Opinion
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Nashville, Tennessee Voters Reject Light-Rail Proposal
Opinion -budget-tax-news, environment-climate-news -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 -budget-tax-news -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 -budget-tax-news -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 -budget-tax-news -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 -budget-tax-news -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 -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
