Opinion
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ALEC: Different Approach Needed for Better Schools
Opinion -"If you keep doing what you're doing, you'll keep getting what you're getting." Robert L. -
Let us use some common sense here
Opinion -Summary: In this speech by the Hon. Cliff Stearns (R-Florida, 6th District) addressing the House of Representatives states that we should preserve freedom and not follow the dictates of the Earth First! -
MTBE ban proposed in Michigan
Opinion -The Michigan legislature has taken up a bill that would ban the water-polluting gasoline additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE). Introduced by Rep. -
New voice on the environmental left
Opinion -A potentially powerful news organization has been launched to spread the message of the left-wing environmental movement. Verde Media has been established, according to founder and chairman, Peek Garlington III, to be “. . . -
Playing the numbers with climate model accuracy
Opinion -Those who proudly claim their climate models duplicate reality, provided [insert your favorite caveat here], have been irritated by one particularly nasty thorn. (And no, we’re not talking about Environment & Climate News. -
Private conservation: An environmental success story
Opinion -Expressing his support for an Interior Department proposal to create three new National Monuments and expand a fourth monument in the West, President Clinton late last year proclaimed, "giving these lands National Monument status would ensure they will -
Sea-ing nothing new under the sun
Opinion -One little-known mystery of global warming is an event that took place some 24 years ago. -
TAR-2000: The Empire Strikes Back
Opinion -Lawyers are fond of saying, “If you don’t like the law, argue the facts. If you don’t like the facts, argue the law.” At the United Nations, without the scientific facts to back them up, they’ve engaged in a perverse twist of the lawyers’ dictum. -
The ABCs of School Choice
Opinion -The Friedman Foundation has just published a pamphlet called The ABC's of School Choice, which provides a convenient, pocket-sized fact-book on school choice in America today. -
Time to Get Our Priorities Right: Schools Exist to Provide an Education for Kids: an interview with Dick DeVos
Opinion -“The issue isn't really about politics anymore, it's about helping kids who are trapped in failing school districts. We're on the ballot now, and it's no use arguing about whether it's a good time or a bad time. -
AOL Must Now Fight the Tiger It Once Rode
Opinion -In the modern telecommunications and computer industry, no company has worked more aggressively to use the power of government against its business rivals than has America Online. -
The anti-trade greens . . . and how they got that way
Opinion -“What are they doing here?” “What the heck do they want? “Where did they all come from?” “How did they get so well-financed and organized? -
Excerpts from the NAS Report
Opinion -The following passages are quoted, without footnotes, from the executive summary to the National Academy of Sciences April 5 report, Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants: Science and Regulation. -
Public Rejects Red Tape, Federal Intrusion
Opinion -In a research summary released last December, National Capital Strategies, Inc. -
What Wasn’t Said at the NSBA Conference
Opinion -This year's 60th Annual Meeting of the National School Boards Association, with 9,000 delegates among the total 19,000 attendees, was typical of such organizational meetings. -
Teacher Unions Defeat Mandate Reimbursement Plan
Opinion -As Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge discovered to his chagrin last June, when state legislators failed to support his voucher proposal, Catholics may number in the millions and make up 30 percent of the state's population, but the lobbying clout of the -
Boston biotech meeting attracts supporters, protestors
Opinion -Bio2000, a week-long conference for the international biotechnology industry, ended March 31 after setting attendance records for both conferees and protestors. Nearly 8,000 industry representatives attended the Boston convention. -
Congress debates CAFE moratorium again
Opinion -It has become an annual rite of summer. Each year since 1995, Congress has voted to extend a one-year moratorium on expenditures to change car and truck fuel economy standards, effectively freezing the standards at 27. -
Court rejects EPA chloroform rule
Opinion -The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled on March 31 that the U.S. -
Coalition of biotech companies launches educational campaign
Opinion -The biotechnology industry has begun a three-year, $50 million program to educate consumers about the safety and benefits of bioengineered foods. -
Environmental Education: Ripe for Reform
Opinion -It’s time to separate education and advocacy. We don’t mean discouraging environmentalists or business representatives from speaking in the classroom. -
Quick action may have stalled ecoterrorists
Opinion -When Congressman George Radanovich (R-California) received an email urging Earth Liberation Front (ELF) members to wage “militant demonstrations targeting U.S. -
Where has all the carbon gone?
Opinion -With or without a Kyoto Protocol, global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions no doubt will continue to rise. -
U.S. health report quells fears
Opinion -The long-awaited results of the U.S. National Assessment of Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change are beginning to see the light of day.
