, as well as repealing and replacing Obamacare, which would cut taxes by about $1 trillion over 10 years." - Peter Ferrara -
PRESS RELEASE: Free-Market Scholar and Author Edward Hudgins joins The Heartland Institute
Opinion -‘We’re thrilled to bring on board Ed Hudgins, a researcher and writer known throughout the freedom movement as an original thinker, a talented editor, and someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of public policy.’ – Joseph Bast -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Minnesota Legislature Passing Tax-Credit Scholarships
Opinion -"Private school choice in Minnesota is literally nonexistent, so enacting this tax-credit scholarship program would be a great first step for the North Star State" - Tim Benson -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to FCC’s Move to End Obama-era Net Neutrality Rules
Opinion -"Government-directed net neutrality was, is, and always will be a solution in search of a problem. " - Jim Lakely -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Senate’s Failure to Revoke Methane Emission Rule
Opinion -"This rule does nothing to help the environment, but it does add costs to oil and gas extraction on public lands." - H. Sterling Burnett -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Excluded by Local Organizers of ‘Open Forum’ on Climate Change
Opinion -On Saturday, May 6, North Central College in Naperville, Illinois will be hosting an event organized by Illinois Congressman Bill Foster (D-14) dubbed an “open forum on climate change.”
