Opinion
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North Carolina Questions Common Core
Opinion -North Carolina legislators have introduced a proposal that would require their state to examine national Common Core education standards. -
Wisconsin Choice Momentum, Parent Trigger Novelty in Louisiana, and More: Friday’s Ed News Roundup
Opinion -Friday's ed newsWISCONSIN: Gov. Scott Walker says a school choice expansion will pass. -
Actuaries: Ohio and Wisconsin Face Highest Cost Hikes Under Obamacare
Opinion -A report from the Society of Actuaries found Ohio and Wisconsin face the steepest health care cost hikes under President Obama’s health care law.The Buckeye State tops the list, while the Badger State checks in at No. -
The Lessons of Iraq and Obamacare
Opinion -With the opening of the George W. -
Obamacare’s Small Business Exchange Hampered by Delays
Opinion -The Obama administration has announced a delay in implementing the insurance exchange designed for small businesses and their employees. -
Michigan House Blocks Common Core Implementation (updated)
Opinion -The Michigan House passed a budget bill prohibiting the state department of education from using state money to implement the Common Core national education standards and associated tests. -
Study Says Reforms to Business Expensing Could Boost Economic Growth
Opinion -To achieve faster economic growth and greater job creation, Congress must look closely at rules governing expensing and depreciation for business investments, according to a new study by the Tax Foundation. -
Larval Growth of Oysters in a Warming and CO2-Accreting World
Opinion -How does the larval-stage of the Portuguese oyster respond to multiple climate change stressors? With a surprising degree of tolerance!... -
Washington State Dems Drop Beer Tax
Opinion -Brew masters in Washington State are raising a cup to Olympia as House Democrats have decided to drop a proposed special tax on beer. -
MF Global Bankruptcy Trustee Sues Corzine
Opinion -Federal bankruptcy trustee Louis Freeh has filed a lawsuit against Jon Corzine who was in charge of MF Global when the commodity trading firm collapsed in 2011. -
‘Fiscal Cliff’ Tax Avoidance Boosted States’ 4th Quarter Tax Receipts
Opinion -Overall state tax revenues increased by 5.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government's latest quarterly report on taxes. -
Minnesota Biobank Bill Threatens Genetic Privacy
Opinion -Do you own your DNA? Not if you live in Minnesota. The state’s DFL-controlled legislature is planning to eliminate genetic privacy rights and individuals’ ownership and control over their DNA data. -
‘State-Led’ Common Core Pushed by Federally Funded Nonprofit
Opinion -A central defense of the new national education standards, now generating spirited public debates, is that the federal government did not mandate or create them. -
Ohio Joins States Debating Common Core
Opinion -Earlier this month, approximately a thousand Ohioans spent two to three hours of their free time in packed auditoriums, listening to people talk about education standards. That sounds pretty boring. -
What Do Dish-Sprint, Google Fiber, & T-Mobile’s No Contracts, All Mean?
Opinion -Competition is alive and well in the U.S. communications market.Market forces have produced a barrage of big competitive developments in just a few weeks. -
Green Crusade a Threat to Economic Growth
Opinion -One definition of “gangrene” offered by Webster’s Dictionary, “pervasive decay or corruption,” appropriately characterizes the work of the EPA, given its continued push to the edges of the Constitution in implementing costly regulatory requirements that -
Americans Bothered By The Way The Government Spends Taxes
Opinion -Every year, April 15 is tax day. The morning’s news shows featured last minute tax tips and other tax-related information. A new poll was discussed. When asked: “Thinking about paying taxes, which one of the following bothers you the most? -
Incompetence and Dysfunction Rampant at Energy Department
Opinion -"Ineptocracy” is a new Internet-popularized word in wide circulation, which came to my inbox with the following definition:“A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of -
President Obama’s Predictable Budget: More Spending, More Tax Increases
Opinion -President Obama tells us in the Overview to his Fiscal Year 2014 Budget just released last week that his budget proposes, “more than $2 in spending cuts for every $1 of new revenue from closing tax loopholes and reducing tax benefits for the wealthiest. -
Federal Government Looking to Tax Internet – And Let States Do It Too
Opinion -The Big Government, Never-Enough-of-Your-Coin-Coalition – Internet Division – is at it yet again. -
Oklahoma Considers Medicaid Alternatives
Opinion -Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin remains determined to avoid entanglement in President Obama’s health care law. But in the Oklahoma legislature, a proactive reform measure to trim Medicaid expenses may not make it to the Senate floor. -
How Tennessee Voucher Momentum Splintered
Opinion -Years of voucher proposals, polls showing parent support for vouchers, and a governor-sponsored voucher bill did not culminate in a new Tennessee voucher law this spring. Despite a positive response from legislators early on, the lawmaker carrying Gov. -
California High-Speed Rail Could Lose Hundreds of Millions Annually
Opinion -The California High-Speed Rail Authority is overestimating ridership by 65 to 77 percent and will need $124 million to $373 million a year from taxpayers to cover its operating costs and financial losses, according to a new study by Reason Foundation. -
What Goes Around …
Opinion -Former Lodi, California mayor James McCarty, 86, and his brother, Robert, 78, have sued Lodi attorney Russell Humphrey’s office for allegedly not complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).