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Certificate of Need Laws Raise Health Care Costs, Reduce Access
Opinion -In ancient times, wealthy city-states built impregnable walls to ward off attacks from neighboring tribes and other enemies. -
Alabama Supreme Court Upholds School Choice Law
Opinion -The Alabama Supreme Court (ASC) overturned a lower court’s ruling against the Alabama Accountability Act (AAA) school choice program. -
(At Least) Three Reasons Why Government Being in the Broadband Business is a Terrible Idea
Opinion -Likely the least regulated private economic sector going into the Age of the Barack Obama Administration – at least at the federal level – was the Internet. Which is largely why the Web has become an ever-evolving, free speech-free market Xanadu. -
Piketty’s Wealth Driven Inequality: Virtually All in Housing?
Opinion -The Economist headline reads: "Through the roof: Rising house prices may be chiefly responsible for rising inequality" This is no surprise to those of us who have been chronicling the loss of destruction of middle income housing affordability where urban -
The Myth of Global Gluts and the Reality of Market Change
Opinion -You may not have noticed it when out buying things in the marketplace in the context of your personal budget, but according to the Wall Street Journal (April 24, 2015) the world is awash with too much stuff. -
Obama’s Climate Obsession Loses Allies to China
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #169 President Barack Obama’s climate obsession is costing U.S. commercial interest and influence all over the globe. -
Ohio May Free Some STEM Schools to Create Their Own Tests
Opinion -Ohio may soon give certain school districts the option of creating their own exams. As criticism of Common Core continues, the Ohio Department of Education is considering implementing what it calls the Innovative Learning Pilot. -
Global Warming? The Pope is Wrong
Opinion -I have devoted the better part of more than two and a half decades speaking out against the charlatans that have created and maintained the greatest hoax ever imposed on modern man. -
Nebraska Lawmakers Approve Gas Tax Hike
Opinion -Nebraska lawmakers approved hiking the state’s gas tax by $0.06 per gallon of fuel, ignoring Gov. Pete Ricketts’ (R) threatened veto. If Gov. -
Monday Update on Heartland’s trip to Rome for Vatican Climate Summit
Opinion -The Heartland Institute today held and excellent 90-minute event for press today in Rome — especially considering the event was only announced to the press on Friday at about 10:30 a.m. CT. (Why so late? -
A Message for Pope Francis
Opinion -It’s not climate change – but energy restrictions based on climate fears – that threaten the poorPope Francis plans to deliver an encyclical on climate change this summer. -
‘My Scientific Adventure’: Renowned Scientist Willie Soon Talks Climate Change
Opinion -Editor’s Note: Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon, Ph.D., is a geo-scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Soon has written papers in a number of peer-reviewed journals examining the relationship between solar phenomena and global climate. -
How Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Can Revolutionize Finance
Opinion -The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order, Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey; St. Martin’s Press, 2015, 368 pages; ISBN-13: 978-1250065636: $19.00 on Amazon. -
It is a Bad Time to be in the Renewable Energy Industry
Opinion -2015 may go down in the books as the year support for renewable energy died—and we are only a few months in. Policy adjustments—whether for electricity generation or transportation fuels—are in the works on both the state and federal levels. -
ObamaNet vs EuroNet — “Competing” Protectionist Industrial Policies
Opinion -The US-EU “competition” of protectionist digital industrial policies -- U.S. Title II net neutrality vs. -
China’s Shifting Population Growth Patterns
Opinion -As demographers have projected for some time, China's population growth is slowing. The nation gained population at a rate of 0.49% between 2010 and 2013, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics. This is a reduction from the rate of 0. -
School Vouchers May Become a Reality in Tennessee
Opinion -A bill under consideration by the Tennessee legislature would allow school vouchers in the state for the first time. The bill is similar to a failed measure proposed by Gov. Bill Haslam in previous sessions. -
Idaho Gov. Otter Vetoes New Regulations on Sign-Language Interpreters
Opinion -Idaho governor Butch Otter (R) vetoed a bill required government licensing by a state board for the practice of interpreting and translating sign language for the hard of hearing. -
Five States’ Slumping Financial Conditions Reflect Widespread Pension Problems
Opinion -Financial conditions in many states have shown improvement in the years since the recession began in 2008, but the economies of Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New Jersey have continued to deteriorate. -
Heartland Institute Heads to Rome to Advise Pope Francis on Climate Policy
Opinion -World’s Leading Scientific ‘Skeptics’ of Man-Caused Global Warming Invite Public and Press to Open Events April 27 and 28Just Outside the Vatican The Heartland Institute is sending a team of climate scientists to Rome next week to inform Pope Francis of -
Gwyneth Paltrow, THIS Is What Living on Food Stamps Really Looks Like
Opinion -Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, one of Hollywood’s more prominent lifestyle gurus, made headlines last week for taking celebrity chef Mario Batali’s “Food Stamp Challenge” (and failing) sponsored by the Food Bank for New York City. -
Solar Power Lobbyists Seek to Subvert Florida Tea Party
Opinion -After successfully pushing for $100 million in special interest renewable energy subsidies in Florida, the solar power lobby is now trying to subvert the Florida Tea Party to get it to support more government favoritism. -
FCC-ville’s Kangaroo Court
Opinion -If you are guilty until proven innocent of charges that can be made up after the fact, you may be in FCC-ville. -
Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Mississippi Governor’s Veto of Common Core ‘Repeal’ Legislation
Opinion -Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) on Thursday vetoed Senate Bill 2161, which would have created a study committee to consider replacing the Common Core State Standards. A majority of Republicans in the state legislature voted for the legislation.
