Opinion
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Walker’s Reelection Disappoints Teachers Unions
Opinion -Wisconsin teachers unions were faced with another disappointment as Gov. Scott Walker was reelected on Nov. 4. The teachers unions generally supported Walker’s Democratic challenger Mary Burke. -
Minnesota Taxpayers Removed from Funding Equation
Opinion -Minnesotans faced 39 school operating levy referendums on the ballot this fall, fewer than in any election since 1996. They nixed one of every four proposals at the polls. Chalk one up for taxpayers? Not exactly. -
Colorado Legislation Requires Transparency in Teachers Union Negotiations
Opinion -Colorado has established a law making teachers union negotiations transparent. -
Illinois Statehouse Drops Plan to Revive Anti-Ridesharing Bill
Opinion -In late November, the Illinois General Assembly abandoned a plan to override outgoing Gov. Pat Quinn’s veto of heavy restrictions on ridesharing network companies. -
Repealing and Replacing Obamacare with Patient Power
Opinion -Editor’s note: Republican control of Congress is likely to bring a serious effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. -
Jonathan Gruber’s Day On The Stand
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #448[Subscribe] Earlier this week, Jonathan Gruber testified before the House Oversight and Government Committee concerning his many statements, which have sparked political fury from the left and right, concerning the dishonest way -
Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Congress’ Omnibus Spending Bill
Opinion -The House and Senate this week are expected to pass a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government through September 2015. -
Vermont State Senator Details Cost of Single-Payer Health Care
Opinion -For two years, Gov. Peter Shumlin avoided revealing what Vermonters can expect to pay for his proposed single-payer health care system. -
Anti-testing Advocates Question Government Task Force
Opinion -The Council of Chief State School Officers has announced upcoming efforts to reduce high-stakes testing in public schools, but anti-testing activists say the proposals, though a good step, are not enough. -
Expect Medicaid Physician Participation to Worsen
Opinion -The number of doctors willing to see Medicaid patients has been in decline for quite a while, due primarily to the low reimbursement rates the program offers. -
Reject the E15 Mandate
Opinion -On Monday, the City Council’s Committee on Finance voted to approve an ordinance mandating gas stations sell gasoline blended with 15 percent ethanol, also called E15. -
How Dangerous Is Snus? Don’t Ask New York Times Editors
Opinion -The New York Times has added more fuel to the anti-tobacco-harm-reduction fire with a December 4 editorial (here) rehashing the somewhat slanted reporting that appeared in the paper’s news pages on November 30. -
Use of Blended Learning and Individualized Education Increases
Opinion -Global demand for online learning is growing. In 2000, 45,000 K-12 students reportedly took online courses. Less than a decade later, the number had grown to more than three million. -
Three Reasons to Dismiss the Biased Report on New York ‘Charter School Fraud’
Opinion -According to some activists, charter schools are the villain in the nation’s current education narrative. -
Obama to the FCC: Go Ahead and Break the Internet
Opinion -President Barack Obama’s recent call to the Federal Communications Commission to strictly regulate broadband networks could be the death knell for the open, free, and prosperous Internet that has become one of the key engines of the American economy. -
Demanding Better Medium-Term Rainfall Forecasts Would Improve Climate Science
Opinion -The classical liberal, like the ordinary person, has a general aversion to revolutionary change. This is justified in the spheres of politics and economics. Science history, however, shows progress is made principally through revolution. -
Wyoming Governor Endorses Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead has endorsed a plan to expand the state’s Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act. -
Thirty Years Promoting Freedom
Opinion -Legacy Quarterly Report Newsletter -Quarterly Performance Report Fourth Quarter, 2014 -
North Carolina School Voucher Fight Continues
Opinion -North Carolina's school choice program, Opportunity Scholarships, will face scrutiny from the state's Supreme Court following a battle between the state and education organizations. -
U.S. Tax Mix May Weaken Economic Growth
Opinion -In the past fifty years, European nations have become increasingly reliant on value-added taxes, according to a recent study released in December by the Tax Foundation. This trend has benefited the United States economically, the study found. -
Judges Given Political Contributions by Plaintiffs in Washington Charter Case
Opinion -Washington State’s first charter school opened this fall, welcoming students who come from difficult backgrounds—including families touched by violence, drug abuse, and homelessness. -
Single Payer Waiting Lines a ‘Management Issue’?
Opinion -I was a guest on WXXI News in Rochester, New York this afternoon, on the show Connections. -
Climate Debate Needs Philosophers’ Unbiased Insights
Opinion -[Editor’s note: Tom Harris, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition, received the 2014 Excellence in Climate Science Communications Award at the Heartland Institute’s Ninth International Conference on Climate Change, July 8, in -
Fish-Discarding Case Reaches Supreme Court
Opinion -When Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, it was hailed as a law protecting investors and combating accounting fraud.