Opinion
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FDA: Genetically Modified Salmon Are Safe for Consumption, Environment
Opinion -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined salmon genetically modified to grow to maturity faster than either wild or traditional farm-raised salmon are safe for human consumption and pose no threat to the environment. -
Study Shows No Increase in Eastern U.S. Floods
Opinion -Princeton University researchers Gabriele Villarini and James A. -
Texas Presents New Challenge to EPA Warming Regs
Opinion -The State of Texas has added new arguments to its lawsuit against the U.S. -
Ultra High-Speed Telecom Links Markets in New York, Chicago
Opinion -Spread Networks Inc., a privately owned telecommunications provider based in Mississippi, recently turned on its all new dark-fiber network. -
Secret BLM Meetings Cause Uproar in Wyoming
Opinion -Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D) is leading a bipartisan challenge against the secretive nature of bureaucratic planning regarding federal lands in the state. The U.S. -
Coburn Introduces Legislation to Stop Medicare and Medicaid Fraud
Opinion -Sen. Tom Coburn, a Republican from Oklahoma and a physician, has introduced new legislation targeting the multibillion-dollar challenge of Medicare and Medicaid fraud. -
Hawaii Raids Telecom Funds to Balance Budget
Opinion -Hawaii’s cell phone customers were unknowingly forced to help the state balance its budget last year, making the state one of 10 allegedly improperly using funds specifically designated for telephone-related services to pay off other expenses. -
The Road to Reform
Opinion -Chicago: E.D. Hirsch Jr. may be correct that national education standards will not automatically translate to a national curriculum ("School reform's next frontier: Translate new standards," Op-Ed, Sept. 27). -
Consumer Power Report #241
Opinion -Friday is October 1, the start of a new fiscal year for the government of these United States. But there is no budget. Last spring Congress decided budgets were old-fashioned and they couldn’t be bothered to even try to develop one. -
Heartland’s Steve Stanek Appears on WTTW Public Affairs Program
Opinion -Did you hear the one about the University of Chicago law professor who blogged about the president’s proposed tax hike, was viciously criticized for having done so, and has now said he won’t blog again? -
Retirement Perks
Opinion -The huge jumps in pay and pension benefits that have been going to municipal workers, school district employees and others who call themselves public servants have been happening for years. -
Advocacy Group Petitions FCC to Halt Animated TV Series
Opinion -A group opposed to corporate marketing aimed at children has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to prevent the Nicktoons cable network from airing a new animated series featuring characters created to promote the Skechers shoe brand. -
Bart Madden to Discuss Free To Choose Medicine on Extension 720 Talk Radio
Opinion -Heartland Policy Advisor Bart Madden will guest on WGN’s Extension 720, Thursday, September 30, at 10:00 p.m. CST. -
Miami Radio Pirate Socked With $20K Fine
Opinion -A woman broadcasting an unlicensed FM radio station in North Miami, Florida was fined $20,000 by the Federal Communications Commission after she was issued a second order to cease operations.Nounoune Lubin ran the 90. -
Media Advisory: NBC’s “Education Nation” Confuses More Federal Meddling for Real Reform
Opinion -NBC News this week is giving unprecedented televised attention to the crisis in the U.S. public education system. -
Chattanooga Finally Achieves Nation’s First 1G Municipal Wireless
Opinion -EPB Fiber Optics, the city of Chattanooga’s municipally owned fiber-to-the-premises broadband service, claims its newest iteration of free wireless service is the first in the nation to offer 1 gigabyte access speeds. -
‘Superman’ Versus ‘The Blob’: What Michelle Rhee’s Rise and Fall Can Teach Us
Opinion -Nobody is indispensable, and Superman lives only in comic books. The nation’s public education system won’t be reformed through more top-down mandates, vain attempts to nationalize the schools, or cheap sloganeering. -
Media Advisory: Waiting for ‘Superman’ Exposes Inconvenient Truth of Education Status Quo
Opinion -The highly touted education reform documentary Waiting for ‘Superman’ opens Friday at theaters in Los Angeles and New York, with a wider release scheduled for later in the fall. -
Film Exposes Inconvenient Truths About Education Status Quo
Opinion -Review of Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim. -
NYC Parks Move Forward With Municipal Wi-Fi Plans
Opinion -The Big Apple’s 32 parks will soon offer free wi-fi—but it will be free only for three 10-minute increments per month. After the initial 30 minutes, Internet users will have to pay $0.99 a day. -
Consumer Power Report #240
Opinion -Welcome to the Consumer Power Report! Six months ago this week, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. -
Electric Cars Threaten Energy Independence
Opinion -We’ve all heard the mantra: we must wean ourselves from foreign oil to save the nation not only from global warming but also from oil-revenue-fueled terrorism. -
FCC Scraps Free National Wireless Plan
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission recently pulled the plug on a proposed free coast-to-coast wireless service. -
Cramming Rising Problem for Wireless Customers
Opinion -Cramming—the practice of placing unauthorized, misleading, or deceptive charges on telephone bills—has been a problem with landlines for a while now, but now it has reached wireless phones.
