Opinion
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National Elections Bring School Choice Advocates to the Forefront
Opinion -The school choice community will lose two of its Congressional champions when House of Representatives Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) and Rep. Bob Schaffer (R-Colorado) retire at the end of this session. -
SPN Hosts Health Care Reform Summit
Opinion -Nearly 50 representatives of public policy think tanks from across the country converged on Indianapolis, Indiana on October 17-19 for the tenth annual meeting of State Policy Network. Attendees were welcomed to the event by SPN President Tracie Sharp. -
Ten Principles to Guide Medicare Reform
Opinion -Politicians of both major parties are endorsing ill-considered schemes to add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare. While the problems with the program are bad, most of the proposed solutions are worse. -
Schools Going Too Far to End Teen Smoking
Opinion -With schools around the world eating our educational lunch, you might think American school officials would have more important things to do than bust high school kids for off-campus cigarette smoking. -
Rated ‘R’ for Smoking
Opinion -Bond lit a cigar. The ace secret agent was, after all, in Havana, and it was almost as natural to smoke a Cuban cigar in that city as it was in the capital, Miami. -
Al Gore Wants a Single-Payer Nation
Opinion -Former Vice President Al Gore is back from hibernation seeking the Democratic Party nomination for the Presidency in 2004. In a November announcement, Gore says he favors single-payer health care. -
Microsoft Decision
Opinion -This letter by Joseph L. Bast, President of The Heartland Institute, was written in response to an editorial that appeared in the November 9, 2002, edition of the Chicago Tribune. -
To Improve, Public Schools Need Competition, Not More Money
Opinion -State Education Superintendent Robert E. Schiller must think Illinois taxpayers are pretty gullible if he thinks he can sell the idea that our public schools need more money to produce better results (Voice of the People, November 9, 2002). -
Them
Opinion -"I saw them again the other day, shivering in the cold, in the rain, without jackets or coats. ... They are the punished, the shamed. They are the Smokers. -
Municipal Broadband Networks
Opinion -Dear Editor: As the author of the study that was the subject of Tona Kunz's recent news article ("Municipal cable service knocked by think tank," November 2), I would like to respond to some of the criticism of my study leveled by municipal officials -
Taming the Asbestos Monster
Opinion -The nation’s courts are being flooded with lawsuits alleging health effects or the possibility of health effects from exposure to asbestos. -
Statement on Microsoft Settlement Decision by The Heartland Institute
Opinion -CHICAGO, IL: On Friday, November 1, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly upheld the settlement between Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Justice, and nine state attorneys general of antitrust charges brought against Microsoft in 1998. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-12
Opinion -An Enormous Victory . . . for Consumers On November 1, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly upheld the settlement between Microsoft, the U.S. -
Conservative Black Leader and Free-Market Think Tank Join Forces
Opinion -CHICAGO: Lee H. Walker, a leading mainstream conservative black spokesperson, has joined forces with The Heartland Institute, a national free-market think tank based in Chicago, to launch The New Coalition at The Heartland Institute. -
Daschle Stops Healthy Forests Initiative in Senate
Opinion -President George W. Bush’s Healthy Forests Initiative stalled in the U.S. Senate this fall as political maneuvering by the Democratic leadership assured the proposal would not attract the votes it needed to pass. -
Land-use Regulation Makes Housing less Affordable, Harvard Study Finds
Opinion -A March 2002 study published by the Harvard Institute of Economic Research at Harvard University demonstrates the effects of zoning and other regulation on housing affordability. -
‘Natural’ Holiday Foods Are Not Carcinogen-free
Opinion -The holiday season is a good time to remember that the American food supply is by far the best in the world—and the best it has been in the history of this country. -
Happy Holidays to All
Opinion -’Twas the day before Thanksgiving And all across the nation Families gathered in prayer With goodwill and salutation As they assembled with loved ones On their Holiday morning Misguided alarmists Gave dire chemical warnings Preservatives, -
Chemicals in Your Thanksgiving Dinner
Opinion -Menu analysis prepared by staff, directors, and scientific advisors of the American Council for Science and Health, with technical assistance from Dr. Ruth Kava, Director of Nutrition, and Dr. Leonard Flynn, scientific consultant. -
Solar Woes Shock Sacramento
Opinion -On September 6, the Sacramento Bee revealed that the showpiece of the city’s municipal electric utility, an internationally known solar power program, is in shambles. -
Measure 27: Oregon’s War Against Biotech
Opinion -The voters of Oregon, who long have marched to their own drum beat, are being tempted by radical anti-capitalist groups to adopt a policy that would have terrible consequences for the nation and the world. -
Promises, Promises, Promises!
Opinion -In the early 1890s, the land in the northwest corner of Montana, almost due north of Kalispell, was settled by “homesteaders” pursuant to the Homestead Act of 1862. -
President Offers a Way to Address the Forests Debate
Opinion -Few issues have raised such intense emotion as President George W. Bush’s Healthy Forests Initiative. Private forestry, logging, and land management are venerable traditions in America. -
Britain Considers Privatization
Opinion -Managing Editor’s Note: David Green, director of London’s CIVITAS, The Institute for the Study of Civil Society, sees progress in the debate over opening England’s single-payer health care system to private players, competition, and choice.