Opinion
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Study: Montana’s Renewable Power Mandate Is Costly, Ineffective
Opinion -As the Montana legislature considers repealing the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), a new study by the American Tradition Institute and the Montana Policy Institute concludes the state's alternative energy mandates will be costly to citizens. -
EPA, Alabama Reach Stormwater Agreement
Opinion -After months of wrangling between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, EPA has approved ADEM’s proposed rules for managing stormwater. -
Green Lake School Teaches Only One Side of Issue
Opinion -The Green Lake Global & Environmental Academy (GLGEA) is the environmental charter school for seventh and eighth graders within the Green Lake Public School District in Green Lake, Wisconsin. -
House Lawmakers Oppose Premature Fracking Rules
Opinion -Fearing the Obama administration is planning to restrict natural gas production through hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, a bipartisan group of 32 House lawmakers from natural-gas-producing states is calling on Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to -
Minnesota Senate Votes to Repeal Nuclear Power Moratorium
Opinion -The Minnesota Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill to end a moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants. The bill passed on February 2 in bipartisan fashion by a vote of 50-14. -
Study: Renewable Electricity Mandates Raise Prices, Kill Jobs
Opinion -Renewable electricity mandates are causing electricity prices to increase and killing jobs in the states that have enacted them, reports a new study from the Institute for Energy Research. -
Should Government Help More Go to College?
Opinion -President Obama in the State of the Union restated his long-held position that the federal government should do more to provide a college education to more Americans. "This is our generation's 'Sputnik Moment,'" Obama said. -
Tests Evaluate How Teachers Make a Difference
Opinion -No doubt, as 46-year teaching veteran Al Leister argued in his opinion piece, there are unmotivated students who practically defy teachers to teach them anything of substance ("Don't evaluate teachers using students' test scores," Jan. 31). -
Green Fatigue Presents an Opening for Sound Science
Opinion -The term “green” has been overused and misrepresented for so long that a considerable percentage of the public is feeling overexposed to it, tired of it, and skeptical of it. -
Media Release: Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Compton ‘Parent Trigger’ Lawsuit
Opinion -Parents at McKinley Elementary School on Thursday sued Compton Unified School District officials in Los Angeles County Superior Court for trying to block a petition that would convert that failing school into an independent charter. -
School Choice is Remedy for Destitute States
Opinion -Empowering parents to choose the best school for their children - whether public or pri- vate, regardless of ZIP code - isn’t just the right thing to do. -
NH Bill Would Exclude Cable from Utility Protections
Opinion -A 2009 New Hampshire Supreme Court decision preventing landlords from shutting off cable services they offer free to tenants has evoked new legislation from State Rep. Carol McGuire (R-Epsom). -
U.S. Natural Gas Reserves Promise Affordable Energy Future, Says DOE Official
Opinion -A combination of new natural gas discoveries and rapid technological advances to recover the gas has spectacularly improved the U.S. domestic energy outlook, said Mitchell Baer, director of oil and gas analysis for the U.S. -
Detroit Schools Spend $49 Million Fed Stimulus on Computers
Opinion -The Detroit Public Schools system is spending $49 million of a total $530 million in federal funding on school laptops and computers. -
#257: To Establish an Exchange, or Not To?
Opinion -One of the key questions nearly every governor will be facing in their current legislative sessions is whether to set up a health insurance exchange, as they are required to do under President Barack Obama’s health care law. -
EPA’s McCarthy Strikes Defiant Tone About Global Warming Regulations
Opinion -As Congress considers legislation to curtail the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, EPA Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy struck a tone of defiance rather than conciliation at the 14th Annual Energy, Utility, -
Obama’s Move to Create Individual Internet IDs Causes Big Concerns
Opinion -The Obama administration is moving to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority to implement a new cybersecurity effort which would include creation of an Internet ID for each U.S. citizen. -
Media Release: Heartland Institute Experts React to Florida Court Ruling Obamacare Unconstitutional
Opinion -U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled Monday from Florida that the Obama administration’s health care overhaul is unconstitutional, siding with 26 states that sued to block it. -
Writer owes Schmitt, readers apology
Opinion -Mark Boslough's Jan. 24 My View, "Climate-change deniers ignore science," reached a new depth of vitriol and dishonesty in the debate over climate change. -
Woes of Protecting Businesses ‘Too Big to Fail’
Opinion -In two articles just three days apart, The Wall Street Journal unintentionally showed the world much of what is so wrong about the federal government protecting some businesses because they are "too big to fail."On Dec. -
School Choice Could Help States Deal with their Cash Shortages
Opinion -Empowering parents to choose the best school for their children — whether public or private, regardless of ZIP Code — isn't just the right thing to do. -
Residual Markets Changing on the Coasts, A Tale of Two States
Opinion -Windstorm insurance is a never-ending problem for states along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. In many coastal states, lawmakers have set up state-run windstorm insurers (or “wind pools”) to act as insurers of last resort. -
Heartland Statement on Amazon Tax Decision in Colorado
Opinion -U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn this week issued a preliminary injunction that keeps Colorado from enforcing a 2010 law imposing tax reporting requirements on out-of-state retailers like Overstock and Amazon. -
‘Life Cycle’ Budgeting Could Lower Total Infrastructure Costs
Opinion -With government cost overruns becoming the norm—and notorious—scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is proposing a solution.
