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Mark your calendars for the Cato Institute’s city seminar
Opinion -Mark your calendars for the Cato Institute's city seminar "Cato Perspectives 2003," Thursday, October 9 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Chicago. The Cato Institute, a free-market think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. -
Lee D. Tooman, Jr., VP of Golden Rule Insurance, Named to Board of Directors of The Heartland Institute
Opinion -Chicago, IL: Lee D. Tooman, Jr. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #2-11
Opinion -Texans Gun Down Plaintiffs Bar In one of the most highly anticipated referendum votes in recent years, on September 12 Texas voters narrowly approved Proposition 12, a constitutional amendment limiting medical malpractice awards. -
Where Has Your Prescription Been?
Opinion -Americans are taking a lot of risk buying prescriptions from foreign countries through storefront operations or over the Internet. -
Northern Trust Hosts Reception on Behalf of The New Coalition
Opinion -As part of the DreamMakers initiative to reach affluent individuals who value a multicultural perspective, Northern Trust recently hosted a reception on behalf of The New Coalition. -
Vouchers Would Give Power to DC Parents
Opinion -The recent 209-208 vote by the U.S. -
Solution to Blackouts: Treat the Grid as a Pipeline for Electricity
Opinion -During the afternoon of Thursday, August 14, 2003, the North American continent experienced the largest blackout of electricity ever. Almost immediately, people demanded to know why it happened, and how to prevent it from happening again. -
Innovation Is Dead
Opinion -Has the summer passed by with nary a daydream? Has it ever been so difficult to make up bedtime stories for our children, or ghost stories around a campfire? Imagination is under assault in this country ... and that does not bode well for our future. -
Why Farmers Should Worry about Global Warming
Opinion -You might think the biggest worry farmers should have about “global warming” is the effect it would have on their crops. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #2-10
Opinion -It Couldn’t Have Happened to a Nicer Bunch of Guys We have chronicled the wrangling over money that led to the break-up last year of the powerful plaintiffs law firm Ness Motley. -
Stage Set for DC Voucher Showdown
Opinion -The stage is nearly set for the final act of this year’s Congressional showdown on school vouchers for the District of Columbia. -
Choice Programs Remain Tiny and Restrictive
Opinion -Last summer, supporters of school choice hailed Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, the historic Supreme Court decision upholding Cleveland’s school choice program, as an important victory. -
Voucher Growth Depends on Schools Willing to Participate
Opinion -In Florida, leading Democratic lawmakers are making a concerted pitch to impose additional regulations, audits, and oversight on the hundreds of private schools that accept scholarships funded by the state’s corporate tax credit program. -
Wrong Start?
Opinion -Although supporters of Head Start and other preschool programs for underprivileged children maintain such efforts are a remarkably cost-effective way of raising student achievement in both the short term and the long term, the reality painted by -
Mixed Bag from the Nation’s Report Card
Opinion -Over the summer of ‘03, the Nation’s Report Card brought home tons of new data on the reading and writing prowess of America’s fourth-, eighth-, and 12th-graders. -
Commentary: Operation Educational Freedom
Opinion -We in Colorado are proud of becoming the first state to enact a voucher program since last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision. -
Mackinac VP Overton Killed in Plane Crash
Opinion -Joseph P. Overton, 43, senior vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, died on June 30, 2003, as a result of injuries sustained when his single-seat lightweight aircraft crashed after takeoff near Caro in Michigan’s Thumb. -
09/2003 The Friedman Report: School Choice Roundup
Opinion -District of Columbia * Florida * New Jersey * New York Ohio * Oregon * Pennsylvania * Texas * Utah * Wisconsin DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Feinstein Endorses Voucher Proposal In an unexpected Washington Post editorial, California Democratic Senator -
Voices for School Reform
Opinion -During the past six and a half years, School Reform News has interviewed more than 60 school reform advocates. Although all of these interviews are available online, they are organized there only by date, perhaps not the most helpful structure. -
A Guide to State Regulation of Private Schools
Opinion -While parents may have the right to direct the education of their children in a private school, states still have the power to regulate those schools in various ways. What regulations are imposed in different states? -
NCLB Prompts Districts to Re-Examine Technology Plans
Opinion -Technology and K-12 Education While the past decade has seen entrepreneurs seize the new opportunities offered by a browsable Internet, low-cost connectivity, and cheap digital video devices to develop innovative cyberschools serving widely -
Drug Reimportation Measure Passes House
Opinion -On July 25, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2427, the Pharmaceutical Market Access Act of 2003, by a vote of 243 to 186. Eighty-seven Republicans joined 155 Democrats and one independent in supporting the measure. -
Drug Reimportation Bill Called ‘Risky’
Opinion -The idea of letting Americans buy prescription drugs from 26 foreign countries at reduced prices faces a formidable hurdle in the Senate. -
Riding the Rx Highway
Opinion -Almost everyone has heard about Americans, many lacking prescription drug insurance coverage, boarding buses to Windsor, Niagara Falls, Quebec City, New Brunswick, and Vancouver, all to do what is every American’s God-given right--hunt for bargains.
