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Heartland Institute Applauds Passage of School Voucher Bill in Louisiana
Opinion -The Louisiana House of Representatives today passed the her program that allows low- and middle-income students in low-performing public schools to receive goStudent Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program, a voucvernment-funded vouchers to -
Gingrich Calls for Congress to Investigate Justice Department over Bird Kills
Opinion -Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is requesting a congressional investigation into why the Justice Department is imposing a double standard on bird kills regarding wind power producers versus oil and natural gas producers. -
Baltimore Mayor’s Call for Higher Bottle Tax Sparks Opposition
Opinion -Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has proposed raising the city’s 2 cent tax on beverage containers to 5 cents. She said during a recent City Council meeting the proposal is part of her Better Schools Initiative to build new schools. -
Fannie Experiments With Program to Put Homes Up for Rent
Opinion -Fannie Mae plans to sell nearly 2,500 foreclosed real estate properties to institutional investors who promise to rent them out for several years rather than resell them. -
Environmentalists Challenge Vermont Wind Power Project
Opinion -Environmentalists have filed a challenge to the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of a wind turbine project slated for Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont. -
Study: Choice Doesn’t Threaten Public School Finances
Opinion -School choice programs don’t threaten public school budgets, according to a new study by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. -
Obama Health Care Law Exacerbates Primary Care Physician Shortage
Opinion -President Obama’s health care law is likely to significantly increase demand for primary care physicians even as the nation already faces shortages of doctors in this field. -
Minnesota PUC Blocks Wind Farm Threatening Bald Eagles
Opinion -The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has voted against a proposed wind farm in rural Goodhue County because the developers failed to provide an acceptable plan to protect bald eagles and other species. -
Motown Breakdown: Detroit Teeters at Edge of Bankruptcy
Opinion -Detroit spends millions of dollars more each month than it receives in revenues and faces a challenge to continue providing the most basic of government services—police, fire, trash collection, even street lighting. -
Shell Oil Partners with Nature Conservancy to Protect Bird Habitat
Opinion -Shell Oil Company is partnering with the Nature Conservancy of Texas in an effort to rebuild an eroding island which is home to more than 24,000 nesting birds. -
Study: EPA Lowballs Costs of Proposed Florida Water Nutrient Restrictions
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is underestimating the costs of numerical nutrient restrictions it is imposing on Florida waters, the National Research Council (NRC) reports. -
Seven States File Suit Against Obama Administration’s Contraception Mandate
Opinion -Seven states banded together in a lawsuit to block President Obama’s controversial preventive medicine policy which mandates all employers and institutions who provide insurance to their employees and students must supply contraceptives, abortifacients, -
Maine School Choice Bills Get Chilly Reception in Legislature
Opinion -A pair of school choice initiatives backed by Maine’s governor has received a cold legislative reception, including the demise of a proposal to open the state’s publicly funded tuition program to religious schools. -
EU Regulations Hamper Telco Network Investments
Opinion -European Union regulations are impeding network investments by large telecom operators, according to an industry survey released in March. -
Ed Podcast: Beverlee Jobrack, and Tyranny of the Textbook
Opinion -While education reformers focus on big schemes like Common Core standards and teacher evaluations, little over the several past decades has seemed to change about American education. -
Mojave Solar Project Killing Threatened Desert Tortoises
Opinion -Construction of BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah solar power project in the Mojave Desert is destroying the habitat of threatened desert tortoises. -
Yes, Obamacare Is Increasing Premium Costs
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #321First as a candidate and then as president, Barack Obama repeatedly promised his administration would “have a health care plan that would save the average family $2,500 on their premiums. -
Heartland Institute Urges Veto of “Green” Energy Bill
Opinion -A proposed Florida law, HB 7117, has passed both houses of the legislature and was presented to the governor for his signature on March 30. It provides millions of dollars in tax subsidies for private firms that create “green” forms of energy. -
FWS Sued for Not Delisting Recovered Beetle
Opinion -A group of California property owners and a public policy organization have filed a lawsuit to force the federal government to remove a beetle from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s endangered species list. -
End Social Promotion, Introduce Independent Testing
Opinion -Public schools’ tradition of social promotion—promoting children to the next grade despite their lack of academic knowledge and skills—degrades U.S. school quality. -
Stockton, Calif., Could Become Nation’s Biggest Municipal Bankruptcy
Opinion -Stockton, California is quite at home on lists of dubious distinctions. This Northern California city has been variously listed as the city with the second-highest home-foreclosure rate of any major U.S. -
Report: Illinois Budget Busted By Retiree Health Care
Opinion -The state of Illinois can no longer afford free or subsidized health care for retired state workers, according to a report released by the Illinois Policy Institute. -
EPA Shuts down Coal, Blames Global Warming
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #44The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions that would effectively ban the construction of coal-fired power plants. -
New Hampshire Legislators Wrestle with Constitutionality of Tax-Credit Scholarships
Opinion -The New Hampshire Senate on March 21 passed a bill that would create a statewide education tax-credit scholarship program.
