Opinion
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Will Transportation Bill Negotiations End Up in a Stalemate?
Opinion -The standoff between Senate Democrats and House Republicans over a short-term Federal Aviation Administration funding bill foreshadows the possibility of a similar impasse in the negotiations on the surface transportation reauthorization bill. -
$15 Million Agreement Ends ‘No School’ Threat in Memphis
Opinion -School finance disputes have increased nationwide and nearly delayed the start of school in Memphis, Tennessee, where the school board declared shuttering its only option if the City Council did not hand over $55 million. -
Republicans Push for Medicaid Reform as Senate Democrats Resist
Opinion -Republicans on Capitol Hill are pushing hard to advance reforms of the Medicaid system in response to financial strains at the state level. -
Heartland Institute Legal Expert Available to Comment on Wisconsin Recall
Opinion -Wisconsin voters go to the polls today in a recall election of six Republicans in the state Senate. -
Ed Secretary to Waive NCLB Requirements for Submissive States
Opinion -The president has decided to take a tack on the largest federal education law he certainly wishes were available in budget battles: bypassing Congress and legislating through administrative agencies by offering states waivers in exchange for education -
House to Hold Field Hearings Today on Florida Water Nutrient Restrictions
Opinion -The U.S House of Representatives Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a field hearing today in Orlando, Florida, regarding water nutrient restrictions proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. -
Consumer Power Report: Governor Perry’s Off-Label Therapy
Opinion -There’s a great story embedded in the recent attention paid to Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s back surgery. -
Why the Market Crash? Downgrade or Threat of Tax Increase?
Opinion -Thursday, August 4: Senate votes to pass House bill that will raise taxes. Dow Jones Industrial Average loses 513.Friday, August 5: Standard & Poor’s downgrades U.S. sovereign debt from AAA to AA+. Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 61. -
Districts, States Struggle to Develop High-Tech Data Systems
Opinion -The past year of education debates in legislatures and widespread annoyance over antiquated technology in public education has prompted myriad expensive, time-consuming digital records projects in states and districts. -
Fed Recruits Academia to Its ‘Brave New World’ of Monetary Policy
Opinion -John C. Williams, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, delivered an address this summer to the American Economic Association’s National Conference on Teaching Economics and Research in Education. -
How Much Should Teachers Make? Who Cares!
Opinion -Recently, Education Secretary Arne Duncan no doubt thought it radical to say that teachers should get a $60,000 yearly starting salary and top out around $150,000. -
Chicago Mayor Says ‘No’ to New Taxes
Opinion -Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) says without significant reforms the city’s 2012 budget will be hundreds of millions of dollars in the red, and he pledges to address the problem without raising taxes. “We have come to that moment of truth as a city. -
Philly’s Wi-Fi Failure Contrasts With North Carolina’s Caution
Opinion -Philadelphia taxpayers left stranded, again, with a failed municipal wi-fi network might wish Philly were in the Tar Heel State. -
FCC Approves ‘Spoofing’ Regulations
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission will implement the Truth in Caller ID Act on Aug. 19 in an effort to crack down on caller-identification fraud. The law prohibits falsifying caller ID information with intent for wrongdoing. -
Long Island-Area Voters Trounce Stadium Subsidy Proposal
Opinion -The owner of the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League threatened to move his team unless he receives hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer backing for a new stadium. -
Lots of Life in This ‘Ghost City’
Opinion -Late last year London’s Daily Mail newspaper reported the Zhengzhou New Area was China’s largest “Ghost City.” A visit I made to the Zhengzhou New Area earlier this year indicates exactly the opposite. -
Obama Blames the Messenger, Worsens Downturn
Opinion -Government reaction to the S&P downgrade of US debt took a negative psychological factor and made it even worse. It did this by showing just how far governments were from addressing their problems. -
One Year After Dodd-Frank, Bailout Dilemma Remains
Opinion -Ever since the bailout of Continental Illinois Bank in 1984, bank bailouts have been an unpopular device for protecting the financial system from risks posed by troubled banks deemed “too big to fail. -
Educratic Inertia
Opinion -Everyone is talking about fancy new education apps, possibilities for "flipping" classrooms using innovative, video-based operators such as Khan Academy, and individualized "school of one" models popping up from New York City to California, but these are -
New Local Taxes Shelved in California, Could Be Revived Next Year
Opinion -California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacremento) has shelved SB 23x, a bill that would have authorized cities, counties, and more than 1,000 school districts to levy a broad range of new taxes. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Credit Rating Downgrade
Opinion -Standard & Poor’s, one of the major credit rating agencies in the United States, downgraded America’s rating from AAA to AA-plus, the first-ever downgrade of this country. -
Teachers union disavows internal memo endorsing deception of parents
Opinion -American Federation of Teachers officials have disavowed an internal report after it was posted on the union's website following its annual conference, embedded on each of its 19 pages with the union's logo and signed by a union official. -
FTE Teaches Teachers Economics, Has Reached Roughly 43 Million Students
Opinion -The Foundation for Teaching Economics enlivens high-school classrooms by educating teachers and demonstrating economic principles through real-life examples. FTE estimates its programs have reached as many as 43 million students in its 20 years. -
Government’s $7 Billion Broadband Waste
Opinion -The debate over raising the debt ceiling has captured the national imagination.
