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A review of Green Spirit: Trees Are the Answer
Opinion -Green Spirit: Trees Are the Answer by Patrick Moore $20.00 paper, 151 pages; Greenspirit Enterprises Ltd., September 2000 ISBN 0968640400 I share a heritage with Patrick Moore, the author of Green Spirit. -
Advertisement: Pre-Conference Workshops Announced for Institute 2005
Opinion -At "Institute 2005," the annual meeting of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), to be held June 8-10, 2005 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, more than 2,300 health care professionals will gather to discuss issues ranging from health care's changing -
Ecoterrorist Will Spend Seven Years in Federal Prison
Opinion -A federal judge ruled on April 18 that 24-year-old William Jensen Cottrell should serve more than seven years in federal prison and pay more than $3. -
Federal Court Upholds Arizona Tax Credits
Opinion -Ruling in what school choice advocates have called "the most frivolous" challenge ever filed against a school choice program, a federal district court judge on March 24 upheld Arizona's scholarship tax credit program as constitutional, dismissing a -
Friedman Report School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Arizona * Maine * Maryland * Missouri New Hampshire * South Carolina * Wisconsin ARIZONA School Choice Advances in Arizona The Arizona Senate passed legislation in March that would give tuition grants of up to $4,500 to private school -
Homeschoolers Protected by New Utah Law
Opinion -A bill shielding homeschooling parents from requirements that they meet state credential standards and give public school officials records of what they teach passed unanimously in both houses of the Utah legislature in February. -
How to Reduce the Risk of Nutritional Diseases
Opinion -The United States is experiencing an epidemic of diseases related to poor nutrition. Rates of heart disease, stroke, type-2 diabetes, and obesity are all rising rapidly. -
Left-Leaning Donors Skewing Climate Change Research
Opinion -In the climate change debate, or more generally for any environmental issue, there exists a widespread assumption that funds provided by "big business" are used to promote falsehoods, while funds going to environmental organizations represent the -
Liability Study Criticized
Opinion -The American Medical Association (AMA) and other physician groups are criticizing a recent study by four law professors who concluded there never was a liability crisis in Texas--that rising insurance premiums over the past several years had not been -
Massachusetts Governor Battles Harvard and Legislature on Stem Cell Research
Opinion -On March 30, the Massachusetts Senate passed a bill sponsored by Senate President Robert Travaglini (D-East Boston) that would allow embryonic stem cell research and so-called "therapeutic" cloning. The bill passed by a vote of 35-2. -
Minnesota, Montana Consider Ethanol Mandates
Opinion -Consumers in Montana will have to purchase gasoline containing 10 percent ethanol if a bill supported by Gov. -
National School Choice Organization Celebrates Its First Anniversary
Opinion -Despite being only a year old, the Arizona-based Alliance for School Choice has emerged as one of the nation's leading school choice organizations, providing proven grassroots strategies and model legislation. -
UN Sounds Eco-Alarm, Supports Technology, Property Rights
Opinion -Most ecosystem services that support life and human society are being degraded and used unsustainably, according to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) released on March 30 by the United Nations. -
Utah Enacts Voucher Program for Special-Needs Students
Opinion -Children with autism and other special needs in Utah received help on March 10 when freshman Gov. Jon Huntsman (R) signed a law providing 600 special-education students with private school vouchers. -
What Hunger Insurance Could Teach Us about Health Insurance
Opinion -To understand what lies at the heart of the failure of our current health care financing system, imagine, if you can, what the world would be like if we tried to buy food the same way we buy health care services. -
Wind Farms Costly for Kansans, New Study Finds
Opinion -Wind farms proposed for the state of Kansas would take money out of citizens' pockets, harm the Kansas economy, and provide few if any environmental benefits, a new study finds. -
Statement on American Lung Association Air Quality Report
Opinion -(Chicago, IL -- April 28, 2005) As it has since 1999, the American Lung Association released today its State of the Air 2005 report.And as has been true since the first report was issued, the new edition briefly acknowledges improvements in air quality .. -
Lehr Statement on American Lung Association State of the Air 2005
Opinion -(April 28, 2005 -- Chicago, IL) The American Lung Association released its State of the Air 2005 report today.The following statement in response to that report can be attributed to Jay Lehr, Ph.D. -
Heartland Statement on Municipal Broadband Studies
Opinion -(Chicago, IL) On April 11, three liberal advocacy groups released two new reports claiming to make a case for allowing local governments to build broadband networks in competition with private companies and nonprofit organizations. -
Interest Rate Double Standard
Opinion -The first was about taxpayers who file their returns late but owe taxes. They are supposed to send the IRS “as much as they can” to avoid interest and late-payment penalties. -
Statement on NEA Lawsuit against No Child Left Behind
Opinion -(April 21, 2005 -- Chicago, IL) Yesterday, the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teacher union, filed a lawsuit against the federal government claiming it had not provided sufficient funding to support the reforms required by No Child -
NEA Not Working for Children
Opinion -On April 20, the National Education Association, the nation's largest teacher union, filed a lawsuit against the federal government claiming it had not provided sufficient funding to support the reforms required by No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the school -
Statement on SBC/AT&T and Verizon/MCI Mergers
Opinion -(April 20, 2005 -- Chicago, IL) Recent announcements of plans by SBC to merge with AT&T and Verizon to merge with MCI have generated objections from consumer activists and competitors, including Carl Grivner, CEO of XO Communications, who testified -
Certification Not Worth Bonus Pay
Opinion -As an April 14 Tribune editorial pointed out ("Top teachers for tough jobs"), when K-12 public school teachers attain certification through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, they are rewarded with annual bonuses.