Opinion
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White House, Congress Enter Fray Over Surprise Billing
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Widespread anger among patients over surprise medical bills has triggered bipartisan legislation in several states and in Congress, and now the Trump White House is pushing its own plan to address this sticky problem facing the $3.5 billion U.S. health-ca -
Big Tech: The Bigger They Are – The Huger They Fail
Opinion -Editorial -Big Tech companies are monsters. -
Severe Storm Warning for 5G, Inaccuracies Flood Watch
Opinion -Editorial -Government often seems quite adept at solving yesterday's problems, building or protecting systems that are irrelevant today. -
Money Can’t Buy You Health
Opinion -Editorial -Healing the sick is what medicine is about. The politicians who promise to “fix healthcare” can only destroy medicine—while bankrupting the country. -
Michigan Governor Proposes Raising Gas Tax to Nation’s Highest
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Whitmer proposes to raise the gas tax from 26 cents per gallon to 71 cents per gallon. -
Guest Post: High School Climate Indoctrination Using AP Environment Textbooks
Opinion -Editorial -When my board placed approval of the Exploring Environmental Science for A.P book on the agenda for our meeting, I knew the voters in my district would want me to know what I was voting for, so I went into the administration office to look at the book. -
The Fork in the Road
Opinion -Editorial -We know that any proposal for change, including reforms, will meet with opposition. -
Washington State to Allow Composting of Human Corpses
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Washington State became the first state in the nation to legalize an accelerated decomposition method to transform deceased persons into soil after Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill passed by state legislators. -
Tennessee Considers Licensing Art Therapists
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -The bill would require art therapists to have a master’s degree in art therapy and a thousand hours of clinical training. -
Federal Court Rejects Northeastern States Bid to Expand Ozone Regulations to Other States
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The District of Columbia Appeals Court rejected North East states efforts to force the Environmental Protection Agency to include more states in a regional ozone organization. -
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Heartland Weekly: Leadership Changes at The Heartland Institute
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New Hampshire Senate Declines to Ban Plastic Bags or Limit Soda Straws
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Bans on single-use plastic bags fail to achieve the stated legislative goals of decreasing plastic waste and are costly to retailers and consumers. -
Leadership Changes at The Heartland Institute
Opinion -Press Release -These new hires and changes to Heartland's organizational chart will boost our productivity and have an impact in several key areas. -
Utah ‘Clean Slate’ Law Will Expunge Convictions for Nonviolent Offenses
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Measure passed unanimously by state legislature automates the process of expunging criminal records. -
Sea Level Rise Not Accelerating, New Study Shows
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #325 -
Ohio Plans Medicaid Work Requirements as Trump Administration Appeals Ruling
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Trump administration is appealing rulings by a federal court that have blocked the implementation of Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and found a similar program already in place in Arkansas violates federal law. -
Why Socialism Is a Bad Alternative to Capitalism for Natural Resource Development and Environmental Protection
Opinion -Editorial -As discussed last week, the Climate Socialists in the US Democratic Party ultimate objective appears to be to replace capitalism by socialism. -
Commentary: An Income Tax Hike Would Shrink the U.S. Economy
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Raising the top personal income tax bracket to 70 percent would reduce GDP by an estimated 11 percent. -
South Dakota’s Governor Gets Bill to Punish Violent Pipeline Protests
Opinion -environment-climate-news -South Dakota's legislature adopted a legislative package, aimed at preventing the kind of violent protests that delayed and raised the costs of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota. -
New Hampshire Education Tax Credits Survive Legislative Challenges
Opinion -school-reform-news, budget-tax-news -Program serves low-income New Hampshire students. -
Can Cleaning the Ocean Be Marketed?
Opinion -Editorial -Trillions of pieces of plastic are creating huge garbage patches in the world’s oceans. One company’s efforts to do something about this problem can lead us to rethink some perceived economic wisdom. -
The Great Truck Driver Shortage
Opinion -Editorial -The Alabama legislature lowered the minimum age for a truck driver’s (CDL) license to 18 for within-state transport to help alleviate a driver shortage the American Trucking Associations (ATA) says has existed since 2005. -
The Deep State Is Imposing Many Impediments To 5G Wireless – And China Loves It
Opinion -Editorial -Contrary to some seriously misguided dismissiveness by a great many allegedly informed people – there is such a thing as a Deep State. -
With Some Help from a Great Economist, Would Thanos Have Had a Different Endgame? (SPOILER)
Opinion -Editorial -It's done: one month and twenty-two movies later, my kids and I have watched all of the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe/"Avengers" series, from the original Iron Man through Avengers: Endgame.
