Opinion
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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. -
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.
