Opinion
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South Carolina Governor Proposes Gas, Income Tax Reform Deal
Opinion -Announcing her 2015 agenda in her annual State of the State address, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley proposed reforming the state’s tax structure, cutting the state’s income tax rate by 30 percent and increasing the gas tax by $0.10 per gallon. -
Kasich to Propose Package of Tax Increases
Opinion -In March, Ohio Gov. John Kasich will officially unveil his supplemental budget plan and omnibus bill outlining his legislative priorities for the next two years. -
Memo Reveals Bogus EPA Climate Strategy
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #157 [Subscribe] A memo released as part of an ongoing Freedom of Information Act request examining the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rule-making has arguably revealed EPA uses misleading claims to stoke fears of global -
UN Peru Meeting Produces Ineffectual ‘Nonbinding’ Climate Accord
Opinion -More than 200 countries attended the United Nations’ 20th Conference of the Parties to the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change in December in Lima, Peru, producing a global pact to reduce CO2 and other greenhouse gas emission purportedly causing -
Medicaid Expansion Hits California Budget
Opinion -California’s budget has taken a billion-dollar hit as a result of the state’s decision to embrace the Medicaid expansion offered through the Affordable Care Act, and faces billions more in future years. -
Haslem’s Insure Tennessee Proposal Debuts to Mixed Reception
Opinion -In recent months, Republican governors in several states—including Pennsylvania, Indiana, Utah, and Wyoming—have considered new proposals to expand their states’ Medicaid programs. -
South Carolina Grants Uber Temporary License to Operate
Opinion -A South Carolina quasi-judicial regulatory board has reversed its earlier statewide ban on Uber, one of several popular transportation network companies operating in the state. -
Climate or Crash Risk in Your Vehicle Choice
Opinion -Environmentalists are coming after your car—again. And what they don’t want you to know is their crusade, if successful, would result in a multitude of unnecessary deaths. -
Kansas, Nebraska Fight EPA’s Rule on Ethanol Emissions
Opinion -Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt and Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning have joined the Energy Future Coalition and the Urban Air Initiative in a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s new regulations changing how ethanol -
Thirty Years Promoting Freedom
Opinion -Very few organizations survive 30 years, and very few people work for the same organization for that long. That makes The Heartland Institute an exceptional organization, and it makes me a very lucky guy. -
Washington Governor Proposes Carbon Tax
Opinion -Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has pushed an ambitious cap-and-trade program requiring the state's largest industries to pay for every ton of CO2 they release. -
‘Right to Try’ Could Bring Hope to Tennessee Patients
Opinion -Legislation introduced in Tennessee could give patients speedy access to drugs that have been proven safe and show promise in treating their medical conditions but have yet to clear all the hurdles of the federal drug approval process. -
Millennials Must Recognize Need for Public Pension System Reform
Opinion -Since the midterm elections, there has been much talk about the young people who didn’t turn out to vote. There are approximately 8 million millennials, people ages 18 to 35, in California. -
Exposed EPA Memo: Tie Fighting Global Warming to Americans’ ‘Personal Worries’
Opinion -An Environmental Protection Agency memo sent to top officials implored the agency to build up support for its agenda by tying its regulatory agenda to the “personal worries” of Americans. -
Cromnibus Reinstates Wind Production Tax Credit
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Chimpanzee Not a Person, NY Court Declares
Opinion -An attempt by the animal rights group Nonhuman Rights Project to have Tommy the chimpanzee granted “legal personhood” failed in a New York appellate court in early December. -
States Take the Lead on Transportation Fund Reform
Opinion -While some members of Congress are pressing for an increase in the federal gas tax, responsibility for funding transportation projects is increasingly shifting from the federal government to the states. -
Dubious State of the Union Health Care Claims Answered
Opinion -In his State of the Union address to Congress on January 20, President Barack Obama made several statements concerning health care, and both his factual claims and his conclusions are dubious, as the following analysis shows. -
States Challenge Federal Control of Western Lands
Opinion -The large swaths of federal lands in western states are at the center of a debate over the future of tens of millions of acres between the eastern rim of the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. -
Unintended and Unethical Climate Policy Consequences
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #156 Should governments act now to prevent the possibility of dangerous human-caused climate change, even if the chances for future harm are exceedingly small? -
Nevada Lawmaker Renews Fight for Public Pension Reform
Opinion -As the gap between public pension liabilities and actual fund assets widens, a Nevada lawmaker is redoubling his efforts to defuse a ticking fiscal time bomb in the state. For several years, State Rep. -
HHS: Medicaid Patients Have Limited Access to Doctors
Opinion -A new study by the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services found half of all providers listed in Medicaid managed care plan are not available to new Medicaid patients, either because they are not at the listed location -
New Orleans Passes Sweeping Smoking Ban
Opinion -In late January, the New Orleans City Council approved a sweeping ban on smoking in the city, outlawing all cigarette and e-cigarette use in all privately owned bars and clubs, public recreational areas, sports arenas, and movie theaters. -
Bogus Research on Formaldehyde in E-Cig Vapor
Opinion -The New England Journal of Medicine yesterday published a letter claiming that vapor contains “hidden” formaldehyde at far higher levels than cigarettes (here), which made headlines worldwide.
