Opinion
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New Mexico’s Failing Schools Will Get Private Management
Opinion -Although the New Mexico legislature has rejected all of Governor Gary Johnson’s efforts to enable children in failing public schools to use a voucher to transfer to another public or private school, Johnson’s plan for a “report card” school rating system -
Liberal academic shoots down Precautionary Principle
Opinion -The Precautionary Principle—a popular theory holding that speculative, unproven environmental risks are entitled to primacy in any environmental debate so long as any risks exist—has been harshly criticized in a just-released law and -
Island nation may sue U.S. over global warming
Opinion -Tuvalu is threatening to sue the United States and Australia over their refusal to back the Kyoto Protocol, which sets targets aimed at cutting greenhouse emissions blamed for global warming and rising sea levels. -
‘Yes’ on Yucca
Opinion -Manufacturing accounts for roughly one-third of America’s demand for electricity. As a small manufacturer who employs 200 men and women near St. -
California could get its own CAFE
Opinion -The federal government’s proposed ethanol mandate may be bad for California ... but a bill passed by both the California Assembly and Senate, but not yet signed into law by Governor Gray Davis, is worse. -
Farm Bureau: Why we support the ethanol mandate
Opinion -The use of ethanol as an additive to gasoline has proven to be successful in reducing the amount of pollution emitted by gasoline engines. -
The car of the future
Opinion -In “Hybrid Cars: Less Fuel but More Costs” (Business Week, April 15, 2002), Paul Raeburn bursts the bubble of those relying on the future of electricity to power our automobiles ... -
Energy answer is not ‘blowing in the wind’
Opinion -One of the most highly touted forms of renewable power is wind-generated energy. Like solar power, it is inexhaustible (so long as the wind blows), does not pollute, and is “free. -
The prairie dogs that weren’t there
Opinion -There is no evidence that Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) employees who charged Lin Drake of Cedar City, Utah with violating the Endangered Species Act (ESA) ever heard this poem: “Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. -
Hollywood hypocrites
Opinion -When people think of Hollywood and politics, they are likely to envision Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, or any of a host of politically active stars waxing poetic about the environment and volunteering their efforts to raise money for the common cause. -
An antidote to chemophobia
Opinion -Understand the truth about chemicals, and you’ll come away optimistic about food, nature, technology, and the future, says Dr. Alan Sweeney in his new book, Happy & Healthy in a Chemical World (1stBooks, 2001). -
Accountability: A Way of Life at Nobel: an exclusive interview with A. ‘Jack’ Clegg
Opinion -While public school officials berate legislators and taxpayers for not being willing to spend the money they claim U.S. -
How to Turn Around a School System
Opinion -Turnaround specialist A. “Jack” Clegg, chairman/CEO of Nobel Learning Communities, Inc., offered the following suggestions for turning around a failing school system. “I think they’re going about it the wrong way. -
Illinois Supreme Court defends property rights in landmark case
Opinion -In a victory for private property rights, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that taking one owner’s private property and giving it to another for private use is an unconstitutional use of the power of eminent domain. -
Canadian indecision may doom Kyoto Protocol
Opinion -Canada’s drawn-out deliberation over whether to ratify the Kyoto Protocol is threatening to upset a carefully crafted, global environmentalist agenda. -
Ethanol mandate sparks Democrats’ opposition
Opinion -Will Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) intercede with Sacramento politicians to protect the California marketplace for pickup trucks, minivans, and SUVs? -
How Do Catholic Schools Do it?
Opinion -The effectiveness and efficiency of the Catholic schools doesn’t seem attributable to Catholicism, according to Paul E. Peterson and Herbert J. Walberg, authors of a recent study showing Catholic schools in New York City outperform the public schools. -
History Test Answers
Opinion -Fourth Grade 4.1 (c) 4.2 (d) 4.3 (c) 4.4 (c) 4.5 (c) 4.6 (b) Eighth Grade 8.1 (a) 8.2 (a) 8.3 (b) 8.4 Example of “appropriate” response: The steel plow was stronger, lasted longer, worked faster, could farm harder ground. -
Farm Bureau responds to ‘corn con’
Opinion -In May, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial alleging that producing ethanol requires more energy than is released when the fuel is burned, suggesting the entire ethanol industry is a government-subsidized boondoggle. -
Supreme Court rules against property owners
Opinion -The United States Supreme Court in April brought to a close 14 years of litigation by Lake Tahoe Basin property owners. In doing so, the Court opened the door to increased restriction of private property by governments at every level. -
Bush rejects EPA warming report
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency released in June a report on global climate change that contradicts public statements on the subject made by President George W. Bush. -
Congress Takes Up Special-Education Reform
Opinion -With last year’s No Child Left Behind Act now in the hands of state and local officials for action, Washington lawmakers are turning to this year’s major piece of education business, reauthorizing the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act -
Cost of asbestos junk science continues to mount
Opinion -The collapse of the World Trade Center twin towers brought the issue of asbestos back into the spotlight, both for the harm it may have prevented and the harm it may have caused. -
Edison Seeks Funds to Run Philadelphia Schools
Opinion -Following the mid-April award of management responsibility for only 20 of Philadelphia’s public schools rather than an expected 45, Edison Schools, Inc. stock dropped from around $13, slowly at first and then precipitously, to $1.37 a share by May 17.