Opinion
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Census Bureau: 94.6 Percent of U.S. Is Rural Open Space
Opinion -Data newly available from the 2000 Census show that at least 94. -
Oh, Those ‘Enormous and Unreasonable’ Oil Profits
Opinion -Hardly a week goes by without one of the local newspapers printing a letter from some reader ranting that the big oil companies are “price gouging” consumers. It never fails: Gasoline hits two bucks a gallon and here comes the outrage. -
GM Will Offer Displacement-on-Demand Engines
Opinion -General Motors Corporation is introducing a new engine technology that increases fuel economy without negatively affecting performance or passenger safety. -
Asian Brown Cloud Contradicts, Confounds Global Warming Theories
Opinion -Indian scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan won global acclaim in 1999 when he discovered one of the largest, most deadly bodies of pollution ever observed. -
Senate Should Oppose Energy Rationing
Opinion -May 5, 2003 The Honorable Mr. Henry Hyde Chairman, Committee on International Relations U.S. -
Animal Tests Overstate Cancer Fears: Part 2 of 3
Opinion -Cancer scares created by environmental activist groups frequently focus on man-made chemicals. -
CAHI Releases Medicare Reform ‘How-To’ Manual
Opinion -To be successful, any plan intended to provide senior citizens on Medicare with more private-sector health insurance options must be attractive to insurers, or none will participate. -
Riding the Wave of Consumerism
Opinion -The first annual Consumer Directed Health Care Conference (CDHCC) was held in Las Vegas April 7-9 and was a huge success, with some 700 attendees and 45 exhibitors. -
Association Health Plans Offer Promise, But Face Opposition
Opinion -Allowing individuals and small businesses to purchase health insurance through associations, called Association Health Plans (AHPs), has the backing of civic and business groups representing millions of families nationwide. -
State Drug Discount Plans Likely to Hurt More than They Help
Opinion -On May 19, a 6-3 ruling of the U.S. -
How Many Americans Are Uninsured … and for How Long?
Opinion -The figure most often cited as an estimate of the number of uninsured Americans--41 million--may be over-stated by 10 to 20 million, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). -
07/2003 Scandlen at Large: Singularly Unimpressed with Single Payer
Opinion -James G. Knight MD, president of the San Diego Medical Society, has an observation or two in the San Diego Union Tribune about all the health care reform frenzy. -
Spiers Offers Consumer-Driven Plan for Britain
Opinion -On June 19, the U.K.-based Institute for Economic Affairs hosted a “book launch” dinner for Patients, Power and Responsibility: The First Principles of Consumer-driven Reform, by Professor John Spiers of the University of Glamorgan. -
07/2003: The Galen Report
Opinion -A Washington Post/ABC News poll reported the American people trust President George W. Bush, by a 55 to 37 percent ratio, to handle the major problems facing Americans ... except health care. -
Parents Hail Florida’s Special Ed Vouchers
Opinion -Florida’s program making vouchers available to any special-education student in the state is yielding significant benefits for participants after just three full years of operation. -
EPA Scores Major Enforcement Victories
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency has announced several landmark enforcement actions, putting industry on notice that the agency is as vigilant as ever. -
U.S.-Led Coalition Challenges Biotech Ban
Opinion -The World Trade Organization (WTO) will decide whether a European Union ban on genetically enhanced food violates free trade principles, as is alleged in a complaint filed May 13 by the United States and a dozen other nations. -
Foes Attack Colorado Vouchers
Opinion -When the Institute for Justice pledged to defend the new school choice program Colorado Governor Bill Owens signed into law on April 16, the public interest law firm didn't have to wait long to make good on its promise. -
Brown v. Board Leaves Schools Unequal
Opinion -The Cato Institute of Washington, DC, in cooperation with the Center for New Black Leadership, recently brought together a heavy-hitting group of education reformers and researchers to discuss "Educational Freedom and Urban America: Brown v. -
Stand By Me
Opinion -Only one in three (34 percent) of the public school teachers surveyed for Public Agenda's new report, Stand By Me, is "involved and engaged" in local teacher union activities, and more than half (56 percent) think "the union charges far higher dues -
07/2003 The Friedman Report: Sister with a Cell Phone
Opinion -Sister Mary Michaeline Green has witnessed the transformation of society mirrored in the Louisiana Catholic schools where she has taught for nearly 50 years. -
Computers Could Eliminate Teaching Jobs
Opinion -Computers have replaced teachers for 11 students in a small Christian school in Harrison, Ohio, according to a recent article by Valerie Christopher in The Cincinnati Enquirer. The school is one of only 21 non-public schools in the U.S. -
Power-Shift: Teacher Unions and the Movement for School Choice: an exclusive interview with Terry M. Moe
Opinion -It's unfortunate that readers of the Koret Task Force's book, Our Schools and Our Future ... Are We Still at Risk?" do not come across the chapter by Terry M. Moe on the politics of school reform until almost half-way through the book. -
Support for Vouchers by DC Officials Continues to Grow
Opinion -At a May 9 hearing of the House Government Reform Committee, prominent District of Columbia officials expressed their unprecedented support for bringing vouchers to the District.
