Opinion
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to GOP’s 2017 Tax Reform Plan
Opinion -"President Trump’s tax reform plan holds major promise for restoring booming economic growth to America" - Peter Ferrara -
Now It’s a War on Pipelines
Opinion -Efforts to block and sabotage pipelines hurt jobs, economic growth, middle class, human safety. -
Government Mandating Maximums And Minimums Is Almost Always Awful
Opinion -Those of us who understand rudimentary economics – and/or those of us who have paid any attention at all to the last half century-plus – know the government mandating maximums and minimums is a ridiculously bad idea. -
Florida Parents Could Face Arrest for Children’s Truancy
Opinion -Rising truancy levels in Florida schools have administrators considering taking legal action against parents. -
Portland Mayor Challenges President on Climate, Oregon on Air Pollution
Opinion -Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler is challenging the state of Oregon over what he considers insufficient state action to reduce air pollution in Portland. -
Qatari Foundation Funds Arabic Courses in U.S. Public Schools
Opinion -A foundation from Qatar has spent millions of dollars funding Arabic courses in U.S. public schools in recent years, the Wall Street Journal reports. -
Congress May Block Offshore Wind Farm in Maryland
Opinion -The U.S. House of Representatives is considering legislation that could stymie a proposed offshore wind farm project off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland. -
K-12 Disaster Shows Need for Fundamental Reforms
Opinion -The United States spends more than most developed countries on its education system, but our students rank lower than most on standardized international tests. -
Want the Feds To Run Local Public Schools? Make ‘Em Get A Permission Slip from Parents
Opinion -As the dean of a prominent graduate school of education noted in an article published several years ago: “Schools are not the major cause of the achievement gap.” -
Social Justice Warriors Glitter Bomb School Reform
Opinion -At 8 p.m. on Friday, September 8, it was likely more TV viewers than usual were looking for escapist fare that would take their minds off Hurricane Irma, which devastated idyllic Caribbean islands and was zeroing in on Florida. -
Documentary: Better to Run Education Like a Business?
Opinion -A recently released documentary film explores whether educational institutions would do better by operating like businesses. -
Book Details Junk Science Used by Regulators and Touted by Media
Opinion -Alex Berezow puts the lie to myriad fallacies behind almost every imaginable popular bogus health- and science-related claim in this book. -
Irma Illusions – and Realities
Opinion -If human emissions made Irma worse, did they also bring the 12-year lull in Cat 4-5 hurricanes? -
In Defense of Free to Choose Medicine
Opinion -Free To Choose Medicine legislation has the potential to gather bipartisan support as a practical means to accelerate innovation and lower the costs of prescription drugs. -
Obama Holdovers Are Making Puerto Rico’s Recovery Much Less Possible
Opinion -The most damaging and pernicious of the nigh infinite elements of the Washington, D.C. Swamp – which President Donald Trump has pledged to drain – is the leftover personnel. -
Senator Recommends Hard Work, Reading for Young Americans
Opinion -Review of The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance, by Ben Sasse (St. Martin’s Press, 2017), 320 pp.; $16.75: ISBN-10: 1250114403, ISBN-13: 978-1250114402 -
Environmental Regulation and Hurricane Evacuation
Opinion -As Hurricane Irma barreled down on Florida, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Director Scott Pruitt issued a potentially life-saving regulatory waiver. -
Single-Payer Health Care Is Only Good for Government, Not the People It Serves
Opinion -What does the term “single-payer” even mean? It’s Inside the Beltway jargon to describe a government monopoly over health care. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Expert Reacts to Illinois Signing Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform
Opinion -"Every year, more and more states fix this gross abuse of government power, and Gov. Rauner joins those ranks today." - Jesse Hathaway -
Florida Law Empowers Residents to Contest Classroom Materials
Opinion -A new Florida law empowers residents to contest objectionable public school curriculum materials in open public hearings. -
Why ‘Sin’ Taxes Fail
Opinion -Voters in South Dakota may soon be considering a new proposal to dramatically increase the state’s tobacco tax. -
Finally, Some Commonsense Western Fire Policies
Opinion -New DOI and DOA policy to cut overgrown, diseased, dead and burned trees is long overdue -
Idaho District to Provide Online Courses Free to Homeschool Families
Opinion -An Idaho school district is partnering with a company that provides educational services to give homeschooling families free access to online courses. -
North Carolina, Texas Limit Attractiveness of New Wind Farm Developments
Opinion -North Carolina and Texas have taken steps to rein in wind farm development near military installations.
