Opinion
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Missouri Legislature Approves Term Limits Amendment Resolution
Opinion -The Missouri General Assembly approved a resolution calling on Congress to organize a national convention for drafting an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be elected to Congress. -
Bill to Repeal Tax Reform Introduced
Opinion -U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) introduced a bill that would repeal the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and cancel student loan debt 43 million individuals owe to the U.S. Department of Education. -
Will Repeal Worker-Freedom Law, Michigan Governor Candidate Vows
Opinion -Gretchen Whitmer, a candidate in the Michigan Democratic Party gubernatorial primary, says she will work to repeal the state’s right-to-work (RTW) law, if selected by her party and elected in November. -
Iowa Cuts Taxes by $2.8 Billion
Opinion -The state of Iowa has implemented a sweeping tax cut. -
Dallas, Texas Officials Consider Bids to Manage Convention Center
Opinion -The city government of Dallas, Texas is seeking bids from private management companies interested in taking over day-to-day operations of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, the 12th-largest such facility in the United States. -
Nashville, Tennessee Voters Reject Light-Rail Proposal
Opinion -Nashville, Tennessee voters rejected a ballot proposal that would have increased several taxes to pay for a new, 26-mile-long, light-rail public transit system and electric-powered buses for the Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority. -
Repeal of California Gas Tax Hike May Reach November Ballot
Opinion -California Secretary of State Alex Padilla is reviewing signatures collected for a November 2018 ballot question asking voters to repeal a gas tax hike implemented less than a year ago. -
Illinois Democrats Press for Progressive Income Tax
Opinion -Illinois state lawmakers propose changing to a progressive income tax to replace the state’s current flat tax. -
Minneapolis Raises Smoking Age to 21
Opinion -The city of Minneapolis has enacted an ordinance increasing the minimum legal age for purchasing cigarettes and other tobacco products. -
Wisconsin Enacts Sweeping Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform
Opinion -Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill protecting residents’ constitutional rights to property and due process. -
Illinois General Assembly Passes Police Drone Surveillance Bill
Opinion -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 -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 -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 -Week of June 4, 2018 -
Congress Considers Reviving ‘Net Neutrality’ Regulation
Opinion -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 -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 -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 -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 -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 -"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 -“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.”
