Opinion
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Brookings Institution Report: Time for Second-generation Strategies
Opinion -Nearly 30 years have passed since the first Earth Day was held and the Environmental Protection Agency established. There is no question that great strides have since been made in cleaning up the nation’s air and water. -
Will North American Carbon Sinks ‘Sink’ Kyoto Treaty?
Opinion -Although the United States and Canada produce a substantial amount of industrial carbon dioxide emissions, a new study contends that the North American continent is a net carbon sink whose vegetation may be absorbing the entire annual emissions of the -
Eco-arson Fails: Vail Resort Vows to Rebuild
Opinion -The torching of a Vail, Colorado, ski area by radical environmentalists opposed to expansion of the facility may have produced a political backdraft that could damage existing support for the group’s position. -
Heartland Offers Guide to Global Warming
Opinion -Much of what is reported about global warming in newspapers is just plain wrong--wrong science, wrong data, wrong implications--but few experts are available to rebut the newspaper articles, concludes a new publication from The Heartland Institute. -
CO2: Villain or Friend? An Exclusive Interview with Keith E. Idso
Opinion -Dr. Keith E. Idso earned his Ph.D. in botany from Arizona State University in 1997. Prior to that, he received his M.S. degree in agronomy and plant genetics and his B.S. degree in agriculture, both from the University of Arizona. -
25 Years after OPEC’s Embargo
Opinion -A quarter-century ago, rumblings of an energy shortage threatened economic, environmental, and energy apocalypse. But the threat never materialized. -
01/1999 News Briefs
Opinion -Montana Lobbying Ban Rejected by Federal Judge A Montana statute banning lobbying by for-profit companies was struck down by a federal court judge who deemed it a violation of companies’ First Amendment right of free speech. U.S. -
Death in a Bread Box
Opinion -Editor’s note: The following environmental alert came via e-mail to The Heartland Institute from a concerned correspondent, who, as happens so often on the Internet, received it from someone who received it from who-knows-who. -
Media Ignore Sound Science in Global Warming Coverage
Opinion -On October 16, the Washington Post reported that an iceberg the size of the state of Delaware (92 miles long and 30 miles wide) had broken free from Antarctica, an event attributed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as "a possible -
Resolve to be Healthy in ’99
Opinion -The American Council on Science and Health is dedicated to helping individuals distinguish between real and hypothetical health risks. -
Enough! We Have All the Wilderness We Need
Opinion -As the twentieth century draws to a close, many Americans would be pleasantly surprised to know that about two-thirds as much forest (731 million acres) exists now as in the year 1600. Some 13. -
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Milwaukee Vouchers
Opinion -School choice advocates were handed their biggest victory to date on November 9 when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to the Wisconsin Supreme Court's June ruling in support of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. -
Announcement Delayed Until After Election
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to hear a challenge to the Milwaukee voucher program gave a boost to the Republican Party, which has made school choice a central part of GOP education policies. -
Choice Advocates Assemble at Friedman Conference
Opinion -Nobel laureate Milton Friedman urged legislators, corporate executives, and community leaders attending the first conference to be hosted by the Milton & Rose D. -
The Only Solution Is Competition: An Exclusive Interview with Milton Friedman
Opinion -It is one of the happy coincidences of history that Dr. -
Two Lucky People and the Friedman Foundation
Opinion -Two Lucky People is Milton and Rose Friedman’s lively account of their lives, the people they knew, the work they shared, their involvement with world leaders, and their contribution to many of this century’s most important public policy issues. -
Maine Supreme Court Weighs Religious Freedom Case
Opinion -While most school choice litigation is initiated by opponents seeking to halt the implementation of legislation to expand choice, a case recently argued before the Maine Supreme Court was initiated by school choice advocates seeking to overturn a 1981 -
NYC Vouchers Lift Minority Test Scores
Opinion -Low-income students in New York City who were able to use vouchers to transfer to private or parochial schools last fall scored higher on reading and math tests than did their peers who remained behind in the public schools, according to a new study -
Teacher Union Criticism Off Base
Opinion -The promising results from the new Harvard/Mathematica study of New York City's private voucher program quickly came under fire from school choice opponents, who tried to discredit the analysis by questioning the motives of lead researcher Paul E. -
Choice Schools Rated Highly, Despite Lack of Resources
Opinion -According to the new study of New York City’s School Choice Scholarship Program, the parents of students awarded scholarships placed their children in schools where they were less likely to have access to a library, a cafeteria, a nurse's office, -
Unions Just Want More Money
Opinion -"Those presently in control of the education system have run short of ideas except to lobby continually for more money," say the teachers who signed "A Letter to the American People,” calling for systemic school reform. -
How Parents Select Schools
Opinion -Critics of school choice argue that low-income families will select schools for their children on the basis of sports programs, location, or religious instruction--not on educational quality. -
National Training Workshop Scheduled for January
Opinion -Declining to rest on its laurels after a banner year of program growth, CEO America is working to maintain the growing momentum for school choice, moving forward with efforts to expand the number of privately funded voucher programs throughout the -
Remedial Ed Soars in California
Opinion -"I wish I could of study longer and harder. . . . What I had learn was that If I had study more I think that I would of got a better grade.