Opinion
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Heartland Institute Experts Comment on California Ban on Plastic Grocery Bags
Opinion -California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Tuesday signed SB270, a bill that bans single-use plastic shopping bags. The law takes effect on January 1, enforced against stores that are at least 10,000 square feet. -
5 Reasons Leonardo DiCaprio Needn’t Worry about Climate Change
Opinion -Leonardo DiCaprio last weekend participated in the “People’s Climate March” in New York City and followed it up with an address to the United Nations. -
Online School: Is It Homeschooling?
Opinion -Homeschooling has been around for centuries, but online school is a comparatively recent innovation. -
The Challenge of Hospital Mergers
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #438 An underlying issue that has received little attention in the Right’s objections to the Affordable Care Act is its effect of driving further consolidation and hospital mergers. -
Evaluating the Title II Rainbow of Proposals for the FCC to Go Nuclear
Opinion -While proposing to follow the D.C. Circuit Court’s roadmap in Verizon v. -
Wastewater Tremors Weaker than Natural Earthquakes, USGS Reports
Opinion -Small earthquakes linked to underground wastewater injection are substantially weaker in their effects than natural earthquakes of the same magnitude, according to a new study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey . -
Common Core Testing Groups Won’t Let Some States Go
Opinion -It's been almost a year since Indiana and Pennsylvania officially withdrew from national Common Core tests, but the testing organization still lists the two states as members on its Web site. -
New Program Makes Online Education Work for Special-Needs Children
Opinion -Compared to children who don’t have disabilities, those who do have them often work slower, need more attention, or need especially explicit, detailed instructions. -
Staying Out of the Red: A State Auditor’s Take on Pension Reporting Standards
Opinion -A hot topic of discussion amongst taxpayers and public employers alike is how to properly manage our public employee pension systems and make sure that pension obligations are met. -
Climate Science Not Settled, Says Former Obama Undersecretary for Science
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #140 Physicist Steven Koonin says climate science is far from settled and we are a long way from having good enough knowledge to make wise climate policy. -
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People’s Climate March Wants to Change the System, Not the Weather
Opinion -“Extremist voices and groups have hijacked Islam and misappropriated the right to speak on its behalf,” Iyad Ameen Madani, secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, told the 25th Session of the Arab Summit earlier this year. -
Repeal The Oil Export Ban
Opinion -Thanks mainly to the shale revolution, oil production in the U.S. hit a 28-year high last month while imports were at their lowest levels since 1995. -
Treasury Department Issues New Rules to Stem Tide of Corporate Inversions
Opinion -The U.S. Department of the Treasury in October announced new rules to limit tax benefits for U.S. companies merging with foreign corporations or moving their global headquarters overseas to avoid U.S. double taxation of profits. -
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of Health Prices
Opinion -One of the things that health policy experts with any sense understand is that one of the major problems with the system we have today is prices are often completely detached from reality and wildly inflated for no particularly good reason. -
America’s Densest Cities
Opinion -There is a general perception that the densest US cities are in the Northeast, where downtowns tend to be bigger and inner city densities are higher. -
Goodbye Eric Holder
Opinion -In a nation where there is a scarcity of good news, hearing Eric Holder give a farewell speech upon his announcement that he will be leaving as the Attorney General was surely welcome in some circles. -
Protect the Poor – From Climate Change Policies
Opinion -In a more rational, moral, compassionate, scientifically literate world, this Cornwall declaration would not be needed. -
More Virginians Lose Their Insurance Coverage
Opinion -ALEXANDRIA, Va. —Another quarter of a million people in the commonwealth of Virginia will likely lose their health insurance plans by the end of the year. -
In War Over Common Core: Louisiana Officials Lawyer Up
Opinion -Controversy in Louisiana over Common Core implementation reached a climax at the end of July when the state’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted 6-4 to join a lawsuit against Gov. Bobby Jindal. -
Misguided Attacks on Suburbia Undermine Essential Values, Affront Critical Voting Bloc
Opinion -Writing in The Orange County Register, the distinguished urbanologist Joel Kotkin notes that many conservatives are now “waging a war on middle-class America” through their support for trendy progressive “smart growth” policies. -
Chicago Bears Linebacker Sues Cleveland over Targeted “Jock Tax”
Opinion -This month, the Ohio Supreme Court agreed to hear a dispute between former Chicago Bears linebacker Hunter Hillenmeyer and the City of Cleveland over the constitutionality of the city’s special tax on high-earning athletes visiting the city to play -
Massive Online Classes Expand into K-12
Opinion -In 2013, ten million students of all ages participated in more than 1,200 massive, open, online courses offered by more than 200 universities. Known as MOOCs, these online classes once took the TED Talk crowd by storm. -
Some Useful FACTS About Global Warming and Climate Change
Opinion -Thanks to Sunday’s Climate March in New York and Tuesday’s Climate Summit at the United Nations, Americans and others will have been deluged with the lies that have been told to sustain this greatest of all hoaxes.Here are the known facts.