Opinion
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Feds Rule Blind Spider Not Protected by ESA
Opinion -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined a blind, cave-dwelling spider does not merit protection under the Endangered Species Act. The FWS found the Warton’s Cave meshweaver, is not distinct enough from other types of spiders to merit protecting. -
Health Care Isn’t ‘Different’
Opinion -Frequently we hear that health care is somehow 'different' from other goods and services, and therefore normal economic forces either don't apply or should be suppressed whenever they would normally apply. -
Pennsylvania Decision to Expand Medicaid Could Prove Costly
Opinion -The state of Pennsylvania has announced it will expand its Medicaid program under an agreement reached with the federal Department of Health & Human Services, even after the federal government rejected many of the state’s proposed waiver requests that -
North Carolina Lawmakers Allow Waiting Kids to Enter Choice Program
Opinion -When the North Carolina legislature approved a budget allocating more money for a new school voucher program in late July, it answered one mom’s prayer. -
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District Court Rebukes State Regulators’ Hair-Raising Raids
Opinion -In September, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a stinging 44-page rebuke to Orange County police officers, for their role in a SWAT-style, warrantless raid executed against an Orlando, Florida barber shop catering -
Beyond Polycentricity: 2000s Job Growth (Continues to) Follow Population
Opinion -The United States lost jobs between 2000 and 2010, the first loss between census years that has been recorded in the nation's history. -
Education Incentives can Help End Low Expectations
Opinion -Behavioral psychologists and economists long have considered incentives to be a normal part of human nature, but applying them to education still stokes controversy. -
Education Incentives Can Help End Low Expectations
Opinion -Behavioral psychologists and economists have considered incentives to be a normal part of human nature for decades, if not centuries, but applying them to education still stokes controversy. -
Schools Finding Problems with Longer School Years, Extended Class Time
Opinion -As most kids headed back to school this August, they found others had never left. More children are in school year-round, or before- and after-hours, or get shorter summer breaks. -
New Commuting Data Shows Gain by Individual Modes
Opinion -The newly released American Community Survey data for 2013 indicates little change in commuting patterns since 2010, a result that is to be expected in a period as short as three years. -
Activists Make Embarrassing Errors Attacking Texas Climate Texts
Opinion -The climate activist group National Center for Science Education embarrassed itself last month by making basic errors attacking climate science in Texas. -
High-Priced Drug Treatments – Worth the Cost?
Opinion -Drug manufacturer Merck won approval in September from the Food and Drug Administration for its new “game-changing” treatment, Keytruda, for late-stage melanoma, a deadly skin cancer. -
Despite Evidence, Politicians Still Turn to Sin Taxes for Quick Fixes
Opinion -Despite veritable mountains of academic evidence proving excise taxes on politically unpopular goods are unreliable revenue sources drawn from those who can least afford to have more money taken from them, city and state governments constantly flirt with -
Health Prices & Irrational Incentives
Opinion -Prices in health care are a mess, and the discussion about why that is the case is often even more so. -
Industrial Wind Farm Kills Bats While Feds Ignore Problem
Opinion -A Nevada wind farm has killed triple the number of bats allowed under an agreement with federal wildlife officials, yet the federal government has imposed no significant penalties. -
Research: Ex-Im Bank Hurts Economy, Shifts Burden onto Businesses
Opinion -Ex-Im Bank Hurts Economy, Impedes Business Activity By Daniel J. Ikenson The charter of the U.S. -
The FCC Shouldn’t Go Down the Primrose (Preemption) Path
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) already has suffered two judicial rebukes in its efforts to impose net neutrality mandates on Internet service providers, most recently this past January in the D.C. Circuit's Verizon v. FCC decision. -
Sea Level Rise Issues in Florida Elections
Opinion -The September 24, 2014 New York Times (NYT) had an article by reporter Gail Collins "Florida Goes Down the Drain—The Politics of Climate Change”. -
Thinking the Unthinkable: Imposing the ‘Utility Model’ on Internet Providers
Opinion -Back in 1997, then-FCC Chairman Reed Hundt titled a speech, "Thinking About Why Some Communications Mergers Are Unthinkable." In his address, Mr. -
Swiss Reject More Government in Health Care
Opinion -One of the things both advocates and opponents of nationalized health care in the U.S. often fail to understand is that there is a wide range of universal health care systems offered by different countries. -
National Poll Finds Increasing Skepticism towards Government Regulation
Opinion -Results from national polling company Gallup’s annual governance survey suggest a growing number of Americans believe government’s interference in their lives has grown too large. -
A Common-Sense Approach to Common Core Math, Part III: Drawing Diagrams for Dividing Fractions
Opinion -A Wall Street Journal opinion article drew considerable attention to Common Core (CC) math standards—particularly the sixth-grade standard for fractional division— in early August. -
Showdown Looms over Federal Wind Subsidy
Opinion -With Congress returning from its August recess, proponents of extending a federal subsidy to the wind-energy industry—the production tax credit (PTC)—say they plan to leave no stone unturned in their efforts to continue receiving favorable treatment -
Better Access to Care for Wisconsin’s Former, Current Medicaid Recipients
Opinion -Gov. Walker’s decision to remove 62,776 people from Wisconsin’s Medicaid program who earned more than 100 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) made them eligible for highly subsidized private coverage in the health insurance exchange.