Opinion
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Oregon Voters to Consider Grocery Sales Tax Ban
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Oregon voters will decide in November whether to approve the creation of a constitutional amendment prohibiting new levies on the price of groceries in the state. -
Ohio Schoolteacher Sues for Freedom from Union Dues
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -Lawyers representing an Ohio schoolteacher are suing the local teacher’s union, claiming the organization is continuing to violate her right to free association after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling. -
New York City Imposes Freeze, New Regulations on Ridesharing
Opinion -budget-tax-news -New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio approved a package of eight bills targeting Uber, Lyft, and other ridesharing companies doing business in the city. -
Kavanuagh Nomination Highlights Importance of Supreme Court Picks
Opinion -budget-tax-news -President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court on July 9, and his confirmation hearings were held in September. -
We Must All Sacrifice for the Environment (But I Meant You – Not Me!)
Opinion -Editorial -Have we become a society of people who want to regulate others, but not ourselves? -
Heartland Refutes Global Climate Action Summit’s False Claims
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #299 -
Colorado PUC Approves Expensive Green Energy Replacement for Coal Power Plants
Opinion -Colorado's Public Utilities Commission approved Xcel Energy's plan to prematurely close two coal power units at its Comanche Generating Station and replace them largely with renewable power sources at an estimated cost of $2.5 billion. -
Legislative Pulse: Fighting for Reliable Energy in Arizona
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem (R–Tucson) says Arizonan’s, especially the poor and those on fixed incomes, will be harmed if voters adopt a renewable energy initiative being pushed by a California Billionaire. -
Heartland’s Peter Ferrara on Fox & Friends: This is Trump’s Economy, Not Obama’s
Opinion -Editorial -It is quite rich for the previous administration to try now to take credit for an economic recovery Americans can finally feel after years of Obama and Biden declaring a "Recovery Summer" that never came. -
Washington State Voters to Consider a Carbon Dioxide Tax
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Washington could become the first state to impose a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, and the first government anywhere to impose the tax through a direct popular vote, this November. -
Bank of the West’s Anti-Fossil-Fuel Policies Provoke Backlash
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Bank of the West decision to divest itself from all businesses involved in the production, exploration, and distribution of coal, oil, and natural gas has angered elected officials in Wyoming and Colorado. -
U.S. Education Doesn’t Need More Money
Opinion -Editorial -If only I had a dime for every time I have heard the claim America needs to spend more money on education. -
School Choice Can Enhance School Safety
Opinion -Editorial -School choice would give families more relief from the bullying/harassing form of violence than a whole battalion of school resource officers ever could. -
Thanks to the Trump Administration, Families Can Rest a Little Easier This Fall
Opinion -Editorial -The cost of health care is an unceasing concern for Americans, as prices have soared over the past 30 years. -
Who Needs Bipartisanship Without a Budget Constraint?
Opinion -Editorial -In 2018, all federal appropriation bills (with bipartisan support) have passed out of their respective committees. -
Harvard Case Could End Affirmative Discrimination
Opinion -Editorial -Harvard’s scandalous treatment of Asian Americans cannot be allowed to stand. -
Ohio Changes Medicaid Drug Pricing System
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Ohio Department of Medicaid announced its five managed-care plan providers will transition from a spread-pricing drug purchasing model to a pass-through approach by 2019. -
FDA Proposes Plan for Streamlining Approval of Mobile Medical Apps
Opinion -health-care-news -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a plan to update regulation of mobile medical applications, including a proposed precertification program to streamline the development of “software as a medical device” (SAMD). -
Senate Passes Spending Bill Funding HHS
Opinion -health-care-news -The U.S. Senate passed a massive, $857 billion spending bill funding the departments of Defense, Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services (HHS) for FY 2019. -
No, Trump’s Clean Power Plan Replacement Doesn’t Free Coal Industry to Pollute
Opinion -Editorial -CPP, the centerpiece of the Obama administration’s climate change agenda, forced the premature closure of dozens of coal-fired power plants and deserved to be eliminated. -
The Founders Were Not Education Centralizers
Opinion -Editorial -Some of the more zealous partisans of tax-funded schooling have resorted to a curious (and dubious) claim: “America’s Founders are on our side.” -
There’s No Time Like the Present for Tax Reform 2.0
Opinion -Editorial -This summer, youth employment reached its highest rate since 1966, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. -
Climate Alarmists Get Two Strikes In Court — They Should Be Out
Opinion -Editorial -In July, federal Judge John F. Keenan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed New York City's lawsuit against five major oil companies. -
Irony Alert! ‘Progressive’ Democrats Embrace Obsolete Socialism
Opinion -Editorial -Karl Marx’s brand of socialism, an unequivocal disaster that has produced mass poverty, tyranny, and untold deaths, is mounting a comeback among so-called “liberal progressive” Democrats.
