Opinion
-
To Win, Republican Candidates Must be Strong on Energy
Opinion -New polling emphasizes support for traditional energy concerns has become a partisan issue. Large majorities of Republicans favor key energy issues—but voters of every ideological stripe say energy will be an important part of their voting decisions. -
Environmentalist Shipwreck
Opinion -The prissy and pompous protectors of the Earth have, like bureaucratic pirates, infiltrated the decks and engine rooms of the world’s ships. These humorless empty suits wave not the Jolly Roger, but the flag of contrived pseudo science. -
Report: Excessive Regulations Hamper Charter School Progress
Opinion -Charter schools across the nation are increasingly subject to the same kinds of excessive regulations that have suppressed student achievement in the nation’s traditional public schools, according to a report from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). -
Ohio Lawmakers Propose Project-Labor Agreement Reform
Opinion -Reforms changing how local governments negotiate with project contractors are included in the Ohio House of Representatives’ version of the biennial state budget and are intended to rein in the cost of taxpayer-funded construction. -
Washington’s Capital Gains Tax Debate Needs Full Context
Opinion -I know I’ve already written about the proposed capital gains tax several times but I keep seeing the same phrasing used to discuss it without the context of what it would mean for the state in both legal and competitive purposes. -
Heartland Institute Honors Sen. Inhofe for Challenging Climate Change Myths
Opinion -According to “The Economist," May 16, 2012: "The Heartland Institute is 'the world's most prominent think tank promoting skepticism about man-made climate change. -
Assessing the Impacts from Climate Programs
Opinion -Panelists Paul Driessen, senior policy advisor to the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow; Cornelis van Kooten, Ph.D. -
Climate Conference Panelists Address Energy Policy
Opinion -The “Energy Policy” panel discussion at the Tenth International Conference on Climate Change – Panel 4 on June 11 – featured Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis, Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr, and Heartland -
Hepatitis C Drug Lawsuits Filed, Challenges Insurance Company Decisions
Opinion -Consumers across the nation are starting to file lawsuits against insurers who deny them access to expensive new hepatitis C treatments. -
NYC Charter School Applications Exceed Cap by 20,000
Opinion -Student demand for spots in New York City charter schools far exceeds what the city’s charters can legally provide under the government-imposed cap on the number of charter schools. -
Arkansas Replacing Common Core Tests with ACTs
Opinion -Evelyn B. Stacey coauthored this article.Arkansas Gov. -
FDA Bans Trans Fats
Opinion -The U.S. -
Medicaid Rolls Are Expanding Rapidly in Indiana
Opinion -HIP 2.0, a plan proposed by Gov. -
With Just About All Things Government, Less is More – and Better
Opinion -Government is just another organism. Just like any other other organism, its first priority is self-preservation. Its second – is to grow. The most it possibly can. It wants to be bigger, do more – control more. -
Participants in Heartland Institute Mission to Vatican Comment on Pope Francis’s Encyclical on the Environment
Opinion -CHICAGO – In April, The Heartland Institute sent a contingent of experts on climate science, environmental policy, and theology to Rome to offer balance to the one-sided, alarmist views Pope Francis was getting from the United Nations and the Pontifical -
Why Insurers Are Hiking Rates
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #464 Why are insurance rate increases so much higher than expected? At Forbes, Bob Laszewski explains: Instead of moderate rate increases for one more year, the big rate increases have begun. -
Sanders Bill Would Make Generic Drug Manufacturers Pay Rebate
Opinion -A bill aimed at lowering the cost of generic drug prices by forcing generic drug manufacturers to pay a rebate to Medicaid when their drug prices rise faster than inflation has been introduced in the Senate by Sen. -
FCC’s “Gotcha” Game of ISP Regulation & Enforcement
Opinion -The FCC’s just operative Open Internet Order, with its classification of broadband as Title II common carriage and vague Internet conduct standard, sets ISPs up for FCC “gotcha” or contrived regulation and enforcement. -
Show Me The Money
Opinion -One of the challenges the seemingly never-ending list of Republican presidential candidates must face in what is sure to be an all-out political brawl in 2016 is finding a unique way to explain that America does not have a tax revenue problem; it has a -
California Obamacare Exchange Is Running Out of Money
Opinion -After spending more than $1 billion on startup costs, California’s state-run Obamacare health insurance exchange has failed to produce the expected returns and is rapidly running out of money. -
Study Shows State Energy Costs to Soar Under Clean Power Plant Rule
Opinion -A state by state analysis by Eugene Trisko, an attorney who often represents the United Mine Workers, conducted for American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricty (ACCCE), estimates electric power prices will rise substantially should the Environmental -
Life-Long Vermonters Fleeing Green Mountain State for Better Opportunities Elsewhere
Opinion -Vacationers to Vermont dream of staying forever. But for many Vermonters trapped in the state’s struggling economy, opportunities in other states are convincing them to flee the Green Mountains for greener pastures. -
Kynect Insurers Request Double-Digit Premium Hikes
Opinion -The Kentucky Health Cooperative, the largest insurer on Kynect, Kentucky’s Obamacare health insurance exchange, proposed a 25.1 percent health insurance premium rate increase for 2016. Despite the daunting numbers, Kentucky Gov. -
Analysts Demonstrate Why Fossil Fuels Dominate Energy Use
Opinion -The panel “Energy Realities” brought environmental analysts together to discuss the superiority of fossil fuels to other forms of energy on the basis of abundance, costs, safety, and reliability.
