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Register Here to Meet Author Virginia Postrel at a Heartland Luncheon!
Opinion -To register for the Heartland luncheon with Virginia Postrel, call Latonya Harris at 312/377-4000, email her at [email protected], or click here to register in the Heartland online store. -
Let Them Eat Cake
Opinion -In a rare burst of speed, the U.S. -
The Anti-Sprawl Movement: Anti-Minority and Anti-Immigrant?
Opinion -Next week will see another unwelcome reminder of the elitist strains that infect the anti-sprawl movement. The Center for Immigration Study, in association with a Web site called Sprawl City (www.sprawlcity. -
Blackout Lesson: Keep the Gas Tank Full
Opinion -There was a transport dimension to Blackout 2003. -
Dr. Hardy Murphy, Evanston/Skokie School Chief, to Speak at Evening Reception Sponsored by The New Coalition
Opinion -Chicago, IL: Dr. Hardy Murphy, Superintendent of Evanston/Skokie School District 65, will be the featured speaker at a special community reception hosted by The New Coalition. The reception will be held Thursday, August 14, 2003, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. -
Keller, Kraft Weigh in on Obesity
Opinion -U.S. Rep. Ric Keller (R-Florida) and Kraft Foods Inc. have launched separate efforts aimed at a similar goal: to help Americans take more personal responsibility for their waistlines. Keller is the sponsor of H.R. -
Don’t Target Fast Food for Obesity Problem
Opinion -May 29, 2003 The Honorable Tommy G. Thompson Secretary of Health and Human Services U.S. -
Greetings from the Sausage Factory
Opinion -The old saw is if you like sausage or legislation, avoid watching either being made. Here’s a case in point. -
Climate Change: The Science Isn’t Settled
Opinion -Despite the certainty many seem to feel about the causes, effects, and extent of climate change, we are in fact making only slow progress in our understanding of the underlying science. -
House, Senate Vote to Double Ethanol Fuel Requirement
Opinion -The U.S. Senate on June 5 approved by a 67-29 vote a measure to double the ethanol requirement in the nation’s gasoline. -
Fuels Treatment Is Not Sound Forest Management
Opinion -Professional foresters have a tendency to think every forest needs their tender loving care. Even young foresters who want to save old growth often agree many second-growth forests are overstocked and need thinning. -
Minimum Wage Hikes Hurt Poor, Throttle Businesses
Opinion -In February, the Santa Fe City Council approved the nation’s only municipal minimum wage. The law, drafted in large part by the left-leaning Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, will raise the hourly minimum wage in Santa Fe to $8. -
EPA Uses Fishy Numbers to Justify Regs
Opinion -What is a fish worth? In Disney’s latest movie, “Finding Nemo,” a father clown fish valued his son so highly he was willing to risk life and limb (fin?) to rescue him. -
Experts Deride Dirigo Health
Opinion -Maine Governor John Baldacci's universal health care proposal attracted the attention of experts from across the country ... but their reviews were not the glowing ones the governor sought. -
Florida Renews Disease Management Program
Opinion -Florida officials have renewed an innovative disease management experiment offered through the state’s Medicaid program by four of the country’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturers. The two-year program would have expired on June 30. -
Seniors Worry about Government Drug Benefit
Opinion -A Zogby International opinion poll, conducted June 18-21 and released by the Galen Institute, found overwhelming public support for private-sector options in Medicare ... -
House Republicans Demand Free-Market Medicare
Opinion -Forty-four House Republicans have promised to beach President George W. Bush’s Medicare prescription drug plan if it does not include free-market reforms. They say the drug benefits will cost too much and drive Medicare even closer to insolvency. -
Lung Association Distorts Air Quality Data
Opinion -The American Lung Association’s (ALA) new study, State of the Air: 2003, gave a failing grade on air quality to more than half the nation’s counties. -
EPA: Environment Getting Cleaner, Safer
Opinion -Christie Whitman’s departure from the leadership of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was marked by one of the few really outstanding accomplishments of her tenure. -
Secondhand Smoke Fears Overstated, Study Finds
Opinion -A 38-year study of Californians, begun by the American Cancer Society and concluded by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), has concluded that secondhand smoke has little if any negative impact on mortality. -
U.S. Set to Join Anti-Smoking Treaty
Opinion -In an unexpected reversal of federal policy, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson has pledged the U.S. will support a controversial global anti-smoking treaty. The U.S. -
Army Corps Polluting Columbia Basin Rivers
Opinion -The rainbow colors dancing on the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia River paint an irrefutable picture. -
Liberal Environmentalists Impede Natural Gas Development
Opinion -On June 10, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testified to Congress that environmental and energy concerns could cause “debilitating spikes” in the price of natural gas of more than $7.50 per million Btus. -
Forest Service Budget Pits Forest Management against Fire Suppression
Opinion -Ask any district ranger, or any on-the-ground Forest Service employee, and they will tell you the national forests are suffering from a severe budget crunch. Yet the Forest Service’s total budget increased from $3.2 billion in 1991 to $5.
