Opinion
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Heartland Institute Experts React to Bill to De-fund FCC Net Neutrality Rules
Opinion -The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed an amendment to the continuing resolution that would prevent the Federal Communications Commission from using any federal funds to enforce the net neutrality rules it approved in December. -
Public Broadcasting: Should Congress Cut Off Funding?
Opinion -President Barack Obama's fiscal 2012 budget includes $451 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which oversees PBS and National Public Radio. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Government Worker Protests in Wisconsin
Opinion -Thousands of public employees in Wisconsin marched on the state capitol Thursday to protest a bill that would force public employees to pay more for pension and health benefits while limiting their union’s collective bargaining power. State Sen. -
QE2’s Link to Tunisia, Egypt and Middle East Protests
Opinion -The Federal Reserve has been busy pumping up the money supply by $300 billion in three months, with much more promised in the months ahead. Some of the results have been painfully predictable, others less so. -
Nevada Governor Calls for Amendment to Permit Vouchers
Opinion -Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) is proposing education reforms aimed at boosting student achievement while saving taxpayers money. -
Brown Asks for Tax-Hike Extension to Sustain CA School Budgets
Opinion -California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is asking voters to extend a sales- and income-tax increase for five years to help close a $25 billion state budget deficit this year and spare the state’s public schools from deep budget cuts. -
Opportunity Scholarships Overcome Crucial Hurdles in New Jersey
Opinion -A key New Jersey state Assembly panel has cleared the New Jersey Opportunity Scholarship Act, a bill to aid low-income students in the state’s worst schools. -
Heartland Institute Expert: Federal Reinsurance Tax Proposal ‘Just a Bad Idea’
Opinion -TALLAHASSEE — Rep. Jeff Brandes (R-St. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Obama’s Budget, Press Conference
Opinion -President Barack Obama released his 2012 budget on Monday and defended it at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. The following comments from staff at The Heartland Institute may be used for attribution. -
Indiana Lawmakers Propose ‘Dramatic’ School Reforms
Opinion -Indiana Democrats are balking at votes on several labor and school reform bills winding through the state legislature. Despite a walkout, in which some House members reportedly fled to adjacent Illinois, Gov. -
Obama ‘No Child’ Reforms Would Eliminate School Choice Options
Opinion -President Obama and U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan have renewed their call for Congress to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act this year, proposing, among other changes, that the 2001 law be stripped of public school choice provisions. -
Kentucky Senate Passes Historic Charter-Schools Bill
Opinion -The Kentucky state Senate has passed a bill opening the state to charter schools, overcoming opposition from the state’s teachers union and culminating nearly a decade of work by school reformers in the Bluegrass State. -
California Judge Approves Class-Action Status Against Wal-Mart, Netflix
Opinion -A federal judge in California granted class-action status this past December to a group of Netflix subscribers who allege the company and Wal-Mart conspired to monopolize the DVD market.Judge Phyllis Hamilton of the U.S. -
Extreme Weather and Global Warming
Opinion -In "Clean Air Act" (Feb. 10), Miranda Carter of Environment Illinois claimed global warming is causing more extreme weather. -
#259: Keeping an Eye on CMS Head Don Berwick
Opinion -On Thursday, C-SPAN chose not to broadcast live the Ways and Means subcommittee hearing with Don Berwick, the controversial head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, in his first appearance before the House. -
Property Insurance Reform: Living on Borrowed Time
Opinion -Sometime soon, maybe even this year, the run of good luck that has brought Florida five consecutive hurricane-free years will end. When it does, the state could face a fiscal crisis that would make this year’s $3.6 billion budget gap appear trivial. -
A $53 Billion High-Speed Rail Program to Nowhere
Opinion -Vice President Joe Biden has announced a plan to spend $53 billion over the next six years on passenger high-speed rail projects that will help reach the goal of giving 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail within 25 years. -
California State Schools Chief Proposes Parent Empowerment ‘Clean Up’
Opinion -California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson and his staff say the state’s groundbreaking parent empowerment law may be too vague for the state department of education to write clear regulations. -
DOLINAR: Obamacare Yields Fewer Choices
Opinion -One thing many patients may not know is that their doctor may not prescribe the treatment he thinks most effective - because he's penalized for doing so. -
ought to appoint Public Service Commission members who care about keeping consumers’ costs down, creating jobs
Opinion -Gov. Rick Scott has pledged to cut state taxes while simultaneously reducing the budget deficit. This is a tall order, but opportunities exist. Florida energy policy offers a perfect example.According to the U.S. -
Education Problems Reside at ‘Core’
Opinion -President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address illustrated just how much political duplicity has entered the debate about national education standards. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #10-3
Opinion -A Maryland attorney is becoming known as the “bedbug barrister” after filing eight lawsuits for bedbug bite victims in Maryland, seeking a total of $7 million in damages. -
Outgoing New York Governor Fires Final Shot on Fracking
Opinion -Shortly before departing the Governor’s Mansion for good, outgoing New York Governor David Paterson (D) vetoed a legislative moratorium on natural gas drilling permits utilizing hydraulic fracturing techniques—but then issued an alternate moratorium of -
Study: No Increase in Northwest Australian Tropical Cyclones
Opinion -A recently published study in the peer-reviewed Journal of Climate shows tropical cyclone activity is not increasing in the southeast Indian Ocean basin.