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Educational Vouchers and Tax Credits
Opinion -SCHOOL VOUCHERS Florida Opportunity Scholarships go to families with children in schools that receive an F on the state report card for two years out of a four-year period, for use in any participating private school or another public school -
EPA Cracks down on Army Corps Toxic Sludge
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to force the Army Corps of Engineers to all but eliminate its long-standing practice of dumping toxic sludge in the Potomac River. -
Europeans Debate Nuclear Power
Opinion -The European Union’s July 2002 statement on Energy and Sustainable Development promised the EU would give technical assistance on safety to developing countries, such as China and India, that have nuclear power. -
Frist’s “Big Vision” Gets Bigger
Opinion -Last month, this column reported on Tennessee Republican Senator Bill Frist’s “Big Vision” for Medicare reform. We did not expect at the time that he would soon be occupying the powerful seat of majority leader of the U.S. Senate. -
Just the Facts: Teacher Salaries
Opinion -The nation’s most prolific producer of education statistics is, not surprisingly, the U.S. -
Maine Rx Discounts Are Illegal, Court Rules
Opinion -The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on December 24, 2002 rejected the Healthy Maine Prescriptions program launched in June 2001. -
New Thinking on Environmental Policy
Opinion -Environmental policymaking in the United States is dominated by a mistaken focus on big-culprit, big-ticket, and big-government solutions. -
Public Lands Grazing Faces Uncertain Future
Opinion -Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West by George Wuerthner and Mollie Matteson (eds. -
Reaping What They Sued
Opinion -Approximately $32 billion has been paid out since the national tobacco settlement was reached in 1998. Most of the money has been used to finance things unrelated to smokers’ health care, health care in general, or smoking prevention programs. -
Rees Takes Helm at Office of Innovation and Improvement
Opinion -“If Washington insists on investing in the nation’s schools, then it is fair for taxpayers to expect their dollars to yield a positive return. -
School Choice Initiatives Launched in the Old Dominion
Opinion -Two members of the Virginia House of Delegates are proposing that the 2003 session of the legislature advance both vouchers and tax credits as ways to expand K-12 education choice in the Old Dominion. -
States Act on Climate Change
Opinion -State legislatures are back in session, and many will debate proposals to reduce carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gas emissions at the state level. -
States Tackle Medicaid
Opinion -Michigan’s state budget deficit could approach $2 billion in the next fiscal year. Eleven other states are on pace to see deficits at or over the $2 billion mark. In Illinois and Wisconsin, the budget gaps may be closer to $3 billion. -
Suburban Schools Offer No Sanctuary from Dumbing-Down Regime
Opinion -Class Warfare: Besieged Schools, Bewildered Parents, Betrayed Kids and the Attack on Excellence by J. -
Surgeons Protest Liability Premiums
Opinion -The debate over malpractice insurance reform took a dramatic turn in January, as surgeons at four northern West Virginia hospitals canceled nearly all scheduled surgeries and required at least one patient to be transferred to another hospital. -
Table: Public Schools 2001-02: Average Teacher Salaries and Student-Teacher Ratios
Opinion -Public Schools 2001-02: Average Teacher Salaries and Student-Teacher Ratios As a % of U.S. Total Value Teacher Salary Expenditures (#Teachers x Avg. -
Voucher and Tax Credit Programs
Opinion -As new and returning state legislators reassemble in the nation’s more than four-score “laboratories of democracy,” many will be seeking ways to improve K-12 education and will want to know more about school choice options such as vouchers and tax -
Statement on the President’s State of the Union Address
Opinion -In his State of the Union Address on January 28, President Bush called for a prescription drug benefit for seniors and discussed the need to get affordable drugs to AIDS patients in developing countries. -
No. 95 – Heartland Policy Study Looks at Feasibility of Bush’s Proposed Hydrogen Fueled Vehicles
Opinion -Quick Links Policy Study (pdf) This study examines the sustainability of cars and trucks in the first decades of the twenty-first century. -
Walter Olson to Speak on Tort Reform
Opinion -The Heartland Institute and The Chicago Lawyers’ Chapter of the Federalist Society present: A January 28 Luncheon Address by Walter Olson Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute Columnist, Reason Magazine Founder and Webmaster, Overlawyered. -
Comments on the Draft Strategic Plan for the Climate Change Science Program
Opinion -January 15, 2003 I. Background Information Joseph L. Bast President The Heartland Institute 19 South LaSalle Street #903 Chicago, Illinois 60603 phone 312/377-4000 fax 312/377-5000 email jbast@heartland. -
Reflections on the Legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Opinion -Delivered to a luncheon audience organized by Northwestern University and the Chicago Campus Dream Committee Northwestern University School of Law Chicago, Illinois January 15, 2003 click here to download PDF version Good morning. -
Midwesterners Leery of DOE Greenhouse Gas Program
Opinion -In November and December 2002, the U.S. -
GM Announcement Means Cars and Trucks Will Continue to Get Cleaner and More Efficient
Opinion -CHICAGO, IL: General Motors is expected to announced today it will offer hybrid versions of several of its trucks and SUVs in the next five years and hopes to make fuel cell cars in significant volumes by 2010.