Opinion
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FL Choice Bill In Flux, NC Suggests Open Enrollment, and More: Friday’s Ed News
Opinion -Friday's ed newsFLORIDA: A bill to expand the state's most popular school choice program and allow education savings accounts for disabled kids gets blocked, but itschances aren't over yet. -
Long-Term Responses of Emiliania huxleyi to Ocean Acidification
Opinion -Can they enable the ubiquitous coccolithophore to survive projected environmental changes? -
Michigan Legislator Wants to Legalize Ticket ‘Scalping’
Opinion -For Tim Kelly, the principle is simple: If someone buys a ticket to an event, it’s up to that person what to do with it. -
Nanny Bloomberg’s Food Police Go National
Opinion -If you liked Mayor Bloomberg's approach to controlling how New Yorkers eat, you are going to love what federal nutrition nannies are planning for the entire U.S. population. -
How Obamacare Opponents Should Respond to Obama’s Failed Victory Lap
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #417 According to Aaron Blake at the Washington Post, the administration’s Obamacare victory lap looks more like a false start. -
Illinois Dems Drop Plans for Tax Surcharge, Progressive Income Tax
Opinion -Democrat leaders in Illinois have given up their attempts—for now—to impose an income tax surcharge on high-income earners and create a “progressive” income tax to replace the current flat-rate tax. -
Financial Losses Are Par for the Course at Municipal Golf Clubs
Opinion -To get an idea of the uphill lie facing many municipal golf courses in Minnesota, check with Fred Richards. But you better get a tee time, and soon. -
Utah Enacts Law Targeting Net-Metering Charges
Opinion -Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) signed into law a bill that will allow the state’s Public Service Commission to charge small renewable power providers for costs their net-metering programs impose on electricity utilities. -
The Lower Cost of a Truly Limited Government
Opinion -A demonstration of just how far the United States has moved from its original founding principles is seen in the fact that in all the jousting over ObamaCare, the general rise in “entitlement” spending, and the burden of government regulation over -
Mora County’s Drilling Ban: Moral High Ground or Moronic?
Opinion -In a little “frontier” community in northern New Mexico, a national property rights battle is playing out with huge national implications and almost no one knows it is taking place. -
Time for Organic Activists to Stop Spreading Lies
Opinion -Wouldn’t making it in America be easy if you could just pass laws to put your competition out of business? That’s precisely what’s being attempted by anti-GMO organic activists across America today. -
Illinois House Passes Three-Year Ban on Online Charter Schools
Opinion -The Illinois House has passed a three-year ban on virtual charter schools, shortly after an existing one-year ban expired. “It’s an amazing story about what they want to do here in Illinois. -
Judge Lets Parents Fight for Louisiana Vouchers
Opinion -After Louisiana and the U.S. Justice Department both declared victory over a deal in a school voucher lawsuit brought by the Obama administration, a new window has opened: Louisiana parents will be allowed to have their day in court. -
The Right Needs a New Message on Income Inequality
Opinion -Few French economists have achieved the kind of adulation Thomas Piketty has experienced recently from the media and the left. -
A Key Ingredient in the Left’s Wins: Persistence
Opinion -In the late, great Harold Ramis’ cinematic classic “Animal House,” perpetual Faber College student John Blutarsky succinctly summed up the Left’s approach to policy."Over? Did you say ‘over?’ Nothing is over until we decide it is! -
Repeal Jones Act Before Exporting Oil
Opinion -For the past 40 years, in response to the OPEC embargo of 1973, crude petroleum exports from the U.S. have been severely restricted. Back then, we referred to oil as “liquid gold” and felt we needed to hoard our limited supplies. -
Critics Say FDA Out to Ruin the E-Cigarette Industry
Opinion -E-cigarettes have no tobacco smoke but that hasn’t stopped the Food and Drug Administration from proposing rules to treat e-cigarettes much like tobacco-based cigarettes. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Supreme Court Ruling on EPA Air Pollution Rule
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 6–2 to affirm the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability via the so-called “Cross-State Air Pollution Rule” to regulate power-plant emissions when those emissions have the potential to hurt downwind air-quality. -
Louisiana, Florida Battle Feds over Red Snapper Restrictions
Opinion -Louisiana and Florida wildlife officials are battling the federal government over one of the most popular fish on seafood restaurants’ menus. -
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Opinion -Monday, April 28, 2014, purportedly marked Tax Freedom Day for Illinois taxpayers. -
The Multi-Speed Internet is Getting More Faster Speeds
Opinion -The Internet has long had multiple speeds. And it constantly gets faster speeds via technological and commercial innovation, competition, and investment. -
Time Magazine Gets it Wrong on the Suburbs
Opinion -Time Magazine's Sam Frizell imagines that the American Dream has changed, in an article entitled "The New American Dream is Living in a City, Not Owning a House in the Suburbs. -
The Other Side of the Global Warming Story
Opinion -[This article was originally published in the Alumni magazine of the Hotchkiss School]Many readers will surely agree with me that Hotchkiss launched us into successful and fulfilling careers, mine as a scientist, physicist and engineer continues actively -
Natural Gas Production Fees Filling Pennsylvania Government Coffers
Opinion -Pennsylvanians are basking in the economic wealth created by natural gas production, with energy companies expected to pay $225 million in natural gas production fees to the Keystone State this year.