Opinion
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Obamacare Failure to Screen Contractors Cost Taxpayers $400M+
Opinion -An internal investigation into how the federal government awarded contracts for developing and building the Affordable Care Act’s online exchanges has found the process was fraught with expensive errors. The U.S. -
Nevada’s Sandoval Proposes Package of Tax Hikes
Opinion -Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval is proposing a new package of business taxes and fees to help fund a planned $700 million increase in state spending. -
Report: Intellectual Property Abuses Threaten Innovation and Cost Consumers Billions
Opinion -Last week House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte reintroduced the Innovation Act, a patent-reform measure that passed the House in the previous Congress 325-91 and is supported by a diverse swath of American industry, including Google, the National -
Senators Struggle to Rewrite NCLB Law
Opinion -After six years and 24 hearings, two prominent U.S. senators have agreed to start over in drafting a bipartisan bill to fix the Bush-era national education law No Child Left Behind. Sen. -
Battling Hurricane Gray through Education Choice
Opinion -Based on projections, by the year 2030 the United States will experience an alarming, age-driven dependency ratio, transferring a majority of the economic responsibility of public health care and education to a small working class. -
FCC Boots Up New ‘Net Neutrality’ Internet Regulations
Opinion -At the urging of President Barack Obama, Federal Communication Commission chairman Tom Wheeler and Democrats on the commission have placed the entire Internet under the control of the FCC. -
Obama Administration to Change How Doctors are Paid
Opinion -Building on years of rhetoric and experiments aimed at changing how doctors are paid, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced in late January Medicare would start to evaluate and compensate doctors based not only on what services are -
Divesting People of Better Living Standards
Opinion -Co-Authored by Roger Bezdek“Social responsibility” activists want universities and pension funds to eliminate fossil fuel companies from their investment portfolios. They plan to spotlight their demands on “Global Divestment Day,” February 13-14. -
Scholarships for Disabled Students Likely to Pass in Mississippi
Opinion -The statistics paint a bleak picture in Mississippi. Data accumulated in 2012 found that nearly 55,000 students age 6 to 21 were determined to have disabilities. -
Low Medicaid Fees Case Reaches Supreme Court
Opinion -Medicaid providers in Idaho had their day in court in January when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center. -
West Virginia Repeals Alternative Fuel Mandate
Opinion -West Virginia’s Senate and House of Delegates have voted to repeal the state’s five-year-old statute requiring energy producers to increase the amount of alternative fuels used by 15 percent by 2020 and 25 percent by 2015. -
Oklahoma Bill Champions K-12 ESAs
Opinion -For the second year in a row, legislators in Oklahoma are seeking to implement education savings accounts within the state. -
Will President Obama’s New Drilling Policy Give the Arctic Over to Russian Domination?
Opinion -The anger, outrage and frustration in Alaska are palpable after the president stripped the state of vast stores of its oil and gas wealth. -
Climate Discussion Should Occur on Editorial Page
Opinion -I recently had the privilege of becoming acquainted with the writings of John Bates after a friend highly praised one of his articles. -
Warren Proposes Additional Penalties for Drug Companies
Opinion -Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced in January she will introduce legislation hitting pharmaceutical manufacturers with additional fines when they settle complaints with the federal government. -
Florida Scholarship Program Survives Another Anti-Choice Lawsuit
Opinion -Florida’s tax-credit scholarship program scored another legal victory against one of the lawsuits filed by the state’s largest teachers union in an ongoing battle against the program. -
The Founders Wanted a Laser-Targeted Article V Convention (Part 8 of 8)
Opinion -This is part 8 of the 8 part series establishing that the laser-focus of the Compact for America approach to organizing an Article V convention with the specific job advancing and ratifying a pre-drafted, specific federal Balanced Budget Amendment is -
Minnesota Researchers’ #EpicFail – Trying for a Smokeless Tobacco/Cancer Link
Opinion -Publishing a study of tobacco-specific nitrosamines in American smokeless tobacco products (abstracthere), Dorothy Hatsukami and colleagues at the University of Minnesota called for the FDA to issue “regulations…to reduce levels of…NNK and NNN in -
Heartland Institute Experts Comment on FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s Net Neutrality Plan
Opinion -Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler this week unveiled his plan to reclassify broadband under Title II of the Communications Act, a section of the law written in 1934 the FCC uses to regulate telephone service. -
Peru, India Crack Down on Greenpeace
Opinion -With the governments of Peru and India hitting back against both foreign and domestic members of Greenpeace, the U.S.-based activist group is starting to receive major pushback from its anti-energy protest activities. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Tennessee’s Rejection of Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -The Health and Welfare Committee of the Tennessee Senate on Thursday voted 7‒4 against a bill that would allow Gov. Bill Haslam (R) to expand Medicare, as allowed under the Affordable Care Act. -
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Legislative Pulse: Virginia
Opinion -[Editor’s Note: This is the inaugural column of what will be a monthly ECN feature. Each issue, ECN’s managing editor will interview a state legislator concerning the pressing environmental and energy issues confronting his or her state.]Benton Chafin Jr.
