Opinion
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Asbestos Litigation Is Bankrupting America
Opinion -What does Bubble-Wrap™, the popular packing material that many kids (and more than a few adults) love to “pop,” have to do with asbestos? If you answered “nothing,” you are right. -
Testimony on Affirmative Action by Jonathan Bean
Opinion -October 1, 2002 Study on Faculty Diversity Illinois Board of Higher Education 431 East Adams Street Springfield, IL 62701 Dear Board Members: I strongly protest the IBHE’s campaign to promote faculty “diversity,” which it falsely equates with -
Still No Choice for Poor and Minority Students
Opinion -Millions of children were left behind as the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) reform began to take effect this fall. -
You’ve been had!
Opinion -You’ve Been Had!How the Media and EnvironmentalistsTurned America into a Nation of Hypochondriacs Melvin A Benarde, Rutgers University Press, $28 As his title suggests, epidemiologist Melvin Benarde is not one to mince words. -
Table One: Mid-Level Home Prices and City and Urban Area Growth
Opinion -Table One:Mid-Level Home Prices and City and Urban Area Growth Percent Growth 1990-2000 Price of Mid-Level Home City Urban Area Palo Alto $1,263,250 5 7 San Francisco 891,000 7 6 Oakland 649,333 7 6 Boston 628,333 3 45 Boulder -
Already Booming, Tutoring Receives Large NCLB Boost
Opinion -In search of the best possible education, Americans already spend more than $5 billion a year on private tutoring. -
Declining Literacy a Threat to Newspapers
Opinion -U.S. newspapers have a life-or-death interest in schoolchildren being taught how to read and becoming motivated to read regularly. The trends are not encouraging—for literacy or for newspapers. -
Ballot Initiatives Used to Reform Bilingual Education
Opinion -Theodore Roosevelt, the country’s 26th President, was a firm believer in the ballot initiative as an instrument “not to destroy representative government, but to correct it whenever it becomes misrepresentative. -
Farming Equals Polluting, Court Says
Opinion -After receiving a battery of briefs seeking its review, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide the important issue of whether the Clean Water Act (CWA) regulates the farming practice known as “deep ripping” or “deep plowing. -
West Nile just the beginning
Opinion -The recent arrival of West Nile virus will not be the last, nor the deadliest, of mosquito-borne diseases to invade the United States and attack American citizens, scientists warn. -
Grassroots activists to rally in Florida
Opinion -The worst fears of land-acquiring bureaucracies and big-government activist groups have become reality: Last year’s Klamath Falls protests were merely the genesis, not the culmination, of a renewed property rights movement. -
West Nile death march heads west
Opinion -West Nile virus continues its death march across the United States, with 43 people confirmed dead and 954 made seriously ill this year alone. The virus has blanketed the U.S., sparing no region. -
Anti-chlorine activists hope politics will trump science
Opinion -Attempting to avoid debate on one of the most controversial bills introduced this year, a group of U.S. senators is proposing severe restrictions on chlorine in the name of “homeland security. -
Business to Congress: Stop stalling on NSR reform
Opinion -Editor’s note: The following letter was sent on August 20 to every member of the U.S. House of Representatives. -
Everglades ‘restoration’ causing major environmental problems
Opinion -The plan by the Army Corps of Engineers to protect seaside sparrow nesting grounds is but one aspect of an Everglades restoration plan that has been evolving for more than a decade. -
Confiscating the American dream
Opinion -A report recently issued by the Swedish Research Institute of Trade confirmed America’s continuing unrivaled wealth. The group’s analysts reported the average Swede receives less income than the average African-American in the U.S. -
From Never-Never Land to Shangri-La: The livability fantasy
Opinion -Smart-growth activists, especially those representing the movement’s new urbanist component, frequently talk about “livable cities”—implying that, over the past 50 years, America has developed cities that are not livable. -
Daschle double-dealing scorches Healthy Forests opponents
Opinion -Opposition to active forest management took an unexpected hit on July 23 from an unlikely source. -
Sustainable development: The book and the ideology
Opinion -Sustainable Development: Promoting Progress or Perpetuating Poverty? Julian Morris (editor), Profile Books, $15. -
Critics of U.S. confined to Johannesburg sidelines
Opinion -With the United States assuming leadership at the World Sustainable Development Summit, the ever-present anti-U.S. crowd was largely relegated to the Johannesburg sidelines. -
Table Two: First Quarter 2002 HOI and 1990-2000 Growth
Opinion -Table Two: First Quarter 2002 Housing Opportunity Index (HOI) and 1990-2000 Growth Metropolitan Area HOI Growth Elkhart-Goshen, IN MSA 94.9 17.0 Kokomo, IN 94.8 4.7 Fargo-Moorhead, ND-MN 94.5 13.7 Springfield, IL MSA 92.6 6. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-10
Opinion -Asbestos: Stampeding to the Exits In late September, all but two dozen of the 250 companies being sued in an 8,000-plaintiff asbestos trial in West Virginia settled out of court. -
Du Bois and Washington
Opinion -I read with deep interest the recent article “W.E.B. Du Bois: Wellspring of American Negroes’ Dilemma?” by Archon Theadore M. Pryor of Kappa Boulé (The Boulé Journal, 64:1, Spring 2002). -
‘Come stand where I stand!’
Opinion -Standing atop an Oregon mountain summit, President George W. Bush straddled the divide between the old and the new. On one face of Squires Peak, the ashes of an old and failed forest policy lay literally at the President’s feet.
