Opinion
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Frigid Cold is Why We Need Dependable Energy
Opinion -Editorial -Cheap, abundant coal is key to national security, warm homes and wintertime survival. -
HuffPost Attempts to Smear Heartland Again
Opinion -Press Release -“Heartland’s policies allow us to remove problem employees quickly, and certainly faster than HuffPost.” – Joseph Bast, CEO, The Heartland Institute -
A Post-modern ‘Nonsense’ Critique of NIPCC
Opinion -Editorial -We will put these quotations to good use in our fundraising letters and proposals this year, and for that, we thank the authors. -
Mother Sues NY DOE for Keeping Allegedly Abusive Teacher
Opinion -school-reform-news -A woman is suing the New York Department of Education (DOE) for allowing a teacher who allegedly hit her daughter back into the classroom after he was disciplined for other such incidents. -
Wisconsin Students Learn Faster in Schools of Choice, Analysis Shows
Opinion -school-reform-news -Schools participating in Wisconsin’s education choice programs have higher student academic growth rates than traditional government schools, a new analysis shows. -
New Hampshire Considers Reinstating Restrictions on Homeschoolers
Opinion -school-reform-news -A group of New Hampshire lawmakers is planning to introduce legislation to restrict freedoms of homeschooling families. -
Micro-Schools Making a Big Splash in Education
Opinion -school-reform-news -A new trend in schooling is gaining popularity: establishing small class sizes and personalized learning through the traditional one-room schoolhouse model. -
Connecticut’s Pension System Is Nation’s Most Underfunded, Study Finds
Opinion -school-reform-news -Connecticut’s government pension system is the worst in the nation, a new analysis shows. -
Frog Case Highlights Dangers of and Need to Reform the Endangered Species Act
Opinion -Editorial -Various people and groups are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal of and ultimately to overturn an appellate court decision concerning the 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the dusky gopher frog. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Kentucky Medicaid Work Requirement
Opinion -Press Release -"The Trump administration should be highly commended for this action." - Tim Huelskamp -
Huge Majority of Families Says Local District School Is Not Their First Choice
Opinion -school-reform-news -Most American parents would prefer to send their children to a school other than their local government school, a survey has found. -
Next On Net Neutrality: Democrats Will Campaign On Reimposing Huge Government
Opinion -Editorial -Before last year’s year-end tax reform success – there were in fact precedent legislative achievements by this Congress. -
Is Working Well Within a Group the Essence of Education?
Opinion -Editorial -American students are much better at group collaboration than they are doing academic work on their own. Is that an advancement or setback for education? -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Policy Allowing States to Impose Work Requirements for Medicaid
Opinion -Press Release -“Work requirements for the able-bodied, as Trump’s change provides, is a highly desirable reform that will help to minimize unnecessary dependency and remove burdens placed on taxpayers” - Peter Ferrara -
Trump Needs His Own People Running Federal Bureaucracies
Opinion -Editorial -President Donald Trump has not yet appointed many people he thinks who support his “America First” agenda to staff the hundreds of positions at various federal agencies and bureaucracies he is in charge of. -
Closing Coal Plant in Pleasant Prairie Will Increase Electricity Prices
Opinion -Editorial -The premature closure of the Pleasant Prairie coal-fired power plant will drive up electricity costs for families. -
Support Grows For Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Bill
Opinion -health-care-news -Congressional Democrats are lining up behind legislation that would set prescription drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries. -
An Entertaining Defense of the Morality of Finance
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Review of In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance, by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins (Ayn Rand Institute, 2017), 250 pages, ISBN-13 978-0996010115, $14.93 on Amazon.com. -
Despite Mainstream Media Rhetoric, U.S. Economy is Alive and Very Well
Opinion -Editorial -Democrats have established a mantra that Trump’s success in stimulating the economy should be credited to Obama. That is misleading at best. -
Barnard College to Divest from Companies Questioning Climate Change Concerns
Opinion -school-reform-news -Barnard College announced its endowment will divest its investments in companies that express doubt global warming is a crisis or support organizations that make those arguments. -
President Signs Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Opinion -budget-tax-news -President Donald Trump signed H.R. 1, also known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, into law after the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate approved the bill’s final version in December 2017. -
Illinois Court Upholds Chicago Food Truck Ordinance
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Illinois’ First District Appellate Court rejected a legal challenge to the city’s food-truck ordinance. -
Judge Orders Bitcoin Exchange Coinbase to Surrender Consumer Data to IRS
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The online cryptocurrency exchange company Coinbase lost a legal battle against Internal Revenue Service (IRS) efforts to gain access to users’ private data and metadata. -
ESAs Provide the Means to Make Dreams a Reality for NH Families
Opinion -Editorial -Children in New Hampshire, and all across the country, deserve a chance at education.
