Opinion
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NC Legislature Votes Down Charter School Cap Increase
Opinion -School choice supporters in North Carolina will have to wait at least another year to see their top priorities voted on by the General Assembly after legislators begged off raising the state’s charter school cap and passing an education tax credit during -
Minnesota Rejects Common Core Math Standards
Opinion -Despite nearly two-thirds of U.S. states choosing to sign on to the Common Core State Standards Initiative, Minnesota has decided to opt out of the math portion of the national curriculum frameworks. -
California Ed. Board Approves ‘Parent Trigger’ Rules
Opinion -Californians now have “rules of the road” to help navigate a landmark law empowering parents to force districts to turn around failing schools by firing staff, adding more district oversight, converting to a charter school, or closing the school. -
Bleak Jobs Report Indicates More Pain to Come
Opinion -Commentators across the political spectrum had similar reactions to dismal jobs numbers released by the government in August but markedly different prescriptions for solving the problem. -
Austin, Texas Hands Formula One Racing $250 Million in Taxpayer Money
Opinion -Formula One racing promoter and Austin, Texas resident Tavo Hellmund has announced the international Grand Prix race will be coming to the Texas state capitol in 2012 on a track to be built on approximately 900 acres in southeast Travis County, a few -
Money Market Industry Opposes Mandate for Floating Share Value
Opinion -Part of the lure of a money market fund has always been the stable $1 share price.Put in a buck and you get it back, usually while earning some interest in between. -
Billionaire’s Basketball Team Gets More Money from Indianapolis Taxpayers
Opinion -Indianapolis taxpayers are being forced to bail out the city’s National Basketball Association team, whose billionaire owner is one of the nation’s wealthiest individuals. -
Perry Stands Up for State Oversight of Natural Gas Production
Opinion -Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) has gone on the offensive against potential federal government plans to regulate natural gas production through hydraulic fracturing techniques. -
Build America Bonds Cut Into Muni Bonds, Raise Debt Concerns
Opinion -A new type of taxable bond is raising concerns the federal government is encouraging state and local governments to take on debt they could have trouble repaying.Build America Bonds are intended to help stimulate the economy. -
Obama Vows to Kill Alternative Minimum Tax Relief
Opinion -For years I’ve been railing about the “stealth tax” known as the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). -
More Teachers Caught Cheating on Student Assessments
Opinion -Yet another test-tampering scandal has erupted, this time involving teachers at Normandy Crossing Elementary School in suburban Houston, Texas. When test results came back, many were amazed at astonishing improvement in state science test scores. -
Cost Estimate of Global Warming Bill Involves Unrealistic Assumptions
Opinion -Proponents of nationwide carbon dioxide restrictions are claiming a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows restricting CO2 emissions will have few negative effects on the U.S. economy. -
Readers Write: Ignoring Fannie and Freddie Rewards Incompetence
Opinion -Can we agree that incompetence and corruption should not be rewarded?If so, shouldn't we then ask why the 190,000-word financial regulatory overhaul bill President Barack Obama recently signed says nothing about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? -
Wuebbles Brings More Bias to IPCC Panel
Opinion -The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has announced the coordinating lead authors, lead authors, and review editors for its Fifth Assessment Report, scheduled for release in 2013. -
Reid Tables Cap-and-Tax Legislation
Opinion -Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has announced he is indefinitely tabling legislation to restrict carbon dioxide emissions throughout the nation. -
Schwarzenegger: Renewable Power Mandates Should Trump Species Concerns
Opinion -Speaking to the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners meeting in Sacramento, California, Gov. -
Consumer Power Report #233
Opinion -I’ve been re-reading George Orwell’s 1984, for the first time since I was a teenager. A lot of the ideas in it are familiar – “Big Brother is watching! -
Peer-Reviewed Studies Refute Alarmist Drought Claims
Opinion -The headline of a recent USA Today article trumpeted the claim, “Global warming raises water shortage risks in one-third of U.S. counties. -
Latest IPCC Scandal: Exaggerated Sea Level Claims
Opinion -A Dutch environmental agency has confirmed the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported overly alarmist sea level claims regarding the Netherlands in IPCC’s most recent report. -
Can All States Be ‘Particularly Vulnerable’ to Global Warming?
Opinion -One of the most frequent tricks used by global warming alarmists to induce a state legislature to pass costly carbon dioxide restrictions is to claim the particular state is “particularly vulnerable” to global warming for various reasons, -
Florida Denied More Water from Georgia’s Lake Lanier
Opinion -The state of Florida’s concerns about Gulf sturgeon and two mussel species do not entitle the state to a greater share of water from a north Georgia dam, a federal judge has ruled. -
Gulf Ecology Recovering from Spill while Feds Compound Economic Woes
Opinion -Working in a variety of ways, Mother Nature appears to be taking the lead in restoring the ecological health of the Gulf of Mexico in the aftermath of what President Obama has called “the worst environmental disaster in American history. -
Nuclear Power Can Complete Transition to Clean Energy
Opinion -This month’s column on nuclear energy by Heartland Institute Science Director Dr. -
Minnesota Resists Common Core State Standards
Opinion -Rep. Carlos Mariani, DFL-St. Paul, is right about the risks inherent in adopting the Common Core State Standards Initiative curriculum frameworks (“Going solo,” St. Paul Pioneer-Press, Aug. 2).
