Opinion
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Medicaid Expansion Crowds Out Other Spending in Virginia
Opinion -For most of the past decade, Medicaid has been overwhelming Virginia’s budget to the point where the state is now expecting a $462.5 million shortfall over the next two years and lawmakers are torn over how to make up the difference. -
Heartland Weekly: Millennials: Quit Demanding Socialism
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of February 18, 2019 -
Virginia Bills Would Open Market for Telemedicine
Opinion -health-care-news -Virginia lawmakers passed a set of bills that would open the door for greater use of telemedicine. -
New Health Care Agenda for California Bolsters Obamacare, Eyes Single- Payer
Opinion -health-care-news -During his first weeks on the job, California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, restated his intent to turn his state into a single-payer health care system, provide “state-based support” for illegal immigrants ages 19 to 26, expand insurance subsidies and re -
Virginia Bills Would Open Market for Telemedicine
Opinion -health-care-news -Virginia lawmakers passed a set of bills that would open the door for greater use of telemedicine. -
Two Paths Forward for Healthcare
Opinion -Editorial -Numerous prominent Democrats now support Medicare for All, the most recent proposal for a single-payer healthcare system. -
Oregon Considers In-Home Visits to New Parents
Opinion -health-care-news -Oregon is considering taking the idea of “nanny state” to a new level with a program that would send government-sanctioned health care workers to the homes of new parents to make sure newborns are getting proper care and screening. -
Education Secretary DeVos Celebrates 15 Years of DC Opportunity Scholarships
Opinion -school-reform-news, budget-tax-news -The only federally funded school voucher program has been a success -
The Heartland Institute: Fighting Socialism and its Green New Deal Battle Cry!
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #315 -
Offshore Drilling Ban Rejected by Virginia Senate
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A Virginia Senate committee voted down a bill to ban oil and gas production off the state’s coast. -
Arizona AG Sues State University Over Real Estate Deals
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -Arizona State University land deals allow commercial developments to benefit from tax exemption -
Amazon’s Titanic Government Cronyism Is Finally Receiving Some Pushback
Opinion -Editorial -As Amazon milks the very last pennies from the multi-billion-dollar tax breaks Arlington, Virginia is giving Amazon for its half of the second headquarters – Amazon will all over again start looking for a new location to be bribed into making its new HQ. -
Cold Outbreaks Are Not Caused by Global Warming
Opinion -Editorial -Global cooling – and global totalitarian socialism – are the catastrophes we should fear most. -
Gold, Inflation, and Theft
Opinion -Editorial -President Trump is reportedly considering former Godfather’s Pizza CEO and one-time presidential candidate Herman Cain for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. -
More Internet And Access? We Need More Spectrum And Less Government
Opinion -Editorial -The Left is the world’s worst choir. Singing dissonantly if not concordantly about how good things are – no matter how bad things are. And, conversely, about how bad things are – no matter how good things are. -
100 Percent Renewable Cities—Is Your Mayor Smarter than a 5th Grader?
Opinion -Editorial -Mayors in more than 100 US cities have announced plans to transition their electrical power systems to 100 percent renewable by 2050. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Supreme Court Ruling Against Excessive Fines as Penalties
Opinion -Press Release -“State and local governments have increasingly been using fines and asset forfeiture to pad their budgets without imposing taxes directly. It is a cowardly and unconstitutional way to raise money while dodging responsibility for it.” - S.T. Karnick -
The Minimum Wage When Elizabeth Warren Was Kid
Opinion -Editorial -"Back when I was a kid, a minimum-wage job could support a family of three. Today, a full-time minimum-wage job in America won’t keep a mama and a baby out of poverty." -
California, Connecticut Legislatures Consider Taxing Firearms and Ammunition
Opinion -budget-tax-news -States are imposing taxes and fees that raise the cost of gun ownership -
Heartland Weekly: Senators: Do Your Duty and Confirm Wheeler Now!
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of February 11, 2019 -
Virginia House of Delegates Overwhelmingly Rejects Electric Power Fossil Fuel Ban
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Virginia House of Delegates rejected a bill to end the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity in the state by 2036. -
Michigan Public Employees Abandon Unions, Exercising Their Right to Work
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Michigan public-sector employees are opting out of union membership -
EPA Says Obama Era Mercury Rules Are Not Justified Based On Benefits
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it has determined Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) imposed by the Obama administration in 2011, were not “appropriate and necessary.” -
Washington State Restricts Ownership of ‘Assault Rifles’
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Voters in Washington State approved a ballot measure that imposes restrictions on firearms ownership, including raising the minimum age to purchase semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21 years.
