Opinion
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The Electoral College Matters and Has Benefited Us
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Under the Electoral College system, presidential elections are decentralized, taking place in the states. -
Space Economy Requires Property Rights, Free Market
Opinion -budget-tax-news -New markets, systems, and innovations have the potential to transform civilization, offering greater wealth for society, as well as potential solutions to climate, energy, and resource problems. -
Trump Administration Rescinds California’s Fuel Economy Waiver
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Trump administration has announced regulations withdrawing a waiver that allowed California to set separate standards for greenhouse gases, under which the state set higher fuel economy requirements for cars sold within its borders. -
Green Activists Hate Trump More Than They Love Animals
Opinion -Editorial -The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just made history by announcing a plan to end wasteful taxpayer-funded animal testing by 2035. -
Congress Pays Lobbyists to Kill Industry, Again
Opinion -Editorial -The House of Representatives’ Democrat majority FY2020 budget includes refunding the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. -
Jersey City Voters Could Ax Restrictions on Short-Term Rentals
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Voters submitted a petition to put a new city ordinance on the ballot this November. -
Iowa Increases Scholarship Tax Credit Cap by $2 million
Opinion -school-reform-news, budget-tax-news -More Iowa children will be able to attend private schools of their choosing next year. -
Trump Administration ESA Reforms Emphasize Species at Most Risk
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Department of the Interior unveiled regulations guiding how the 46-year-old Endangered Species Act will be carried out, aimed at reducing costs and focusing scarce agency resources on recovering species most at risk of disappearing. -
Minnesota Winemakers Challenge Requirement to Use In-State Grapes
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Minnesota Wineries Battle Weather and State Law -
Keystone XL Pipeline Overcomes Last Legal Hurdle in Nebraska
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A dozen years after it was initially proposed, the Keystone XL Pipeline cleared a major hurdle to its completion as the Nebraska Supreme Court approved its revised path through the state, ending the final Nebraska-based legal challenge to the pipeline. -
Heartland Weekly: AOC Continues to Prove Herself Clueless
Opinion -Editorial -Week of September 23, 2019 -
On Greta Thunberg and Youth Climate Activism
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #337 -
Coloradans Will Vote on National Popular Vote Law in 2020
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The law places Colorado in a compact of states that pledge to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate receives a majority of the NPV. -
HUD Proposes Rule Defining Housing Discrimination Proof
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The new rule would shift the burden of proof back to the plaintiff. -
Federal Judge Tosses ‘Right to Wilderness’ Lawsuit
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A U.S. District Court rejected a lawsuit filed by environmental groups against the federal government claiming its policies allowing fossil fuel development and use violate the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights to wilderness unaffected by human activity. -
D.C. Circuit Court Upholds EPA Ozone Standards
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The District of Columbia Court of Appeals unanimously rejected challenges filed by industry, some states, and environmental groups to Environmental Protection Agency regulations issued in 2015 tightening the nationwide ozone standard. -
El Paso Shooter’s Extreme Environmentalism Deserves Condemnation
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The manifesto the El Paso shooter (who will remain nameless here) posted before his deadly rampage reveals that, along with hatred toward immigrants, he held a radicalized view of humankind’s relationship to nature. -
Maybe It’s Good that Politics Has Become Ridiculous
Opinion -Editorial -There is not a living soul who is proud of what national politics has become. -
Reconsidering the Virtues of Recycling
Opinion -Editorial -Proposed: Most people are inherently good and want to do good things. That, I sincerely believe, is as true of the vast majority of my fellow citizens who both agree or disagree with some or all of my views. -
Washington Governor Inslee Ends Climate-Based Presidential Campaign
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington has dropped out of the Democrat presidential primary race after making climate change the central issue of his campaign. -
Here’s What Other Universities Can Learn from Purdue’s Tuition Freeze
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -Purdue University, a public institution in Indiana, started the tuition-freeze trend in 2013. -
U.S. Supreme Court Accepts Montana ‘Blaine Amendment’ Case
Opinion -school-reform-news, budget-tax-news -Montana is one of 37 states that has a “Blaine Amendment” barring “direct or indirect” state aid to religious schools. -
5G Wireless Makes Government Broadband Even Dumber And More Dishonest Policy
Opinion -Editorial -One of the very MANY problems with government regulating the private sector – is it immediately halts or severely retards private sector progress. -
Ohio Bans ‘Rights of Ecosystems’ Lawsuits
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A provision of Ohio’s recently enacted biennial budget bill bars lawsuits filed on behalf of the purported interests or rights of nature.
