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  • The Battle within the Environmental Movement

    Published June 9, 1995
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    The nation's biggest environmental groups are stuffing the nation's mailboxes (and its landfills) with fundraising letters claiming that "greedy special interest groups" are out to "repeal twenty years of environmental protection regulation.
  • Lessons Must Be Learned from Voucher Bill Defeat

    Published June 8, 1995
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    "Too much of what ultimately matters in a child s education is decided on the basis of political muscle by groups whose primary interest is not necessarily the child.
  • Libertarians, Conservatives, and the Oklahoma City Bombing

    Published May 26, 1995
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    The April 19th terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City dramatically changed the debate over limiting the size and power of the federal government.
  • Adoption Agency Discrimination Must Stop

    Published May 12, 1995
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    Advocates of welfare reform and affirmative action ought to take a long look at the current state of interracial adoption in the United States.
  • A Tale of Two Countries

    Published May 5, 1995
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    The Sierra Club, one of the nation's largest environmental organizations, not long ago ran a full- page ad in The New York Times deploring "the growing distance between the politicians on Capitol Hill and the rest of us.
  • The Future of Civil Rights in America

    Published May 5, 1995
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    The Clinton administration has set its civil rights policies on a radical course permeated by race-consciousness, brazenly breaking candidate Bill Clinton's "new Democrat" assurances that he would pursue a politics of moderation and healing.
  • ‘The Solution’ to Public Education Woes

    Published April 28, 1995
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    I recently received a letter from the former superintendent of a public school system in Illinois.
  • Replacing Dwarfs with Giants

    Published April 12, 1995
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    Balzac called the bureaucracy "a gigantic force driven by dwarfs." In our generation, his definition aptly describes public education in America. Don't get me wrong.
  • Time for a New Look at Recycling

    Published April 11, 1995
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    Recycling is popular. Across the country, Americans willingly separate their trash into "regular" and "recyclable" containers. New York City alone collects over 2,000 tons of recyclables per day. But there's a catch.
  • Hard Choices: Environmentalists and the Forests

    Published April 4, 1995
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    More than twenty years ago, I was one of a dozen or so activists who founded Greenpeace in the basement of the Unitarian Church in Vancouver. The Vietnam war was raging and nuclear holocaust seemed closer every day.
  • Disestablish the Green Cathedrals

    Published March 28, 1995
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    Could the recent Republican landslide lead to major reform of environmental policy? Will we see a dismantling of bureaucratically controlled ecological central planning in favor of local initiative and private environmental stewardship?
  • Revitalizing Public Education in Illinois

    Published March 24, 1995
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    There is no more important issue today than the education of our children.
  • Educational Choice: It Really Works in Vermont

    Published March 22, 1995
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    Since 1869, Vermont has had an educational choice system for students from towns that do not maintain their own public schools or belong to union school districts.
  • Do the Arts Need the NEA?

    Published February 7, 1995
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    The National Endowment for the Arts is fighting for its life, as newly empowered Republicans in Washington have targeted the NEA for extinction. Many artists are angry about this possibility and believe that only ignorance or malevolence can explain it.
  • Do the Arts Need the NEA?

    Published February 7, 1995
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    The National Endowment for the Arts is fighting for its life, as newly empowered Republicans in Washington have targeted the NEA for extinction. Many artists are angry about this possibility and believe that only ignorance or malevolence can explain it.
  • Bad Economics Kills 68 on Flight 4184

    Published January 4, 1995
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    On October 31, 1994, in a muddy northern Indiana soybean field, American Eagle Flight 4184 from Indianapolis to Chicago went down, killing all 68 passengers.
  • Angels of Mercy

    Published December 20, 1994
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    It was Halloween. Children were already at the door collecting candy. Then we heard the news that American Eagle flight 4184 had just plowed into a Northern Indiana cornfield.
  • Disposing of the Medical Waste Problem

    Published December 10, 1994
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    No terrorist could have devised a better plan to jeopardize biomedical research and deny modern medical treatments to Americans who desperately need them.
  • New Lessons for Health Care Reformers

    Published November 11, 1994
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    Government-run health care stood trial twice in 1994, once in Washington D.C. and again in California. It was a two-time loser. Health care in America must be reformed. There is ample evidence of waste and fraud in the current system.
  • Health Care Reform: Lessons from Missouri

    Published November 11, 1994
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    Contrary to the official "spin" coming out of Jefferson City, Missouri, special interest groups, lobbyists, and big bucks did not cause the legislative defeat of that state's far-reaching health care reform proposal.
  • Finding Alternatives to Higher Taxes

    Published October 21, 1994
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    Illinois taxpayers are about to encounter a well-orchestrated campaign for a major permanent tax increase in 1995.
  • New Hope for Regulatory Reform

    Published October 11, 1994
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    When Congress repealed the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit law in December 1995, the safety experts at the U.S. Department of Transportation predicted that up to 6,400 more people would die every year.
  • The Hysteria over Dioxin

    Published September 29, 1994
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    The popular press has given extensive coverage to the latest report from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on dioxin.
  • Competition for Wall Street Means Economic Growth for Main Street

    Published September 15, 1994
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    New electronic systems for trading stocks could end the financial abuse suffered by investors when buying and selling small, over-the-counter (OTC) stocks. Such systems can spur economic growth, benefiting investors, business firms, and employees.

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