Opinion
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Colorado School Districts Swarm Teacher Evaluation Pilot
Opinion -Forty-one school districts volunteered to participate in Colorado’s statewide teacher evaluation pilot program this fall, an unusual response given tepid enrollment in similar programs in states such as New Jersey and Virginia. -
Washington’s Rebate Tax Would Be Paid By Seniors
Opinion -Guest Column for Kaiser Health News Leading congressional Democrats appear ready to impose a new tax on prescription drugs for seniors -- a tax that would increase Medicare drug plan premiums for some seniors by as much as 40 percent. -
Casey Anthony Verdict Doesn’t Require New Laws
Opinion -So-called “Caylee’s Laws” are already being introduced in dozens of states across America, and a petition for a federal version has gone viral on the Internet. -
Vermont Becomes First State With Single Payer
Opinion -Vermont is on a path to become the first state in the nation to have a government-run health care monopoly, as a result of a health care bill signed Democrat by Gov. Peter Shumlin in May. -
Doubling Down on Class Warfare
Opinion -In the course of negotiations over the debt limit, President Barack Obama’s rejection of his own bipartisan White House debt commission’s recommendations has become complete. -
BRIEF: Walker’s Bargaining Limits Save Millions, Some Districts Still Short
Opinion -Sixty-seven of Wisconsin’s 424 school districts have reported saving more than $140 million in total by collectively negotiating only salaries under Gov. Scott Walker’s bargaining limits enacted earlier this year. -
FTC Revamping Rules for Online Advertising
Opinion -The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment about proposed revisions to its guidance to businesses about online advertising. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Debt Ceiling Debate
Opinion -President Barack Obama and Congress appear to be getting closer to a deal to cut spending as a condition for raising the federal debt ceiling. -
Federal Funds Pump School-based Health Centers, State Burden
Opinion -The Department of Health and Human Services announced a federal grant rollout of $95 million to school-based health centers nationwide as part of a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. -
Government’s $7 Billion Broadband Waste
Opinion -As members of Congress and the Obama administration creep ever closer to a deal to raise the debt ceiling, it becomes increasingly clear any plan that emerges will rewrite the nation’s tax code. -
Georgia Senate Mulls Muni-Internet Referendum Requirement
Opinion -Georgia legislators introduced a bill in the State Senate that would require municipalities to hold referendums before launching high-speed Internet service. Georgia SB 313, according to bill cosponsor State Sen. -
AAI’s Analysis of Verizon-Cable Is Industrial Policy Not Antitrust
Opinion -Reading through The American Antitrust Institute's white paper on Verizon-Cable, it is striking how little analysis is relevant to antitrust/market-competition and how it is basically a thinly veiled tacit pitch for the DOJ and the FCC to pursue an -
ALEC Calls for Privacy Solutions to Protect Consumer Choice
Opinion -The chairmen of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s Communications and Technology Task Force are calling for the Obama Administration to protect consumers, their online privacy choices, and the growing digital economy as part of a -
A Postmortem Look at City Wi-FI
Opinion -Author Eric M. Fraser, a future guest on The Heartland Institute's InfoTech & Telecom News podcast, wrote this article for the August 2010 issue of Internet Law. -
New Study Argues Against Regulatory Oversight of Usage-Based Pricing
Opinion -Research conducted by a Washington, DC-based research institute concludes that prohibitions against usage-based pricing for broadband forces consumers to purchase services they do not use. The Phoenix Center Policy Perspective, “A Most Egregious Act? -
Oregon Court Denies Blogger Media Shield-Law Protection
Opinion -Ruling that blogger Crystal Cox is not a journalist granted protection under Oregon’s media shield-laws, U.S. District Court Judge Marco Hernandez entered a $2.5 million judgment against her on November 30. -
AZ House Applies Brakes to Internet Censorship Bill
Opinion -Arizona House Bill 2549—a controversial bill intended to suppress online and electronic stalking, harassment, and cyberbullying—was pulled from further consideration by one of the legislation’s sponsors in response to nationwide concerns the proposed -
Obamacare’s Individual Mandate Ruled Unconstitutional Again
Opinion -Once again, a court has found the individual mandate contained within President Obama's health care law to be unconstitutional. -
Cell-Phone Taxes Are Double Sales Taxes Nationwide
Opinion -The combined tax burden on cell phones due to fees imposed by federal, state, and local governments is double the amount of the average retail sales tax, a study conducted by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University has found. -
Consumer Power Report: Downfall of the Old Order
Opinion -Robert Samuelson writes today on the “crisis of the Old Order” established by democracies in the post-World War II era – an order based in large part on the persistence of the welfare state and inevitable economic growth that fueled that entitlement -
Heartland’s Steve Stanek Debates the Debt Ceiling on ‘Chicago Tonight’
Opinion -Steve Stanek, research fellow at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Budget & Tax News, debates a liberal, a moderate liberal, and a liberal reporter on the debt ceiling crisis in Washington. -
District of Columbia Fires 5 Percent of Teachers for Poor Performance
Opinion -Five percent of the District of Columbia’s teaching staff received pink slips in mid-July after a newly implemented assessment program classified them as poor performers. -
Missouri Scraps Show-Me Health Insurance Exchange Act
Opinion -All states are required under President Obama’s health care law to create a state health insurance exchange by 2014. -
Oregon Revamps School System, Makes Governor Superintendent
Opinion -Oregon is in the process of almost completely revamping the state’s public-school sector from kindergarten through graduate school, after passage of new legislation this summer.
