Opinion
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Rough Waters Ahead for American Heritage Rivers Communities?
Opinion -Warning that persons most affected by the American Heritage Rivers Initiative “have little idea of its potential scope, impact, and cost--both economic and regulatory”--the National Legal Center for the Public Interest, a Washington, DC-based public -
Scares Du Jour
Opinion -An unfortunate characteristic of the American health news scene has been the tendency of the media and the public to misinterpret and exaggerate preliminary reports of health risks. -
Schools Must Pay for Health Care of Disabled Students
Opinion -In a March 3 decision likely to strain school district budgets across the country, a divided U.S. -
Study: Property Rights Need Not Suffer for Species Protection
Opinion -The Endangered Species Act of 1973, adopted to conserve and protect endangered or threatened species, has done little to live up to its mission. -
Supreme Court to Hear of Law Enforcement, Media Collusion
Opinion -"The government believes it is justified in bringing the media along on searches and arrests without authorization in the warrant," explained Reed Hopper of the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), "and the media believe they have the right to go anywhere -
Teacher Union Targets Washington Think Tank
Opinion -"The primary purpose or one of the primary purposes [of a political action committee] is to affect government decision making by supporting or opposing candidates or ballot positions. -
The Fire this Time
Opinion -For the past five years, spending by the federal government for forest fire prevention and suppression--most of it in the western states--averaged almost $900 million per year. -
Union Foils Decertification in Michigan
Opinion -An attempt to decertify the Michigan Education Association, undertaken by 55 MEA members in Branch County, Michigan, was foiled when MEA intimidation and interference caused the employees to fear for their jobs and vote to continue union representation -
Here’s an Opportunity to Make an Impact on Our Schools!
Opinion -Bert L. Holt, program director for the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program, has been involved in education for 35 years, starting as an inner-city elementary school teacher in Cleveland. -
Unscientific, Deceptive, and a Disservice to American Women
Opinion -NBC health correspondent Dr. Bob Arnot's book, The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet: The Powerful Foods, Supplements, and Drugs That Can Save Your Life was published in October 1998. -
Analysis: Reformulated Gas: EPA Didn’t Do its Homework
Opinion -In taking the Hippocratic oath, fledgling physicians solemnly pledge they will, “First, do no harm. -
Opposition to CEQ Appointment Mounts
Opinion -A growing number of environmentalists are opposing the appointment of a “proven ideologue” to the vacant chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). George T. Frampton Jr. -
03/1999 Junk Science Update
Opinion -Junk scientists take to heart the sports adage, "Winners never quit and quitters never win. -
Media Ignores the ‘Hole’ Ozone Story
Opinion -Not all climate scientists accept the argument that human emissions of greenhouse gases are responsible for a thinning of the Earth's ozone layer. But the skeptics’ views are consistently ignored by a news media that apparently does. -
Study: Cash-strapped Park System Need Not Close Facilities
Opinion -While acknowledging that the state of Washington's park system faces serious budget problems, an Olympia-based research group says Governor Gary Locke's threat to close 40 parks is nothing more than political maneuvering. -
Navy Ice Research Program Runs Around
Opinion -Efforts to determine why the Arctic ice cap is shrinking could be seriously hampered by the U.S. Navy's recent decision to discontinue its six-year-old Scientific Ice Expeditions program. -
Poll: State, Local Governments Better than Feds on Environmental Protection
Opinion -Seven out of 10 registered voters nationwide believe that state or local government agencies can better protect the environment than the federal government, according to a new poll conducted by The Polling Company for the Washington, DC-based -
Making Waves: NCPA Report Sets Sea Level Record Straight
Opinion -A natural phenomenon that scientists find extremely difficult to measure, rising sea levels are nevertheless often summoned as evidence that environmental disaster looms if industrialized nations do nothing to curtail their emissions of climate-warming -
Global Warming Not Responsible for 1998’s Unusual Weather
Opinion -The United States may have experienced more than its fair share of unusual weather during 1998, but that had nothing to do with global warming. -
Choice Is Breaking Out All Over
Opinion -Although school choice legislation already was under serious consideration in many states, those efforts have been bolstered by last year's Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Milwaukee voucher program. The U.S. -
News from CEO America
Opinion -Oprah Floods Scholarships Lines! The 12,000 phone lines for the Children's Scholarship Fund were jammed on February 2 after Wall Street investor Ted Forstmann appeared on Oprah Winfrey's television show to publicize the program. -
The Business of Education
Opinion -Freightliner Makes School Buses Safer School districts throughout Florida have ordered more than 300 new Freightliner school buses with improved safety features, including increased driver visibility and maneuverability. -
President Mum on What Doesn’t Work
Opinion -While unimpressed with most proposals in President Bill Clinton's 1999 State of the Union message, two GOP legislators--Representatives Dick Armey of Texas and Peter Hoekstra of Michigan--did find one idea they could support: Stop investing in -
Clinton Wants More Strings on K-12 Funding
Opinion -In an image-dominated atmosphere more reminiscent of an Academy Awards ceremony than a joint session of the U.S.