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Indiana Senate To Vote on Voucher, Parent Trigger Bills
Opinion -Indiana’s state Senate is poised to vote on a host of ambitious school reforms, including a voucher bill aimed at providing children from families earning up to $60,000 a year with $4,500 a year to attend the school of their choice statewide. Gov. -
Heartland Scholar Condemns Poker Raids: ‘This Makes No Sense’
Opinion -WASHINGTON, DC – Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Eli Lehrer today condemned the April 15 raids carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation against three major online poker sites and the indictments against 11 individuals involved with -
Pension Games
Opinion -I hope every state lawmaker, local government official and government worker in Illinois read the excellent explanation of what has gone so wrong with Illinois' government pensions ("A perfect pension storm," Commentary, April 5), by Jeffrey Korzenik, a -
Supreme Court Affirms Arizona Tax Credit Scholarship Program
Opinion -In a ruling hailed by school choice supporters across the country, the United States Supreme Court has ruled opponents of Arizona’s 14-year-old tax credit scholarship program may not challenge the program on grounds it violates the Establishment -
#268: Bureaucracy! The Cause Of and Solution To All Our Problems
Opinion -In response to House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s proposed Path to Prosperity, President Barack Obama delivered a hastily constructed address to the country last week stressing that he, too, has an approach to deficit-cutting. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #10-8
Opinion -You can’t buy Raging Bitch beer in Michigan, where it’s been banned, leading to a federal lawsuit by its brewery alleging First Amendment violations.The Michigan Liquor Control Commission banned the brand, saying it was offended by the name. -
Protection from Oil Price Surges and Inflation
Opinion -On March 30, President Obama repeated the familiar energy policy refrain of increasing the nation’s independence from foreign oil in order to control energy prices. -
Snyder’s Budget for Michigan Adds Up to Real Reform
Opinion -With Wisconsin’s labor and budget storms raging in the background, the governor of neighboring Michigan is charting a comparatively calm route toward more modest budget and tax reform.Newly installed Gov. -
FCC Issues CA Man $7,000 Forfeiture Order
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission fined a Merced, California man $7,000 after he refused to let FCC investigators inspect his citizens band (CB) radio station. -
Show Bookers: Heartland Institute Experts Can Speak About Obama’s Budget Speech
Opinion -President Barack Obama today will unveil his latest budget blueprint in a speech at George Washington University. -
Rural Wireless Providers Lobby for New FCC Roaming Rules
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission passed new rules that mandate mobile broadband companies provide rural carriers “commercially reasonable” smart phone data-roaming agreements in the same fashion the FCC currently enforces voice-roaming agreements. -
Boehner Wins Reauthorization of DC Vouchers
Opinion -In a significant—and unexpected—victory for low-income families in the nation’s capital, the long-term continuing federal budget resolution Republican leaders brokered with President Obama included language to reauthorize and expand the -
Parent ‘Trigger’ to be Used as Last Resort
Opinion -Too often, so-called “demonstration projects” are where innovations in public education go to die. That might not be the intent of Columbus school Superintendent Gene Harris in suggesting Gov. -
Ryan’s Choice
Opinion -The most courageous aspect of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's Path to Prosperity proposal is not its policy details. It is that the proposal was made at all.In advancing a policy package that would put the U.S. -
Washington Lawmakers Mull Extension of ‘Temporary’ Stadium Taxes
Opinion -Washington State lawmakers are about to prove the adage that there is no such thing as a temporary tax. They are on the verge of reauthorizing several taxes scheduled to expire next year.Rep. -
Supreme Court Rules Against Personal Privacy Protection in AT&T Case
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T Inc. that corporations do not have “personal privacy” protection to prevent the disclosure of documents under the Freedom of Information Act. -
Media Advisory: Heartland Institute Experts to Speak About Parent Trigger at Charter School Conference in Chicago
Opinion -School reform experts from The Heartland Institute will be taking part in a panel discussion Tuesday, April 12, at the INCS Statewide Charter School Conference at the Hyatt Hotel McCormick Place in Chicago. The 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. -
Indiana Jones: Save the Earth by Flying for a Cheeseburger
Opinion -Flying several hundred miles to buy a cheeseburger is apparently one of the preferred ways to save the Earth, according to Hollywood actor and environmental activist Harrison Ford and Charity Buzz’s Save the Earth Promotion. -
Fed’s Help for Foreign Banks Angers Critics
Opinion -During the height of the financial crisis in 2008, the U.S. Federal Reserve apparently became the bailout broker to the world.“We now know that the Fed's bailout had nothing to do with helping the American people,” said Rep. -
Congress Rejects EPA’s Global Warming Claims
Opinion -Completing a transformation from speculative alarmism to scientific realism, the U.S. House of Representatives on April 6 rejected an amendment saying Congress accepts the U.S. -
Christie Considers Pulling New Jersey Out of RGGI
Opinion -In another sign of growing unease over the economic costs of carbon-dioxide cap-and-trade schemes, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is considering withdrawing his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). -
An Enlightening Book on Einstein and the Quantum Theory Debate
Opinion -Review of Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality, by Manjit Kumar (W. W. Norton & Co. -
#267: Romney’s Iron Stethoscope
Opinion -Five years after Mitt Romney passed his universal health care law in Massachusetts, the former governor is still spinning its results. -
Penn State Study Documents Economic Benefits of Shale Production
Opinion -Marcellus Shale natural gas production in Pennsylvania is boosting employment, improving personal income, and providing much-needed state revenue, according to a newly released study by Pennsylvania State University.
