Opinion
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HSAs Next Big Opportunity for Banks
Opinion -The Business Journal of Minneapolis reports, "Health savings accounts could be the next big business opportunity for banks in 2005. -
I want my DTV!
Opinion -The Winter Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January was a coming-out party for several of the nation’s leading service providers. -
In the News
Opinion -Intel Lobbies for Muni Wi-Fi Although a company executive conceded taxpayer-funded broadband was not the best model for providing that service, Intel plans to step up its lobbying efforts to thwart legislation aimed at prohibiting municipalities from -
Plodding along a Cul-De-Sac
Opinion -If there is one thing most tragic about the ideas promoted by the advocates of national health care, it is that they keep going around in circles, always starting and ending at the same place: more government regulation. -
Private Prisons Could Cut Georgia’s Spending, Studies Suggest
Opinion -With the state of Georgia facing a budget shortfall, legislators are looking for new areas of saving to help balance the budget. -
RAND Study Forecasts Problems Meeting National Reading Goals
Opinion -U.S. students in grades 4-12 are not meeting state or national goals in reading achievement, a recently released RAND Corporation report warns. -
Rockford Parents Want to Keep Successful Reading Program
Opinion -The parent organization of the Lewis Lemon public school in Rockford, Illinois is asking the local school board not to drop a three-year-old reading program that has raised the school’s test scores well above the district average. -
Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights Could Have Prevented Texas Budget Crisis
Opinion -The state of Texas' recent $10 billion budget crisis could have been prevented if the state had implemented a Taxpayer's Bill of Rights amendment in the 1990s, according to a study by the Americans for Prosperity Foundation. -
Teacher Union Violating Utah Election Laws, Complaint Alleges
Opinion -On December 16, 2004, the education reform group Education Excellence Utah filed a complaint with Utah attorney general Mark Shurtleff (R) against the Ballot Fund of the National Education Association (NEA). -
U.S. Girl Students Outperform Boys in Most Subjects, Study Finds
Opinion -“Girls and young women still have a long way to go in gaining full educational equality,” says NOW President Kim Gandy. -
U.S. Students Show Slight Improvement in Math, Science Achievement
Opinion -According to the annual Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), designed and coordinated by Boston College’s Lynch School of Education, U.S. -
Verizon Exec Delivers Tough Message to Mayors on Telecom Taxes
Opinion -Verizon Executive Vice President Tom Tauke on January 18 urged the U.S. Conference of Mayors, meeting in Washington, DC, to work with telecom companies to lower taxes the industry faces, with an eye toward boosting the economy. -
Winds of Change In California?
Opinion -On January 27, as this edition of IT&T News went to press, the CPUC voted to stay the new wireless regulations created under the Consumer Bill of Rights. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #4-2
Opinion -“The Jury Pool from Hell” That’s what defense attorney Leslie Ballin called it, according to an Associated Press report from a state court in Memphis, Tennessee. Ballin’s client was charged with striking another woman in the face with a brick. -
Why Not Free Broadband?
Opinion -Should municipalities be allowed to build and operate broadband networks in competition with private companies? States around the country are considering laws making it difficult for cities to do so. -
Illinois’ Disgusting Tax and Budget Debate
Opinion -Taxpayers are really going to get burned by their elected officials in Springfield this year. Headlines announcing a massive increase in cigarette taxes--a tax that already stands at nearly a dollar a pack-- show just the tip of an iceberg. -
Not Nuts
Opinion -Dear Editor: Thomas L. Friedman offered on February 13 a solution to all the world's energy problems by sharply lowering energy consumption and imposing a higher gasoline tax. -
Michael Seward Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About
Opinion -Dear Editor: I was extremely disappointed with Michael Seward's letter on January 14 ("Climate science skewed by fiction") ... not because we have a difference of opinion on global warming, but because Mr. -
Telecom Reform Conference Audio Now Available
Opinion -Audio recordings of presentations delivered at the December 17-18 telecom conference sponsored by Heartland, the National Conference of State Legislatures, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. -
Michael Crichton to Appear on C-Span 2 on February 12th & 13th
Opinion -On Saturday, February 12 at 9:30 pm and Sunday, February 13 at 3:15 pm, Michael Crichton, the author of the blockbuster novel State of Fear, will appear on C-Span 2, "Book TV. -
Hospitals & The Free Market
Opinion -Dear Editor: The Op-Ed column "A health-care loophole" (Thursday), by Charles N. Kahn III, president of the Federation of American Hospitals, was misleading at best and untrue at worst. -
Give the Teachers Power and Watch Schools Improve
Opinion -Compared to professionals in other fields, public school teachers are surprisingly "unfree." In order to teach in most states they must take courses at teacher colleges that are widely condemned as being useless or even counterproductive in the classroom. -
Heartland Statement on the Speculation of a Merger between MCI and Qwest
Opinion -February 3, 2005 -- (Chicago, IL) Earlier today, Qwest Communications International Inc. made an acquisition offer to MCI Inc. This news comes after last week's proposal for SBC Communications Inc. to acquire long-distance rival AT&T. -
A Comment on South Bend’s Municipal Broadband Effort
Opinion -Dear Editor: The debate taking place in South Bend over municipal involvement in a broadband communications system [Martin DeAgostino, "Bill may derail city's plan for broadband system," January 24] is very similar to one that took place recently in
