Opinion
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When Environmentalism Becomes Corruption
Opinion -Environmental principles are too often used to stop lawful, responsible, vital land uses. We need rational rules to protect environmental values – and meet essential societal needs. -
Climate Hysterics Skyrocket
Opinion -Increasingly absurd disaster rhetoric is consistently contradicted by climate and weather reality. -
Heartland Weekly – Four Glaring Examples of the Socialist Agenda
Opinion -Week of January 14, 2019 -
Commentary: This Little-Known Fact Will Make It Harder to Tackle the National Debt
Opinion -Federal Reserve contributions toward national debt payments are falling -
Don’t Ban Plastic Bags!
Opinion -Learn the facts about plastic versus paper bags – and bag the bans, instead. -
What Professionals Considering ‘Sustainable Investment’ Policies Should Know
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #311 -
Wisconsin Attorney General: ‘Wedding Barns’ Subject to State Liquor Laws
Opinion -Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel says barns rented for weddings and other events require liquor licenses. -
Climate Doom Ahead? Think Twice.
Opinion -It’s one word – but it could change the course of the world for decades to come. -
New Jersey Considers Defined-Contribution Public Employee Pensions
Opinion -Legislators are considering moving new state and local public employees from the Garden State’s underfunded pension systems to defined-contribution plans. -
Trump Signs Bipartisan ‘First Step’ Criminal Justice Reform
Opinion -One of the largest reforms of the federal criminal justice system in generations is now law. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Introduction of Child Safety Account Legislation
Opinion -“No child should be forced to remain in an unsafe education environment.” - Lennie Jarratt -
The US Should Ban Spying China From Selling Us Commuter Trains – Especially In DC
Opinion -This Donald Trump-Russia Collusion nonsense – is nonsense for about nine million different reasons. -
Florida Supreme Court Rebuffs Challenge to Public School System
Opinion -The Court ruled that the adequacy of the schools is a political question, not a judicial question -
Leftist Radicals to Blame for Decline of Small Colleges like UW-SP
Opinion -Who needs "history" -- all that irrelevant focus on dead white men -- anyway? -
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Consider Property-Tax Swap Bill
Opinion -Bill would slash property taxes, hike state personal income tax -
States Sue Companies Over 2015 Health Care Data Breach
Opinion -Twelve state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against several information technology companies and their subsidiaries, alleging poor business practices led directly to the theft of private health care data of 3.9 million people in a 2015 data breach. -
Unions, Hospitals Doubtful About Proposed New York Universal Health Care Plan
Opinion -The New York City Council is supporting a proposal from Albany to take over the state’s health care system by creating a “Medicare for All” program, over the objections of hospitals and labor union leaders. -
Sweden as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Socialist Role Model
Opinion -The much maligned Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might have been on to something, although possibly inadvertently, in her interview January 6, 2019 with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes. -
Wisconsin School Choice Students Outperform Government School Peers
Opinion -Students in statewide school choice program ace ACT test -
Study: Renewable Energy Subsidies Costly to Taxpayers, Benefit Big Companies
Opinion -The federal production tax credit for wind energy producers has cost the U.S. government billions of dollars in revenues while benefiting just a few large corporations, says a new study by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. -
Poland and the Failure of Paris Climate Commitments
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #310 -
Colorado Voters Reject Proposed Oil and Gas Drilling Restrictions
Opinion -Voters in Colorado overwhelmingly rejected a ballot initiative that would have prevented new oil and gas development on approximately 85 percent of the nonfederal land in the state. -
Missouri Activist Files Medicaid Expansion Ballot Initiative
Opinion -A retired trucker has filed paper - work to put Medicaid expansion on Missouri’s 2020 election ballot. -
Nebraska’s Expanded Medicaid Program Faces Shortfall
Opinion -Nebraska’s Medicaid expansion is creating a budget crisis that will likely force cuts to other government programs.
