Opinion
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CO Taxpayers See “Beautiful Sunset” as Referendum C Expires
Opinion -Several Colorado-based and national taxpayer groups joined together on July 13 to mark the end of Referendum C and the full restoration of Colorado’s landmark limited-government law, the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR). -
Milwaukee Teachers Union Holding Out for Federal Cash
Opinion -The Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association dismisses as “simply false” reports that Milwaukee taxpayers could save $47 million a year by renegotiating the teachers’ health insurance plan. -
Minnesota Off-Road Recreation Spending Under Attack
Opinion -Minnesota motorists may be unaware that every time they pay to fill their vehicle’s gas tank they are helping fund programs benefiting owners of motorized recreational vehicles such as boats, ATVs, and dirt bikes. -
Congress Considers New Taxes on Private Equity Industry
Opinion -The U.S. private equity industry has seen its total funds raised drop from $139 billion in 2000 to $45.1 billion in the first half of this year (compared with $61. -
Smart Phones in the Classroom Help At-Risk Students
Opinion -Most school districts have a cut-and-dried approach to students with cell phones in school: They ban them. But a pilot program in North Carolina is taking the opposite approach. -
Bank Repos Could Top One Million, Putting More Pressure on Home Prices
Opinion -The number of bank repossessions of homes this year could top one million despite tens of billions of federal dollars that have been spent to keep people from losing their homes. That's the report from RealtyTrac Inc. -
Round Two of Rule Changes Would Hurt Business Loans
Opinion -The bankers on Main Street that I am talking with about financing our new projects seem paralyzed with uncertainty and more than some fear. -
Heartland Institute Hails Withdrawal of Wind Insurance Bill
Opinion -The leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives pulled H.R. -
Heartland Exposes Radical Agenda of CMS Head Donald Berwick
Opinion -The American public has learned a good deal this month about the radical views of Dr. Donald Berwick, the new head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, thanks to the efforts of The Heartland Institute. -
Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Death of Cap-and-Tax Bill in Senate
Opinion -Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) conceded Thursday that the comprehensive Kerry-Lieberman cap-and-tax “climate change” bill is dead — at least for now. “We know where we are,” Reid said. -
Supporters See Benefits, Critics See Risks in Financial Reform
Opinion -The largest overhaul of the nation's financial system since the Great Depression became law on July 21 when President Barack Obama signed the 390,000-word Dodd-Frank financial regulatory bill. -
“Regulators Should Not be Management Consultants”
Opinion -Following The Heartland Institute’s release of Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) emails, the state’s insurance commissioner, Kevin McCarty, wrote to Heartland defending his agency’s actions in the weeks leading up to the -
Broadband and Schools: A Free Market Solution
Opinion -In their July 16 Washington Forum commentary, “Missed connections with broadband,” Blair Levin and J. Erik Garr suggested that American business tends to be slow to embrace new technologies. -
Heartland Institute Analyst Says Adding Wind to NFIP a “Terrible, Terrible Idea”
Opinion -On Thursday, July 22, the U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote on a measure by Rep. Gene Taylor (D-MS) to add wind coverage to the National Flood Insurance Program. -
Consumer Power Report #231
Opinion -I really hate it that I have to write about Obamacare every week. Unfortunately, the law is so sweeping and so onerous that it has taken all of the air out of the room and left little time to discuss anything else. -
Supreme Court’s Skilling Decision Limits Politically Inspired Prosecutions
Opinion -A favorite political sport in recent years has been to use the judicial system to demonize business people for fun and profit at the polls. The treatment of former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling is one example.But in late June the U.S. -
Interview: Time for No-Fault Auto Insurance Reforms
Opinion -In the mid-1960s, Professors Robert Keeton and Jeffrey O’Connell published Basic Protection for the Traffic Victim, a book that launched no-fault auto insurance into the public consciousness and formed the basis of the no-fault auto insurance laws -
Report: Political Pork Causes Corporate Downsizing
Opinion -The tens of billions of dollars of political pork that congressional lawmakers serve to folks back home kill private-sector jobs, according to three Harvard University researchers who asked, “Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing? -
San Francisco Politician Proposes New Tax on Commercial Rents
Opinion -A leading San Francisco politician is proposing to hike taxes on nearly every business in the City by the Bay. -
Hawaiians Can ‘Follow the Money’ on New Web Site
Opinion -The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii has launched 4HawaiiansOnly—a Web site and project that examines grants made for the benefit of Native Hawaiians.An examination of the database of grants at www.4hawaiiansonly. -
Credit Scoring Ban Struck Down in Michigan
Opinion -The Michigan Supreme Court has struck down regulations against using credit scoring in underwriting insurance policies.The issue came to a head in Michigan last year, after Gov. -
New ‘Catastrophe Lab’ Will Provide Disaster Mitigation Info
Opinion -A first-of-its-kind “catastrophe lab” that will allow researchers to subject buildings and building materials to lifelike Category 1, 2, or 3 hurricane conditions, as well as simulated firestorms, hailstorms, and other natural or manmade -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #9-15
Opinion -A Long Island woman’s 31-year-old mentally ill son decapitated a neighbor, chopped her body up into pieces, and carried her head around in his car. -
Louisiana School Reforms Turn Disaster into Opportunity
Opinion -Excessive red tape strangles innovation, undermines reform, and even endangers public health. It’s what prevented Louisiana officials from quickly dredging sand berms along the Gulf Coast in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster.
