Opinion
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Heartland Institute Hails Passage of Florida Reinsurance Memorial
Opinion -TALLAHASSEE—Researchers at The Heartland Institute today praised final approval of a memorial disapproving Congressional proposals to impose new tariffs on offshore affiliated reinsurance transactions. -
Texas Weighs Legislation to Expand Online High Schools
Opinion -Texas lawmakers are considering a bill to solidify virtual-school opportunities throughout the Lone Star State, authorizing the creation of new, standalone, online high schools empowered to grant diplomas without being associated with traditional -
Maine Introduces Parent Empowerment Legislation
Opinion -Maine is the latest to join at least 15 state legislatures considering a bill to establish a Parent Trigger law, empowering parents of children at failing public schools to petition for reforms. State Rep. -
Major Problem with Texas Insurance Markets Is Overregulation
Opinion -The current insurance regulatory system in Texas, although defined as “file and use” under statute, is, for all intents and purposes, administered as a “prior approval” system. -
1,126 Connecticut Employees Earn More Than Governor
Opinion -Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy took office in January knowing he had to balance a budget deficit in excess of $3 billion.Malloy, the former Mayor of Stamford and a Democrat, makes $150,000 a year under a state law in effect since 2003. -
Voters May Decide Outcome of Ohio Collective Bargaining Battle
Opinion -After a rancorous legislative debate which included the largest public protests Ohio had experienced in years, labor unions and allied elected officials plan to go to the voters to try overturning the first major overhaul of the state’s nearly -
Congress to Mull Major Reforms to National Flood Insurance Program
Opinion -In the next few months, Congress will be considering several measures to reform, or even eliminate the debt-ridden National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The NFIP faces systemic problems that will require substantial reforms to correct. -
#269: A Letter to Paul Krugman
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The Much Loved, Little Used Mortgage Deduction
Opinion -One of the most treasured myths about prosperity in the United States may have finally been killed off: The myth that homeownership is a guaranteed route to wealth for the middle class. -
Book Provides Sound Prescription for Economic Growth
Opinion -Review of The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore The American Dream, by Gary Shapiro (Beaufort Books, 201 pages, $24.95)The title of this book is somewhat erroneous. -
California Board Delays ‘Parent Trigger’ Rules Again
Opinion -Permanent regulations governing California's landmark Parent Empowerment Act are still months away. -
Maryland Raises Alcohol Tax 50 Percent; Opponents Fear Job Losses
Opinion -Maryland lawmakers have voted to impose a 50 percent increase in the state’s tax on alcoholic beverages, leading health advocates to cheer and sellers and buyers of alcoholic drinks to boo.If signed by Gov. -
Colorado Parent Trigger Bill Fails in Senate Committee
Opinion -A Parent Trigger amendment to a “parental responsibility” bill was voted down in a Colorado state senate committee, signaling what the amendment’s sponsor said was the end of parent empowerment legislation in the Rocky Mountain State -
Nearly One in Four Mortgages Are ‘Under Water’
Opinion -Real estate news is unpleasant these days. The National Association of Realtors reported the volume of existing home sales fell 9.6 percent in February, following three months of seasonally adjusted volume increases. -
Research Crunches Public Sector Unionism Numbers
Opinion -Labor unionism’s decline in the United States is chronicled in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ annual report on union membership, but the report only scratches the surface.A far more detailed look is available on the “unionstats. -
U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Review Ruling on Obamacare Constitutionality
Opinion -The United States Supreme Court issued a one-sentence order Monday declining to review the ruling by a lower court in Virginia declaring unconstitutional the individual mandate provision in Obamacare. -
Latest Milwaukee Evaluation Affirms School Choice Works
Opinion -The latest report on Milwaukee’s Parental Choice Program finds a significantly higher percentage of students who participate in the program graduate from high school, compared with their peers in the city’s public schools. -
Carpe Diem Charter School Seizes Tomorrow’s Innovations Today
Opinion -Explaining the success of Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School requires more than simple answers, but the school’s innovations hold great promise for expanding educational excellence and opportunity. -
The Case Against the Case Against the Parent Trigger
Opinion -Empowering parents to turn around failing public schools terrifies teacher unions, administrators, and education bureaucrats—in short, everyone with a stake in preserving the disgraceful status quo and resisting innovative reforms. -
Florida Service Trades Use Licensing to Reduce Competition, Raise Prices
Opinion -Although the federal government still seems not to understand the concept of economic moral hazard, it seems a few state attorneys general do. -
Net Neutrality Violates Property Rights Principles
Opinion -Network neutrality, a euphemistically labeled and insidious concept, is perhaps the biggest current threat to the Internet, chiefly because it threatens property rights by supplying the wrong answer to the question, “Who owns the pipes?”The U. -
Some State Attorneys General See the Danger in More Moral Hazard
Opinion -Although the federal government still seems not to understand the concept of economic moral hazard, it seems a few state attorneys general do. -
MEDIA ADVISORY: Heartland Institute Experts React to Parent Trigger Bill Passing the Indiana Legislature
Opinion -The Indiana House today passed its version of the Parent Trigger, a reform idea that forces radical change in a public school if half the parents whose children attend the school sign a petition. The Indiana Senate passed the bill a few weeks ago. -
Washington, DC Group Says Adjusting Government Employee Pensions is Constitutional
Opinion -Illinois this year raised personal income taxes by a whopping 67 percent and the corporate income tax a nearly as whopping 46 percent to help pay for the state’s public employee pension obligations.
