Opinion
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British Prime Minister Blair Turning Away from Kyoto
Opinion -In an editorial published in a leading British newspaper and in comments at a meeting of environmental ministers from the world's leading economies, British Prime Minister Tony Blair distanced himself from the Kyoto Protocol and supported the -
California Voters Reject Education Reforms
Opinion -In a California special election on November 8, a slate of four education reform initiatives--all of which would have affected the future of the state's beleaguered K-12 schools--were rejected by voters. -
Commentary: Lawmakers Call for Medicare Drug Entitlement Delay
Opinion -Delay the Medicare drug benefit: That's what Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Rep. Jeff Flake (R- AZ), Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN), and several other members of the U.S. House and Senate urged their colleagues and taxpayers to do before the end of 2005. -
Congress Moves to Protect Property Owners
Opinion -The U.S. House of Representatives on November 3 overwhelmingly voted to use the power of the purse to dissuade state and local governments from using eminent domain power to take private property for the purpose of economic development. -
Federal Appeals Court Rejects Global Warming Suit
Opinion -A federal appellate court has rejected a request by environmental activist groups and several northeastern states to revisit a court decision holding the U.S. -
Future of Coal Is Green, Say Montana and West Virginia
Opinion -Championing clean coal technology as America's power source of choice for the twenty-first century, U.S. Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) is lobbying American Electric Power (AEP) to locate a proposed state-of-the-art clean coal power plant in West Virginia. -
Governments Address Kelo Backlash
Opinion -State and local governments are responding to a groundswell of citizen outrage over the U.S. Supreme Court's June 23, 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London. -
HSAs Can Help the Uninsured, Study Says
Opinion -The first academic research on Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) has just been published in the November/December issue of Health Affairs, a publication respected by many within the health policy establishment who often have been naysayers regarding the -
In the News
Opinion -Muscatine, Iowa Muni Broadband Forecasts $1.7M Shortfall in 2006 In December, Muscatine (Iowa) Power & Water (MP&W) forecast a net loss of $1. -
Job Cuts in Pharma Industry Up 150 Percent
Opinion -In November, pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck & Co. announced it would cut 7,000 jobs by 2008 and would close or sell five of its 31 manufacturing facilities. -
Judge Upholds Yellowstone Snowmobile Compromise
Opinion -Snowmobiles are returning to the Yellowstone and Grant Teton national parks this winter following an October 14 decision by Judge Clarence Brimmer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming. -
K-12 Education Reforms Not Working, Manufacturers Say
Opinion -Despite educational reforms implemented over the past eight years, students graduating from public schools are still largely unprepared for the workforce, according to the latest annual employer survey published in November 2005 by the National -
Las Vegas Views Desalination as Potential Water Source
Opinion -Seemingly endless disputes among Southwestern states regarding the allocation of Colorado River water may be less intense in the future if some government officials in Las Vegas and southern Nevada have their way. -
Lawmakers Repeal Own Pay Raises
Opinion -Pennsylvania voters threw a state supreme court justice out of office and nearly dismissed another in November, the result of outrage over what one state legislator called "backroom deals" to boost pay for the executive, legislative, and judicial -
Nantucket Sound Wind Farm Plan Divides Activists
Opinion -A wind-powered water fight continues to intensify among rich and famous Northeasterners. -
Online Tool Aims to Improve Children’s Health
Opinion -When insurance companies look at America's children, they see the future and tremble. But a new technology, being used successfully in several U.S. -
Rationing Looms for Milwaukee Choice Program
Opinion -The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP)--the nation's oldest and largest school voucher program--faces an uncertain future after reaching a statutory enrollment cap of 14,751 students in September 2005. -
Report Finds Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in Federal E-Rate Program
Opinion -On October 18, 2005, the U.S. -
School Choice Has a Friend on Capitol Hill
Opinion -Following the results of the 2004 presidential election in the United States, United Press International reported many houses in Malerkotla, a township in the Punjab state of India, were illuminated and residents were distributing sweets and dancing to -
Shifting Blame in the Katrina Tragedy
Opinion -As the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina continued to shock and sadden the nation, the question on many lips was, "Who is to blame for the inadequate response?" That question remains to be fully answered. -
Study: How to Cover Everyone in Six Easy Steps
Opinion -David Kendall of the Progressive Policy Institute has issued a new study, "Fixing America's Health Care System: A Progressive Plan to Cover Everyone and Restrain Costs. -
Tax Protestor Could Spend Rest of Life in Prison
Opinion -The most notorious tax protestor of the past 25 years awaits word on his future, which is in the hands of a federal judge in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more than two decades Irwin A. -
Warming Likely to Have Modest Effect on Sea Level, If Any
Opinion -One of the great fears generated by global warming is that the oceans are about to rise and swallow our coasts. These concerns have been heightened by the substantial uptick in Atlantic hurricane activity that began in 1995. -
Governor Romney Bails Out
Opinion -Dear Editor, Governor Mitt Romney's decision to bail out of the multi-state agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (December 28, "Governor Romney Bails Out") prevented his state's tax monies from being flushed into a global climate abyss.
