Opinion
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Obamacare Mandates Mean Cuts or Higher Costs for Minnesota Schools
Opinion -Thirty is the magic number in the Affordable Care Act for hard-pressed Minnesota school districts scrambling to avoid hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties and new health coverage costs. -
Minnesota Moves to License Interior Designers
Opinion -There’s no accounting for taste in Minnesota -- unless, of course, the government says so. Minnesota, like Florida, Louisiana and Nevada, wants to license interior designers. -
Heartland Institute Experts Testify at EPA ‘Listening Session’ in Chicago, Argue Against Adoption of Obama’s ‘Climate Action Plan’
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency today is hosting a “Public Listening Session” at the Metcalfe Federal Building in Chicago, allowing the public to weigh in on the Obama administration’s “Climate Action Plan. -
inBloom to Depart CO, National Test Results, and More: Friday’s Ed News Roundup
Opinion -Friday's ed newsCOLORADO: An inBloom-promoting superintendent resigns as her board votes to jettison the student data collection system. -
Prominent Warmists Urge Allies to Support Nuclear Power
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #109Four scientists at the forefront of global warming activism published an open letter this week encouraging their fellow warmists to embrace safe nuclear power as a means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. -
Study: Fracking Cuts Energy Costs, Raises Living Standards
Opinion -The recovery of natural gas through smart drilling and hydraulic fracturing is cutting energy costs and raising living standards throughout the United States, a newly published study has found. Economists at IHS Inc. -
Wood-burning Power Plants: Misguided Climate Change Solution?
Opinion -Is wood the best fuel to generate electricity? Despite wood’s low energy density and high cost, utilities in the US and abroad are switching from coal to wood to produce electrical power. -
Playing Musical Chairs With World Economies
Opinion -The world’s largest economies seem engaged in something like the children’s game of “musical chairs. -
“Supplemental” Poverty Measure Shows Uneven Redistribution of Poverty by Government
Opinion -The release of a supplemental poverty measure by the Census Bureau is being touted in the media as indicating the government is not doing enough to ameliorate poverty in the country. -
How The Republican Donor Class Gave Us Terry McAuliffe
Opinion -The story playing out in the wake of Ken Cuccinelli’s narrow loss is of a piece with the divisions that have dogged the right in races large and small in recent years. -
Seven States Sue EPA to Restrict Wood-Burning Stoves
Opinion -Seven states have filed suit against the U.S. Environmental Protections Agency, seeking tougher restrictions on wood-burning heaters. Six of the states are in the Northeast, and the other is Oregon. -
Missourians Gather Signatures for School Choice Initiative
Opinion -Missourians are gathering signatures to put a school-choice proposal on the November 2014 ballot. -
Global Warming’s Mt. Rushmore Wisely Embraces Nuclear Power
Opinion -Four scientists at the forefront of global warming activism published an open letter this week encouraging their fellow warmists to embrace safe nuclear power as a means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. -
The Coming Obamacare Bailout
Opinion -Think back to the fall of 2008. Congress was asked to pass a $700 billion taxpayer bailout for Wall Street. We were told it had to be passed, or else the economy would collapse, perhaps into another Great Depression.House conservatives voted it down. -
Obama’s Executive Order on Climate
Opinion -By Alan CarubaOn the surface, it might seem to make sense for the President to want to “do something” about climate events such as hurricanes, but there have always been hurricanes and blaming them and everything from droughts to wildfires on “climate -
Heartland Daily Podcast: Health Policy Post Obamacare
Opinion -On Heartland’s Daily podcast, Senior Health and Policy Analyst Ben Domenech was interviewed to speak about the effects on health policy post Obamacare. -
Washington Voters Reject Mandatory Labels for Genetically Modified Foods
Opinion -Voters in Washington state soundly rejected a ballot initiative that would require labels on all foods containing genetically modified ingredients. -
Colorado Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Schools Tax Increase
Opinion -Colorado voters on Election Day crushed Amendment 66, a ballot initiative that sought to raise the state’s income tax $1 billion a year to pour more money into K-12. The measure lost by a 66.2 to 33.8 percent margin. -
European Union Restricts Transportation Biofuels
Opinion -By a vote of 356 to 327, members of the European Union Parliament approved a bill that would limit the use of biofuels in the EU’s transportation sector. -
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Opinion -One of my favorite off-Broadway shows is "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change." The show closed in 2008 after running for 12 years and 5003 performances. -
Increasing Clouds and Thunderstorms for Climate Alarmists
Opinion -What an Autumn it’s been. Rejecting claims of looming cataclysm, the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) issued Climate Change Reconsidered-II on September 17. -
Iowa Looks to Expand Education Choice
Opinion -As Iowans look forward to the 2014 legislative session, lawmakers are set to address some big education measures. Iowa school choice advocates aim to expand the state’s tax-credit scholarships and develop Education Savings Accounts (ESAs). -
Sinking Islands: Fact or Fiction?
Opinion -The authors of this new study conclude that “despite the widely held perception that reef islands around the perimeter of coral atolls are eroding and will disappear as a consequence of sea-level rise resulting from global warming, the total area of reef -
Why the FCC Needs to Get With the Times, Finally
Opinion -We are in the midst of a transition away from copper wire-based communications services to broadband Internet-based services - a transition that then-FCC commissioner Michael Powell called the "Great Digital Broadband Migration" way back in the year 2000.
