Opinion
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Judge Blocks Missouri from Paying ‘Smarter Balanced’ Dues
Opinion -Missouri Coalition Against Common Core (MCACC) founders Gretchen Logue and Anne Gassel have teamed up with national standards opponent Fred Sauer to sue Missouri Gov. -
Pennsylvania Parents Concerned About Student Data Collection
Opinion -The concept of a “permanent record” has become even scarier under Common Core, according to a group of parents in Pennsylvania. Parents Against Common Core has petitioned Gov. Tom Corbett to put a moratorium on data collection practices. -
MOOCs Lead to Massive Data Collection
Opinion -Students enrolled in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) may be subject to mass data collection by private companies. -
Missouri Homeschool Family Sues After Home Raid
Opinion -In September 2011, a homeschool family in Missouri had a traumatic encounter with local law enforcement when a sheriff and his deputy entered their home without a warrant. -
California Requires Oil, Gas Companies to Report Water Use
Opinion -The California state Senate unanimously passed a bill to require oil and gas companies to report the source and amount of water they use in drilling operations. The measure was approved during a prolonged and severe statewide drought. -
Study: Housing Bubble, Rising Caused Consumer Retail Prices to Rise
Opinion -A new study has uncovered evidence the 2000s housing bubble affected the U.S. economy in previously unsuspected ways, by causing consumer prices to rise and fall based on the rate of homeownership in any particular area. -
Report: Health Care Consumers Expect More
Opinion -A recent report by Strategy&, a subsidiary of accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and formerly known as Booz & Company, notes a growing interest among medical patients in taking greater control over their health care. -
Vermont abandons single-payer health care
Opinion -Over the past week I've had the opportunity to really look at the numbers behind what it would take in terms of taxes to finance a single-payer health plan in both Vermont and New York. -
Vermont Governor Abandons Single-Payer Plan
Opinion -Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin announced at a hastily organized press conference in mid-December he would not pursue a single-payer health care plan in 2015. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to Gov. Shumlin Abandoning Vermont Single-Payer Health Care
Opinion -Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) has announced he will abandon his plan to create the nation’s first state-based single-payer health care system. -
Battle Lines Form Over Renewable Fuel Decision
Opinion -Sitting on opposite sides of the fence, refiners and producers of biofuels are anxiously awaiting a decision by the Obama administration on the amount of renewable fuels Washington will mandate for use in the transportation sector. -
Government Employees Sheltered from Economic Storms, Study Finds
Opinion -A new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds public sector employees enjoy greater job security than private sector employees, especially during recessions and other economic downturns. -
BOOK REVIEW: Hughes Exposes the Truth About Environmental Scares
Opinion -Review of POPULAR DECEPTIONS :What they haven’t told us and how much it’s going to costReviewed by Jay LehrPopular Deceptions: What they haven’t told us and how much it’s going to cost By Randall L. -
Will Advocates of Government-Run Medicine Regret Better Cuba Relations?
Opinion -This morning CNN reported President Obama will be announcing a new Cuba policy, one that lightens sanctions, permits greater travel, and opens business and banking opportunities. -
Cities: Better for the Great Suburbanization
Opinion -The massive exodus of people from rural areas to urban areas over the past 200 years has been called the "great urbanization." For more than two centuries, people have been leaving rural areas to live in cities (urban areas). -
Millennials Hit Hard by Government Intrusion
Opinion -For decades, the quality of life of the incoming generation of Americans has built on and improved on that of the previous generation. -
Common Core Is Not Right for Mississippi
Opinion -Mississippi needs new, more rigorous academic standards in its K–12 schools. But Common Core is not the answer.Amid public outcry, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves (R) have changed their minds about Common Core. -
Hot 2014 Doesn’t Prove Manmade Global Warming Hysteria Right
Opinion -The data may show Earth experienced its hottest year on record in 2014, but that would not be proof humans are causing global warming. It wouldn’t even prove the year was the hottest on record, or even particularly hot. -
Shumlin Single-Payer Effort Hurts Re-Election
Opinion -Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin’s efforts to bring government-run single-payer health care to his state may have cost him politically and prevented his direct reelection to another term. -
Certificate of Need Under Fire in North Carolina
Opinion -Some North Carolina legislators are gearing up to challenge the state’s certificate of need law, charging it limits patient access to care and drives up costs. -
Congress Approves $1.1 Trillion Spending ‘Cromnibus’ Bill
Opinion -Before adjourning in mid-December, the 113th Congress agreed on a $1.1 trillion government spending bill, keeping the federal government operational until the end of the next fiscal year in September 2015. -
Fracking Leading to Economic Growth, Rapid Job Creation in North Dakota
Opinion -While much of the rest of the nation is still struggling to recover from the 2007-2008 recession, the fracking boom in North Dakota has been a job-creating machine. -
Why Progressives Must Reverse Course on Climate Change
Opinion -[Editor’s Note: Heartland Institute Research Fellow H. Sterling Burnett interviewed Tom Harris after his speech at the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change. Harris expanded on his ICCC talk. -
Coordinated Care Increases Health Care Costs
Opinion -A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has found consolidation between physician practices and hospitals may increase some forms of care coordination but leads to higher total expenditures per patient.
