Opinion
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Many Republican Climate Solutions Caucus Members Suffer Defeat in Midterm Elections
Opinion -A large number of Republican members of the Congressional Climate Solutions Caucus lost their seats in the November midterm elections. -
Emergency Room Costs Increased by Nearly One-Third in Four Years
Opinion -The number of patient visits to U.S. emergency rooms increased by 31 percent from 2012 to 2016, a new study reports. -
Vermont’s ‘OneCare’ All-Payer System Beset by Problems
Opinion -OneCare Vermont—the state’s all-payer health care network that works in tandem with Medicare, Medicaid, commercial, and self-funded insurance programs —is coming under increased scrutiny, as administrators failed to release data on the program. -
Prodding Trump’s EPA to Reexamine Endangerment
Opinion -Use external pressure to overcome Administration inertia on reviewing Endangerment Finding. -
Classical Liberalism and the Limits to Compromise
Opinion -The tense and seemingly polarized political environment in America today has raised the issue of whether there is some way to reduce the ideological and government-policy conflicts by finding some middle way between the “extremist” positions. -
North Carolina Voters Enshrine Hunting, Fishing As Constitutional Rights
Opinion -North Carolina voters passed a ballot initiative establishing hunting and fishing as rights protected in the state’s constitution. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Expert Comments on Florida Court Ruling on Tax Credit Scholarship Program
Opinion -“The plaintiffs, repeatedly defeated politically, turned to the courts. Thankfully, the courts rejected their attempted political end run around the state’s legislature.” -
California’s New Privacy Law is No Model for the Nation
Opinion -The fundamental problem of defining privacy is the same as defining obscenity. What is an outrage to one person is no big deal to another. -
Let’s Do Follow the Climate Money!
Opinion -Climate Crisis Inc. gets billions to promote imaginary manmade cataclysm – but attacks realists. -
With Obama-Era Handcuffs Removed, U.S. Finally Becomes Net Oil Exporter
Opinion -For the first time since at least the 1940s, the United States is exporting more oil and petroleum than it imports, spurring economic growth. -
EPA Restores Common Sense to Overaggressive Water Regulations
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency announced it is rolling back some of the excessive, and possibly illegal, water regulations imposed by the Obama administration. -
Chinese-Style Social Credits System a Harbinger of US’s Future?
Opinion -Could something like China's social credit system happen in America? -
Arizona Voters Reject California Billionaire’s Renewable Energy Mandate Increase
Opinion -Arizona voters rejected a ballot initiative which would have required utilities to use renewable sources to produce at least 50 percent of the electricity in the state by 2030, “irrespective of the cost to customers.” -
Arkansas Lawmakers Consider Housecleaning for State Rulebook
Opinion -Rollback of more than 800 outdated or unnecessary regulations -
Correction Issued for Alarming Ocean Temperature Paper
Opinion -A significant error led researchers to issue a correction to estimates of global ocean warming published in the journal Nature. -
Survey: Millennials Least Likely to Have Primary Care Doctors
Opinion -Young Americans have the lowest rate of use of primary care doctors, a new survey reports. -
Sen. Grassley to Change Chairmanships, Focus on Health Care
Opinion -Pending confirmation by the 116th Congress, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) says he will fill the seat of retiring Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and address health care affordability and high drug prices in his new role. -
Alaska’s Natural Gas Megaproject Under Review
Opinion -A $44 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project planned by the state of Alaska to sell natural gas to Asian markets could be upended by November’s election of Mike Dunleavy as the state’s new governor. -
Time to Clear Out the Obama Holdovers and the Climate Propaganda They Spread
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #309 -
Hell Freezes Over at Global Climate Crisis Confab
Opinion -The planet can finally draw a fresh breath of relief now that the fossil-fueled contrails waft away from hundreds of jumbo jets that transported some 30,000 climate alarm pontiffs and green energy panhandlers to and from their convention. -
COP 24: Africans Promote Oil and Coal at Katowice Climate Summit
Opinion -Hecklers protested the U.S. event on fossil fuels but nobody bothered the Africans when they promoted the role of oil and gas in national development. -
Heartland Science Panel Brings Realism to UN Climate Conference
Opinion -The Heartland Institute hosted an event in Katowice, Poland discussing the latest research on climate science and the high costs of government efforts to fight purported anthropogenic climate change. -
Land O’Lakes AHP Plan Meets State Requirements, Nebraska Confirms
Opinion -A plan by Minnesota-based Land O’Lakes, Inc. to begin selling AHPs across state lines in Nebraska meets the state insurance standards required to begin offering the plans, Nebraska Department of Insurance Director Bruce Ramge says. -
Idaho Group Sues to Block State’s Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -An Idaho think tank has filed a lawsuit asking the state’s Supreme Court to block a scheduled expansion of Medicaid.
