Opinion
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Wrong-headedness killing the forests
Opinion -When the Hayman Fire—the largest wildfire in Colorado history—first began, the smoke billowed over my office in southwestern Denver. Outside, I could smell the fumes from flames 50 miles away. Worst yet, I could see the ash in the air! -
‘Pavley’s Ploy’ may carjack motorist choice
Opinion -How bad is the California auto emissions bill? ... Let me count the ways. -
California acts to limit CO2 emissions
Opinion -Governor Gray Davis on July 22 signed a controversial bill empowering the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set mandatory carbon dioxide (CO2) reductions for California automobiles. -
Disappearing frogs and out-of-control fires: Must be global warming!
Opinion -In the May 4 edition of the Globe and Mail, a leading Canadian newspaper, Alanna Mitchell reports on a research paper from the March 28 issue of the journal Nature. -
Jeffords pushes mandatory national recycling plan
Opinion -Get ready to start separating, washing, and storing aluminum cans, if Senator Jim Jeffords (I-Vermont.) has his way. -
Stealing land in the Atchafalaya and Immokalee
Opinion -An American citizen whose land has been condemned by a federal agency or by any governmental entity, especially those receiving federal monies, has significant rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-8
Opinion -Udder Madness Reversing a lower court decision, the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled in July after three vehicles consecutively hit a Black Angus cow wandering on a state highway, the only person who could be sued for the two deaths that occurred in car #3 -
Disabled Children Need a Better IDEA
Opinion -It began in 1975 as a federal enactment intended to safeguard the individual rights of disabled children. -
Camden Is First to Call for Vouchers
Opinion -The first shot fired in the post-Cleveland phase of the school voucher battle was heard in the City Council Chambers of Camden, New Jersey, on July 25, less than a month after the U.S. -
Feds Plan to Ease Restrictions on Single-Sex Schools
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Education has announced it intends to relax regulations on single-sex schools and classes while continuing to prohibit discrimination in accordance with the Education Amendments of 1972. -
Judge Strikes Down Florida Voucher Law
Opinion -On August 5, just weeks before the start of the school year, a state judge in Tallahassee ruled Florida’s Opportunity Scholarship program unconstitutional, since the state constitution forbids the use of tax money to send children to religious schools. -
Congress Approves $100 Million for High-Risk Pools
Opinion -The Trade Adjustment Assistance Act (TAAA), passed by the Senate on August 2 by a vote of 64-34, contains a little-known provision that could provide a big boost to market-based health care financing. The measure was signed by President George W. -
Patent Protection Law at Risk
Opinion -Failing to pass a prescription drug benefit for seniors in July, the Senate offered consumers legislation that encourages cheaper generic alternatives to brand-name drugs by passing the Greater Access to Affordable Pharmaceuticals Act (GAAP). -
09/2002: The Pulse
Opinion -Scott Holleran publishes “The Pulse,” a weekly email newsletter sort of like this one, on behalf of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine. His current edition includes a wonderful little “blast from the past” in the form of President Richard M. -
Why Price Controls Don’t Work
Opinion -State efforts to rein in health care spending by imposing price controls on pharmaceutical manufacturers are not the first time price controls have been suggested in the health care reform debate. -
Congress Gets Hooked on Rx Drug Plans
Opinion -Bidding wars over a Medicare prescription drug benefit are accelerating, with political leaders behaving as though they were in a high-stakes poker game with no tomorrow. Earlier this year, President George W. -
Other People’s Money
Opinion -On Capitol Hill, members of Congress are continually increasing the price Americans pay for health care. They do this by giving away benefits and, in some instances, by making people buy unwanted benefits. -
What Are High-Risk Pools?
Opinion -High-risk pools play an important role in a free-market health care system. They are state-chartered, nonprofit associations offering comprehensive health insurance through the private sector to individuals with pre-existing and chronic health problems. -
09/2002: State Legislative Update
Opinion -Managing Editor’s note: Information here on legislative activity regarding MEHPA was provided by Andrew Schlafly, Esq., general counsel for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). He can be reached at 908/719-8608. -
09/2002: The Galen Report
Opinion -The country dodged a bullet when the Senate rejected the latest compromise bill for a Medicare prescription drug benefit. -
Blaine Amendment Falls in Washington
Opinion -On July 18, just three weeks after the Court’s landmark Zelman ruling, members of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit voted 2-1 to invalidate a Washington State law that was used to deny a state “Promise Scholarship” to an -
Presidential Commission Reports on Special Education
Opinion -A Presidential panel in July established markers that may prove crucial as Congress undertakes its reauthorization of special-education programs over the coming months. -
The Model for the Nation: an exclusive interview with Annette Polly Williams
Opinion -Thirteen years ago, Wisconsin State Representative Annette Polly Williams, an independent black Democrat from Milwaukee, took an historic step that earned her the title, “the Rosa Parks of vouchers. -
Colorado Health Insurance Market Evaporating
Opinion -Colorado’s small group health insurance market displays all the symptoms of a patient in dire distress. While premiums and the ranks of the uninsured soar, the number of carriers plummets.