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  • Eliminate UIRVDA

    Published January 9, 2011
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    Want to start bringing Illinois back into some semblance of respect? Start by abolishing ludicrous little political fiefdoms.

  • Tangled Mortgage Web Prompts Massachusetts Court to Thwart Foreclosures

    Published January 7, 2011
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    Friday’s ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court invalidating two single mortgage foreclosures offers a glimpse into the internal chaos infecting the entire mortgage-backed securities industry, which led to the 2008 TARP bailout by U.S.

  • Experts Comment on Proposed Massive Illinois Tax Hikes

    Published January 7, 2011
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    Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) and the Democratic leadership in the legislature Friday put forth a tax hike plan to help fill in the state's $15 billion budget deficit.

  • School Gains Seen With ‘Parent Trigger’ Options

    Published January 7, 2011
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    “Education faces ups, downs in 2010” (news feature, Dec. 26) identified many of the troubles that have befallen Oklahoma schools in the past year. But there is hope for the Sooner State.

  • FCC Chairman in ‘Breaking Bad’

    Published January 7, 2011
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    Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski is guilty of so many bureaucratic misdeeds over the past year, it's hard to determine precisely when he had his "breaking bad" moment.

  • Media Advisory: Heartland Legal Expert Comments on Massachusetts Supreme Court Ruling on Foreclosures

    Published January 7, 2011
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    The Massachusetts Supreme Court today ruled against banks seeking a declaration that their foreclosures against two homeowners were valid even though the banks did not own the mortgages at the time of the foreclosures.

  • N.J. Has Right Education Idea

    Published January 6, 2011
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    New York parents have a tough pill to swallow in Scott Waldman's piece about college readiness ("Data on college readiness not encouraging," Dec 30).

  • FCC Opposition to Vertical Integration Criticized

    Published January 5, 2011
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    Recent actions by the Federal Communications Commission display a fundamental misunderstanding of the benefits of vertical integration in the telecommunications industry, according to market analysts observing the FCC’s handling of the proposed

  • National Teacher Certification: A Waste of Time

    Published January 4, 2011
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    Strangely, after admitting that the paper credential of national teacher certification does not necessarily correlate with superior teaching performance, you go on to argue the intrinsic worth of local teachers having endured the “challenging,

  • Electric Cars Still Show Little Promise

    Published January 3, 2011
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    A new paper examining the viability of electric cars concludes, "Without subsidies and political pressure, it is doubtful that there would be much demand, except by the wealthy early adopters who want to make an environmental statement.

  • NYC Chancellor’s Outsider Status Is an Advantage

    Published January 3, 2011
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    “Experience,” Oscar Wilde observed, “is simply the name we give our mistakes.” I was reminded of Wilde’s maxim while watching the recent Cathleen Black drama play out in New York City.

  • Russia’s Gazprom Plans Oil Drilling Near Florida

    Published January 3, 2011
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    The competition for dominance in the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico heated up in mid-December with Russian energy giant Gazprom announcing plans to drill off the coast of Cuba near Florida.

  • Congress Extends Subsidies, Special Favors for Ethanol

    Published January 3, 2011
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    Congress has voted to extend taxpayer subsidies for domestically produced ethanol and extend tariffs on imported ethanol, in a move analysts say will drive up food costs and harm the U.S. economy.

  • New Competitor Benefits from NYC Retrans Battle

    Published January 3, 2011
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    The retransmission battle between Fox TV and New York-area multichannel video programming deliverer (MVPD) Cablevision has provided a boon for new startup ivi TV.

  • San Jose, Los Angeles County Ban Plastic Shopping Bags

    Published January 3, 2011
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    In the wake of the State of California enacting a plastic shopping bag recycling program while rejecting an outright ban on plastic shopping bags, Los Angeles County and the City of San Jose have imposed their own bans on the convenient and lightweight

  • Secondhand Smoke, Lung Cancer, and the Global Warming Debate

    Published January 3, 2011
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    In 1993 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published a report claiming secondhand smoke (SHS—also sometimes known as environmental tobacco smoke or ETS) causes 3,000 deaths from lung cancer every year in the United States.

  • Marine Life Rebounds in Wake of Gulf Oil Spill

    Published January 3, 2011
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    When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up last April, killing 11 workers and spewing untold millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, dire predictions about the accident’s effect on marine life abounded.

  • Cap-and-Trade Disaster Averted, but More Mandates Loom

    Published January 3, 2011
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    Although Congress has rejected proposed legislation to impose cap-and-trade restrictions on the U.S. economy, mandates are still being pressed. The U.S.

  • Global Warming in 2010: The Heat Came from Politics, Not Mother Nature

    Published January 3, 2011
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    It’s time to review the year’s happenings in the hurly-burly world of global warming. But before we go further, readers should know that global warming has morphed again.

  • Cancun Climate Talks Fizzle, But U.S. Agrees to Expensive New Program

    Published January 3, 2011
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    With China, India, and other developing nations refusing to accept binding restrictions on their carbon dioxide emissions, international climate talks in Cancun, Mexico ended without any significant agreement.

  • Exelon Assailed for Dismantling Nuclear Power Plant

    Published January 3, 2011
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    In the face of widespread agreement on the need for more energy production, Exelon Corp.—one of the nation’s largest electric utilities—is paying $1 billion to dismantle its 2100 megawatt Zion nuclear power plant in northern Illinois.

  • Colorado Mulls Mining in State Parks

    Published January 3, 2011
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    Dwindling funding and deep budget cuts have led Colorado’s Parks Board to consider opening its doors to oil and gas drilling in state parks.

  • Massachusetts Enacts, California Rejects, BPA Ban

    Published January 3, 2011
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    The Massachusetts Public Health Council has approved a ban of bisphenol-A, a chemical that gives strength and flexibility to plastic products, from being used in baby bottles and sipping cups.

  • Children’s Book Counters Environmental Propaganda

    Published January 3, 2011
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    Review of The Energy Primer for Kids: With a Primer for Grown-ups, by Vladislav Bevc (Eloquent Books, 2010), 58 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1609115982Children these days are bombarded by nonstop propaganda claiming Western nations and market economies are

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