Opinion
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Chicago Mayor Initiates Principal Merit Pay
Opinion -Performance evaluations and merit pay have changed school systems across the nation, but Chicago is the first district to initiate them for hiring and firing principals. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to Obama Administration Suit to Stop AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Justice filed suit in federal court Wednesday to stop the proposed $39 billion merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, saying the deal would significantly reduce competition in the wireless industry and harm consumers. -
Editorials shouldn’t focus on beliefs
Opinion -Published in the Richmond Times-Disptach, August 31, 2011Editor, Times-Dispatch: Regarding your recent editorial "The Mann Act": It is entirely proper, especially in a period of severe budget pressures, for state officials to seek access to documents -
Consumer Power Report: More False Flexibility From HHS
Opinion -Welcome to the Consumer Power Report, which neither snow nor sleet nor 26 hours without power can stop. -
Try as I Might, I Couldn’t Keep Government Out of My Mortgage!
Opinion -Like many Americans, I refinanced my home in the past couple of months. In searching for a home mortgage lender, my first stop was my former mortgage company, Wells Fargo, as I was happy with their web payment system and did not want to change companies. -
Dodd-Frank Amendment Hits Telecoms and Utilities
Opinion -Credit score disclosures for utilities and telecommunications companies are now required by an amendment to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. -
Teachers Union Behind Rhee Attack Site
Opinion -A computer registered to the American Federation of Teachers created the predominant website for online attacks on former Washington, DC schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee. -
Michigan Legislators Protest New Fuel Rules
Opinion -Fourteen Michigan members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the state’s two U.S. senators have sent a letter to President Obama opposing his new fuel efficiency standards for vehicles manufactured between 2017 and 2025. -
Forestry Advocacy Group Violates Own Standards, Harms Minorities
Opinion -The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) has released a report revealing the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is using endangered tropical species in its paper products, contradicting the organization’s claim it is the “gold-standard for responsible forest -
Organization Ban
Opinion -The Gould, Arkansas city council has banned a citizens group from “doing business” there and has further decreed “no new organizations shall be allowed to exist in the City of Gould without approval from a majority of the City Council. -
DOE Promotes Small Nuclear Reactors
Opinion -Department of Energy officials are promoting small modular reactors (SMR) as a way to reinvigorate U.S. nuclear technology. -
High-Speed Rail Proving Costly in California
Opinion -A California high-speed rail proposal approved by voters in 2008 has strayed so far above original cost estimates and so far under ridership estimates that one key transportation analyst is calling it the greatest scam to hit the state—ever. -
Brownback Urges Reforms to Preserve Ogallala Aquifer
Opinion -Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) is urging elimination of “use it or lose it” state mandates regarding water-use rights. -
Activists Move to Prevent Canada from Supplying U.S. with Oil
Opinion -Canada is eager to provide the United States with valuable oil from a friendly nation, but environmental activists are urging the Obama administration to block construction of an oil pipeline that would deliver the oil from western Canada to refineries -
Fracking Can Be Responsible, Says NY Enviro Commish
Opinion -New York Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner Joe Martens is spreading the word that natural gas production through hydraulic fracturing techniques can be environmentally responsible. -
Wyoming County Commissioners Call Halt to Wilderness Designations
Opinion -County commissioners in Park County, Wyoming have decided not to recommend any new county lands be designated as wilderness areas to be managed by the federal government through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). -
Forest Service Study Calls for Forest Thinning
Opinion -A new study from the U.S. Forest Service concludes extensive forest-thinning treatments are the most effective way to reduce intense wildfires in the western United States. -
Landmark Experiment Supports Cosmic-Ray Warming Theory
Opinion -Researchers at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland report new evidence supporting the theory that cosmic rays may increase the sun’s impact on global temperatures and climate. -
Domestic Fracking Enhances U.S. Security, Study Concludes
Opinion -The domestic production of natural gas from shale deposits, accomplished through hydraulic fracturing techniques, provides the United States with significant geopolitical benefits, concludes a study by energy experts at Rice University. -
Global Warming Causes UFO Attacks?
Opinion -The UK Guardian has published an article titled, “Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilizations, scientists say.” The subtitle is, “Rising greenhouse gas emissions could tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report. -
Feds Pull Plug on Wave Power Project
Opinion -The federal government has cancelled permits for a wave power project on the California coast that renewable power advocates had hailed as an alternative to conventional energy sources. -
Federal Officials Investigate Wind Farm Eagle Deaths
Opinion -Federal wildlife officials are investigating the deaths of at least six golden eagles at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Pine Tree Wind project 100 miles north of the city. -
Gates Foundation Funding Crop Improvements
Opinion -With malnutrition still a longstanding problem in many Third World nations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is funding biofortification programs that promise to produce more nutritious food staples. -
Cold Killed Record Number of Florida Corals
Opinion -Corals off the coast of Florida died in record numbers in 2010 as a result of cold temperatures, scientists at the University of Miami report in the peer-reviewed science journal PLoS One.