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Wisconsin Legislature Approves Amendment Convention Resolution
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Wisconsin State Legislature approved a joint resolution calling on Congress to convene a convention to draft a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget. -
Federal Court Tosses Challenge to EPA Transportation Air Quality Guidance
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A Federal court found environmentalists and community groups lacked standing to challenge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to modify its guidance determining when transportation projects might violate air quality standards. -
New Mexico Schools To Teach Climate Dogma, Detrimental to Students
Opinion -Editorial -This cave-in is entirely man-made. -
Both Houses of Congress Approve Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Opinion -budget-tax-news -With both chambers of Congress having approved H.R. 1, also known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a congressional conference committee will reconcile differences between the bill’s two versions. -
Hillary Clinton Warns Against State-Led Amendment Convention Push
Opinion -budget-tax-news -As state legislators prepared for the 2018 legislative session, including 72 lawmakers from 19 states who attended the Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) Planning Convention, former Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton slammed the movement -
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Offers One Hundred Principles for Restoring Freedom and Prosperity
Opinion -Press Release -The Heartland Institute announced the release of the fourth edition of The Patriot’s Toolbox, -
The Greens Are Losing the International Climate Fight
Opinion -Editorial -Obama is gone. The “green queen” Angela Merkel is struggling over coal. Britain is brexiting the green EU. Japan is silent, while China and India burn coal like crazy. Russia never did care. And so it goes. -
EPA Ends Use of Controversial ‘Sue And Settle’ Agreements
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt issued an Agency-wide directive to end “sue and settle” practices within the EPA. -
Sharing Our Energy Blessings This Thanksgiving Weekend
Opinion -Editorial -This Thanksgiving we should give thanks for fossil fuels – and promote them for rest of world. -
Mandates and the Cost of Kindness
Opinion -Editorial -Last spring Alabama’s legislature mandated coverage of autism therapy by health insurance plans. Such mandates provide benefits to people without spending our tax dollars, but threaten the viability of health insurance. -
Federal Judge Tosses Logging Company’s Lawsuit
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A federal judge in San Francisco dismissed a logging company’s lawsuit against Greenpeace and a San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit called Stand, who it accused of libel and racketeering. -
Homeschooling Group Sues NYC over ‘Systematic Mistreatment’
Opinion -school-reform-news -A homeschooling advocacy group is suing the government of New York City (NYC) for “systematic mistreatment of homeschoolers” because the city’s slow processing of paperwork has resulted in homeschooling families being falsely accused of crimes. -
Thankful for School Choice!
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice #200 -
Give Thanks for Prosperity
Opinion -Editorial -This is the time to give thanks, and I hope that your family has much to be thankful for this year. Thanksgiving offers a time to reflect on the prosperity we enjoy. -
There Already Is Massive Media Consolidation: Ideological
Opinion -Editorial -The Left is incessantly freaking about all sorts of things – about which very little freaking is actually necessary. -
Ukraine Proposes Giving the UN Climate Octopus More Tentacles
Opinion -Editorial -Major changes in UN structure take a long time but they have to start somewhere -
Trump Administration Reverses Obama-Era Drilling Restrictions
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Department of Interior announced it is rescinding a policy implemented under former President Barack Obama placing large areas of public lands off limits for consideration of oil and gas leasing and development. -
Arkansas Spends Millions to Implement Computer Science Courses
Opinion -school-reform-news -The state of Arkansas is spending $5 million to fund computer science (CS) initiatives in public school classrooms through 2019. -
The Government Is Not Your Mom and Can’t Force You to Share
Opinion -Editorial -Humankind’s propensity to act selfishly is taken to be an important problem in political theory: an impediment, perhaps, to the utopian dreams of political philosophers. -
Trump Administration Rejects Funding for California Water Project
Opinion -environment-climate-news -President Donald Trump’s administration has decided against funding the Delta tunnels water project in California. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Nebraska Approving Keystone XL Pipeline
Opinion -Editorial -" Thanks to President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt, no longer do fake environmental concerns hold up projects such as these." - Tim Huelskamp -
Oregon to Audit School District That Sued Records Requesters
Opinion -school-reform-news -The Oregon Secretary of State announced he is planning to conduct a performance-based audit on the state’s largest school district after the district sued two people over their public records requests. -
Heartland Weekly: New Mexico Schools to Teach Climate Dogma
Opinion -heartland-weekly -New Mexico’s Public Education Department (PED) last week did a disservice to New Mexico’s students, as well as the taxpayers who fund schools, when it caved in to global warming alarmists. This and more in this week's Heartland Weekly. -
Implications of DOJ’s Potential Challenge of the AT&T Time Warner Merger
Opinion -Editorial -Transactions should be legally treated similarly according to legal precedent – basic fairness.