Opinion
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Temporary Scholarships Could Lift South Carolina Special-Needs School
Opinion -Gillian Barclay-Smith, headmaster at a South Carolina school for special-needs students, wanted to be done with administrative work. “My intention was when I left there, I’d write,” she said. -
Report: No Warming Danger to Oceans and Hydrosphere
Opinion -Some global warming activists argue global warming may disrupt the hydrosphere, comprising all of the water on Earth and in its atmosphere. -
Omnipotence at Home, Impotence Abroad
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Quarterly Report Newsletter -Quarterly Performance Report Forth Quarter, 2013 -
Michigan Land Bank Reform Bills On Hold Until After New Year
Opinion -Legislation that provides a way to contest deals in which land banks acquire property before public auctions take place will remain in the House Local Government Committee over the holidays. House Bill 4626 is sponsored by Rep. -
Unions, Anti-Choice Activists Sue Over North Carolina Vouchers
Opinion -On December 11, 25 plaintiffs sued North Carolina over its new law granting low-income students vouchers to attend private schools if their families choose. -
Don’t Fear ‘Deflation,’ Unless Caused by Government
Opinion -Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, and his designated successor, Janet Yellen, have defended the central bank’s $4 trillion monetary expansion over the last five years as a necessity to fight recession and prevent deflation. -
The Solar Swindle
Opinion -Solar electricity is growing, promoted, and most importantly, heavily subsidized. The promoters of solar electricity claim that it is close to being competitive with conventional sources of electricity. That is a fantasy. -
Coalition Letter Calls for Repeal of Renewable Fuel Mandates
Opinion -A coalition of 21 public policy organizations sent a letter to Congress outlining economic and environmental damage caused by federal renewable fuel mandates. The coalition members said the only way to fix this damage is to repeal the mandate. -
How the Milwaukee Voucher Program Was ‘Designed to Fail’
Opinion -Milwaukee has a 23-year-old “priceless” tuition voucher program restricted to low-income students, district-run chartered public schools, and some privately funded vouchers (PAVE). -
Swirling the Bowl: An Administration Goes Down the Drain
Opinion -If you accidentally dropped your most treasured piece of jewelry into the toilet just as you were flushing, you’d scream, you’d cry, and you might tell a sympathetic friend . . . unless you were just too embarrassed. -
The Secret Danger Liberals Don’t Want You to Know: Fracking is Safe
Opinion -Hydraulic fracturing started out as an “exploding torpedo” back in 1865. Today, nearly 150 years later, the actual process has made giant technological strides, but now, it's the topic that’s explosive. -
Will Insurers Ever Say Enough’s Enough To Obamacare?
Opinion -I’ve been working professionally in health policy since 1979 when I was hired to write the consumer contracts and other communications in plain English for the Blue Cross Blue Shield plan in Maine. -
New Year’s Resolution: End Common Core
Opinion -As the New Year approaches, now is the time to make resolutions about what we should change in 2014. -
Obama’s Slow Growth Policies Have Stacked The Deck Against American Workers
Opinion -President Obama told us in his December 4 economic coming out speech on inequality, which the Huffington Post called the most important speech of his presidency:But we know that people’s frustrations run deeper than these most recent political battles. -
‘Disrupting’ Higher Ed Will Destroy It
Opinion -“Disrupting” may have had its day as a pervasive buzzword, claims Judith Shulevitz in The New Republic. It is or is soon to be toast as “jargon cluttering the pages of Forbes and Harvard Business Review” and as part of the title of many a TED talk. -
School-to-Work and the Surveillance State
Opinion -Politicians are once again presenting us with a crisis they say only government action can solve: “Too many students are graduating unprepared for the workforce.” They point to the one-quarter of U.S. -
A Common Sense Case Against Common Core
Opinion -Review of The Story Killers: A Common Sense Case Against the Common Core, by Terrence Moore -
Will Insurers Ever Say Enough’s Enough To Obamacare?
Opinion -I’ve been working professionally in health policy since 1979 when I was hired to write the consumer contracts and other communications in plain English for the Blue Cross Blue Shield plan in Maine. -
The World in Crisis
Opinion -We close 2013 in a world that seems to be swiftly tilting toward ever-larger crises of government legitimacy, oncoming clashes of foreign powers, and an abiding sense of concern on the part of the American people that the economic realities of long-term -
Supreme Court Will Hear Case on EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an important case involving a narrow aspect of the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other stationary sources of pollution. -
Sound Science And The U.S. Economy Victimized By The EPA’s CIA Fake, John Beale
Opinion -While the American public is justifiably outraged about a high-ranking EPA official collecting large paychecks while messing around, skipping work and falsely claiming to be doing CIA work, it is the work that John Beale actually performed – rather than -
Amid Detroit’s Bankruptcy, a New Vibrancy Emerges
Opinion -For years the news media have depicted Detroit as nothing more than a dumping ground of endless ruin and “war-torn” neighborhoods abandoned by both businesses and residents. -
After the Taper: Fed’s Non-Plan is Unchanged
Opinion -It is getting more difficult to understand the logic underlying current monetary policy in the U.S. There are two main channels by which economists think monetary policy can influence growth and employment. -
Native Americans Protest Eagle Deaths at Wind Farms
Opinion -In the face of continued raptor deaths and the Obama administration’s ongoing efforts to encourage new industrial wind farm developments, American Indian tribes are becoming increasingly vocal opponents of new wind farms.