Opinion
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Ethanol Producers Launch Civil War
Opinion -Producers of domestic corn ethanol and makers of imported sugarcane ethanol have launched advertising campaigns against each other, seeking congressional action to promote their own interests at each other’s expense. -
Alaska Challenges Obama’s Polar Bear Habitat Designation
Opinion -Alaska state officials are objecting to the Obama administration’s decision to list more than 187,000 square miles—almost the entire U.S. polar bear population’s range—as critical habitat. -
Cap-and-Trade Is a Bait-and-Switch
Opinion -With opinion polls showing the U.S. -
Interview: Scientist Explains Geologists’ Vote Against Climate Alarmism
Opinion -Member scientists of the American Institute of Professional Geologists’ Ohio Section (AIPG-OH) have voted by an overwhelming majority to state scientific evidence does not support the theory that humans are causing a global warming crisis. -
New Mexico Board to Consider Carbon Dioxide Restrictions
Opinion -The New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board will consider expert testimony and public comments on proposed carbon dioxide restrictions after the New Mexico Supreme Court vacated a lower court ruling that the Board did not have authority to regulate -
Wind Turbines Killing Thousands of Birds in Northwest
Opinion -Wind power turbines are killing thousands of birds and bats in Washington and Oregon each year, a series of recent surveys has found. -
Wisconsin Legislature Rejects Global Warming Bill
Opinion -The Wisconsin legislature declined to take action on a controversial global warming bill, allowing its 2010 session to end without implementing energy restrictions recommended by a global warming task force handpicked by Gov. Jim Doyle. -
Flood Insurance Reform Needs Less Government
Opinion -U.S. Rep. Candice Miller's criticism of the National Flood Insurance Program's many flaws is timely and justified ("Reform flood insurance or pull out of it," July 7), and the Times Herald's proposed solutions make a lot of sense. -
Don’t Cut Our Access to Credit
Opinion -Paul Peter Jesep's July 4 Perspective article, "Shame on the credit lenders," ignores the reality of America's financial system in favor of an emotional call to arms against banks.On balance, banks do a lot more good than harm. -
Coalition Calls for FCC to Police Political Speech as Hate Speech
Opinion -A coalition including more than 30 groups has asked the Federal Communications Commission to police what they perceive as hate speech in the broadcast media. -
Media Advisory: Heartland Institute Expert on the ‘Cover Up’ of Climategate
Opinion -The University of East Anglia Wednesday released the results of its internal investigation into the scandal known as “Climategate” – the leaking of emails from the university’s climate change research center showing how scientists -
Decline of Newspapers Is Sign of Market Success
Opinion -The decline of U.S. newspapers is real. Since 1970 the number of dailies in the United States has fallen by 20 percent and circulation per capita has been cut in half. -
FCC Launches Broadband Initiative for Indian Tribes
Opinion -In response to complaints from Native American tribes that a lack of high-speed Internet services disadvantages tribe members living in remote areas, the Federal Communications Commission has launched a new telecommunications initiative for the groups in -
FCC Wavelength Reassignment Presents Huge Financial Challenges
Opinion -When the Federal Communications Commission’s decided to reassign the 700 MHz wavelength, it inflicted untold costs on churches, clubs, and entertainment venues that previously employed wireless microphones. At the same time, the FCC generated $19. -
Comcast-NBC/Universal Merger Would Increase Market Competition
Opinion -The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet conducted a field hearing July 8, asking “Who Benefits?” from the proposed Comcast-NBC Universal merger. -
On the Recess Appointment of Donald Berwick
Opinion -By Benjamin DomenechThe White House’s announcement that President Barack Obama will bypass the nomination process of the United States Senate to recess appoint Donald Berwick as head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is an act -
For Cash-Strapped Social Service Agencies, an Entrepreneur Comes Forward
Opinion -A Chicago social service agency director desperate to keep his operation going asked Tom Begley for a $75,000 loan. Before Begley could finish due diligence, the agency closed, a victim of the biggest deadbeat in Illinois: the state government. -
New Jersey Township Residents Resist Building of Cell Tower
Opinion -For the second time in three years, wireless phone company T-Mobile is seeking permission to construct a network tower in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. -
Apple Cancels iPad Censorship of Graphic Novel
Opinion -Each year, fans of the Irish writer James Joyce celebrate June 16 as “Bloomsday,” named after the character Stephen Bloom in Joyce’s most celebrated novel, Ulysses. -
Keep Credit Scoring
Opinion -Michigan legislators who want to limit the use of credit scores in setting insurance rates do not have the facts on their side (“Bill aims to limit use of credit scores,” June 19). -
Starbucks Offers Free Wi-Fi to All Customers
Opinion -In what is being heralded as a savvy business move by opponents of government-provided Internet services, Seattle-based coffee franchise giant Starbucks has begun offering free wi-fi for its customers. -
Does the U.S. State Department Listen to Skeptical Scientists?
Opinion -On June 1, following a public comment period of roughly one month, the U.S. State Department released its Fifth Climate Action Report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.As Heartland Senior Fellow James M. -
Study: Government Online Privacy Regulation Costs Consumers
Opinion -Government efforts to protect internet users’ personal data from advertisers significantly reduce the effectiveness of online advertising, according to a study by professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Toronto. -
Libraries and Internet Filtering Battle Still Brewing in Washington State
Opinion -Libraries in the Evergreen State may use Internet filters to prohibit access to pornographic Web sites, the Washington Supreme Court has ruled.
