Opinion
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Will High Retransmission Consent Fees Hamper a Successful Incentive Auction?
Opinion -In recent years, over-the-air broadcasters, under the current retransmission consent regime, have been able to exact increasingly higher fees for permitting Multichannel Video Program Distributors ("MVPDs"), such as cable and satellite operators, to -
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Opinion -One of my favorite off-Broadway shows is "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change." The show closed in 2008 after running for 12 years and 5003 performances. -
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Opinion -One of my favorite off-Broadway shows is "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change." The show closed in 2008 after running for 12 years and 5003 performances. -
Sometimes You Have to Let Some Government Go
Opinion -There is an awful lot of government going on in Washington. Which is what happens when you spend $3.8 trillion - as DC is doing this year. Up from $2.9 trillion just five years ago. -
Common Core Testing Costs Increase; Georgia Withdraws
Opinion -It will take only three more states to withdraw from PARCC national Common Core tests to jeopardize the group’s $186 million federal grant. -
Congressman Kelly: Next Phase of IRS Scandal is Abuse of Our Data
Opinion -Breitbart News just spoke with Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Mike Kelly about what he thinks is next regarding the now roiling Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal. -
Latest Big Government Data Grab: Justice Sues to Get It Without Warrant
Opinion -The Big Government Barack Obama Administration is nothing if not thorough. -
Latest Big Government Data Grab: Justice Sues to Get It Without Warrant
Opinion -The Big Government Barack Obama Administration is nothing if not thorough. -
How Ridiculous is Net Neutrality? Let the Left’s ‘Consumer’ Groups Demonstrate
Opinion -There are Leftist groups that claim the mantle of protecting the “consumer interest.” Asserting they exist to protect consumers from the abusive, evil acts of corporate America. In most instances, this is all (shocker) double speak. -
IRS Tea Party Scandal Shows Government Should Be Kept Away From Our Data
Opinion -Late last week we learned that the Barack Obama Administration’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was subjecting conservative non-profit organizations to ridiculous levels of additional, extra-legal scrutiny. -
South Carolina Considers Reviving Incandescent Light Bulbs
Opinion -Federal energy policies designed to rid the nation of traditional incandescent light bulbs continue to encounter popular resistance, with South Carolina’s legislature considering its own unique act of defiance. -
$50 Light Bulb Wins Government Prize for Green Affordability
Opinion -What constitutes an affordable “green” light bulb? According to the U.S. Department of Energy, $50 per light bulb is our most promising future. -
Oregon Lawmakers Target Mercury in Light Bulbs
Opinion -The Oregon Senate has passed a bill limiting the amount of mercury allowed in compact fluorescent light bulbs that can be sold or distributed in the state. The Senate passed the bill on Feb. 15 by a vote of 21-8, with one member not voting. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to House Effort to Repeal Light Bulb Ban
Opinion -House Republicans have folded into the omnibus spending bill that will soon cross Obama's desk a rider that will block the ban on incandescent light bulbs through September 2012. -
Heartland Institute Climate Expert Talking Harmful EPA Regs at CPAC-Florida on Friday
Opinion -James M. Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Environment & Climate News, will be part of a panel discussion Friday at 10:30 a.m. -
MEDIA ADVISORY: Heartland Institute Reacts to BULB Act Vote
Opinion -On July 11, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to begin debate on H.R. 2417, the Better Use of Light Bulbs (BULB) Act to reverse the 2007 de facto ban on the sale of most incandescent light bulbs in the United States. -
GE Closes Last Incandescent Light Bulb Plant, Jobs Sent to China
Opinion -General Electric has closed its last major factory making incandescent light bulbs in the United States, a victim of a 2007 law banning sale of the light bulbs by 2014. -
Green Jobs Promises Dwindle As Policies Backfire
Opinion -Once touted by the Obama administration as the wave of the future, green stimulus programs are rapidly falling out of favor with the administration as jobs fail to materialize. -
Seattle Mayor Unveils $150 Million Effort to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Opinion -Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels (D) has unveiled a $185 million plan to promote compact fluorescent light bulbs, green buildings, and other energy efficiency programs for private and public buildings in the city. -
California Moves to Ban Incandescent Light Bulbs
Opinion -Incandescent light bulbs are one step closer to being banned in California, after the California Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee voted 7-2 on April 23 to enact such a ban.