Opinion
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Kyoto Down the Drain? What Next?
Opinion -There were momentous happenings at the October 2003 World Climate Conference in Moscow. World-shaking, one might say. -
Congress Passes Healthy Forests Measure
Opinion -After more than a year of debate, the U.S. House and U.S. Senate on November 21 approved a law to expedite the management of 20 million acres of federal land at serious risk of catastrophic forest fire. -
EPA Proposes Mercury Limits
Opinion -Environmental Protection Agency documents indicate the agency is poised to require dramatic cuts in power-plant mercury emissions. -
Hog Farms and the Environment: Alternatives to Lagoons
Opinion -Editor’s note: In "Hog Farms and the Environment: an Investigative Series," in the December 2003 issue of Environment & Climate News, Managing Editor James M. -
Massachusetts Ends Ban on Sunday Liquor Sales
Opinion -With the stroke of a pen on November 26, Governor Mitt Romney brought the Puritan State into the twenty-first century, striking down the state’s ban on Sunday alcohol sales, one of the last vestiges of the Prohibition era. -
Tax Repeal Referendum Makes Ballot in Oregon
Opinion -Oregon voters have launched an effort to repeal an income tax surcharge passed by the Oregon Legislative Assembly in mid-2003, scheduled to take effect this spring. -
State Budget Problems Lead to Renewed Interest in TELs
Opinion -Thoughtful leaders in many states are fed up with the fiscal roller coaster they have experienced during the past decade and want to smooth out the ride. -
Farm Group Calls for Permanent Repeal of Death Tax
Opinion -In a November 6 statement to the U.S. -
Congress Shows Little Interest in Budget-Cutting Measures
Opinion -According to the latest BillTally study released in late November by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF), just 26 members of the 107th Congress had 2002-2003 legislative agendas that would reduce overall federal spending. -
Senate Passes Bill to Capture Illegal Cigarette Sales
Opinion -The U.S. Senate passed on December 9 a bill (S. 1177) intended to curtail illegal cigarette trafficking and strengthen enforcement of cigarette tax collection from Internet vendors. The measure passed late in the evening by voice vote. -
Look Ma, No Cavities
Opinion -Your child’s dental health is part of his or her whole body health. Here are some tips to make good dental health happen. While the basic rule is a checkup every six months, there are certain habits to follow in between times at home. -
How Wrong Laws Make Health Insurance Expensive
Opinion -Health Care News, a publication of The Heartland Institute in Chicago, featured a series of monthly case studies documenting how government regulations like community rating and guaranteed issue have destroyed the individual health insurance markets in -
Canadian Drugs
Opinion -If you think all the prescription drugs coming from Canada were originally manufactured in the United States, I have bad news. Canada gets only 60 percent of its prescription drug supply from the United States. -
Drug Bust
Opinion -The U.S. Customs Service recently examined 2,000 drug products shipped into six cities and found many contained unapproved versions of drugs that could pose a risk to your health. FDA Commissioner Dr. -
Medicare Confusion
Opinion -More than two-thirds of seniors are confused about the new Medicare Reform Act. A survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows only 15 percent of people over age 65 understand it. Those under age 65 are even more confused. -
Health Savings Accounts
Opinion -Health Savings Accounts--HSAs--are the new tax-favored option for paying for medical care. HSAs are available to every individual and every employer, large and small. -
Tax Law Discourages Companies from Bringing Home Foreign Income
Opinion -The United States has the second highest corporate tax rate in the 30-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The result is that foreign earnings by U.S. multinational corporations face higher add-on U.S. -
NPR Spreads Misinformation about Renewable Energy
Opinion -It is one thing to lean left politically. It is quite another to look the other way in the face of out-and-out lies, fraud, and misinformation in the arena of environmental science. -
Senator Refutes Global Warming Hypothesis: Part 3 in a series
Opinion -Managing Editor’s note: Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, delivered a detailed critique of global warming theory on July 28, 2003. -
What’s Wrong with the Environmental Movement: an interview with Patrick Moore
Opinion -As a cofounder of Greenpeace, Dr. Patrick Moore is one of the godfathers of the modern environmental movement. Since the mid-1980s, however, he has become critical of the movement’s direction, especially its commitment to confrontational tactics. -
Endangered Species Listings May Backfire
Opinion -New research confirms that Endangered Species Act listings do not necessarily help--and may even harm--rare species on private lands. -
Environmental Vigilantism Is Not ‘Free Speech’
Opinion -Greenpeace, Inc., one of the world’s most confrontational environmental activist groups, is facing criminal prosecution for organizing an illegal boarding and boatjacking of a ship it falsely believed carried rare Brazilian mahogany. -
DC Vouchers in Limbo, IRS Probes NEA
Opinion -DC Vouchers in Limbo As most Members of Congress headed home for Thanksgiving, President George W. Bush’s voucher plan for families in the District of Columbia remained stalled, one substantial step away from final passage. -
School Choice Saves a Life in Washington, DC
Opinion -Although she’d already raised two children on her own, Virginia Walden Ford found her youngest son William to be more than a handful.
