Opinion
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Illinois General Assembly Passes Police Drone Surveillance Bill
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Illinois General Assembly approved a bill that would allow law enforcement personnel to use drones to observe certain public gatherings without obtaining permission from a judge. -
Missouri Voters Will Decide Fate of Worker-Freedom Law
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Voters in Missouri will decide whether a state law prohibiting forced union membership goes into effect, nearly a year and a half after it was signed into law. -
Seattle Residents Challenge New Jobs Tax
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Residents of Seattle, Washington are collecting signatures to place a referendum question asking voters to repeal a recently approved tax on local businesses earning more than $20 million a year. -
Heartland Weekly: Heartland Provides Science to EPA
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of June 4, 2018 -
Congress Considers Reviving ‘Net Neutrality’ Regulation
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are collecting signatures to force a vote on a measure to override the Federal Communications Commission’s January decision to implement the Restoring Internet Freedom Order. -
Wyoming To Allow Limited Grizzly Bear Hunt
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Wyoming announced it would hold the first grizzly bear hunt in the lower 48 states in more than 40 years in and around Yellowstone National Park. -
The Solution (To Music Royalty Payments) Is Less Government – Not More
Opinion -Editorial -Government damages and destroys everything it touches. Things afflicted with any sort of government – warp and wither. At the very least, they are hampered from better bettering their situations. -
Teaching the Judiciary About the Benefits of Carbon Dioxide
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #287 -
Expanding Telehealth Proposed In Illinois
Opinion -Residents of rural Illinois may have more telemedicine options in their future thanks to a task force established by Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner that will discuss expanding virtual care, or telemedicine. -
Sunscreen Innovations Are Blocked by FDA Red Tape
Opinion -New sunscreen products with innovative cancer-blocking ingredients that could help prevent harmful UV exposure remain stuck in the FDA approval process. -
Legislative Committee Defeats New Hampshire Medicaid Rollback
Opinion -The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted down a bill that would have rolled back the state’s Medicaid expansion. -
The Promise of Child Safety Accounts
Opinion -Editorial -To reduce school violence, we must address its actual cause. -
Heartland Institute Provides Science to EPA to Back Up Pruitt’s Climate Change Views
Opinion -Press Release -"In the event an Obama-era ideologue at EPA disposed of or destroyed those volumes, we have enclosed them in this package for your use in answering Judge Howell’s order." -- Tim Huelskamp -
Intellectual Property: Everyone Loves Getting Paid For It – Everyone Hates Paying For It
Opinion -Editorial -“Hypocrisy: feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel.” -
States Challenge Constitutionality of Obamacare
Opinion -News -Twenty states have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare, based on provisions in the tax reform legislation President Donald Trump signed into law in December 2017. -
Bureaucracy Devours Funds that Could Support Teaching
Opinion -Editorial -While teachers have walked off their jobs in several states this spring to protest what they believe to be low pay and lack of classroom resources to support teaching, armies of bureaucrat have been bickering over implementing the massive ESSA. -
Ariz. Teachers Should Strike Against Administrative Bloat
Opinion -Editorial -Arizona teachers have finally returned to their classrooms after a six-day strike over salary increases. -
Once Again, the Farm Bill is Stuffed With Food Stamps
Opinion -Editorial -Every five years Republicans and Democrats somehow reach across-the-aisle — however farfetched this may seem — to reauthorize the gargantuan “farm bill.” -
Here’s Why Congress and Think Tanks Think a Carbon Tax Would be Disastrous
Opinion -Editorial -House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., recently introduced a resolution that explains why a carbon tax would harm the economy and why it should not be enacted -
The Only Real Regulation Reform Is Deregulation
Opinion -Editorial -Reducing means deregulation. Deregulation is about reducing the economic and ethical burdens on businesses and consumers -
Seattle’s New Business ‘Head Tax’ Hurts Job Creators And Limits Economic Growth
Opinion -Editorial -To the detriment of its residents and businesses, Seattle has been more active than any other city in pursuing new tax revenue. -
Silicon Valley Moguls: Google Lists ‘Nazism’ as GOP Belief – Doesn’t Pull ISIS Accounts
Opinion -Editorial -Google has a long history of defending its serving as an ISIS platform. -
Missouri Would Not Solve Transportation Funding Woes with Gas Tax Hike
Opinion -Editorial -Like many states, Missouri is struggling to pay for the maintenance of its roads and bridges, which is largely due to ineffectiveness of the state’s gasoline tax to provide much-needed tax revenue. -
Arkansas Judge Rules Six Farmers Can Spray Popular Pesticide on Their Crops
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Pulaski County Judge Tim Fox ruled six Arkansas farmers may spray a weed killer manufactured by Monsanto Co and BASF on their crops despite a ban on the pesticide imposed by the Arkansas Plant Board in 2017.